On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: The morning after the weekend surge of tens of thousands of people fleeing East Germany, many West German politicians are beginning to wonder about the cost of absorbing Germans from all over Eastern Europe.
LEAD: SURGEONS, who were once at the top of the ladder of prestige and financial success, are now feeling the pressure of an increasingly competitive market, leading to soul-searching within the profession and potential worries for patients.
LEAD: West Germany's commercial banks have long been accused of having too much power over the nation's industry and financial markets. They sit on the boards of almost every major West German company, they own big stakes in many large corporations and they dominate trading on the nation's securities markets.
LEAD: Braniff Inc. said today that it was ceasing all passenger service immediately because a severe cash shortage doomed its bankruptcy reorganization plan.
LEAD: Celeste Carrion, a Bronx girl infected with the AIDS virus since birth, died last month at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was buried in the rain in a white coffin with her two favorite teddy bears by her side.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 1, 1989, covering November 7, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
Aerosmith
1989Sonny Gray, American baseball player[†]
Sonny Douglas Gray is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, and Minnesota Twins.
1989Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and political activist[†]
Nadezhda Andreyevna "Nadya" Tolokonnikova is a Russian musician, conceptual artist, and political activist. She is a founding member of the feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the street art group Voina.
1989Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.[†]
Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor. He is currently a professor at the namesake Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University.
1989David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.[†]
David Norman Dinkins was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.
1989East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.[†]
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The economy of the country was centrally planned and state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]