On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: The New York City Parks Department, convinced that there is more than one way to skin a rat, has a new plan to fight one of civilization's oldest problems by building boxes from which barn owls can fly nocturnal raids on rodents.
LEAD: A Federal agent who was killed last week while on a narcotics investigation on Staten Island was simultaneously involved in an undercover operation to determine whether corruption existed in an early-release program for prisoners, Federal law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
LEAD: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of 45 insolvent savings and loan associations with assets of $13.6 billion today, bringing to 118 the number of sick institutions that it has seized in accord with President Bush's savings bailout plan.
LEAD: Minutes after the Senate rejected him for the job he had sought for most of a decade, John G. Tower stood for the first and last time behind a lectern emblazoned with the seal of the Secretary of Defense of the United States.
LEAD: In a move to expand its international presence, the U S Sprint Communications Company today announced an agreement to buy a 50 percent stake in the first private telecommunications cable linking the United States and Europe.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1989, covering March 10, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
1989Simon Moser, Swiss ice hockey player[†]
Simon Moser is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who currently serves as captain of SC Bern of the National League (NL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Nashville Predators.
1989Dayán Viciedo, Cuban baseball player[†]
Dayán Viciedo Pérez is a Cuban professional baseball infielder for the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons.
1989Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.[†]
Air Ontario Flight 1363 was a scheduled Air Ontario passenger flight which crashed near Dryden, Ontario, Canada, on 10 March 1989 shortly after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport. The aircraft was a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship twin jet. It crashed after only 49 seconds because it was not able to attain sufficient altitude to clear the trees beyond the end of the runway, due to a buildup of ice and snow on the wings.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]