On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: On the outskirts of the largest city in eastern Afghanistan, guerrilla commanders are debating whether to mount an attack or continue to tighten the siege.
LEAD: The Patten Corporation, a real-estate concern whose land-selling techniques in the Catskills and other rural areas in the Northeast have prompted widespread criticism, has agreed to make refunds to consumers who can prove they were deceived by the company in five states, the New York State Attorney
LEAD: ''EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SIX. That's the year to look out for. I'll always trust a date on a house authenticated before that year, because people had nothing to gain by falsifying it.''
LEAD: Iran announced today that it would release several thousand political prisoners to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on Saturday. But it said about 900 opponents of the Government accused of murder and other serious crimes would not be freed.
LEAD: A Soviet magazine has broken another taboo by publishing a scathing attack on the Communist Party, including the first irreverent barbs directed at Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 1989, covering February 9, 1989.
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Guns N' Roses
Poison
1989Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier[†]
Maxime Dufour-Lapointe is a Canadian freestyle skier from Montréal, Quebec.
1989Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (born 1928)[†]
Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the Father of Manga" , "the Godfather of Manga" and "the god of Manga" . Additionally, he is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during Tezuka's formative years. Though this phrase praises the quality of his early manga works for children and animations, it also blurs the significant influence of his later, more literary, gekiga works.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]