On this day
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LEAD: George J. Feeney, the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation's senior vice president for advanced development, leaned across the table in his utilitarian Manhattan office and talked about, of all things, oil.
LEAD: A 97-ROOM condominium hotel is rising in this rapidly growing suburb of Burlington, Vermont's largest city, as part of the first phase of the ongoing Lang Farm development.
LEAD: FRIENDS of Roanoke Island, one of several conservation groups formed in the last two years, is trying to stop development of a luxury residential subdivision on Roanoke Island, N.C., where America's first settlement was established in 1585 - only to vanish within a few years.
LEAD: In what has come to resemble an intramural display of Soviet air power, Sergei Bubka regained the world indoor pole-vault record yesterday from Rodion Gataullin.
LEAD: Anna Saminskaya arrived Thursday afternoon at the voters' meeting in the Moscow House of Scholars, a wishful skeptic on the subject of Soviet politics.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 1989, covering February 12, 1989.
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Guns N' Roses
Poison
1989Josh Harrellson, American basketball player[†]
Josh Douglas Harrellson is an American professional basketball player for Saga Ballooners of the Japanese B.League. Standing 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he played center for the Kentucky Wildcats from 2008 to 2011. He was selected by the New Orleans Hornets as the 45th pick in the 2011 NBA draft, but was traded to the New York Knicks. He signed with the Miami Heat in 2012. In 2013, he joined the Brujos de Guayama in Puerto Rico, but he was released on May 18 so that he could join Chongqing Flying Dragons in the Chinese National Basketball League for a two-month period. In August 2013, Harrellson joined the Detroit Pistons.
1989Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (born 1931)[†]
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]