October 16, 1989

Monday, October 16, 1989
Top News Headlines This Week:
Oct 16 - Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu   Oct 16 - Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway   Oct 17 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series - kills 67   Oct 18 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns   Oct 18 - Hungary revises constitution   Oct 18 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit  
Top Songs for 1989
Like a Prayer by Madonna     Miss You Much by Janet Jackson    
Lost In Your Eyes by Debbie Gibson     Two Hearts by Phil Collins    
Straight Up by Paula Abdul     Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins    
When I See You Smile by Bad English     Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx    
We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel     Blame It On the Rain by Milli Vanilli    
1989 Prices US President
Bread:  $0.67/loaf George Bush
Milk:  $2.14/gal US Vice President
Eggs:  $1.43/doz J. Danforth Quayle
Car:  $14,645 Academy Award Winners
Gas:  $1.06/gal
Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
  Produced By Warner Brothers
Best Actor: Daniel Day-lewis
  in My Left Foot
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy
  in Driving Miss Daisy
House:  $148,800
Stamp:  $0.25/ea
Avg Income:  $41,506/yr
Min Wage:  $3.35/hr
DOW Avg:    2,753
People born on October 16
1888 - Eugene O'Neill NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1921 - Linda Darnell Dallas, Tx, actress (Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance)
1925 - Angela Lansbury London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1946 - Suzanne Somers San Bruno Calif, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
On TV in 1989
Doogie Howser, M.D.    Designing Women    Chicken Soup   
The Simpsons    Grand    America's Funniest Home Videos   
Coach    Murphy Brown    Roseanne   
Full House   
Hot New Toys in 1989
Sega Genesis    Polly Pockets    Nintendo Game Boy   
Game Boy   
Top Books in 1989
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff     Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman