On this day
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LEAD: ART at this moment is almost everywhere in Manhattan, and almost everything is art. It may come with august credentials -in the auction houses, quite often, and in the Goya show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and downtown it may come with no credentials at all (and possibly be none the worse for that).
LEAD: In the coal fields of Virginia, the cries are of scab and giveback. But when the United Mine Workers of America confronts the management of the Pittston Company at its annual meeting next week, the ostensible issues will be far different: ''poison pills'' and secret voting for shareholders.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY Dozens of subpoenas were served on commodity traders and Federal postal inspectors reportedly searched two offices as part of a sweeping investigation of commodity exchanges in New York. One focus of the inquiry was said to be trades executed to incur tax benefits illegally.
LEAD: After waiting nearly an hour for the clouds to part, the astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit today and sent a radar-mapping spacecraft on a 15-month, 795-million-mile journey to Venus.
LEAD: Federal investigators armed with subpoenas descended yesterday on four of New York's commodity exchanges, a move that disclosed sweeping criminal and civil inquiries into trading practices on the exchanges' floors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 1989, covering May 5, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Guns N' Roses
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
1989Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor[†]
Christopher Maurice Brown is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. A pop and hip-hop-influenced R&B musician who works in a variety of genres, he has been called the "King of R&B" by some of his contemporaries. His lyrics often address emotional and hedonistic themes. His singing and dancing skills have often been compared favorably to those of Michael Jackson.
1989Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler[†]
Agnes Ellinor Knochenhauer is a Swedish curler from Stockholm. She currently plays second on Team Anna Hasselborg. With Hasselborg, Knochenhauer has won two Olympic medals, gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and bronze at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She also won a silver medal at the 2014 Games in Sochi as alternate for the Margaretha Sigfridsson rink.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]