On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: A New York City police officer was shot and critically wounded during an exchange of gunfire last night in Brooklyn that ended with the arrest of two gunmen, the police said.
LEAD: Investment bankers are being sharply criticized in the Delaware courts, the nation's most important forum for takeover battles, for playing favorites when they oversee auctions of companies and for giving arbitrary investment opinions about the value of bids.
LEAD: After more than a decade of winning praise both in New York and across the country for innovative cost-cutting policies and improvements in patient care, Dr. David Axelrod, the state's Health Commissioner, is under growing attack as New York's hospitals sink deeper into crisis.
LEAD: A Memorial Day neighborhood picnic in Springfield, N.J., turned into a nightmare yesterday afternoon when a 23-year-old man grabbed a 10-inch knife and fatally stabbed his mother and one of his three brothers and then ran into a nearby backyard, killing a family friend and a neighbor, Union County officials said.
LEAD: Many business leaders, worried that in the long run they may be hit with the cost of health care for millions of uninsured people, are beginning to advocate a greater role for the Federal Government in extending coverage to all Americans.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1989, covering May 30, 1989.
Madonna
Fine Young Cannibals
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Tone-Loc
1989Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter[†]
Amy Lee, known professionally as Ailee, is an American singer and songwriter based in South Korea. Amassing digital sales success in South Korea, she has released four studio albums, six extended plays, and twenty one singles, six of which charted within the top five of the Gaon Digital Chart.
1989Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player[†]
Lesia Viktorivna Tsurenko is a Ukrainian inactive professional tennis player. Tsurenko has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and eight doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 February 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 28 May 2018, she peaked at No. 115 in the WTA doubles rankings.
1989Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.[†]
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]