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LEAD: Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that the comedian Jackie Mason would no longer have a role in his mayoral campaign, after a newspaper quoted Mr. Mason as making racially charged remarks about blacks and Jews.
LEAD: Braniff Inc. canceled most of its 150 flights yesterday afternoon amid a growing cash squeeze.
LEAD: rrHistory is fickle when it comes to declaring the winner in political debates. Victory, it turns out, does not always go to those who score the most debating points, but to those candidates, like Abraham Lincoln in 1858 or John F. Kennedy in 1960, who have the most to gain and the least to lose.
LEAD: In the same forum where Andreas Papandreou dominated Greek political life for more than a decade, Parliament voted early today to order the former Prime Minister to stand trial on criminal charges, including bribery and receiving stolen funds.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 1989, covering September 28, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
The Rolling Stones
Richard Marx
1989Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player[†]
Çağla Büyükakçay is a Turkish professional tennis player. She won her first title at her home tournament in Istanbul becoming the first Turkish woman to lift a WTA Tour title.
1989Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player[†]
Darius "Darjo" Earvin Johnson-Odom is an American professional basketball player for Al-Difaa Al-Jawi of the Iraqi Basketball Premier League. In 2009, he transferred to Marquette University from Hutchinson Community College. As a senior, Johnson-Odom was named first-team All-Big East.
1989Mark Randall, English footballer[†]
Mark Leonard Randall is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for NIFL Premiership club Larne.
1989Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917)[†]
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the country under martial law from 1972 to 1981, granting himself expanded powers under the 1973 Constitution. Marcos described his philosophy as "constitutional authoritarianism". He was deposed in 1986 by the People Power Revolution and was succeeded as president by Corazon Aquino.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]