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LEAD: McGraw-Hill Inc., the publishing and information services company, said yesterday that it would eliminate more than 1,000 jobs, revamp its organizational structure and take other streamlining steps that will result in a $220 million pretax charge to earnings.
LEAD: West Germany is expected to announce today that it has awarded a license to build its first private cellular telephone system to a consortium that includes the Pacific Telesis Group, the regional Bell telephone company based in San Francisco.
LEAD: The Government and private industry are scrambling to make each other pay billions of dollars in medical bills for the elderly and the working poor.
LEAD: Both sides of a right-to-die case received a skeptical hearing today at the Supreme Court, where the Justices spent much of an hourlong argument probing for a narrow basis on which to resolve a question as profound as ever reaches them.
LEAD: Reacting to deepening difficulties in the domestic automobile industry, the Chrysler Corporation today put its military electronics and Gulfstream Aerospace subsidiaries up for sale.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1989, covering December 7, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player[†]
Kyle Christian Hendricks is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs. He made his MLB debut in 2014 with the Cubs and led MLB in earned run average (ERA) in 2016, winning the World Series that same year.
1989Nicholas Hoult, English actor[†]
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. He has received several accolades, including a nomination for a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe nominations, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
1989Philip Larsen, Danish ice hockey player[†]
Philip Elzer Gade Larsen is a Danish professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with Esbjerg Energy of the Metal Ligaen (DEN). He was originally drafted 149th overall by the Dallas Stars in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
1989Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer[†]
Alessandro Marchi is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie D club Roma City.
1989Kevin Séraphin, French basketball player[†]
Kevin Séraphin is a French retired professional basketball player. Standing 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) tall, Séraphin played at both the power forward and center positions in his playing career. Séraphin started his professional basketball career in Cholet Basket, and was drafted 17th overall in the 2010 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, but was later traded to the Washington Wizards.
1989Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (born 1934)[†]
William Dee Calhoun was an American professional wrestler, who used the professional name "Haystack" or "Haystacks" Calhoun.
1989Hans Hartung, French-German painter (born 1904)[†]
Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]