On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Producers, theater owners and unions are discussing a plan to cut costs and prices so that some serious plays would have a better chance to succeed on Broadway.
LEAD: If General Mills gets its way, the continental breakfast will soon include a bowl of Cheerios.
LEAD: Felix G. Rohatyn, the chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, has warned that Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins should plan to hold spending in next year's New York City budget to the level of this year's revenues, in a drastic no-growth approach.
LEAD: THE New York club scene is constantly evolving. In the 1980's, it moved from a style that had been huge and high tech to one that was diminutive and old fashioned. But with no one quite sure what sort of tastes and manners the 1990's will bring, a burst of new nightspots - fulfilling every mood and whim - has made today a clubgoers' market.
LEAD: For one day earlier this year, the Industrial Bank of Japan rocked Japanese regulators by slipping through a legal loophole and dealing in Japanese stocks in London - without first consulting the Finance Ministry, an almost unthinkable breach of protocol.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 29, 1989, covering December 1, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Sotelúm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer[†]
Sotelúm is a modernist and independent music artist, listed by UABC Radio and other local press media as an elemental post-nortec visionary in the Mexican avant garde of electronic music.
1989Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (born 1931)[†]
Alvin Ailey Jr. was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
1989Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.[†]
The 1989 Philippine coup attempt was the most serious attempted coup d'état against the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino and part of a series of coup attempts against her. It was staged beginning December 1, 1989, by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines belonging to the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) and soldiers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos. Metro Manila was shaken by this Christmas-time coup, which almost seized Malacañang Palace. It was completely defeated by the Philippine government by December 9, 1989.
1989Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]