On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: The nuclear reactor's auxiliary equipment hums and its operators busy themselves with myriad details over a panel with hundreds of dials and controls. But the white dial in the middle that monitors electric output reads zero.
LEAD: Four years of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's perestroika, or restructuring, have done little to change one basic rule of the Soviet economy: the producer, not the consumer, is always right.
LEAD: THE power of emotions to override even the most rational decisions may be explained by a new discovery about the brain, researchers say. The data suggest that the brain is arranged so key aspects of emotional life, like primitive fears, can operate largely independent of thought.
LEAD: Falconbridge Ltd., the large Canadian mining company that agreed two weeks ago to be acquired by Amax Inc., received a competing offer yesterday from its largest shareholder, Noranda Inc. of Toronto, bidding jointly with Trelleborg, a large Swedish industrial concern.
LEAD: In endless caravans of cars, buses and trains, more than a quarter of a million Bulgarians of Turkish descent have streamed into Turkey in the last three months, forming one of Europe's largest refugee flows since World War II.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 1989, covering August 15, 1989.
Prince
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Fine Young Cannibals
Tom Petty
1989Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter[†]
Joseph Adam Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the pop rock band the Jonas Brothers, alongside his brothers Kevin and Nick. The group released their debut studio album It's About Time through the Columbia label in 2006. After signing with Hollywood Records, the group released their self-titled second studio album in 2007, which became their breakthrough record. The band became prominent figures on the Disney Channel during this time, gaining a large following through the network: they appeared in the widely successful musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010) as well as two of their own series, Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream (2008–2010) and Jonas (2009–2010).
1989Ryan McGowan, Australian footballer[†]
Ryan James McGowan is an Australian footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Premiership club Livingston.
1989Carlos PenaVega, American actor and singer[†]
Carlos Roberto PenaVega is an American actor and singer. He starred on the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush as Carlos García, and is a member of the group Big Time Rush. He was also the host of the network's game show Webheads. He currently voices Bobby Santiago in The Loud House franchise.
1989Jordan Rapana, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Jordan Rapana is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a Fullback and/or winger for Hull F.C. in the Super League. He has played for the New Zealand Māori, New Zealand and the Cook Islands at international level.
1989Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (born 1904)[†]
General Minoru Genda was an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he became the third Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
1989Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general and diplomat (born 1897)[†]
Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos was a distinguished Hellenic Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I, the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, World War II and the Greek Civil War, rising to become Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff. He also served as Greece's Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
1989China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 crashes after takeoff from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, killing 34 of the 40 people on board.[†]
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 is a domestic flight from Shanghai to Nanchang, which is carried out by An-24. On August 15, 1989, an An-24 with the fuselage registration number B-3417 crashed into Zhoujiabang about 240 meters away from the airport due to engine failure when taking off at Hongqiao Airport, killing 34 people. Only 6 people survived.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]