On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Under increased pressure from the Bush Administration to vote on a reduction in the capital gains tax rate, a bitterly divided House Ways and Means Committee will resume deliberations on Tuesday, with the Democratic leadership one vote shy of being able to block the proposal.
LEAD: When Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady outlined a proposal in March to attack the intractable third world debt problem, he raised hopes in countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina that something was finally being done to help alleviate a burden that is crushing their economies.
LEAD: The Stanley Works is an old-line Yankee manufacturer, but walk through its factory here and nothing other than the name is recognizable as American.
LEAD: In its worst setback in 34 years, the Liberal Democratic Party was defeated by the Japan Socialist Party in an election for the upper house of Parliament on Sunday, leading Prime Minister Sousuke Uno to announce that he will resign.
LEAD: By racing from Versailles into Paris in a stunning 26 minutes 57 seconds today, Greg LeMond of the United States won the Tour de France for the second time. His margin of victory over Laurent Fignon of France, 8 seconds, was the smallest ever in the world's greatest bicycle race.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1989, covering July 24, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
New Kids on the Block
Tom Petty
1989Maurkice Pouncey, American football player[†]
LaShawn Maurkice Pouncey is an American former professional football player who was a center for 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, where he was a member of a BCS National Championship team, recognized as a consensus All-American, and won the 2009 Rimington Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football center. He was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Pouncey was a nine-time Pro Bowler and named to five All-Pro teams, and was also named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team. He is the twin brother of former NFL center Mike Pouncey.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]