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LEAD: Carla Hills Acknowledges Lobbying for H.U.D. Funds Mrs. Hills, now United States trade representative, acknowledged that years after she left office as Housing Secretary she was paid to lobby for funds under a department program now under scrutiny. Page A14. Monetary Moves in Europe
LEAD: ''Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo, because it'd take a lifetime just to find his way aroun' duh town.''
LEAD: At 6:15 P.M., the temperature was still 94 degrees. An hour later, as the guests began to arrive at the White House for the state dinner tonight in honor of Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia and his wife, Hazel, many of them looked relieved to be in air-conditioning.
LEAD: A Federal appeals court today overturned the ethics conviction of Lyn Nofziger, a close adviser to Ronald Reagan in the California governor's office and in the first year of the Reagan Presidency.
LEAD: Two political consultants to Representative James A. Courter, the Republican nominee for governor, resigned today as a result of their ties to a firm that has figured in the scandal involving accusations of influence peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 28, 1989, covering June 28, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Soundtrack
Tom Petty
Madonna
1989Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player[†]
Jason Clark is an Australian former rugby league footballer who last played as a loose forward for the Limoux Grizzlies in the Elite One Championship.
1989Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player[†]
Andrew Fifita is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop. He has played for Tonga and Australia at international level.
1989David Fifita, Australian rugby league player[†]
David Fifita is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for The Entrance Tigers in the Central Coast League in NSW, Australia.
1989Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater[†]
Julia Sergeyevna Zlobina is a former competitive ice dancer. Competing for Azerbaijan with Alexei Sitnikov, she is the 2013 Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, 2013 Volvo Open Cup champion, 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist, and 2013 Winter Universiade silver medalist. They competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, finishing 12th, and have placed as high as sixth at the European Championships (2014).
1989Markiplier, American internet personality[†]
Mark Edward Fischbach, known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. One of the most popular YouTubers on the platform, he is known for his "Let's Play" videos of indie horror games. He was listed by Forbes as the third-highest-paid content creator on the platform in 2022, and has won four Streamy Awards and a Golden Joystick Award. He has spun off his YouTube fame into a media career, venturing into acting and filmmaking.
1989Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player[†]
Nicole Rottmann is an Austrian former professional tennis player.
1989Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (born 1898)[†]
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam, Pour le Mistral and How Yukong Moved the Mountains.
1989On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.[†]
The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad I. It was one of the largest battles of the Late Middle Ages.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]