On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: The General Motors Corporation said yesterday that it might buy a minority interest in Jaguar P.L.C. and was discussing manufacturing and marketing joint ventures with the British auto maker.
LEAD: New Hungarian Party Chief Hungary's newly named Socialist Party, which as the Communist Party decided to turn away from orthodox Marxism, elected Rezso Nyers its President. But he faced demands for more change. Page A10. Land Battle in West Western states have come to regret a deal in which they accepted vast tracts from the Federal Government decades ago, and Utah wants to sell off about 82,000 acres.
LEAD: For a decade before his election as Manhattan Borough President in 1985, David N. Dinkins was City Clerk, keeper of city records. It was a post he received on the recommendation of the Democratic county leader in Manhattan after years of loyal service as a district leader.
LEAD: A month before the Nov. 7 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani has added an adviser to his inner circle, to help overcome the political missteps that have plagued his mayoral campaign and to compensate for a shortage of money for television advertising.
LEAD: Despite Moscow's assertion that all Soviet troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan, the Bush Administration says Soviet military advisers are still there, firing Scud missiles on Afghan guerrillas.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 4, 1989, covering October 10, 1989.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
New Kids on the Block
Motley Crue
1989Jeurys Familia, Dominican baseball player[†]
Jeurys Familia Mojica is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox.
1989Emer Kenny, English actress and screenwriter[†]
Emer Kenny is a British actress and screenwriter. She is best known for playing Zsa Zsa Carter in EastEnders and its spin-off EastEnders: E20, Danielle Reeves in Pramface and Penelope "Bunty" Windermere in Father Brown.
1989Aimee Teegarden, American actress and producer[†]
Aimeé Richelle Teegarden is an American actress. She starred as Julie Taylor in the NBC drama Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). In 2014, Teegarden starred as Emery Whitehill in The CW's short-lived science fiction romantic drama Star-Crossed.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]