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LEAD: The television industry is littered with top executives who made their mark and then disappeared from the industry. But Fred Silverman, who controlled the programming destinies of each of the three networks in the course of two decades, is no longer among them.
LEAD: Shortly after witnessing Speaker Jim Wright announce that he was ending his 34-year Congressional career amid allegations about his financial dealings, a more junior Congressman headed from the House chamber to the nearby Democratic Club to conduct some business.
LEAD: For a time last month, Bernard Mecklowitz considered resigning from the New York City school system, which had employed him for 35 years.
LEAD: ''The Heidi Chronicles'' won the Tony Award for best play last night, and ''Jerome Robbins's Broadway'' won for best musical and in five other categories, including leading actor in a musical.
LEAD: Interest rates have begun to decline across much of the economy, reducing the probability of the recession some economists have been predicting but also perhaps fanning the fires of inflation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 31, 1989, covering June 5, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Madonna
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
1989Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player[†]
Cameron Thomas Atkinson is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Atkinson was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the sixth round, 157th overall, of the 2008 NHL entry draft, and has also played for the Philadelphia Flyers.
1989Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress and singer[†]
Megumi Nakajima is a Japanese voice actress and singer, who is affiliated with Stay Luck. In 2003, she joined the talent agency Stardust Promotion after passing their audition. Later, in 2007, she debuted as a voice actress and singer after passing an audition held by the music company Victor Entertainment; she was then cast as the character Ranka Lee in the 2008 anime series Macross Frontier. Her first solo single "Tenshi ni Naritai" was released in 2009, which was followed by her first solo album I Love You in 2010.
1989The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.[†]
The Tank Man is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. On the previous day, the government of China cleared the square of protesting students after six weeks of standoff, in the process killing hundreds or even thousands of people mostly in other parts of Beijing. As the lead tank maneuvered to pass by the man, he repeatedly shifted his position in order to obstruct the tank's attempted path around him, and forced the tanks to halt to avoid running him over; the man then climbed on top of the tank where the PLA soldiers talked to him. The incident was filmed and shared to a worldwide audience. Internationally, it is considered one of the most iconic images of all time. Inside China, the image and the accompanying events are subject to censorship.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]