On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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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.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 1989, covering August 8, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
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.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]