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LEAD: In that clipped Scottish accent, the gallery fans at Royal Troon Golf Club were yelling: ''Go, Tum! Atta boy, Tum!'' It was Tom Watson they were cheering on as the five-time British Open champion from Kansas City, Mo., cut Wayne Grady's lead in half today, from two strokes down to one going into Sunday's final round of the 118th British
LEAD: Siberian Miners' Misery Housing was at the top of the grievance lists of many Siberian miners who started the nationwide strike that has gripped the nation for two weeks. But many have returned to work disappointed. Page 12. Deng's Retirement Plans Deng Xiaoping has announced in an unpublished speech that he plans to retire, Chinese officials said.
LEAD: Little is more surprising these days than the revival of blasphemy as a crime. A secular age had presumably relegated blasphemy - irreverence toward things sacred - to the realm of obsolete offenses.
LEAD: CHARLES MILLER is among those who still remember the weaving rooms of the lace mill in Patchogue, a 19th-century complex of red brick buildings that may soon be razed for a shopping center.
LEAD: As Italian businessmen eagerly await the new opportunities to be had after Western Europe's economic integration in 1992, law enforcement authorities here dread that some of the biggest benefits will fall to the Mafia and other criminal organizations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1989, covering July 23, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
New Kids on the Block
Tom Petty
1989Daniel Radcliffe, English actor[†]
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor. He rose to fame at age twelve for portraying the title character in the Harry Potter film series. He starred in all eight films in the series, from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).
1989Donald Young, American tennis player[†]
Donald Oliver Young Jr. is an American professional pickleball player with the American PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, and also a former professional tennis player. Young had a tennis career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 38, achieved on 27 February 2012, and doubles ranking of world No. 43, achieved on 14 August 2017. As a junior he was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2005. His best singles performance was reaching the fourth round of the 2011 US Open, as well as the 2015 US Open. In doubles, he reached the final of the 2017 French Open, partnering Santiago González. In mixed doubles, he reached the final of the 2024 US Open, partnering Taylor Townsend.
1989Donald Barthelme, American short story writer and novelist (born 1931)[†]
Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction, and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]