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LEAD: The 28-year-old Berlin wall opened up Thursday and by midnight thousands of East Berliners - of all ages, from every way of life - were walking, biking and driving to crossing points in the wall and entering the western half of the city, a place they could only gaze at just hours before.
LEAD: China's senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, has resigned from his last formal post in the Communist Party leadership, marking another milestone in his 65-year party career.
LEAD: Richard Lee remembers the moment well. It was 1954. He was mayor. And one afternoon, a black teen-ager named John Daniels arrived in his office. He was a bright high school football star who had been selected the city's ''Boy of the Year.''
LEAD: The new principal reported for duty at Public School 262 in Brooklyn yesterday, but the acting principal he was sent there to replace refused to vacate the principal's office. The acting principal even made the morning announcements on the public address system.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 8, 1989, covering November 10, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Motley Crue
Aerosmith
1989Daniel Agyei, Ghanaian footballer[†]
Daniel Yaw Agyei is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
1989Taron Egerton, Welsh actor[†]
Taron Egerton is a Welsh actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he performed in stage plays before gaining recognition for his starring role as a spy in the action comedy films Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
1989Brendon Hartley, New Zealand race car driver[†]
Brendon Morris Hartley is a New Zealand racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota. Hartley competed in Formula One from 2017 to 2018. In endurance racing, Hartley has won a joint-record four FIA World Endurance Championship titles—tied with Sébastien Buemi—and is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1989Adrian Nikçi, Swiss footballer[†]
Adrian Nikçi is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikçi represented Switzerland internationally.
1989Jacob Pullen, American basketball player[†]
Jacob Everse Pullen is an American-Georgian professional basketball player for Napoli Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played for the Kansas State Wildcats. Pullen has both American and Georgian citizenship, and has played for the Georgian national team.
1989Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.[†]
The People's Republic of Bulgaria was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party together with its coalition partner, the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union. Bulgaria was closely allied and one of the most loyal satellite states of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, sometimes being called the 16th Soviet Republic rather than an independent country. Bulgaria was also part of Comecon as well as a member of the Warsaw Pact. The Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II deposed the Tsardom of Bulgaria administration in the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 which ended the country's alliance with the Axis powers and led to the People's Republic in 1946.
1989Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.[†]
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded. Sections of the wall were breached, and planned deconstruction began the following June. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward. An end to the Cold War was declared at the Malta Summit in early December, and German reunification took place in October the following year.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]