On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1989, covering July 19, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
New Kids on the Block
Tom Petty
LL Cool J
Milli Vanilli
Madonna
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
1989Patrick Corbin, American baseball player[†]
Patrick Alan Corbin is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals. He won the 2019 World Series with the Nationals, recording the win in Game 7.
1989Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Sam McKendry is a former New Zealand Māori and New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
1989Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (born 1913)[†]
Kazimierz Aleksander Sabbat, was President of Poland-in-exile from 8 April 1986 until his death, 19 July 1989, after serving as Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1989United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.[†]
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident, while 184 people survived. Thirteen of the passengers were uninjured. It was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in the history of United Airlines.
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LEAD: The Japanese police said advanced electronic equipment was diverted to East Germany by a company also suspected of sending nuclear material to the Soviet bloc. Page. D1.
LEAD: In what might sound more like a schoolmaster's nightmare than a real-estate transaction, the Rolling Stones, legendary rockers and agents provocateurs of the sexual revolution, have taken over Wykeham Rise, a former boarding school for girls here.
LEAD: GRILLED breads are the latest trend in the barbecue frenzy that is sweeping the nation.
LEAD: The Bush Administration implored Congress today to reject legislation that would put sharp new restrictions on the American discussions with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
LEAD: Supporters of nuclear power are mounting yet another effort in the Congress to save the Shoreham nuclear power plant, but the leadership of the House has intervened to help Gov. Mario M. Cuomo in his effort to close the plant, officials on both sides of the issue said today.
LEAD: Having endured for 10,000 years, the Great Swamp of Morris County now faces an unexpected threat from those who, in trying to protect this haunting wilderness, may be endangering it.
LEAD: A Navy investigation of the gun turret explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship Iowa in April has found strong circumstantial evidence that a sailor set off the blast to kill himself, Government officials say.
LEAD: Trade Deficit Deepens The nation's trade deficit grew to $10.24 billion in May, the largest in five months. Prices of stocks and bonds fell in response. Page D1. New Toll for Alcohol Abuse A generation of American Indians suffers as long-term effects spread to people whose mothers drank heavily while pregnant.
LEAD: They came to glimpse another time, to explore a world that does not yet exist, to examine new frontiers.
LEAD: Investigators disclosed today that some of Japan's most sophisticated equipment for making computer chips was illegally diverted to East Germany by a company that is also suspected of sending nuclear material to the Soviet bloc.
LEAD: The criminal-justice system has become a central focus of the New York mayoral campaign, with just about every candidate calling for swifter certain punishment and military-style camps for criminals.
LEAD: It wasn't easy getting the chefs from four cooperative restaurants in Moscow to the United States. They were scheduled to arrive in October and finally arrived two weeks ago. Soviet bureaucracy got in the way. And once they were here their host, Jerilyn Brusseau, the founder of Peace Table, a Seattle group that sponsors exchanges between Soviet and