On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Only one parent, Luis Santiago, was waiting in the bitter cold outside the Prince George Hotel in Manhattan the other afternoon when the first yellow school bus rumbled down East 28th Street.
LEAD: In an American Conference championship game devoid of newfangled offensive gimmicks, the Bengals chugged along on the old-fashioned running of Ickey Woods today to beat the Buffalo Bills and advance to Super Bowl XXIII.
LEAD: In a major blow to United States policy in this country, municipal government has collapsed in many rural areas.
LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch's budget proposal for the next fiscal year, which is expected to call for service cuts and tax increases, will include $60 million in additional spending on child-abuse programs and education.
LEAD: The Soviet Union announced today that it would start to destroy its stocks of chemical weapons.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 4, 1989, covering January 9, 1989.
Anita Baker
Soundtrack
U2
Bon Jovi
Traveling Wilburys
1989Michael Beasley, American basketball player[†]
Michael Paul Beasley Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for Kansas State University for one year before declaring for the NBA draft in 2008. Beasley was the 2nd pick in the 2008 NBA draft and was selected by the Miami Heat. He is regarded as one of the best freshman college basketball players of the 2000s. Though he is ambidextrous, he shoots left-handed.
1989Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress[†]
Nikolina Kamenova Dobreva, known professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2015).
1989Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete[†]
Yana Maksimava is a Lithuanian-Belarusian heptathlete. She was born in Vilnius, the capital of the then Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. She is married to fellow Belarusian athlete Andrei Krauchanka. Amid the forced repatriation and subsequent defection of Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, Maksimava announced that she and her husband would also not be returning to Belarus and would seek asylum in Germany, where the couple trains.
1989Samardo Samuels, Jamaican-American basketball player[†]
Samardo Samuels is a Jamaican professional basketball player who last played for Trotamundos de Carabobo. He is an NBA Veteran, Italian League Champion and Greek League All-Star. With a global career spanning over 15 years as a professional basketball player, he has played in over 13 countries across the world and represented Jamaica in the FIBA Americas Championship.
1989Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player[†]
Chris Sandow is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a goal-kicking halfback or five-eighth, he could also play as a fullback.
1989Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer[†]
Haris Sohail is a Pakistani cricketer who plays as a left-handed batsman and who occasionally bowls left-arm orthodox.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]