06/03/09 09:44 AM |
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John Dickey
This Day in 1989 [it was a Saturday]
Tiananmen Square Massacre: “Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic protest in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square.” [BBC]
Nine people were sucked to their death when part of a United Airlines Boeing 747 fuselage came apart over the sea 20 minutes from takeoff from Honolulu.
Billboard #1 Week of May 28 – June 3
1989 Rock On, Michael Damian for teen flick, Dream a Little Dream- Rock On [originally Dave Essex’s tune, 1973]
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros play the longest game in National League history.
The week in business: The dollar plummeted in a surprisingly sharp reaction to the weaker-than-expected report on U.S. employment in May. The dollar fell by almost four pfennigs against the West German mark and by two Japanese yen. Stock prices set a post-crash high in a surge stimulated by employment data. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 27.20 points to 2,517.83. The gain for the week was 24.06 points. [NYTimes]
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