What day of the week was December 22, 1989?

The day of the week December 22nd, 1989 fell on was a Friday.

There were 3 days until Christmas.

Jordin Sparks the American singer-songwriter and actress was born on 22 December in 1989. As was Jharal Yow Yeh the Australian rugby player .

Samuel Beckett the Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) died on this day in 1989.

Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest with a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers. Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years the effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.