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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1989, covering March 9, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Paula Abdul
Guns N' Roses
Roy Orbison
Def Leppard
Anita Baker
1989Taeyeon, South Korean singer[†]
Kim Tae-yeon, known mononymously as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of the most widely known K-pop groups worldwide. She has since participated in other SM Entertainment projects, including Girls' Generation-TTS, SM the Ballad, Girls' Generation-Oh!GG, and the supergroup Got the Beat.
1989Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (born 1946)[†]
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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LEAD: Carl C. Icahn, the corporate takeover specialist, said yesterday that he would begin talks with striking machinists about taking over Eastern Airlines if Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Eastern's parent company, the Texas Air Corporation, gave him permission.
LEAD: Nintendo, whose home video games have millions of young people battling dragons and navigating dungeons and mazes, is scrambling to escape from a growing legal labyrinth of its own.
LEAD: ''DON'T you think that one looks just like Andre Previn?'' asked Stephanie Hoppen, a London dealer in paintings and prints. ''That one could be Donald Sutherland's twin. And that's the one we call Farmer Giles, obviously a wealthy country man who's come up in the world and went to a good tailor.''
LEAD: The BankAmerica Corporation said today that it would take an additional reserve against its first-quarter earnings to cover losses related to student loan defaults that were developing into a messy legal affair involving several major banks.
LEAD: On a wintry afternoon in Philadelphia recently, the architect Robert Venturi was sitting with a 39-year-old builder, Warren Pearl, discussing tiles and backsplashes. Mr. Venturi, one of the country's most influential architects, is the designer of the new extension of the National Gallery in London and the man generally credited with being the spiritual father of the postmodern movement.
LEAD: FOR Eric Young and his twin sister, Julie, commuting to college and living at home is a lot more complicated than it looks on television sitcoms.
LEAD: A new breed of street-corner confidence men has joined the purveyors of counterfeit Gucci bags, Rolex watches and Chanel No. 5, say law-enforcement officials in New York City: fake-crack peddlers.
LEAD: The issue of Federal sponsorship of foreign research into the emerging field of high-definition television took center stage at Congressional hearings today.
LEAD: The battle over the nomination of John G. Tower to be Secretary of Defense all but ended today as Senate Democrats apparently secured a majority of votes against confirmation.
LEAD: At 2:52 P.M. today, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas left his office, where the receptionists faced a switchboard humming with the voice of the people, all of them with an opinion on John G. Tower's fitness to be Secretary of Defense.
LEAD: In his 10 years as New York State Comptroller, Edward V. Regan has watched the fortunes of many elected officials rise and fall and, for the fortunate ones, rise again. The experience, he says, has helped him maintain perspective as his own political prospects recently began to dim.