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LEAD: This old industrial city laid off 225 workers, 16 percent of its municipal work force, today, ending a week of protests against the threat of the layoffs with glum farewells in City Hall and police officers' exchanging their badges for unemployment forms.
LEAD: Fearful that developments proposed for Long Island City will force working-class and poor families from their homes by driving up rents, the Hunters Point Community Development Corporation is surveying potential displacement in the area of Queens along the East River with an eye toward construction of replacement housing.
LEAD: Increases in producer prices for finished goods slowed in March, rising four-tenths of 1 percent after two months of 1 percent increases that had raised fears of severe inflation.
LEAD: In 1639, King Charles I of England bestowed upon a loyal soldier and engineer named Lion Gardiner a royal patent to this 3,300-acre island of white oak and osprey out between the prongs of eastern Long Island.
LEAD: Manhattan's Lower East Side retail market area, which still carries a turn-of-the-century pushcart mindset, is heading upscale. Several designer-fashion women's shops have opened on Orchard Street in the last two years and in the heart of the area, Delancey and Essex Streets, a retailing company is building a three-story department store and a nearby two-story structure that will be rented to retailers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1989, covering April 15, 1989.
Tone-Loc
Debbie Gibson
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Roy Orbison
1989Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player[†]
Darren Nicholls is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a halfback for the Brisbane Tigers in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL.
1989Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1915)[†]
Hu Yaobang was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. After the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu rose to prominence as a close ally of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of China at the time.
1989Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.[†]
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters. Shortly before kick-off, police match commander David Duckenfield ordered exit gate C to be opened in an attempt to ease crowding, which led to an influx of supporters entering the pens. This resulted in overcrowding of those pens and the fatal crush; with a total of 97 fatalities and 766 injuries, the disaster is the deadliest in British sporting history. Ninety-four people died on the day; one more died in hospital days later, Tony Bland died in 1993, and in 2021, Andrew Devine, the 97th person died. Both Bland and Devine had suffered irreversible brain damage on the day. The match was abandoned and replayed at Old Trafford in Manchester on 7 May 1989; Liverpool won and went on to win that season's FA Cup.
1989Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.[†]
Hu Yaobang was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. After the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu rose to prominence as a close ally of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of China at the time.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]