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LEAD: In a move that reflects the anger of Staten Island residents over expected changes in the New York City government, the State Legislature early today approved a bill to allow Staten Island to secede from the rest of the city.
LEAD: The gap between male and female performance on standardized tests has disappeared on verbal tests and is narrowing on mathematics tests, researchers who have analyzed a wide range of examination data assert.
LEAD: The Energy Department promised yesterday to pay at least $73 million to settle claims by up to 24,000 neighbors of a nuclear weapon plant in Ohio that has spread uranium into water and air.
LEAD: First came the soggy spring, which caused a population explosion among bugs. Now the new arrivals are all grown up and buzzing and flitting and hungry for human flesh, and people are itching and scratching and swatting and spraying their way through summer.
LEAD: The inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated today that the Government would lose hundreds of millions of dollars from mismanagement and possible fraud in yet another Federal housing program to draw scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 28, 1989, covering July 1, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Soundtrack
Tom Petty
Madonna
1989Kent Bazemore, American basketball player[†]
Kenneth Lamont Bazemore Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League. As a junior at Old Dominion University in 2010–11, Bazemore won the Lefty Driesell Award, an award given to the best defensive player in college basketball.
1989Hannah Murray, English actress[†]
Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray is an English actress. She played Cassie in Skins and Gilly in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her film roles include the 2014 musical romance film Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl which won her a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2015 drama film Jeppe Rønde's Bridgend for which she won the Tribeca Film Festival for Best Actress Award.
1989Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver[†]
Daniel Joseph Ricciardo is an Australian racing driver, who most recently competed in Formula One from 2011 to 2024. Ricciardo won eight Formula One Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]