On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Some of the small investors who went into hibernation after the stock market crash in October 1987 may be stirring in the heat of a new year's rally on Wall Street.
LEAD: The chief executive of South Africa's largest commercial bank has decided to leave the country for a post in Europe, the bank announced today.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL The Soviet Union's grain harvest fell 40 million tons short of the 235-million-ton target, a Soviet official said. That would be the worst harvest in three years and a bit less than had been anticipated. [ Page A1. ] Grain and soybean prices plunged, despite the news from Moscow and U.S.
LEAD: Even in its hometown of Lahr, Imhausen-Chemie was hardly a household name before Jan. 1, when the company was publicly accused of having helped Libya build a poison-gas plant.
LEAD: Scientists studying the greenhouse effect are struggling to understand a host of bewildering interactions among air, water and plants that could hasten the potentially disastrous global warming, postpone its effects or, they worry, produce unexpected, rapid change in the Earth's climate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1989, covering January 17, 1989.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
1989Taylor Jordan, American baseball player[†]
Taylor Jordan is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).
1989Kelly Marie Tran, American actress[†]
Kelly Marie Tran is an American actress. She began acting in 2011, with most of her roles being in short film and television. She came to global prominence for her role as Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also voiced Raya in the Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Dawn Betterman in the DreamWorks Animation film The Croods: A New Age (2020).
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]