On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Shortly before Phillip Moskowitz was murdered, Federal agents secretly recorded the Brooklyn gasoline wholesaler as he explained to another dealer how the Mafia shared in the theft of perhaps as much as $1 billion a year in Federal gasoline taxes in the New York metropolitan region.
LEAD: In a bold move to strengthen their competitive positions, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc. announced yesterday that they would form a partnership to operate a global computer reservation system.
LEAD: Once considered little more than a source of manpower for New York City, New Jersey is emerging from the 1980's as an increasingly diverse and independent economic powerhouse that in many ways outshines New York.
LEAD: Jaren Jackson scored 27 points, but it was stifling man-to-man defense that lifted sixth-ranked Georgetown to a 69-55 victory over Villanova today in a Big East game.
LEAD: The AIDS virus has reached deeply into the nation's black and Hispanic ghettos, devastating communities and families already overwhelmed with social and medical ills.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 1989, covering February 6, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Poison
Guns N' Roses
1989Craig Cathcart, Northern Irish footballer[†]
Craig George Cathcart is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played for the Northern Ireland national team, and captained his country's under-21 side.
1989Jonny Flynn, American basketball player[†]
Jonny William Flynn is an American former professional basketball player. A three-year National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran, he last played for the Orlandina Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A and played collegiate basketball for the Syracuse Orange.
1989Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (born 1912)[†]
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
1989The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.[†]
The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, communist Poland, from 6 February to 5 April 1989. The government initiated talks with the banned trade union Solidarity and other opposition groups to defuse growing social unrest.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]