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LEAD: IN mid-April, Citizens Auto Revolt, a coalition of two citizen advocacy groups, announced a campaign to let New Jersey voters vent their frustration over soaring automobile insurance premiums. The coalition proposed a nonbinding referendum asking voters in November to approve a 20 percent rollback of current automobile insurance rates.
LEAD: AN Interstate highway, with its traffic noise and the glare of vehicles' headlights, does not mix well with a residential neighborhood. Connecticut is increasingly fencing the two apart, under a long-term project to put high wooden walls between superhighways and dwellings. The response has been largely, though not universally, favorable.
LEAD: Kenny Walker, the former Kentucky basketball star, was one of Rick Pitino's confidants during the past few weeks as Pitino considered an offer to become the Wildcats' coach.
Europe is entering its Berlitz era of movie making. Language in the form of demotic speech is at the barricades. ''Francesco,'' Liliana Cavani's new film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi, won no awards at the recent Cannes International Film Festival, but it will not be soon forgotten by anyone who squirmed through even the smallest, dizziest portion of it.
LEAD: Remember when little Chrissie Evert shook up conventional tennis with her two-fisted backhand, then an unconventional shot?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 31, 1989, covering June 4, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Madonna
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
1989Federico Erba, Italian footballer[â ]
Federico Maria Erba is an Italian footballer who plays for Roma.
1989PaweÅ Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower[â ]
PaweÅ Fajdek is a Polish hammer thrower, a five-time World Champion, European Champion, Olympic bronze medal winner, multiple Polish Champion and Polish men's hammer throw record holder. In 2013, he became the youngest world champion in the event. His personal best throw of 83.93 metres was achieved on 9 August 2015 at the Janusz KusociÅski Memorial in Szczecin.
1989Dik Browne, American cartoonist (born 1917)[â ]
Richard Arthur Allan Browne was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing HÀgar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.
1989In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.[â ]
An election for the second Supreme Leader of Iran was held on 4 June 1989, following the death in office of Ruhollah Khomeini. In the election, Ali Khamenei was elected supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts with 60 votes out of 74.
1989The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).[â ]
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.
1989Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.[â ]
Solidarity, full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in GdaÅsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state.
1989Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.[â ]
The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on 4 June 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, when a gas pipe explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more. It is the deadliest rail disaster during peacetime in Soviet/Russian history and the second-deadliest overall after the Vereshchyovka train disaster. This accident took place exactly a year after the 1988 Arzamas train disaster.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]