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LEAD: When the Control Data Corporation, one of two manufacturers of supercomputers in the United States, abruptly dropped out of the race to build the fastest machines in the world, the Japanese were both startled and a bit apprehensive.
LEAD: The Control Data Corporation's hasty withdrawal from the supercomputer business has sharpened the debate over whether new Japanese competition to build and sell the powerful computers is threatening the dominance of the United States in the field.
LEAD: With solemn-faced actors reprising the first inauguration and a two-hour parade filling the narrow streets of lower Manhattan, New York City celebrated 200 years of Presidential government yesterday.
LEAD: When thousands of cheering and banner-waving Qinghua University students left campus last week to join an enormous demonstration that crumpled police lines and forced the Government to agree to a discussion, they forgot one thing: their leaders.
LEAD: First place used to be so common that it was part of the Yankees' name, as in ''the first-place Yankees.'' Not long ago, superstar was attached to Jesse Barfield's name, as in Jesse Barfield, superstar.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 26, 1989, covering May 1, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Guns N' Roses
1989Victoria Monét, American singer-songwriter[†]
Victoria Monét McCants is an American singer-songwriter. First gaining recognition for her songwriting work, Monét pursued a recording career with the release of a series of extended plays (EPs); her fifth, Jaguar (2020) was met with critical acclaim. Her debut studio album, Jaguar II (2023) became her commercial breakthrough and was supported by the hit single "On My Mama", which peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year. The nomination was among seven she received at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, from which she won Best New Artist, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
1989Sally Kirkland, American journalist (born 1912)[†]
Sally Kirkland Sr. was a manager at Lord & Taylor, a fashion editor at Vogue magazine and served as the only fashion editor at Life magazine between 1947 and 1969.
1989V. M. Panchalingam, Sri Lankan civil servant (born 1930)[†]
V. Muthiah Panchalingam was a Sri Lankan civil servant. He was assassinated by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1989Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician (born 1904)[†]
Patrice Tardif was a politician Quebec, Canada and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (MLA).
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]