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 February 8, 1989, covering February 11, 1989.
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Guns N' Roses
Poison
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Anita Baker
Journey
1989George O'Hanlon, American actor and voice artist (born 1912)[†]
George O'Hanlon was an American actor, comedian and writer. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series The Jetsons and its 1985 revival.
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LEAD: Depositors at the nation's savings and loan associations withdrew $8.1 billion more than they deposited in December, setting a monthly record, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board said today.
LEAD: President Bush has decided in principle to continue supplying the Afghan rebels with military aid as long as the Soviet-backed Kabul Government remains in power, senior Administration officials said today.
LEAD: In a sign of higher inflation that troubled the financial markets, producer prices rose last month at the fastest rate in three years.
LEAD: A table yesterday with a front-page article about President Bush's budget for fiscal year 1990 misstated differences between some of President Ronald Reagan's proposed spending for the year and President Bush's in the same categories. an explanation appears on page 9.
LEAD: The Vatican condemned all forms of racism yesterday in a major document touching on apartheid, anti-Semitism, tribal conflicts, the rights of aboriginal people and the discrimination encountered by migrants.
LEAD: A day after warmly welcoming President Bush on Capitol Hill, Democratic members of Congress took a second look at his budget proposals today and sharply criticized them on the ground that they were vague and hid many cuts in domestic spending.
LEAD: Cutting through the fog of gossip about the private life of John G. Tower has proved confounding both for Federal agents carrying out a check on his background and for the senators who must weigh his nomination as Secretary of Defense.
LEAD: Ronald H. Brown, an influential Washington lawyer, was elected today as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the first black ever to preside over a major political party in the United States.
LEAD: A 60-foot yacht designed in the anything-goes style of ocean racing is expected to sail through the Golden Gate Bridge finish line late Saturday and break what many sailors consider to be the last great sailing record.
LEAD: International 3-5, 28 American supplies to Afghan rebels will continue as long as the Soviet-backed Government remains in power, Administration officials say. The Soviets have left behind a lot of weaponry, they said. Page 1 At Afghan guerrilla talks, confusion reigns supreme
LEAD: ''We cannot ignore the history of this moment. In choosing the first American of African descent to lead one of America's political parties, you have made history.'' - Ronald H. Brown. [ 1:4. ]