On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: In the week since the bloody crackdown on the democracy movement in Beijing, the Chinese propaganda machinery has been put into full swing, seeking to transform the event into a heroic operation that saved the country from ''a counterrevolutionary plot.''
LEAD: The Koch administration, in an attempt to make New York City's Human Rights Commission more effective, will propose what officials describe as the most comprehensive changes in the city's antidiscrimination law since it was enacted three decades ago.
LEAD: As members of Congress solicit more and more money from political action committees, PAC's are responding by seizing on new techniques to increase receipts, from putting pressure on potential donors to offering them free trips or cars.
LEAD: Starting from a small nucleus in the Andes, a Communist guerrilla movement has steadily grown in strength in the 1980's to now threaten Peru's coastal cities.
LEAD: Like many Argentine industrial managers last week, Emilio Fischer paced his wood-paneled office overlooking the Rio de la Plata and fretted about Argentina's projected annual inflation rate of 12,000 percent.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 7, 1989, covering June 12, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
1989Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Emma Maria Josefin Eliasson is a Swedish retired ice hockey player. Considered one of the greatest Swedish defenders to ever play the game and known for her offensive abilities and physical style of play, she averaged over a point per game in her 10-year SDHL career, playing in five SDHL championship finals, and made over 230 appearances for the Swedish national team, winning a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
1989Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner[†]
Ibrahim Jeilan Gashu is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner who specialises in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres on the track, as well as cross country running. He is a former world champion in 10,000 metres.
1989Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (born 1911)[†]
Leslie Bruce Hamilton was an Australian senior public servant and head of the Department of Social Services between 1966 and 1973.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]