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LEAD: Local, state and Federal officials turned their attention today toward raising the billions of dollars needed to rebuild the Bay Area in the aftermath of the area's most calamitous earthquake in 83 years.
LEAD: Representative Robert Garcia, who emerged from the bare-knuckles politics of the South Bronx to become one of the leading Hispanic politicians in the country, was convicted yesterday of extortion and conspiracy charges.
LEAD: After 20 years, the largest indigenous Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia has stalled because of factionalism, purges, declining campus recruitment and the capture of some important leaders, diplomats and Philippine officials say.
LEAD: In a shift, Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral campaign has withdrawn its negative commercial about David N. Dinkins. Page 29.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1989, covering October 21, 1989.
Motley Crue
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Mads Dahm, Norwegian footballer[†]
Mads Dahm, is a Norwegian footballer playing for Lyn in the Norwegian Third Division. He has played two games for Norway national under-21 football team. He is the younger brother of former Lyn player Fredrik Dahm. In August 2010, he signed for Lillestrøm, following Lyn's bankruptcy. In February, he decided to go back and help his old club Lyn back to the top.
1989Festus Ezeli, Nigerian-American basketball player[†]
Ifeanyi Festus Ezeli-Ndulue is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player who played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being selected with the 30th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, where he won an NBA Championship in 2015. Ezeli last appeared in the 2016 NBA Finals and did not play basketball due to knee surgery in the 2017 season, then coming back in 2021.
1989Luke Murphy, English footballer[†]
Luke John Murphy is an English professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Northern Premier League Division One West side Macclesfield.
1989Jonathan Viera, Spanish footballer[†]
Jonathan Viera Ramos is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Singapore Premier League club Hougang United.
1989Sam Vokes, English-Welsh footballer[†]
Samuel Michael Vokes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League One club Wycombe Wanderers, and formerly for the Wales national team.
1989Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)[†]
Imre Hajdú better known by his stage name Jean Image was a Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
1989In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa.[†]
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]