On this day
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LEAD: Because of the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzereth, which concludes the harvest festival of Succoth, alternate-side parking rules will be suspended in New York City tomorrow. Other regulations remain in effect.
LEAD: Stock prices moved up sharply yesterday as traders reacted to encouraging inflation news and to indications that the Federal Reserve might be willing to allow interest rates to fall further.
LEAD: With the election less than three weeks away, the candidates for governor are stumping New Jersey with radically different solutions to the high cost of automobile insurance, an issue that has outraged the state's voters more than any other.
LEAD: In a city numbed by the presence of homeless people everywhere, John Sigurd Nelson had no home, but for more than 40 years, he found a secure place: the streets of Brooklyn Heights.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1989, covering October 20, 1989.
Motley Crue
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Jamie Collins, American football player[†]
Jamie Lee Collins Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles and was selected by the Patriots in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft. As a member of the Patriots for seven non-consecutive seasons, Collins earned Pro Bowl honors in 2015 when he led the league in forced fumbles and also won Super Bowl XLIX. Outside of his New England tenure, he played three seasons with the Cleveland Browns and two with the Detroit Lions.
1989Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter[†]
Jessica Hannah Glynne is a British singer. She rose to prominence in 2014 as a featured artist on the singles "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and "My Love" by Route 94, both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Glynne signed with Atlantic Records to release her debut studio album, I Cry When I Laugh (2015). Despite mixed critical response, it debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles "Hold My Hand" and "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself".
1989Anthony Quayle, English actor and director (born 1913)[†]
Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Years Honours List.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]