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LEAD: The nation's unemployment rate dropped sharply in February, to 5.1 percent, as the economy continued to generate jobs at a brisk pace, the Labor Department reported today.
LEAD: After an initial period of high excitement about the creation of a single market of 320 million consumers by the end of 1992, Western European politicians and citizens have started to register skeptical and even frightened accents as hard decisions loom on pivotal issues.
LEAD: The main Afrikaner church has for the first time unequivocally condemned apartheid.
LEAD: Robert C. McFarlane, the former national security adviser, testified today that Ronald Reagan told him not to tell Congress about contributions to the Nicaraguan rebels from a third country.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1989, covering March 11, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
1989Malcolm Delaney, American basketball player[†]
Malcolm Hakeem Delaney is an American former professional basketball player. He is from Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Towson Catholic High School. Delaney played college basketball for the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team. At the end of his college career, Delaney declared for the 2011 NBA draft. He was not drafted, and instead began his professional basketball career overseas, playing one season each for Élan Chalon, Budivelnyk Kyiv, and Bayern Munich, and later joined Lokomotiv Kuban for two seasons. In 2016, he earned an All-EuroLeague First Team selection.
1989Orlando Johnson, American basketball player[†]
Orlando Vincent Johnson is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara.
1989Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (died 2016)[†]
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American actor. Born in the Soviet Union to a Russian Jewish family, he immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of six months. He began his career as a child actor, appearing as the lead of the mystery drama film Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and a series regular on the Showtime comedy-drama Huff (2004–2006). His fame grew when he guest-starred in a 2004 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as his leading role as the title character of Charlie Bartlett (2007).
1989James Kee, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)[†]
James Kee was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's 5th congressional district from 1965 to 1973, succeeding his mother Elizabeth Kee. His father John Kee served in the same House seat from 1933 to 1951.
1989John J. McCloy, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1895)[†]
John Jay McCloy was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and high-ranking bureaucrat. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson. In this capacity he dealt with German sabotage and political tensions in the North Africa Campaign. He was both the prime mover of Japanese internment as well as a high-ranking Federal bureaucrat who opposed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he served as the president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Warren Commission, and a prominent adviser to all presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]