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LEAD: The Nicaraguan opposition has chosen Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, one of its most prominent figures, to run for President in the elections scheduled for Feb. 25.
LEAD: Thousands of blacks marched, picnicked and waded peacefully at a whites-only beach in an apartheid protest in South Africa. Page 6.
LEAD: South Africa heads into its national elections on Wednesday with a growing conviction that the nation's political future, and its salvation, lie through negotiation, not confrontation.
LEAD: Once more, the men in the White House are golfers. Some things, it seems, never change. But look again. ''Golf is the fastest-growing sport in America,'' said Kit Bradshaw, director of publicity for the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. ''Its popularity and growth is cutting across different classes, races and sexes.
LEAD: Because of holiday production requirements, The Times is printed today in two sections.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 1989, covering September 4, 1989.
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Prince
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
1989Andrelton Simmons, Curaçaoan baseball player[†]
Andrelton Alexander Simmons is a Curaçaoan professional baseball shortstop for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago Cubs.
1989Elliott Whitehead, English rugby league player[†]
Elliott Whitehead is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, and England and Great Britain at international level.
1989Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (born 1903)[†]
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
1989Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and author (born 1903)[†]
Sir Ronald Syme, was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
1989In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.[†]
Leipzig is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the eighth-largest city in Germany and is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region. The name of the city is usually interpreted as a Slavic term meaning place of linden trees, in line with many other Slavic placenames in the region.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]