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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Planning a celebration that would more than double the size of past ceremonies, Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins's inaugural committee yesterday sent out the first of 13,000 invitations to his swearing-in on the City Hall steps on New Year's Day and a reception afterward.
LEAD: Workers at the Nevada Test Site, the desert proving ground for American nuclear weapons, were repeatedly exposed to dangerous levels of radiation from underground and atmospheric atomic blasts over three decades, according to Government records made public in a court case here.
LEAD: Hoping to find television viewers who are not counted by current rating methods, the three major broadcast networks yesterday recommended some changes in the way the A. C. Nielsen Company measures the national audience.
LEAD: The GAF Corporation and a senior executive were found guilty yesterday afternoon of illegally trying to manipulate the stock of the Union Carbide Corporation in 1986 after an unsuccessful attempt to take over the company.
LEAD: This plains city of 300,000, which once boomed as a railhead for Texas cattle, runs these days on airplane production. But unlike the time of the Chisholm Trail, Wichita is far from a one-industry town, and its albeit bumpy ride in the 1980's illustrates a mix of forces that operate in today's diversified economy to blunt both boom and bust.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 1989, covering December 14, 1989.
Billy Joel
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Pedro Botelho, Brazilian footballer[†]
Pedro Roberto da Silva Botelho is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Rio Branco. Mainly a left back, he can also play as a left midfielder.
1989Sam Burgess, English rugby league player[†]
Samuel Burgess is an English professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of the Warrington Wolves in the Super League, and former professional rugby league footballer who played as a loose forward, prop or second-row forward in the 2000s and 2010s.
1989Onew, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer[†]
Lee Jin-ki, better known by his stage name Onew, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. Born in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do, Onew was discovered at the 2006 SM Academy Casting and signed a contract with SM Entertainment the day after his audition. He debuted as the lead vocalist and leader of the South Korean boy band Shinee in May 2008, who went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea.
1989Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (born 1919)[†]
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Action/Adventure television series, The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer. He played Tarzan in two feature films and was associated in various capacities with several other Tarzan productions. He was credited variously as Jacques O'Mahoney, Jock O'Mahoney, Jack Mahoney, and finally Jock Mahoney.
1989Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)[†]
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]