What Happened on January 3, 1989

• Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement

• Alex D. Linz, American actor, born in Santa Barbara, California
• Anya Rozova [Anya Kop], Russian American model and America's Next Top Model contestant, born in Leningrad, USSR
• Ben Matulino, New Zealand rugby league forward (23 caps; NZ Warriors, Wests Tigers), born in Wellington, New Zealand
• Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast (Olympic gold all-round 2012; team, all-round 2016; World C'ships 10 x gold), born in Kitakyushu, Japan

• Eddie Heywood, American jazz pianist and composer ("Canadian Sunset", "Soft Summer Breeze"), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 73 [1]
• Nick Virgilio, American Haiku poet, dies at 60
• Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)

Holidays: New Year Holiday (United Kingdom), New Year's Day (New Zealand)

• #1 Song: Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
• #1 Song: Especially For You - Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan