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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: House Republicans broke with President Bush and joined Democrats in a vote of 418 to 0 today to impose new sanctions on China and condemn Beijing's suppression of human rights.
LEAD: New details have emerged about David N. Dinkins's failure to file Federal, state and New York City tax returns for 1969 through 1972, an issue that occasionally dogs his otherwise smooth mayoral campaign.
LEAD: Using a new and tougher set of reading standards, the New York City Board of Education reported yesterday that slightly more than half of the city's public school students are unable to read at the level expected of their grade. Nonetheless, the reading scores showed a small improvement over last year.
LEAD: Ever since the first Fourth, in July 1776, the day of Independence has been aiming at ever greater gloriousness. This year's extended Fourth, from today through Tuesday, gives every hyperbolic promise of living up to the tradition of freedom, fun and frolic that turns New York into the biggest small-town celebration in the nation.
LEAD: At a recent conference of bankers in Madrid, John B. McCoy, the chairman of the Banc One Corporation, mingled with leaders of the world's largest banks.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 28, 1989, covering June 30, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Soundtrack
Tom Petty
Madonna
1989Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner[†]
Asbel Kipruto Kiprop is a Kenyan middle-distance runner, who specialises in the 1500 metres. He was awarded the 1500 m gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics after the original winner, Rashid Ramzi, tested positive for doping. Kiprop has won three World Championship titles in the event, in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Kiprop failed his own doping test in November 2017 and received a four-year doping ban.
1989Steffen Liebig, German rugby player[†]
Steffen Liebig is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
1989David Myers, Australian footballer[†]
David Myers is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1989A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani.[†]
A coup d'état was carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces on 30 June 1989 against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. The coup was led by military officer Omar al-Bashir who took power in its aftermath; he ruled the country for the next 30 years until he was overthrown in 2019.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]