On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
LEAD: In a turnabout that finds Soviet believers praising God, not to mention Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hundreds of tattered old churches have suddenly been returned to surprised congregations in the last year, a boon of the Government's flagging faith in militant atheism.
LEAD: The balance-of-trade figures for February, released Friday, showed a widening of the deficit to $10.5 billion, up from January's $8.6 billion deficit. Imports increased 5.6 percent in February, while exports grew by a negligible amount. Three experts give their views on the widening trade gap.
LEAD: United Artists, the movie studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, is being acquired by Australia's Qintex Group. International receipts from ''The Accused,'' the Paramount Pictures film for which Jodie Foster recently received an Academy Award, just surpassed domestic box-office revenues.
LEAD: THE county's businesses, schools and colleges have begun a long-contemplated collaborative effort to improve the quality of education in the county and better prepare its students for jobs.
LEAD: A DIVIDED LIFE A Personal Portrait of the Spy Donald Maclean. By Robert Cecil. Illustrated. 212 pp. New York: William Morrow & Company. $18.95. THE MASTER SPY The Story of Kim Philby. By Phillip Knightley. Illustrated. 292 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $19.95. MOLEHUNT Searching for Soviet Spies in MI5.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1989, covering April 16, 1989.
Tone-Loc
Debbie Gibson
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Roy Orbison
1989Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (born 1899)[†]
John Bertrand "Jocko" Conlan was an American baseball umpire who worked in the National League (NL) from 1941 to 1965. He had a brief career as an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox before entering umpiring. He umpired in five World Series and six All-Star Games. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 by the Veterans Committee.
1989Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (born 1915)[†]
Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle. He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram, often used in the analysis of industrial processes.
1989Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (born 1940)[†]
John Miles Lawrence played first-class cricket for Somerset in 18 matches between 1959 and 1961.
1989Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer, manager and president (born 1910)[†]
Hakkı Yeten was a Turkish football player and president of the Istanbul-based football club Beşiktaş J.K., which he also coached. He is one of the most important names in Beşiktaş history.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]