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LEAD: Mayor David N. Dinkins last night named Dr. Woodrow A. Myers Jr. as New York City Health Commissioner, rejecting the advice of some gay advisers and an international AIDS expert who had questioned Dr. Myers's policies on AIDS.
LEAD: Under fire for developing a cigarette aimed primarily at blacks, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company abruptly decided late yesterday to cancel the cigarette.
LEAD: The Israeli. police arrested the West Bank's most prominent Palestinian nationalist today and charged him with helping an illegal organization involved in the uprising in the occupied territories.
LEAD: Arthur J. Goldberg, who rose from humble beginnings in Chicago to become Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and then United States representative to the United Nations, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Washington. He was 81 years old.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 1990, covering January 20, 1990.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Paula Abdul
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
1990Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (born 1907)[†]
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year professional career, she was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility. She was a favorite of directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra, and made 86 films in 38 years before turning to television. She received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and was nominated for four Academy Awards.
1990Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.[†]
Black January, also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]