On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 1989, covering September 11, 1989.
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Prince
Tom Petty
Skid Row
Gloria Estefan
Don Henley
Fine Young Cannibals
1989Michael J. Willett, American actor and musician[†]
Michael James Mansel Willett is an American actor. Willett is known most for his roles as Lionel in United States of Tara and Tanner in G.B.F.. He starred in the MTV show Faking It from 2014 until its cancellation in 2016.
1989Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.[†]
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The economy of the country was centrally planned and state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc.
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LEAD: After months of 18-hour days spent making speeches, shaking hands and scratching for contributions, the candidates for mayor of New York marched through steaming heat yesterday into the final hours of the primary campaign.
LEAD: Although the transition to natural cultivation has begun in several regions, the National Academy of Sciences' proposal to shift most of American agriculture from a heavy dependence on synthetic chemicals would take decades and require profound changes in attitudes and public policy,farmers and agricultural experts say.
LEAD: The Energy Department wants to stop spending money on the Government's main program to develop a nuclear reactor for use in outer space, Federal officials said last week.
LEAD: Hungary announced today that it is allowing thousands of East Germans who have refused to return home to leave for West Germany. It was another chapter, and a dramatic one, in a summerlong exodus through the new Hungarian gap in the Communist frontier.
LEAD: Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's mayoral primary, it's safe to say that New York City will have a new comptroller, Manhattan a new borough president and Brooklyn a new district attorney.
LEAD: When he spotted the Statue of Liberty yesterday from the window of a circling helicopter, Boris N. Yeltsin smiled broadly and applauded. Then, in a spontaneous gesture of delight, he gave a lusty thumbs-up sign - as if he, the maverick prince of the Soviet Communist Party, and she, the symbol of American freedom, have a special thing going.
LEAD: The Campeau Corporation's decision to sell Bloomingdale's was the culmination of a series of miscalculations that apparently began when the company took on too much debt to acquire Federated Department Stores Inc., the parent of Bloomingdale's, Wall Street deal makers and analysts said yesterday.
LEAD: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, who for years has confounded women's groups by resisting a clear pro-abortion rights stance, stated firmly Saturday night that abortion ''must be a matter of the woman's conscience.''
LEAD: In New York City - where fads wax and wane, fun can be pricey and diseases are well-publicized - the ''talking date'' seems to be gaining currency.
LEAD: Rumanian Ship Capsizes A Rumanian passenger ship carrying 179 people capsized and sank today after colliding with a Bulgarian tugboat on the Danube. Page A3. Gorbachev's Caldron After a summer of stress, Mikhail S. Gorbachev knows that the fall will test whether the Soviet people are ready for self-government.
LEAD: The New York City Medical Examiner's office said yesterday that based on preliminary findings, a man who died in police custody on Saturday received no injuries that could have caused his death, but only minor cuts and bruises.
LEAD: A state grand jury in New York is conducting a criminal fraud investigation of the billing practices at the Carter Organization, one of three companies that dominate the business of proxy solicitation for takeover fights, people close to the inquiry said Friday.