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LEAD: Part of the outer fuselage of a United Airlines jumbo jet ripped away shortly after takeoff early this morning, sucking out passengers to the darkness of the Pacific Ocean below.
LEAD: Reversing a longstanding policy, the Koch administration has decided to transfer some mental patients from New York City hospitals directly to shelters for the homeless to relieve chronic overcrowding on psychiatric wards.
LEAD: Intensifying its drive to halt rising inflation, the Federal Reserve Board today raised an important lending rate by a half-point, to 7 percent. The increase was only the second since the central bank started tightening credit last March.
LEAD: The official in charge of the Talent Bank, a New York City office that has been accused of helping politically connected applicants obtain city jobs, has resigned under pressure, Mayor Edward I. Koch said yesterday.
LEAD: Senate Republican leaders struggled today to save the nomination of John G. Tower as Secretary of Defense, but they faced an uphill battle against a Democratic majority and the weight of weeks of allegations about the conduct of their onetime colleague.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 1989, covering February 25, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Debbie Gibson
1989Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player[†]
James Taft "Jimmer" Fredette is an American former professional basketball player who serves as the managing director of the USA Basketball 3x3 Men’s National Team. Fredette was the 2011 National Player of the Year in college basketball, after ranking as the leading scorer in all of NCAA Division I during his senior season for the BYU Cougars. He was subsequently selected with the 10th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft.
1989Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer[†]
Kana Hanazawa is a Japanese actress and singer. A prolific voice performer in anime, she has amassed several film and television credits since her debut in 2003. She won the Seiyu Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015, and won the Newtype Anime Awards for Best Voice Actress three times in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
1989E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player[†]
E'Twaun Donte Moore is an American professional basketball player who is a scout for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted by the Boston Celtics in the 2011 NBA draft after playing college basketball at Purdue University. In high school, he led East Chicago's Central High School to an IHSAA state championship.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]