On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: With only 25 days left before the mayoral primary, most New Yorkers have yet to see a campaign poster, a button or a bumper sticker, much less a candidate.
LEAD: A homesteading rush is on in Latvia as hundreds of young urban families join in the republic's challenge to Moscow to plow under four decades of Soviet collective agriculture by bringing back the small family farm.
LEAD: The Soviet Union reacted with deliberate equanimity to developments in Poland, saying they were strictly an internal affair. Page A6.
LEAD: Until recently, manufacturers of generic drugs, low-priced versions of prescription drugs whose patents have expired, thought nothing could stop soaring demand for their products. Now, with the Food and Drug Administration and Congressional investigators delving into reports of violations of Federal standards for testing and manufacturing of generics, the companies are girding for a slowdown but remain confident about their long-term prospects.
LEAD: Hundreds of immigrants in the New York metropolitan region who began applying for legalization under the Federal amnesty program are believed to have chosen instead to remain illegal because they have tested positive for the AIDS virus and fear deportation as a result.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1989, covering August 18, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Anna Akana, American actress, comedian, musician, and YouTuber[†]
Anna Kay Napualani Akana is an American actress, comedian, filmmaker, musician, and YouTuber. She has appeared in TV series, web series, films, and music videos that include Ray William Johnson's Breaking Los Angeles (2011), 10 Second Traumas (2011), Awkward (2011), Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (2011), Ant-Man (2015), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2016), Dirty 30 (2016), Big City Greens (2018–present), Amphibia (2019–2022), and Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022).
1989Yu Mengyu, Singaporean table tennis player[†]
Yu Mengyu is a retired Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Liaoning, China, Yu left China in 2006 at the age of 17 to join the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. In the same year, Yu made her international debut for Singapore.
1989Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.[†]
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. The movement was an offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party, and with mediation of former Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala, Galán returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election, but was assassinated before the vote took place.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]