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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Pia Wurtzbach, Filipina actress, model, and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2015[†]
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach-Jauncey, formerly professionally known as Pia Romero, is a Filipino model, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder best known for winning the title of Miss Universe 2015. Previously, Wurtzbach won Binibining Pilipinas in 2015. She became the first Filipina to win in four decades.
LEAD: Wanted: a new public enemy. Height, weight, sex, age and racial origins immaterial as long as the public enemy is sadistic, effete and strictly dishonorable.
LEAD: OPEC's lean years are over. After nearly a decade of steep falls in revenues, wild price fluctuations, shrinking demand for oil worldwide and confrontation with the West, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries seems to be coming into its own once more.
LEAD: WITH birch trees and rhododendrons spread across their lush lawns, seven new town houses at the Racquet Club on Long Island Sound look like the pride of loving homeowners. But a wasteland of mud ponds and hardpan that surrounds this manicured oasis in Centerville, L.I., offers evidence of big plans gone awry.
LEAD: FEWER than 300 votes in each of two primary elections this month have changed the political map in Suffolk County while suggesting the strength of the Long Island property-tax revolt.
LEAD: On a muggy September night with the moon over Miami, the Philadelphia Eagles finished their preseason schedule by edging the Miami Dolphins. The Eagles were dressing in their locker room, scurrying to return to Philadelphia to continue earnest work on a season full of promise.
LEAD: AT his inauguration as President of South Africa last week, F. W. de Klerk assured his country and the world that an era of change lay ahead after four decades of apartheid. President de Klerk cast his inaugural address as a ''message of hope'' to a multiracial constituency whom he defined as ''all sensible South Africans'' and ''all reasonable people'' prepared to join his
LEAD: Last week the Ford Motor Company announced plans to acquire up to 15 percent of Jaguar P.L.C., the British maker of prestige automobiles. The offer was not welcomed by Jaguar, whose stock in London rose from $6.40 on Monday to $9.18 on Friday. The company is currently valued at about $1.68 billion.
LEAD: More than a year after the great housing boom of the 1980's came to an end in New York City and its suburbs, the inventory of unsold homes has grown, demand remains sluggish and experts see no clear signs of improvement.
LEAD: One of the tallest buildings on the Upper East Side, a 46-story tower that is to house 163 condominium apartments, is under construction at the southwest corner of 88th Street and First Avenue on the site of what was a Children's Aid Society building. The $82 million project, named Leighton House and carrying the address 388 East 88th Street, is being undertaken by the General Atlantic Realty Corporation, which bought the society's five-story building.
LEAD: He has three bullets in his body. His predecessor was assassinated. And when he goes on campaign trips, he takes along an emergency supply of his own blood. He is Senator Ernesto Samper Pizano, the governing party's leading presidential candidate, and his predicament points up the risks of political life in Colombia.
LEAD: Since the last time the congregation of 59,075 gathered on a Saturday afternoon at Notre Dame Stadium last November, their Fighting Irish had convincingly defended a No. 1 ranking, won another unofficial national championship and withstood the sudden loss of several important players that complicates their effort to repeat.
LEAD: Special Reports in this issue include: Consultant Bill Bain Gets Close To the C.E.O.'s. The Rainmaker at Debevoise & Plimpton. Dutch Treat in America.