On this day
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LEAD: Continuing its bid to dominate the cellular telephone industry, McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. sweetened its tender offer yesterday for the Lin Broadcasting Corporation, which owns valuable cellular franchises in several large cities.
LEAD: Americans tell pollsters that they do not have enough time to cook, clean, see their children or just relax. But they are spending an ever-growing part of their day on the telephone.
LEAD: THE voice that launched several million cooks warbled through the big, quiet kitchen. ''I am 6 feet 1 and 3/4 inches tall,'' Julia Child said to a reporter who had called on the telephone.
LEAD: An Australian entertainment company's deal to acquire the MGM/UA Communications Company collapsed today amid recriminations and legal action, opening the possibility that Rupert Murdoch might make another bid for the film and television studio.
LEAD: In a move that has as much to do with California politics as the environment, an alliance of politicians and environmentalists today offered a ballot measure that they called the broadest effort ever mounted to protect air, food and water against chemical contamination.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 11, 1989, covering October 11, 1989.
Motley Crue
Paula Abdul
The Rolling Stones
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
1989Michelle Wie, American golfer[†]
Michelle Sung Wie West is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements. She won the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year in 2004 and her first and only major at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open.
1989M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (born 1904)[†]
Marion King Hubbert was an American geologist and geophysicist. He worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. He made several important contributions to geology, geophysics, and petroleum geology, most notably the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory, with important political ramifications. He was often referred to as "M. King Hubbert" or "King Hubbert".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]