On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 1989, covering October 28, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
Aerosmith
New Kids on the Block
Tears for Fears
Tom Petty
Skid Row
1989Devin Ebanks, American basketball player[†]
Devin Maurice Ebanks is an American professional basketball player for Al-Ahli Jeddah of the Saudi Basketball League. The forward was selected 43rd overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA draft. He played college basketball for two seasons at West Virginia University.
1989Camille Muffat, French swimmer (died 2015)[†]
Camille Muffat was a French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. Swimming for the Olympic Nice Natation club, she specialised in the individual medley and the free style events. Her career ran from 2005 to 2014.
1989Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (born 1898)[†]
Henry Robert Hall, CBE was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.
1989Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.[†]
Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that took place on October 28, 1989. The flight originated in Hana Airport, Maui, Hawaiʻi and stopped over in Kahului Airport, Maui. It was scheduled to continue to Molokaʻi Airport, Molokaʻi and then to Honolulu International Airport, however it crashed while enroute from Kahului to Molokaʻi. The leg in which the aircraft crashed was expected to take 25 minutes, on visual flight rules under provisions of 14 CFR Part 135. The aircraft struck terrain at 600 feet (180 m), and at a heading of 260° near Hālawa Valley, Hawaii. Both crew members and all 18 passengers died in the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined the cause of the accident was by pilot error.
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LEAD: In an effort to assure voters that his administration will be broad-based, David N. Dinkins has told associates that he will appoint Victor L. Kovner, a longtime ally and a politically active Manhattan lawyer, as his corporation counsel if he is elected mayor of New York City.
LEAD: Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Republican mayoral candidate, spent the summer vilifying Mayor Edward I. Koch, saying that he had responded to corruption in his administration with ''his eyes closed, his ears clogged and his mouth open.''
LEAD: With Election Day little more than a week away, the proposed new charter for New York City, which would represent the most significant overhaul of municipal government in nearly a century, has failed to generate a broad public debate.
LEAD: As change sweeps across Eastern Europe into East Germany, officials in West Germany are growing anxious about the possible consequences. Their preoccupation is not reunification, which might be possible if the transformation in the East succeeds, but a flood of emigres if the changes fail.
LEAD: He is still jittery, still afraid that every policeman can peer into his heart and see the fervor with which he supported the democracy movement, but the young university teacher has given up life as a fugitive. After spending months visiting friends and relatives in other cities, he sent his wife back to scout around and recently returned himself.
LEAD: At 5:04 P.M. today, in a solemn baseball stadium where 10 days ago to the minute they feared for their lives, a crowd of 62,000 World Series fans stood silent to mourn those who died in the earthquake here.
LEAD: East Germany announced an amnesty today for all citizens who have fled or tried to flee the country, as well as for most of those arrested in the recent wave of anti-Government demonstrations.
LEAD: As leaders of the Western Hemisphere gathered for a meeting here, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua said today that he would end a 19-month-old cease-fire with the Nicaraguan rebels and order the Nicaraguan Army to resume military operations next week.
LEAD: ''As a friend, I tell you that Americans are not as patient as the Japanese. We don't want a Japanese tea party. Yet fairness is a real issue when it comes to trade between the U.S. and Japan.'' - Former President Ronald Reagan. [ 31:3. ]
LEAD: International 3-6 Nicaragua will break a cease-fire with Nicaraguan rebels and resume offensive military operations next week, President Ortega said. Reports indicate that the offensive has already begun. Page 1 Fighting broke out in Nicaragua as Government troops began what appeared to be a coordinated combat operation against several hundred contras in a mountain region.
LEAD: A picture caption in Weekend yesterday about the Women in Comedy festival of the Manhattan Punch Line Theater misidentified the performer in the foreground. She was Patricia Scanlon, not Nancy Mura.