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LEAD: This village halfway between Rochester and Syracuse is assured a place in history as the birthplace of the women's rights movement at an impassioned conference in 1848. But it is no longer assured a place as the home of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
LEAD: AS New York City's indoor performing-arts season winds down, a remarkably extensive and diverse second season of outdoor concerts, plays, dance performances and even movies is starting throughout the metropolitan area.
LEAD: Setback and New Manager For Atomic Bomb Complex A House subcommittee voted to cut funds for a new generation of plutonium plants, and the White House named a controversial regulator of nuclear power plants to supervise the troubled weapons industry. Page A9. American Abducted in Gaza A relief worker was kidnapped, and a note was said to demand that Israel free Palestinians.
LEAD: This is a murder mystery.
LEAD: Arthur Goldberg, president of Integrated Resources, says he never saw it coming.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 1989, covering June 23, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Bobby Brown
Madonna
Tom Petty
1989Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist[†]
Dame Lisa Marie Carrington is a flatwater canoeist and New Zealand's most successful Olympian, having won a total of eight gold medals and one bronze medal. She won three consecutive gold medals in the Women's K‑1 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as gold in the same event at the 2011 Canoe Sprint World Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she also won a gold medal in the K‑2 500 metres, with Caitlin Regal, and as an individual in the K‑1 500 metres. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Carrington defended her titles in the K‑1 500 metres and K‑2 500 metres event and also won the K‑4 500 metres event. Carrington equalled Danuta Kozák's record of winning all three K-1, K-2, K-4 events, over 500 metres, at one Olympics.
1989Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jordan Nolan is a Canadian actor and former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the seventh round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
1989Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (born 1903)[†]
Karl Rudolf Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, he organized the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that carried out mass-murder in Nazi-occupied territories.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]