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LEAD: Finding on Battleship Blast Concluding that the Iowa explosion was ''most probably'' sabotage, the Navy also found serious mismanagement of the ship. Page A11. Computer Research Plan Bush's science adviser will present to Congress a plan to aid development of far faster supercomputers and to link U.S.
LEAD: A Federal investigation into the practice of stock lending has advanced following an agreement by a former executive with Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. to plead guilty to securities and tax charges and cooperate with the inquiry, people close to the investigation said yesterday.
LEAD: The National Academy of Sciences has found that farmers who apply little or no chemicals to crops can be as productive as those who use pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and today it recommended changing Federal subsidy programs that encourage overuse of agricultural chemicals.
LEAD: The General Motors Corporation, moving to halt the customer defections that have plagued it since the early 1980's, is trying a new marketing ploy. Challenging an industrywide taboo, it will permit dissatisfied buyers of new Oldsmobiles to return the cars for full credit.
LEAD: The pension funds of New York City and California and other investors joined with environmental groups and religious organizations yesterday to introduce a code of conduct to judge which corporations are environmentally responsible. Those involved control more than $100 billion in investments, The 10-point code has been named the Valdez Principles, recalling the disastrous oil spill by the Exxon Valdez oil tanker off the Alaska coast.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 1989, covering September 8, 1989.
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Prince
1989Gylfi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer[†]
Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Besta deild karla club Víkingur and the Iceland national team.
1989Avicii, Swedish electronic musician (died 2018)[†]
Tim Bergling, known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. At age 16, he began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first record deal. He rose to prominence in 2011 with his single "Levels". His debut studio album, True (2013), blended electronic music with elements of multiple genres and received generally positive reviews. It peaked in the top 10 in more than 15 countries and topped international charts; the lead single, "Wake Me Up", topped most music markets in Europe and reached number four in the United States.
1989Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.[†]
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres north of Hirtshals. All fifty passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft died, making this the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history. The accident was caused by improper maintenance and use of counterfeit aircraft parts.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]