On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Not that any aspect of being the Yankees' manager is easy, but playing the Tigers was supposed to be the easy part of Bucky Dent's initiation.
LEAD: It was a satisfying, if unpredictable, afternoon of bargain shopping for Nancita Remias at Pic 'N' Save, the end of the line for discounted merchandise.
LEAD: The Mets were marching magnificently through August yesterday with a 3-1 lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning. Two were out and nobody was on base. Then it happened: on the longest of long shots, the Dodgers snatched the game on a pinch-hit single, a bunt single and a three-run home run by Willie Randolph, who hadn't hit one since the Yankees exiled him after 13 years in New York.
LEAD: Among the amazing images of Poland in transition was a smiling Communist Party spokesman, who greeted the change as one in which 'Our days will be broader.' Page A6.
LEAD: As an 11-ton scientific satellite slips back toward earth faster than expected, the space agency is racing to retrieve it before it crashes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1989, covering August 21, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer[†]
Charlison Girigorio Benschop is a Curaçaoan professional footballer who plays as a forward for German 3. Liga club Alemannia Aachen and the Curaçao senior national team.
1989James Davey, English rugby league player[†]
James Davey is a former English Rugby league footballer who last played as a hooker for the Sheffield Eagles in the Championship.
1989Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer[†]
Matteo Gentili is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for AC Prato.
1989Hayden Panettiere, American actress[†]
Hayden Lesley Panettiere is an American actress and singer. She has starred as Claire Bennet on the NBC superhero series Heroes (2006–2010), Kirby Reed in the slasher horror franchise Scream (2011–2023), and Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville (2012–2018). The latter earned her two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
1989Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer[†]
Aleix Vidal Parreu is a Spanish professional footballer. Mainly a right winger and a player of great speed, he can also operate as a right-back.
1989Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1945)[†]
Raul Santos Seixas was a Brazilian rock musician foundational to the genre. Rolling Stone Brazil named Seixas among the greatest artists in Brazilian music.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]