On this day
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LEAD: When a deranged man brandished a knife on Fifth Avenue at 45th Street one recent Monday, a man in blue quickly responded. Over the next 48 hours he helped subdue two more disorderly people, one of them half naked, quelled a robbery, witnessed a drug deal, chased a street peddler and called in two fires.
LEAD: In contrast to the city's network of electric cables and transformers, where a sudden jump in temperature can be a tip-off to trouble, the pipes carrying high-pressure steam beneath the streets of Manhattan give no clues of a catastrophe in the making, Con Edison officials said yesterday.
LEAD: A group including Peter V. Ueberroth, the former baseball commissioner whose deal to acquire Eastern Airlines collapsed earlier this year, has agreed to acquire control of the financially troubled Hawaiian Airlines.
LEAD: The State University at Stony Brook caught the attention of animal-rights advocates in 1987, when someone distributed a three-year-old videotape of a student's experiment on predatory behavior in which a ferret slowly killed a rabbit and several rats.
LEAD: There is yet another myth in the making here in Texas.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1989, covering August 22, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer[†]
Giacomo "Jack" Bonaventura is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab and the Italy national team.
1989Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (born 1933)[†]
Robert Grondelaers was a road cyclist from Belgium. He won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. At the same tournament he claimed the title in the men's team road race, alongside André Noyelle and Lucien Victor. He was a professional rider from 1954 to 1962.
1989Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (born 1942)[†]
Huey Percy Newton was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale.
1989Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.[†]
Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr., nicknamed "the Ryan Express", is an American former professional baseball pitcher and sports executive. Over a record 27-year playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB), Ryan pitched for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. After his retirement in 1993, Ryan served as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Texas Rangers and an executive advisor to the Houston Astros. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 in his first year of eligibility, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest pitchers of all time.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]