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LEAD: Dexter Manley, the Washington Redskins' star defensive end, was banned indefinitely from the National Football League yesterday for having violated the league's substance-abuse policy for a third time.
LEAD: In sports, there are always big games. But the World Cup soccer match Sunday is bigger than a big game.
LEAD: World political leaders may be rushing to broad accord on the urgent need to halt global warming, but since the mid-1980's economists have been worrying about the bill. Their misgivings have been deepened by recent estimates of the cost of limiting emissions of carbon dioxide, which is the primary cause of the problem.
LEAD: PRODDED by community organizations and a l2-year-old Federal mandate, six large New Jersey banks have pledged about 75 million in reduced-rate mortgages and home improvement loans, housing grants and other services that the groups say were eliminated as a result of deregulation and mergers.
LEAD: At Jordan High School, in the heart of Watts, it is forbidden to wear brown or green or purple, to sport colored belts or sneakers or a hat of any kind, to display a bandanna or wear braided hair or more than one stud earring.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 1989, covering November 19, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
Aerosmith
1989Kenneth Faried, American basketball player[†]
Kenneth Bernard Faried Lewis is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Reggiana of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Known as "the Manimal" due to his hustle on the court, he attended Morehead State University for four years, twice being named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year. He finished his collegiate career as the NCAA all-time leading rebounder in the post-1973 era with 1,673 rebounds, although he was surpassed by Armando Bacot in 2024. He was selected 22nd overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.
1989John McCarthy, Australian footballer (died 2012)[†]
John Shane McCarthy was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1989Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper[†]
Roman Sergeevich Trofimov is a Russian ski jumper competing for Moskva WVSM. His first World Cup competition took place in Willingen, Germany in 2010, although he had previously competed in qualifying rounds without qualifying. He was 48th in the competition.
1989Tyga, American rapper[†]
Micheal Ray Stevenson, known professionally as Tyga, is an American rapper and singer. After several independent releases, he signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, an imprint of Cash Money Records and Republic Records in 2008. His second album and major label debut, Careless World: Rise of the Last King (2012), peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was met with critical praise. It spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top ten single "Rack City", as well as the top 40 single "Faded". His third album, Hotel California (2013), was met with trailing critical and commercial response, along with his collaborative album with singer Chris Brown, Fan of a Fan: The Album (2015).
1989Grant Adcox, American race car driver (born 1950)[†]
Herbert Grant Adcox was an American stockcar driver who died in a single-car accident in the 1989 Atlanta Journal 500 in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]