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LEAD: When Bill Cosby gave $20 million to Spelman College in Atlanta, the largest individual donation ever made to a black college, he made it clear that he intended the money not just as a gift but as a challenge to other black Americans to support black colleges.
LEAD: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission will decide whether to allow the construction of what could be the last apartment house on upper Madison Avenue. As the public hearing on Jan. 24 approaches, its developer is stressing one point: Not one brownstone will be harmed.
LEAD: Boris N. Yeltsin, the maverick populist who has won a huge following by waging political war within the Soviet leadership, today offered to quit his high-ranking job in the Construction Ministry to accept a popular draft as candidate for a new National Congress of Deputies.
LEAD: What Irish actor can boast a longer and more impressive bio than Ray McAnally? None, surely. He's appeared in over 250 theater productions, 150 television dramas and a score of movies. Back home on Dublin stages, he's played Macbeth and Arthur Miller's Willy Loman and heroes and non-heroes galore.
LEAD: THIS is the time of year when co-op boards of directors and condominium owners associations send out their annual budgets. For many, the statements will carry the message of assessments and higher monthly charges, provoking another round in the long and abrasive debates among New York's resident owners that turn on the question, '
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1989, covering January 15, 1989.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
1989Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (died 2008)[†]
Alexei Andreyevich Cherepanov was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Previously, Cherepanov had played for Avangard's lower-level teams, and then for the senior men's team in the Russian Super League. Cherepanov was selected in the first round of the 2007 National Hockey League (NHL) Entry Draft by the New York Rangers, although he never played professional hockey in North America. Cherepanov represented Russia in international play, and played in several tournaments at the junior level. He won a gold medal at the 2007 World Under-18 Championships. While playing at the Under-20 level, Cherepanov won silver and bronze medals in 2007 and 2008.
1989Nicole Ross, American Olympic foil fencer[†]
Nicole Ross is an American foil fencer. Fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team, she won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title, and was a three time All-American. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in individual women's foil, coming in 25th, while in the team event she and her teammates came in sixth. At the 2018 World Championships, she and Team USA won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.
1989Martin Dúbravka, Slovakian footballer[†]
Martin Dúbravka is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Slovakia national team. He is widely considered one of the best Slovakian footballers of all time.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]