On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: A former controller of a company owned by Leona and Harry B. Helmsley testified yesterday that Leona Helmsley took payoffs from liquor distributors as part of a kickback scheme.
LEAD: For 17 years, Betty Evans, a third-generation resident who is now 78, went to the township's bustling recycling center and got up to her elbows in sorting cans and bottles and greasy aluminum trays and copper wires and all sorts of things to get Montclair the best prices at market for ''clean'' recycled junk.
LEAD: Across the Tappan Zee Bridge, up the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway and west on Interstate 84 where New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet, live a group of weary families from Westchester County. Not merely homeless, they are far from home.
LEAD: In a series of moves apparently intended to discourage takeover attempts, Delta Air Lines Inc. said today that it had formed an employee stock ownership plan, sold 5 percent of the company to Swissair and begun a buyback of 9.5 million common shares.
LEAD: PSYCHOLOGICAL factors lie at the heart of many eating problems, from children who refuse anything but hot dogs to people who gain weight the moment they go off a diet, researchers are finding.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1989, covering July 11, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
Madonna
Soundtrack
1989Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer[†]
Tobias Tigjani Sana is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Superettan club Örgryte IS.
1989Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player[†]
Travis Waddell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who most recently played for the Souths Logan Magpies in the Intrust Super Cup. He plays as a hooker. He previously played for the Canberra Raiders, Newcastle Knights and most recently the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League.
1989Shimanoumi Koyo, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Shimanoumi Kōyō is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shima, Mie. He debuted in sumo wrestling in July 2012 and made his makuuchi debut in May 2019. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. He wrestles for Kise stable.
1989Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (born 1907)[†]
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud made up a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable success in television roles.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]