On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: International observers sent to investigate clashes in northern Namibia over the weekend reported a ''major incursion'' by guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization, United Nations officials and Western diplomats said today.
LEAD: Ruling in a case worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the treasuries of eight states, the Supreme Court said today that states did not have to allow oil companies to deduct their Federal ''windfall profit'' tax payments from their state income calculations.
LEAD: Even as his campaign plane plummeted in one more downdraft, Representative Jim Courter, a Republican candidate for governor with an unflappable faith in the future, seemed unperturbed by the turbulence in the New Jersey sky.
LEAD: The mainframe computer is rapidly being turned into a technological dinosaur by the tiny ''computer on a chip,'' which is growing smaller, cheaper and dramatically faster.
LEAD: Eighteen years after he fled to Guyana to evade a prison sentence for conspiring to murder moderate civil-rights leaders, Herman B. Ferguson is returning to New York City, where, as an educator in the 1960's, he inflamed a raging dispute over the control of public schools by proposing a ''survival curriculum'' of armed combat for black students.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 1989, covering April 4, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Paula Abdul
Guns N' Roses
1989Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer[†]
Vurnon San Benito Anita is a Curaçaoan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or full-back for Eredivisie club Volendam. Born in Curaçao and raised in the Netherlands, Anita played for the Netherlands national team in 2010 before switching to play for the Curaçao national team in 2021.
1989Steven Finn, English cricketer[†]
Steven Thomas Finn is a former English cricketer. He was a right-arm fast bowler, who also bats right-handed. At the age of 16, he became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest-ever debutant in first-class cricket. He made his England Test debut in 2010 against Bangladesh. In 2019 he became a commentator for Test Match Special.
1989Chris Herd, Australian footballer[†]
Christopher Herd is an Australian former international footballer. Herd could be described as a utility player who was able to play in several positions, including central defence, full back and central midfield. He represented Australia at under-20 level and won the first of his senior caps in September 2014.
1989Jens Toornstra, Dutch footballer[†]
Jens Toornstra is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie side FC Utrecht. He usually plays as an attacking midfielder.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]