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LEAD: The movement toward more legalized gambling in the United States took an unusual step yesterday when the Oregon Lottery Commission instituted weekly betting on National Football League games.
LEAD: While poisonous chromium leaches undisturbed toward the surface of neighborhoods across this city, the contaminated sites of two large developments have undergone quick exclusive cleanups.
LEAD: The strike that has shut down the Siberian coalfields was reported spreading to the Ukraine today, and the Kremlin sent a Politburo delegation to Siberia to appeal directly to workers to end their walkout before the economy is harmed.
LEAD: PUTTING on a sad face or a smile directly produces the feelings that the expressions represent, according to a new theory of how emotions are produced.
LEAD: For almost two years, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the State Legislature have agreed on the need for more judges, and have even approved funds for an additional 13. But because of a political impasse at the State Capitol, the judgeships have never been created, even as the backlog of criminal cases throughout the state continues to grow.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 12, 1989, covering July 18, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
New Kids on the Block
Milli Vanilli
1989Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jamie Randolph Benn is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1989Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer[†]
Sebastian Mielitz is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Werder Bremen II.
1989Yohan Mollo, French footballer[†]
Yohan Mollo is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger or right-back for National 3 club Olympique Alès.
1989Donnie Moore, American baseball player (born 1954)[†]
Donnie Ray Moore was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals (1980), Milwaukee Brewers (1981), Atlanta Braves (1982–1984) and California Angels (1985–1988). Moore is best remembered for the home run he gave up to Dave Henderson while pitching for the California Angels in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series. With only one more strike needed to clinch the team's first-ever pennant, he allowed the Boston Red Sox to come back and eventually win the game. Boston then won Games 6 and 7 to take the series. Shortly after his professional career ended, he shot his wife three times in a dispute and then committed suicide.
1989Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (born 1967)[†]
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was an American actress and model. She began her career as a teen model before moving on to acting. In 1986, she landed the role of Patricia "Patti" Russell in the CBS comedy My Sister Sam. The series was canceled in 1988, and she appeared in several films, including the black comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. At the age of 21, she was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, a 19-year-old obsessed fan who had been stalking her. Schaeffer's death helped lead to the passage in California of legislation aimed at preventing stalking.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]