On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: One day melds quietly into the next here at the Last Post, a lovely 37-acre wooded retreat for elderly cats. Many of the cats spend entire days lounging in one of the 60-foot-long pine-paneled cat sitting rooms, with the skylights, ceiling fans and large wood beams trucked in from Maine. Hundreds of happy cats rest on the sitting room armchairs, couches and tables.
LEAD: The Bush Administration is running into opposition from large segments of the savings and loan industry over the President's proposal to double by 1991 the amount of capital that savings institutions are required to keep on hand.
LEAD: NEW fossil discoveries and genetic evidence have fueled a resounding debate among anthropologists over the timing and circumstances of the last major event in human physical evolution, the emergence of the anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
LEAD: Valentine's Day finds Aggi Roselli of Manhattan waiting by a facsimile machine, listening for the bleep, bleep of the fax mating call, hoping it signals the advent of true love on thermal paper. Or at least a date for the weekend.
LEAD: President Bush and Democrats in Congress intensified their debate today over whether Mr. Bush's $1.16 trillion budget was a realistic effort to trim the deficit or a shrewd political ploy to leave the Democrats with the task of cutting popular social programs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 1989, covering February 14, 1989.
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Guns N' Roses
Poison
1989Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer[†]
Néstor Calderón Enríquez, also known as el Avión, is a Mexican former professional footballer who last played as a winger.
1989Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer[†]
Adam Matuszczyk is a Polish professional footballer who plays for 1. FC Düren and was a member of the Poland national team. Naturally a left midfielder, he can also be deployed as a defensive midfielder.
1989Emma Miskew, Canadian curler[†]
Emma Kathryn Miskew is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time World and five-time Canadian champion curler as a member of the Rachel Homan rink. She was Homan's longtime third until 2022 when she moved to second, when Tracy Fleury was added to the team. In addition to their World and Canadian championships, the Homan team represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
1989Byron Mullens, American basketball player[†]
Byron James "B. J." Mullens is a British-American professional basketball player who last played for the BCH Knights of The League. Born in the United States, he holds British citizenship due to his English mother. He was drafted 24th overall by the Dallas Mavericks and immediately traded to the Thunder in the 2009 NBA draft.
1989Derek Norris, American baseball player[†]
Derek Russell Norris is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, and Tampa Bay Rays. Prior to playing professionally, Norris attended Goddard High School. After signing and spending a few seasons in the Washington Nationals' minor-league system, he was traded to the Oakland Athletics at the end of the 2011 season.
1989Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Brandon Sutter is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Vancouver Canucks.
1989Jurij Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper[†]
Jurij Tepeš is a Slovenian former ski jumper.
1989Kristian Thomas, English gymnast[†]
Kristian James Thomas is a British former artistic gymnast. A long-standing member of both the England and Great Britain men's teams, he was a member of the British team that won gold in the 2012 European Championships team event, and a historic bronze in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won his first global individual medal in the 2013 World Championships, a bronze in vault; it was also the first global medal ever won in vault by a British male gymnast. In 2015 he won his first major international title, gold in the floor exercise at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
1989James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist (born 1900)[†]
James Bond was an American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean, having written the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936. He served as a curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. His name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional British spy of the same name; the real Bond enjoyed knowing his name was being used this way, and references to him permeate the resulting media franchise.
1989Vincent Crane, English pianist (born 1943)[†]
Vincent Rodney Cheesman, known professionally as Vincent Crane, was an English keyboardist, best known as the organist for the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and subsequently for Atomic Rooster.
1989Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.[†]
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is an American chemical company headquartered in Seadrift, Texas. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company since 2001. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers before reaching consumers. Some are high-volume commodities and others are specialty products. Markets served include paints and coatings, packaging, wire and cable, household products, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, textiles, agriculture, and oil and gas. The company is a former component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1989Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.[†]
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population. It is the sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's most mountainous countries. Iran is officially an Islamic republic, divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's capital, largest city and financial centre.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]