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October 18, 1989

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Headlines from October 18, 1989

Just in Time, a Defense Of Fruitcake

By Dena Kleiman

LEAD: IT is the gift most people hate to receive. Others call it a bad joke. But these days, as the time to prepare holiday fruitcake draws near, defenders of this centuries-old confection are fighting back, proclaiming that fruitcake has suffered a bad name long enough.

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New York Fears Burden And Quits Waste Plan

By Sam Howe Verhovek, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: New York said today that it had withdrawn from a group of Northeastern states working on a regional plan for disposing of toxic wastes because environmental officials here thought New York was being asked to take too much waste.

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UAL's Share Price Drops $24.875, to $198

By Keith Bradsher

LEAD: Stock in the UAL Corporation, the parent of United Airlines, fell another $24.875 yesterday, to $198, as speculators and option traders sold their shares, uncertainty continued about the financing for a buyout of the airline and the machinists' union renewed its efforts to block such a deal.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1989, covering October 18, 1989.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue

    Dr. Feelgood

    Motley Crue

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson

    Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

    Janet Jackson

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Girl You Know It's True by Milli Vanilli

    Girl You Know It's True

    Milli Vanilli

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    31
  4. 4
    Album cover for Steel Wheels by The Rolling Stones

    Steel Wheels

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    6
  5. 5
    Album cover for Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul

    Forever Your Girl

    Paula Abdul

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    66

Notable Births

Laci Green

1989Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist[†]

Laci Green, is an American clinical mental health counselor and former YouTuber. Her content focuses on sex education; Green also hosted Braless, the first MTV YouTube channel, as part of a 12-week deal with MTV. The first episode aired November 4, 2014. In 2016, Time named her one of the 30 most influential people on the Internet.

Joy Lauren

1989Joy Lauren, American actress, director, and producer[†]

Joy Lauren Jorgensen is an American producer, director, writer and former actress. She is known for playing Danielle Van de Kamp on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives.

1989Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress[†]

Riisa Naka is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous by appearing in Hachi One Diver (2008) and played the lead, Hana Adachi, in Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (2010). Naka also portrayed cousins Makoto Konno and Akari Yoshiyama who are the protagonists in respectively the 2006 anime film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the 2010 live action movie Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, both of which are based on the 1967 novel Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo by Yasutaka Tsutsui.

Historical Events

Space Shuttle Atlantis

1989The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.[†]

Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.

Historical Context for October 18, 1989

In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]