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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989George Springer, American baseball player[†]
George Chelston Springer III is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Houston Astros from 2014 to 2020. Springer has played primarily in right field and also spent significant time in center field. A native of New Britain, Connecticut, Springer is of Puerto Rican and Panamanian descent.
1989Willie Steele, American long jumper (born 1923)[†]
William Samuel Steele was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. Steele won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1948 London Olympics. A two-time USA Outdoor champion, Steele was the 1948 Olympic Trials champion and a two-time NCAA long jump champion. He was considered the world's best long jumper in 1942 and 1946, and was world ranked #1 by Track & Field News their first two years of producing worldwide rankings, 1947 and 1948.
1989A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.[†]
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, on 19 September 1989, which crashed into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger, killing all 170 people on board after an in-flight explosion caused by a suitcase bomb. It is the deadliest aviation incident to occur in Niger.
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LEAD: The Corcoran to Apologize The Corcoran Gallery of Art, after three months of protests and criticism, said it would apologize for canceling the Robert Mapplethorphe exhibition in June. Page C16. An About-Face in Drug War Redefining the Pentagon's role, Defense Secretary Cheney gave the military three weeks to find new ways to stop the drug flow.
LEAD: Mexican Government officials said today that the state intended to put its majority stake in Telefonos de Mexico, the country's troubled, unpopular and inefficient telecommunications monopoly, up for sale in the next few days.
LEAD: A State Supreme Court justice in the Bronx, William T. Martin, will plead guilty tomorrow to Federal tax evasion and the use and possession of cocaine, his lawyer said yesterday.
LEAD: Hungary became the first Communist nation to restore ties to Israel broken in 1967. It also moved closer to Washington on trade. Page A3.
LEAD: Something made Detective Pat DeGregorio do a double-take on the ride home that afternoon a year ago, an instinct, perhaps, after years of making undercover drug buys on the streets of Brooklyn and Queens.
LEAD: Hit in the last week by a struggle over his campaign staff and doubts about his position on key issues, Representative Jim Courter, the Republican candidate for governor, moved today to regain control of his apparently flagging campaign.
LEAD: A search committee set up to find a new schools chancellor for New York City recommended three finalists for the post yesterday: the superintendents in Miami, Fairfax County, Va., and Portland, Ore.
LEAD: A 14-day-old strike at the Peugeot automobile group is threatening to slow the momentum of the company's recent turnaround.
LEAD: With swirling winds and crashing rain, Hurricane Hugo virtually cut off Puerto Rico from the rest of the world today.
LEAD: When the management of UAL agreed five weeks ago to listen to a proposal to participate with United Airlines' pilots in a buyout, relations between the sides were at a low. After more than a year of negotiations, there was almost no progress on a new contract, and on-the-job slowdowns by the pilots had caused many summer delays on
LEAD: The Burroughs Wellcome Company cut the price of the AIDS drug AZT by 20 percent today after a month of mounting protests over its cost.
LEAD: FOR the last three months a bald eagle with a full crown of snowy hair and a wingspan of five feet has been cowering inside a cage at the Arctic Animal Hospital here, sick from a small sample of the cargo of the Exxon Valdez. Intoxicated after eating oiled prey, the eagle was unable to fly correctly and crashed to the ground, breaking its wing.