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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Nate Montana, American football player[†]
Nathaniel Joseph Montana is an American former college football quarterback. After walking-on at Notre Dame as a freshman in 2008, he transferred to Pasadena City College in 2009, went back to Notre Dame in 2010, transferred to Montana in 2011, and finally transferred to West Virginia Wesleyan in 2012. Montana is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana.
1989Alex Trimble, Irish singer[†]
Two Door Cinema Club are a Northern Irish rock band formed in Bangor in 2007. The band is composed of three members: Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird.
1989A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.[†]
The 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt was a failed coup d'état which occurred in Panama City on 3 October. The attempt was led by Major Moisés Giroldi, supported by a group of officers who had returned from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Namibia. Although the plotters succeeded in capturing Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the coup was quickly suppressed. Giroldi and nine other members of the Panamanian Defense Forces were executed on 3 and 4 October 1989. An eleventh participant died in prison after being tortured. These events became known as the "Albrook massacre".
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LEAD: A House subcommittee voted unanimously today to tighten automobile tailpipe emission controls, establishing national pollution standards as strict as California's.
LEAD: A new investment product that has attracted billions of dollars from investors has sparked a widening controversy and has even prompted an investigation by the securities industry.
LEAD: The Texas Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the state's system for financing public schools is unconstitutional because of ''glaring disparities'' between what rich and poor school districts spend on education.
LEAD: Alfred A. Checchi, who led the buyout team that won control of NWA Inc., left no doubt today that he would be involved in managing the company on a continuing basis and that he was in for the long term.
LEAD: More than 2,500 East Germans sought refuge today in the West German Embassy here, hoping to join more than 6,000 other East Germans who were allowed to travel from Czechoslovakia to West Germany over the weekend. The East Berlin Government demanded that Bonn not allow the latest refugees to remain in the embassy.
LEAD: Gilbert and Debra Matthews enter every penny of his subway motorman's salary on the giant lined sketch pad that serves as their budget, only to find they keep coming up short.
LEAD: Warning that political unrest has brought the Soviet economy to the brink of collapse, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev called today for a 15-month ban on strikes and proposed other emergency powers to halt disruptions in industry and transport.
LEAD: The Zenith Electronics Corporation said today that it would sell its computer business to Groupe Bull, France's largest computer manufacturer, for about $635 million.
LEAD: While President Bush and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady have worked publicly in recent days to rebut criticism of the Administration's strategy for reducing third world debt, offstage developments demonstrate that important progress on debt is indeed being made. In meetings at the
LEAD: ARCHEOLOGISTS working in Peru have unearthed stunning evidence that monumental architecture, complex societies and planned developments first appeared and flowered in the New World between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago - roughly the same period when the great pyramids were built in Egypt and the Sumerian city-states reached their zenith in
LEAD: The line of march for the Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue this Friday appears to be the reverse of where New York City's mayoral candidates stand with Italian-American voters.
LEAD: THE psychological forces that propel so many chronic gamblers to ruin marriages, lose jobs and even turn to crime may spring from a biological need for risk and excitement, a new study has found.