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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: ''PEOPLE react with surprise, almost with horror,'' a nonplussed Jeff Fazio said of his newly renovated Chelsea co-op.
LEAD: New York City's child-welfare agency is failing to properly supervise thousands of abused and neglected children who have been placed in foster care with relatives, say caseworkers, union officials and lawyers representing the children.
LEAD: Sam Nunn, the Senator everyone is watching to determine the fate of John G. Tower's nomination to be Secretary of Defense, said today that the inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not resolve whether Mr. Tower still has a drinking problem.
LEAD: Bankrupt, facing foreclosure and clinging to the slope of bitter depression, 51-year-old Stanley Kallman, sometime high roller and big-time loser, swears he would sooner pick up a tarantula than a hand of blackjack.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 1989, covering February 23, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Debbie Gibson
1989Evan Bates, American ice dancer[†]
Evan Bates is an American ice dancer. With his wife and skating partner, Madison Chock, he is the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, a three-time World champion, two-time Grand Prix Final champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, a twenty-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, ten-time ISU Challenger Series medalist, and a six-time U.S. national champion. The two represented the United States at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
1989Jérémy Pied, French footballer[†]
Jérémy Victor Pied is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back.
1989Wilin Rosario, Dominican baseball player[†]
Wilin Arismendy Rosario Hernández is a Dominican professional baseball catcher and first baseman who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, the KBO League for the Hanwha Eagles, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers, and the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President Lions.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]