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LEAD: Blending a soupcon of whimsy with a touch of history and big hopes for profits, an architect-turned-developer who bought an abandoned commercial loft in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn has renamed it the Ping Pong Building and is cutting it into 33 cooperative apartments.
LEAD: IN May, when the Hungarians snipped the first strand of barbed wire along the Austrian border, they intended the act as a proud demonstration of their new Western posture. They also had no real need for the wire anymore. Several months earlier, the Government had lifted travel restrictions, opening a lively two-way traffic of Hungarian black marketeers and
LEAD: On Willie Davis Day in Green Bay, Wis., the guest of honor stood on Lambeau Field, where he had played for 12 years, and cried because he recognized that this would be the last time people would cheer for him as a football player.
LEAD: IT is Star Date 1989 and a group of teen-agers gather before the console of the Starship Enterprise. Dials set to warp speed, they prepare to embark on an adventure like none they have had before.
LEAD: IN 1957, the Diocese of Rockville Centre was established to oversee all Roman Catholic parishes in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Previously, the Island's Catholic churches had been a part of the Brooklyn Diocese.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 1989, covering September 17, 1989.
New Kids on the Block
Milli Vanilli
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
Prince
1989Danielle Brooks, American actress[†]
Danielle Brooks is an American actress. After studying drama at the Juilliard School she earned her breakthrough in television before expanding to theater and film. She has received a Grammy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
1989Kate Deines, American soccer player[†]
Kathleen Ann Deines is an American soccer midfielder–defender. She most recently played for Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga and Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League. Deines was a fourth round pick of the Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer in the 2012 WPS Draft of college seniors on January 13, 2012. The WPS Board of Governors voted to suspend the 2012 season on January 30 citing pending legal issues. Subsequently, she was free to sign with other teams and rejoined the Seattle Sounders Women, the organization she had previously played for from 2007 to 2009. After the formation of the National Women's Soccer League in late 2012, Deines played for the Seattle Reign during the league's first two seasons. She was traded to FC Kansas City in late 2014 but announced her retirement from professional soccer on March 31, 2015, before the 2015 season began.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]