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LEAD: New York State's highest court today narrowly upheld the right of municipalities to enact zoning laws that force bookstores and theaters that sell sexually explicit material to move out of downtown shopping areas and into less-visited neighborhoods like industrial districts.
LEAD: These are not cheery times in Wooster Square, an old, once-seedy Italian neighborhood near Yale University that in recent years has become a stylish favorite among those with a taste for Brooklyn-style brownstones and National Register of Historic Places plaques.
LEAD: House Speaker Jim Wright's top political and legislative aide, who was imprisoned 16 years ago for an attack on a woman, resigned today after publicity about his past caused a furor and heightened the turmoil around Mr. Wright.
LEAD: In a rare move, the Securities and Exchange Commission said today that it had formally censured the Chicago Board Options Exchange for failing to enforce its trading rules in 1985, when the exchange was facing intense competition for options contracts.
LEAD: One Friday night in February 1988, a client and friend of Peter G. Schmidt was startled to encounter Mr. Schmidt in the arrival area at the Miami airport. Hours earlier, he had spoken to Mr. Schmidt in New York, and had arranged to see him there over the weekend. Something had come up suddenly, Mr.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 10, 1989, covering May 12, 1989.
Madonna
Guns N' Roses
Tone-Loc
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
1989Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress[†]
Eleftheria Eleftheriou is a Greek Cypriot singer. She came to prominence through her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor. Shortly after her elimination, Sony Music Greece signed her and submitted her as a candidate to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. She was later disqualified from the national final, following the leak of her song onto the internet by an unknown party.
1989The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipeline explosion, which kills two more people.[†]
The San Bernardino train disaster, was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline adjacent to the tracks which was damaged by earth-moving equipment during the crash cleanup.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]