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LEAD: The eight adolescents being held in the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park were bound to each other by ties of neighborhood, rituals of the playground and common rites of passage that began long before the rampage last Wednesday night.
LEAD: Less than a week before New York City's school board elections, a Federal judge yesterday struck down a state law prohibiting city school employees, political officeholders and some party officials from serving on the city's school boards.
LEAD: When Noboru Takeshita took office as Prime Minister 17 months ago, he brought with him a reputation as the insider's insider, a product of the clubby, arcane world of Japanese politics.
LEAD: The City College of New York canceled classes yesterday as protesting students, concerned about the possibility of tuition increases, continued to occupy the main administration building.
LEAD: Two drugs used to treat heart rhythm irregularities in more than 200,000 Americans increased the risk of heart attack and death in patients in a major clinical trial, Federal health officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 26, 1989, covering April 26, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Guns N' Roses
1989Melvin Ingram, American football player[â ]
Melvin Ingram III is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, earning All-American honors in 2011. He was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the first round with the 18th overall pick of the 2012 NFL draft. He has also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins.
1989Kang Daesung, South Korean singer[â ]
Kang Dae-sung, better known mononymously as Daesung and his Japanese stage name D-Lite, is a South Korean singer who made his musical debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang. He debuted as a solo artist in South Korea with the number one trot song "Look at Me, Gwisoon" in 2008. Since the inception of the Gaon Digital Chart in 2010, Daesung achieved two Top 10 songs, the digital single "Cotton Candy" and "Wings" from the BigBang album Alive (2012).
1989Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911)[â ]
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive. She was recognized by Time in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for her work in all four of these areas. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five, and was the recipient of several other accolades, such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She earned many honors, including the Women in Film Crystal Award, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
1989The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.[â ]
The DaulatpurâSaturia tornado was an intense tornado that occurred in Manikganj District, Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. While it was destructive and extremely deadly, there is great uncertainty about the death toll. Official estimates from the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it killed approximately 1,300 people, which would make it the deadliest tornado in history. In 2022, this tornado's status as the deadliest tornado in history was challenged, claiming it did not kill more than 256 people. The tornado affected the cities of Daulatpur and Saturia the most, moving east through Daulatpur and eventually northeast into Saturia. Previously, the area that the tornado hit had been in a state of drought for six months.
1989People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.[â ]
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the CCP in multiple languages. It is the largest newspaper in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]