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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Ken Baumann, American actor and author[†]
Ken Baumann is a former American actor, writer, publisher, and book designer. He is known for playing Ben Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. He is the author of numerous novels, nonfiction stories, essays, and poems. He also owns and co-owns Sator Press. He also co-founded the iOS app Sweetspot. In 2014, Baumann enrolled at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1989Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player[†]
Anthony Vincent Rizzo is an American professional baseball first baseman who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, and New York Yankees.
1989Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer[†]
Hannah Louise Miley is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who specialised in the Individual Medley. Miley trained when she was younger at Inverurie Swimming Centre. She has represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games, reaching the final of the 400 metres individual medley on each occasion, finishing sixth in 2008, fifth in 2012 and fourth in 2016. Also in the 400 m individual medley, she is a former World short-course champion (2012), European champion (2010), and two-time European short-course champion representing Great Britain, and a two-time Commonwealth champion representing Scotland.
1989Prajakta Mali, Indian actress[†]
Prajaktta Mali is an Indian actress, producer, and poet who primarily works in Marathi films and television.
1989Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.[†]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
LEAD: In one generation, Brazil's fertility rate has been cut almost in half, and in the words of one expert, the country's ''population bomb has been deactivated.''
LEAD: As Japan's politicians raced around Tokyo jockeying for power in the wake of the biggest electoral upset here in decades, Makoto Utsumi walked slowly around Japan's finance ministry, meeting old colleagues, smiling and bowing a lot, and modestly demurring when people suggested that in some ways he is now running the
LEAD: THE ECONOMY The immensely expensive legislation that President Bush is expected to sign this week to rescue the savings industry will ultimately affect the pocketbooks and convenience of millions of American consumers. But the immediate noticeable impact is likely to be confined to somewhat lower interest rates for a relative few.
LEAD: ACID rain falling on the Yucatan peninsula and much of southern Mexico is fast bringing destruction to the temples, colorful murals and aunting megaliths of the ancient Maya civilization, art historians and archeologists say.
LEAD: In a sharp and perhaps decisive blow to the American-supported Nicaraguan rebels, the Presidents of five Central American countries agreed today on a timetable for rebel base camps in Honduras to be disbanded under international supervision no later than Dec. 8.
LEAD: Although they noted that the accord reached by Central American presidents yesterday was not binding on the Nicaraguan rebels, some United States officials said it appeared to herald the end of the contras as a fighting force.
LEAD: For 65 years, this city's smallest and poorest hospital, Mount Sinai, has followed an unswerving credo to serve the poor. But economics and Medicaid cuts are forcing a wrenching change in that mission and causing consternation in the community and among other hospitals.
LEAD: Israel Ruiz Jr. was convicted of a Federal felony in February and expelled from the New York State Senate in May. Now, Bronx politicians say, a clear favorite has emerged in the election to fill his seat in November: Israel Ruiz Jr. While he still faces a six-month jail sentence, which he is appealing, neither the sentence nor his expulsion would prevent him from reclaiming the South Bronx seat, the counsel to the
LEAD: For nearly 16 years, Harrison J. Goldin has been New York City Comptroller, easily winning re-election to an office few people notice. Now he is running for mayor and, by his own admission, is having trouble making people notice him and his promise of a new vision for the government he has played a part in for so long.
LEAD: The stock of the UAL Corporation soared 28 percent, or $46.25, yesterday after the company said it had received a takeover proposal from Marvin Davis, the Beverly Hills, Calif., investor.
LEAD: For much of his four years as chairman and chief executive of Amax Inc., Allen Born has been basking in praise for bringing the giant metals company back from the brink of collapse. But with Amax's agreement last week to pay $2.4 billion for Falconbridge Ltd., Canada's fourth-largest mining concern, many in the industry are questioning Mr.
LEAD: The New York State Commission on Government Integrity yesterday recommended broad changes in New York City's personnel system to insulate it from political pressures and discourage patronage.