On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: THE word is spreading from Montauk to Manhattan. ''Have you been to the club?'' people are asking across bridge tables, in lunchrooms, even just in passing.
LEAD: Suppose Manhattan were a smaller island than it is, and pressure to build consequently more intense. Suppose there had been no planning regulations in force for the last 100 years or so. Suppose corrupt politicians, lackeys of the crime bosses, had been at the civic helm all along. Then New York might look, feel, at times almost smell the way it does in Warner Brothers' ambitious remake of ''Batman,'' opening on Friday: a stygian
LEAD: It was Father's Day, and accustomed as he was to toiling on Sundays, as the father of seven children, the 32-year-old man might have asked for a day off, especially since his work took him away from home that weekend.
LEAD: In another sign of the Government's determination to deal harshly with leaders of pro-democracy demonstrations, the authorities today sentenced eight young people to death for their role in a violent protest in the capital.
LEAD: Bush Administration officials acknowledged today that they could not win Congressional approval for their proposal to arm non-Communist guerrillas in Cambodia through a secretly financed operation run by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 14, 1989, covering June 18, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Paula Abdul
1989Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer[†]
Pierre-Emerick Emiliano François Aubameyang is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah and captains the Gabon national team.
1989Chris Harris Jr., American football player[†]
Christopher Harris Jr. is an American former professional football cornerback who played for 12 seasons in the National Football League, primarily with the Denver Broncos. He played college football for the Kansas Jayhawks and was signed by the Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2011.
1989I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (born 1907)[†]
Isidor Feinstein Stone was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]