On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: UNUSUAL cancer patterns among transplant patients are providing startling insights into the body's natural immunity against the disease.
LEAD: About five years ago, with the supertanker business in the doldrums, the Loews Corporation bought seven large tankers for about $5 million each - basically, their scrap value. Now those ships are carrying crude oil between the Middle East and the Gulf Coast for up to $3 million for just one voyage, operating at considerable profit.
LEAD: Laggards for much of the bull market, utility stocks have turned into top performers in the last few months, with their performance accelerating in recent weeks.
LEAD: THE preacher's fire-and-brimstone warning that death will bring a dire judgment for moral wrongs is a masterful psychological ploy, judging from recent research findings. New studies show that confronting people with the fact that they will die makes them cling tenaciously to their deepest moral values.
LEAD: Bone-chilling cold, heatless apartments, subway shutdowns and a midtown gridlock alert formed a coalition of misery in New York City yesterday for thousands of homeless people, transit riders, motorists and others unwarmed by holiday cheer.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 29, 1989, covering December 5, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Jurrell Casey, American football player[†]
Jurrell Juel Casey is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the third round of the 2011 NFL draft. In nine seasons with the Titans as both a defensive tackle and a defensive end, he was an All-Pro in 2013 and a five-time Pro Bowl selection from 2015 to 2019. He played his 10th and final professional season for the Denver Broncos, but missed most of the season due to injury.
1989Kwon Yu-ri, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Kwon Yu-ri, known mononymously as Yuri, is a South Korean singer, actress, and songwriter. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide. Apart from her group's activities, she has acted in several television dramas such as Fashion King (2012), Local Hero (2016), Innocent Defendant (2017), Dae Jang Geum Is Watching (2018), Bossam: Steal the Fate (2021), and Good Job (2022). In 2013, she made her film debut in No Breathing. In 2018, she made her debut as a soloist with her first extended play The First Scene.
1989John Pritchard, English conductor and director (born 1921)[†]
Sir John Michael Pritchard, was an English conductor. He was known for his interpretations of Mozart operas and for his support of contemporary music.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]