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LEAD: The bushel of steamers that Tom Lester harvested last week is still in his cellar, and it is starting to stink. ''I can't sell them,'' said Mr. Lester, a burly 48-year-old baymen whose day's work normally fetches between $75 and $100. ''No one wants them at any price.''
LEAD: Add Nathan Glazer's voice to the chorus suggesting that drugs be legalized. Even Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, the former United States Attorney General named this week by Mayor David N. Dinkins of New York to explore strategies for fighting drug abuse, is circumspect about rejecting legalization of heroin and cocaine.
LEAD: A Vietnam War veteran suffering from emotional problems was hunted down and stabbed to death on a remote beach on Staten Island Monday night by two men because they thought he was a homosexual, the police said yesterday.
LEAD: Unions representing pilots, machinists and flight attendants at United Airlines will present a buyout proposal today to the board of the UAL Corporation, the airline's owner. The buyout would give employees a 75 percent stake in the company, while the rest of the stock would remain in public hands, the unions announced yesterday.
LEAD: Handing President Bush a major defeat, the House of Representatives today overwhelmingly reaffirmed legislation protecting Chinese students in the United States from deportation. The Senate is expected to vote on Thursday, and the outcome is too close to predict.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1990, covering January 25, 1990.
Phil Collins
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
1990Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer[†]
Apostolos Giannou is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot Second Division club Achyronas-Onisilos. Born in Greece, he represented various Greek and Australian youth national teams, including one friendly with the Greece national team, before appearing competitively for the Australia national team.
1990Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor[†]
Lee Jun-ho, known mononymously as Junho, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band 2PM. Lee made his acting debut in the film Cold Eyes (2013) and has since starred in Twenty (2015) and notable television series such as Good Manager (2017), Rain or Shine (2017–2018), and King the Land (2023). His performance in The Red Sleeve (2021) earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actor. As a solo artist, Lee has released two studio albums, one compilation album and eight extended plays, achieving significant success in Japan.
1990Ava Gardner, American actress (born 1922)[†]
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers.
1990Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.[†]
Avianca Flight 052 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotá, Colombia, to New York City, United States, via Medellín, Colombia, that crashed on January 25, 1990, at 21:34 (UTC−05:00). The Boeing 707 flying this route ran out of fuel after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), causing the aircraft to crash onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island. Eight of the nine crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash occurred due to the flight crew failing to properly declare a fuel emergency, failure to use an airline operational control dispatch system, inadequate traffic flow management by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the lack of standardized understandable terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel states.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]