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LEAD: Stepping up a crackdown on religious workers, Government security forces raided an Episcopal church before dawn today, arresting 17 lay workers, including 6 foreigners, and seizing documents.
LEAD: NEARLY a decade after the first X-ray laser was triggered by the explosion of a nuclear bomb, a gentler version has been harnessed in a revolutionary new type of microscope capable of revealing the smallest details ever seen inside living cells.
LEAD: The group of boisterous 7-year-olds from the Horace W. Porter School straightened up when Tom Callinan strummed the guitar chords. It was a song they had sung before, a song about garbage and the endangered habitats of river and forest animals.
LEAD: The provincial government in this poverty-stricken region of northwestern China is aggressively enforcing a new law requiring the sterilization of mentally retarded people.
LEAD: The Army has proposed eliminating as many as 200,000 civilian, reserve and military employees and giving up on the long-sought modernization of its main battle tank, the M1, Bush Administration officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 1989, covering November 21, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
Aerosmith
1989Will Buckley, English footballer[†]
William Edward Buckley is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1989Dárvin Chávez, Mexican footballer[†]
Dárvin Francisco Chávez Ramírez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is an Olympic gold medalist.
1989Fabian Delph, English footballer[†]
Fabian Delph is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder or left-back.
1989José Pirela, Venezuelan baseball player[†]
José Manuel Pirela is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and in the KBO League for the Samsung Lions.
1989Chris Singleton, American basketball player[†]
Christopher Carl Singleton Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6'9", he played as a power forward and small ball center. He played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles.
1989Justin Tucker, American football player[†]
Justin Paul Tucker is an American professional football kicker. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012, spending 13 seasons with the team. Regarded as one of the greatest placekickers ever, Tucker holds the NFL record for longest field goal at 66 yards and career field goal percentage at 89.1%. He has also been named to seven Pro Bowls and five first-team All-Pros, and was a member of the Ravens team that won Super Bowl XLVII.
1989Harvey Hart, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)[†]
Harvey Hart was a Canadian television and film director and a television producer.
1989Margot Zemach, American author and illustrator (born 1931)[†]
Margot Zemach was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, some of which she also wrote. Many were adaptations of folk tales from around the world, especially Yiddish and other Eastern European stories. She and her husband Harvey Fischtrom, writing as Harve Zemach, collaborated on several picture books including Duffy and the Devil for which she won the 1974 Caldecott Medal.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]