On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
LEAD: Sgt. Norman Horowitz waved through the window of the blue police van at the elderly neighborhood beautician. ''Hi, pretty lady,'' he boomed. She flashed a gap-toothed grin and waved back.
LEAD: Reflecting its expansion into refining and distribution, Saudi Arabia's oil company has emerged as the largest oil company in the world, the Petroleum Intelligence Weekly said in its issue that was published today.
LEAD: The United States Army, facing major cuts in its forces stationed in Europe and a declining budget, has proposed reshaping itself largely into a fast-reaction force based in the continental United States, senior Army officials say.
LEAD: New York's most prestigious lawyers' organization, the City Bar Association, is preparing to name its first black president.
LEAD: Twice a week, a health worker comes to Susan Glantz's home in Alexandria Township, N.J., and gives her a two-hour break from the strain of caring for her 85-year-old mother-in-law, who has Alzheimer's disease.
LEAD: Fighting chronic fatigue caused by thin air and deadly cold, scientists here are assembling a new type of telescope that may reveal the mysterious origin of cosmic rays.
LEAD: In a decision that leaves patent rights to a valuable new genetically engineered drug still in hot dispute, a Federal magistrate in Boston ruled yesterday that two competing biotechnology companies have valid patents.
LEAD: In a secret operation that began just before dawn, 100 Hong Kong prison officers, many dressed in riot gear, today herded 51 Vietnamese refugees aboard a plane bound for Hanoi in the first forced repatriation of boat people to the country that they risked their lives fleeing.
LEAD: A lawsuit filed by a physician before he died of AIDS in June is forcing a court review of the rights of ill doctors to continue to treat patients and perform surgery without informing patients of their condition.
LEAD: Taking account of foreign concerns, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany softened a vital element of his vision of German unity today as representatives of the four wartime occupying powers met here and insisted on ''the importance of stability'' in Eastern Europe.
LEAD: WITH hearts, kidneys, livers and pancreases being transplanted almost routinely, surgeons are now forging ahead to give combinations of organs - as many as five at a time - to treat a wide variety of conditions ranging from birth defects to diabetes and cancer.
LEAD: Yielding to popular demands for more democracy, Bulgaria's new leader said today that the Communist Party's monopoly on power should be abandoned and that free parliamentary elections should be held by next spring.