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LEAD: Texas Instruments Inc., after almost three decades, has won a Japanese patent ruling that analysts say could bring the American company more than $2 billion in royalty payments from Japanese chip makers.
LEAD: Congress voted early this morning to repeal the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, including the politically unpopular surtax that helped finance the 16-month-old program.
LEAD: It was bound to happen. Two salesmen set up a stand on Fifth Avenue yesterday selling what they said were chunks of the Berlin wall - at $7 an ounce.
LEAD: AMERICANS who have turned to bottled water as an alternative to what comes out of the tap, who use filters on their faucets or who breast-feed their babies may be depriving themselves and their children of fluoride, which prevents tooth decay.
LEAD: The dollar dropped sharply against the West German mark yesterday, closing at its lowest level since early January. The dollar also fell against other leading currencies, including the Japanese yen.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 22, 1989, covering November 22, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Billy Joel
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Alden Ehrenreich, American actor[†]
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in the television series Supernatural (2005), and in Francis Ford Coppola's films Tetro (2009) and Twixt (2011). Following supporting roles in the 2013 films Blue Jasmine and Stoker, his breakthrough came in 2016 with a lead role in the Coen brothers' comedy Hail, Caesar!, for which he gained praise.
1989Candice Glover, American singer[†]
Candice Rickelle Glover is an American R&B singer and actress who won the twelfth season of American Idol. Glover is the first winner to have auditioned three times before being cast for the live shows. Her debut album Music Speaks was released on February 18, 2014.
1989Chris Smalling, English footballer[†]
Christopher Lloyd Smalling is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Saudi Pro League club Al-Fayha. Smalling represented the England national team from 2011 to 2017.
1989Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer[†]
Andrei Gabriel Torje is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a winger.
1989René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (born 1925)[†]
René Anis Moawad was a Lebanese politician who served as the 9th president of Lebanon for seventeen days, from 5 to 22 November 1989, before his assassination by unknown assailants.
1989NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.[†]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]