On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: UNTIL recently, whether you wanted a contemporary chair by Philippe Starck, a leading French designer, or fabric by Cowtan & Tout, the traditional English fabric house, you had to order it through a decorator or architect. Even seeing such items was difficult, since they were hidden away in showrooms that maintained a strict to-the-trade policy.
LEAD: The Japanese Government has quietly directed the nation's oil companies to reduce by a third the amount of oil they buy from Iran.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY In the first 20 days of February, net deposit outflows at the nation's savings and loan institutions were at a monthly rate of $5.2 billion, while in January the outflow was about $7 billion. Bank Board officials said the report reflected some regained confidence by consumers in the industry.
LEAD: In scenes reminiscent of the busiest days of Christmas, huge crowds poured into Sears, Roebuck stores around the country yesterday as the company introduced its new low-price policy.
LEAD: Richard M. Daley and his supporters know that history is on their side as they enter the final, five-week-long drive to the citywide general election. A Democratic nominee has not lost a Chicago mayoral race since 1927.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 1, 1989, covering March 2, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Debbie Gibson
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
1989Toby Alderweireld, Belgian footballer[†]
Tobias Albertine Maurits Alderweireld is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1989Alemão, Brazilian footballer[†]
José Carlos Tofolo Júnior, commonly known as Alemão, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of Monte Azul.
1989Nathalie Emmanuel, English actress[†]
Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel is a British actress. Emmanuel began her acting career appearing in theatre in the late 1990s, acquiring roles in various West End productions such as the musical The Lion King. In 2006, she began her on-screen career by starring as Sasha Valentine in soap opera Hollyoaks, after which she appeared in various British television series until her debut film appearance in Twenty8k (2012).
1989Marcel Hirscher, Austrian skier[†]
Marcel Hirscher is an Austrian-Dutch World Cup alpine ski racer. Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He competed primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of a record eight consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has also won 11 medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships, seven of them gold, a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and two gold medals in the combined and giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Due to his record number of overall titles and many years of extreme dominance of both slalom and giant slalom, he is considered by many, including his former rivals Henrik Kristoffersen, Kjetil Jansrud and Alexis Pinturault, to be the best alpine skier in history. He won a total of 67 World Cup races, ranking second on the male all-time list.
1989André Bernardes Santos, Portuguese footballer[†]
André Filipe Bernardes Santos is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga Portugal 2 club Oliveirense.
1989Shane Vereen, American football player[†]
Shane Patrick-Henry Vereen is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1989Chris Woakes, English cricketer[†]
Christopher Roger Woakes is an English cricketer who plays internationally for England in all formats. In domestic cricket, he represents Warwickshire, and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues, including for Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League.
1989Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.[†]
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957, aiming to foster economic integration among its member states. It was subsequently renamed the European Community (EC) upon becoming integrated into the first pillar of the newly formed European Union (EU) in 1993. In the popular language, the singular European Community was sometimes inaccurately used in the wider sense of the plural European Communities, in spite of the latter designation covering all the three constituent entities of the first pillar. The EEC was also known as the European Common Market (ECM) in the English-speaking countries, and sometimes referred to as the European Community even before it was officially renamed as such in 1993. In 2009, the EC formally ceased to exist and its institutions were directly absorbed by the EU. This made the Union the formal successor institution of the Community.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]