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LEAD: Significant progress has been made toward settlement of a wide variety of civil charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., people involved in the talks said yesterday.
LEAD: Like the bamboo shoots that emerge everywhere after a spring rain, to use a Chinese simile, democracy is sprouting again in China.
LEAD: The Federal Government announced plans today to detain Central Americans who file invalid claims for political asylum and hold them in a tent city it will erect near here with space for 5,000 people.
LEAD: THE patient was already in the hospital when he suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed his entire left side. It began about 10 P.M.
LEAD: Mideast Diplomatic Moves The Soviet Foreign Minister, in Cairo, claimed new Arab support for Moscow's latest proposals, but he faced little prospect of Israeli assent in talks later in the week. Page A6. Gorbachev in Kiev The Soviet leader ventured into the streets of Kiev to drum up support for his policies, only to be confronted with complaints.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 15, 1989, covering February 21, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Guns N' Roses
1989Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter[†]
Corbin Bleu Reivers is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the late 1990s before rising to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role as Chad Danforth in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008). Songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song "I Don't Dance" peaking inside the Top 70 of the Billboard Hot 100. During this time, he also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In! (2007) and the film To Write Love on Her Arms (2015). He competed in the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars.
1989Ian Cole, American ice hockey player[†]
Ian Douglas Cole is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). Cole won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017.
1989Federico Fernández, Argentine footballer[†]
Federico Fernández is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1989Jake Muzzin, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jacob Muzzin is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and works in Player Development for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He previously had played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings and Toronto Maple Leafs. Originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, Muzzin went unsigned and returned to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) as an overage player. There he served as team captain and won the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the top defenceman in the OHL. As a free agent, Muzzin signed with the Kings in 2010, winning a Stanley Cup with the team in 2014. Muzzin was traded to Toronto during the 2018–19 season, where he played parts of five seasons. After a spinal injury suffered in 2022 resulted in his placement on long-term injured reserve, Muzzin joined the Maple Leafs' front office as a professional scout in 2023.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]