On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: The Soviet Army consolidated its occupation of Baku today as leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front made plans to stage a general protest strike throughout the strife-ridden Soviet republic.
LEAD: Along the coatrack-clogged sidewalks of Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, the garment industry took out its handkerchief and dabbed its sweaty brow and talked last week about Federated Stores Inc., the renamed American retailing operations of the Campeau Corporation.
LEAD: Once a week here on the evening news, television viewers are making the acquaintance of a man with AIDS, hearing firsthand about his fears and frailties and watching his jaunty passage toward death.
LEAD: Seabury Place near Crotona Park in the Bronx was named years ago for the nation's first Episcopal bishop. No similar distinction was ever bestowed on his great-great-grandson, Judge Samuel Seabury, whom Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia once hailed as ''the father of good city government.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 1990, covering January 22, 1990.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Paula Abdul
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
1990Alizé Cornet, French tennis player[†]
Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player. She has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 February 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 11. Cornet has also made the second week at each of the four Grand Slam events, having reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Australian Open, and the fourth round at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 and 2017 French Opens, and the 2020 US Open. She holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam appearances with 69 and also in third place for overall appearances with 72.
1990Logic, American rapper[†]
Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Gaithersburg, Maryland. He released his debut mixtape, Psychological: The Mixtape in December 2009 under the name Psychological, after which it was shortened to simply Logic. He gained popularity following his Young Sinatra (2011) mixtape series; its third installment, Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever (2013) received critical acclaim and led him to secure a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings. Logic's first two studio albums—Under Pressure (2014) and The Incredible True Story (2015)—both peaked within the top five of the U.S. Billboard 200 and received platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]