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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player[†]
Jason Andrew Pierre-Paul is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the South Florida Bulls and was selected by the New York Giants in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. With the Giants, Pierre-Paul made two Pro Bowls, was first-team All-Pro and won Super Bowl XLVI. With the Buccaneers, Pierre-Paul made his third Pro Bowl and won Super Bowl LV.
1989The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.[†]
The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was agreed on 16 September 1987, and entered into force on 1 January 1989. Since then, it has undergone several amendments and adjustments, with revisions agreed to in 1990 (London), 1992 (Copenhagen), 1995 (Vienna), 1997 (Montreal), 1999 (Beijing), 2007 (Montreal), 2016 (Kigali) and 2018 (Quito). As a result of the international agreement, the ozone hole over Antarctica is slowly recovering. Climate projections indicate that the ozone layer will return to 1980 levels between 2040 and 2066. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation, it has been hailed as an example of successful international co-operation. Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol". In comparison, effective burden-sharing and solution proposals mitigating regional conflicts of interest have been among the success factors for the ozone depletion challenge, where global regulation based on the Kyoto Protocol has failed to do so. In this case of the ozone depletion challenge, there was global regulation already being installed before a scientific consensus was established. Also, overall public opinion was convinced of possible imminent risks.
LEAD: The apartment building that General Atlantic Realty is erecting on the former site of the Children's Aid Society will be tall. Not Twin Tower tall, not even Trump Tower tall, but its 46 stories will make it a giant for the southwest corner of the 88th Street-First Avenue intersection.
LEAD: Innumeracy, the mathematical analogue of functional illiteracy, afflicts far too many literate people, even widely read and articulate men and women who might cringe if words such as ''imply'' and ''infer'' were confused. They generally react without a trace of embarrassment, however, to even the most egregious numerical solecisms.
LEAD: In an art world ever more eager to share the glamour of rock music, the swagger of big business and the seasonal values of fashion, the new has become increasingly hard to resist. Among many contemporary artists, critics, collectors and dealers, there is an unending search for art that is of the moment, that partakes of the spirit of the age, that leads to the heart of the Zeitgeist.
LEAD: As producers of plastics try to expand their role in construction and housing, one major manufacturer, the General Electric Company, is building a ''house of the future'' here to showcase its possibilities.
LEAD: THIS city, which has been looking for a new economic base since the tobacco industry began dying out some 20 years ago, seems to have struck gold.
LEAD: The United States has concluded that a West German company played a central role in designing and constructing a huge chemical plant in Libya, a discovery that has prompted diplomatic protests to the highest levels of the Bonn Government, Administration officials say. The Administration says the plant is for producing chemical weapons, a charge denied by Libya.
LEAD: All that remains of the old apple orchard on Glenwood Road in Vernon Township stands around the sales office of the Pointe at Old Orchard Farm. Last fall the staff picked a few bushels and set them out for home shoppers to munch as they browsed.
LEAD: This was a moment that all of West Virginia had waited for: the first quarter of the game against Penn State, a picture-postcard autumn afternoon in Morgantown, the Mountaineers moving into Nittany Lion territory, the ball on the 26-yard line, and Major Harris running the option.
LEAD: Consumer spending is an important indicator of future economic activity. While many analysts predicted a lackluster holiday selling season, consumers emptied their pocketbooks in the last 48 hours before Christmas, pushing holiday sales 5 percent to 6 percent beyond last year's levels. Four experts assess the future economic impact of strong consumer demand.
LEAD: As foreign trade goes, the loss of $130 million a year in exports is a minor matter. But beef industry executives and Federal agriculture officials say the stakes are far higher in a shrill trade dispute that has erupted with Europe over the presence of hormones in American beef.
LEAD: A decade ago, Jan. 7, 1979, a group of moderate rebels in the Khmer Rouge, led by Heng Samrin and supported by Vietnamese troops, seized power in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, from the extreme left Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan.
LEAD: ALTHOUGH President-elect Bush has repeated his ''no new taxes'' pledge so often and so categorically as to give pause to even confirmed cynics, the assumption among many Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that before 1990 he will find himself signing legislation that does in fact raise taxes.