24 augustus 1989 was een donderdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♍. Het was de 235e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 36 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 24 augustus 2025, 315 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 24 augustus 2026, in 49 dagen. Je hebt 13.464 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 323.143 uur, of ongeveer 19.388.612 minuten, of ongeveer 1.163.316.720 seconden.
Date: 25 August 1989
LEAD: Forrest Sawyer, a co-anchor of the ABC News program ''World News This Morning,'' has been named an anchor of ''World News Sunday.'' He will replace Sam Donaldson, who has been the news anchor of the program since its premiere 10 years ago.
Date: 24 August 1989
LEAD: The Public Broadcasting System and the Cable News Network plan to carry live pictures of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 as the spacecraft passes the planet early tomorrow morning.
Date: 24 August 1989
By Michael Wines, Special To the New York Times
Michael Wines
LEAD: In an unusual and intense attempt to stop unapproved disclosures of Justice Department investigations, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh has stepped up efforts to find and prosecute Government officials who told a reporter about a Federal inquiry involving a Pennsylvania Congressman.
Date: 25 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-9, A30 Colombian drug traffickers burned the homes of politicians, dynamited offices of the nation's two largest political parties, placed bombs in two radio stations and issued a communique declaring war on the Government. Page A1
Date: 24 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-17, B6 Capitalism will expand in Poland, said the Solidarity supporter who is expected to become Poland's Prime Minister. The statement came a day after Lech Walsea was quoted as making similar remarks. Page A1
Date: 25 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company said its Chicago assembly plant would end production of 1989-model Taurus and Sable cars on Sept. 1, a week earlier than planned, because orders from its dealers had dropped. The company said the 2,500 employees there would return to work on Sept. 11, the first day of production of the 1990 models.
Date: 24 August 1989
LEAD: The International Business Machines Corporation said its scientists had demonstrated new chips that are able to transmit and receive data over fiber-optic lines at speeds of a billion bits a second. The new optoelectronic chips are 50 times denser than earlier components. The new I.B.M. parts are fingernail-size devices that contain 8,000 transistors.
Date: 25 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Policy Management Systems Corporation said the International Business Machines Corporation had acquired a 19.8 percent stake in the company for $116.8 million. Policy Management said that under an agreement signed July 26, I.B.M. had bought 3.7 million newly issued shares of voting convertible preferred stock.
Date: 25 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Shares of the K Mart Corporation rose $2.375, to $43.875, on market rumors that it might be taken over or restructured, traders said. Although analysts discounted the speculation, they acknowledged that K Mart was vulnerable to a takeover. ''Bigger companies have been taken over,'' said Monroe Greenstein, an analyst with Bear, Stearns & Company.
Date: 24 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Wellman Inc. and Fiber Industries announced today that they had agreed to merge in a deal worth $560 million.
Date: 25 August 1989
LEAD: The assets of the nation's 463 money market mutual funds increased by $2.68 billion, to $343.22 billion, in the week ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said yesterday. Those of the 141 institutional funds increased by $51 million, to $85.58 billion. The assets of the 227 general-purpose funds rose $1.04 billion, to $109.78 billion.