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LEAD: You ordered the burger, the fries and the Coke, but you certainly didn't order the Flounder. There he is anyway: a three-inch blue-and-yellow rubber replica of a character from ''The Little Mermaid'' right there in your McDonald's Happy Meal, in a box adorned with jokes and puzzles that test your knowledge of Little Mermaid lore.
LEAD: LAST December, Susan and Steven Goldstein of Mystic and their daughter, Rebecca, then 3 years old, celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with a dinner party for friends, most of whom were not Jewish.
LEAD: AFTER a 12-year hiatus, residential construction has resumed at a 52-acre former railroad yard on this city's near South Side.
LEAD: AN insurance company moving into a former tire factory will anchor Quadrant Four, a 50-acre downtown business campus meant to compete with suburban office parks.
LEAD: AS secondary school educators focus their attention on preparing students to live and work in the next century, global literacy ranks high on their priority list. And the study of foreign languages, in particular the less commonly taught ones like Russian, Chinese and Japanese, is receiving serious attention in New
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 1989, covering December 17, 1989.
Billy Joel
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989André Ayew, Ghanaian footballer[†]
André Morgan Rami Ayew, also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Ligue 1 club Le Havre and the Ghana national team, of which he is the captain.
1989Taylor York, American musician[†]
Taylor Benjamin York is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Paramore.
1989Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.[†]
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.
1989Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.[†]
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor was the first president democratically elected after the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He became the youngest president in Brazilian history, taking office at the age of 40. After he resigned from the presidency, the impeachment trial on charges of corruption continued. Collor was found guilty by the Senate and disqualified from holding elected office for eight years (1992–2000). He was later acquitted of ordinary criminal charges in his judicial trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, for lack of valid evidence.
1989The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".[†]
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Set in the fictional town of Springfield, in an unspecified location in the United States, it caricatures society, Western culture, television and the human condition.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]