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LEAD: Increases were approved yesterday for subway, bus and commuter train fares effective Jan. 1 NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY Subways and buses . . . $1.15 Elderly and handicapped Buses . . . $.55 Subways . . . $1.15 round trip LON ISLAND RAIL ROAD AND METRO NORTH
LEAD: The Army said today that there was ''incontestable evidence'' that a Jewish World War II veteran did not perform the heroic actions that he had claimed in seeking the Medal of Honor.
LEAD: Bush Administration officials are divided over whether the Soviet President, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and his aides signaled at the Malta summit talks that they were ready for a political settlement in Afghanistan that could exclude President Najibullah.
LEAD: East Germany's hope that the exodus of its people would drop drastically once travel restrictions were removed has not been fulfilled in the month since the travel curbs were lifted, and West Germany continues to receive a steady stream of immigrants.
LEAD: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo tonight signed a bill that would allow Staten Island to secede from New York City, but only after steps that would take at least three and a half years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 1989, covering December 16, 1989.
Billy Joel
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Mikkel Bødker, Danish ice hockey player[†]
Mikkel Bødker is a Danish former professional ice hockey right winger. He was selected eighth overall by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, making him the highest-ever drafted Danish player. He also featured on the cover of the video game NHL 10 in Denmark and Norway.
1989Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (born 1913)[†]
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez was an Argentine racing driver, known best for participating – and for scoring two championship points – in the Formula One World Championship Grand Prix on 18 January 1953.
1989Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (born 1930)[†]
Silvana Mangano was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of thespians who arose from the neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol for the 1950s and '60s. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress three times – for The Verona Trial (1963), The Witches (1967), and The Scientific Cardplayer (1972) – and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice.
1989Aileen Pringle, American actress (born 1895)[†]
Aileen Pringle was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era.
1989Lee Van Cleef, American actor (born 1925)[†]
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of spaghetti Westerns, particularly the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1983, he received a Golden Boot Award for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.
1989Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.[†]
The Romanian revolution was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc. The Romanian revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact country during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's leadership and executed its leader; according to estimates, over one thousand people died and thousands more were injured.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]