On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 25, 1989, covering January 31, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Def Leppard
Poison
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
1989Tommy La Stella, American baseball player[†]
Thomas Frank La Stella is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, and Seattle Mariners.
1989William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (born 1896)[†]
Sir William Samuel Stephenson was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the Western Allies during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence code name, Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. Ian Fleming himself once wrote, "James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson."
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LEAD: In the main square of this town of about 10,000, the shopkeepers hawk oranges, old clothes and Russian-printed cloth. Afghan men sit in an open-air tea shop, their Kalashnikovs at their sides.
LEAD: Taking dramatic steps to shore up Nicaragua's rapidly deteriorating economy, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced a tough austerity program today. Officials said the program would slash the national budget by nearly half, requiring the discharge of up to 35,000 public employees and military personnel.
LEAD: The City Planning Department yesterday proposed sweeping zoning changes intended to preserve the shape, size and nature of housing in that half of New York City where one- and two-family homes, two or three stories high, now predominate.
LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch, pursuing a strategy to place the blame for New York City's budget troubles on Albany, said yesterday that he would have to cut 12,000 jobs from the municipal payroll, severely affecting many city agencies, if Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's proposed state budget was not changed.
LEAD: Reflecting the voracious appetite of foreign investors for Manhattan real estate, developers backed by $300 million from Japan are planning a new East 57th Street hotel that will vie for the distinction of being New York's most luxurious, and will charge more than $400 a night for a single room.
LEAD: IN the Bible, Moses parted the waters. In Venice, Moses intends to stop them cold.
LEAD: Combating Global Warming Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d urged an international effort to counter the threat of global warming caused by pollution. Page C7. Prison for Ex-Olympian Bruce Kimball, an Olympic silver medalist in diving in 1984, was sentenced to 17 years for drunken driving that killed two teen-agers and injured three others.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY President Bush will be urged to approve an increase in Federal deposit insurance premiums paid by banks and other lending institutions as a means to rescue troubled savings and loan institutions, Administration officials said. They backed away from a proposal for a fee on deposits.
LEAD: Senior Administration officials said today that they would urge President Bush to approve an increase in Federal deposit insurance premiums paid by banks and other lending institutions to rescue troubled savings and loan institutions and to back away from a proposal for a fee on savings deposits.
LEAD: Joel B. Steinberg was convicted of first-degree manslaughter last night in the death of Lisa Steinberg, the 6-year-old child he and Hedda Nussbaum raised in their Greenwich Village apartment.
LEAD: Salomon Brothers Inc. suffered another round of defections yesterday when four members of the ''junk bond'' department, including the head trader, resigned from the firm.
LEAD: IN an exacting applications of remote-control technology, engineers at the Government's Savannah River nuclear weapons plant have fabricated a computer-guided robot to detect cracks in the walls of nuclear reactors.