On this day
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LEAD: WITH his back arched and his head and toes on the floor, Jerry Tremendous is performing his morning yoga ritual in what is called the dolphin position. Suddenly, he wonders who that woman was, the one who just walked by wearing a familiar-looking wedding ring.
LEAD: As though part of an enormous stage set for some brooding morality play, Phoenix House, a drug-treatment center, stands on the edge of a sinister block in the heart of the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. Scrawled across the treatment center's facade in graffiti are the letters C-R-A-C-K.
LEAD: Rudolph W. Giuliani entered a critical phase in his Republican-Liberal campaign for mayor of New York City yesterday as he held the feet of his Democratic opponent, David N. Dinkins, to the embers of a stock controversy and launched another attack on Mr. Dinkins's fiscal fitness.
LEAD: Smiling and waving his right hand, a man was pulled alive this morning from the wreckage of the highway overpass that collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake.
LEAD: In the weak market of the New York suburbs, Joe Cioccolanti thinks he has found a niche. ''There may be a large inventory of unsold homes, but they just aren't affordable,'' said the Putnam County developer, who is offering 75 two-bedroom town-house units in Kent at $129,900 apiece, well below the prices of most new homes in the area.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1989, covering October 22, 1989.
Motley Crue
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989JPEGMafia, American rapper and singer[†]
Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, known professionally as JPEGMafia, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, he signed with Deathbomb Arc to release his debut studio album, Black Ben Carson (2016) and his second album Veteran (2018), which received widespread critical acclaim. His third album, All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2019) was released through EQT Recordings and entered the Billboard 200,, and had signed to Republic for the release of his fourth album LP! (2021); both were met with continued critical acclaim. In 2023, he released his collaborative studio album Scaring the Hoes (2023) with fellow alternative rapper Danny Brown through AWAL. In 2024, he released his fifth studio album I Lay Down My Life for You (2024).
1989Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player[†]
Muhammad Hassan "Mo" Wilkerson is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Temple Owls, and was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1989Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (born 1915)[†]
James Henry Miller, better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was a British folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to Scottish parents, he is known as one of the instigators of the 1960s folk revival as well as for writing such songs as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Dirty Old Town".
1989Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (born 1978)[†]
Jacob Erwin Wetterling was an American boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota, who was kidnapped from his hometown and murdered on October 22, 1989, at the age of 11. The identity of his abductor remained a mystery for nearly 27 years.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]