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LEAD: The headquarters of Rumania's main opposition parties reopened for business today, claiming new resilience after being battered on Monday by angry crowds mobilized by the ruling Council of National Salvation.
LEAD: One of the world's largest AIDS research laboratories will open this year in New York City under a project with an initial investment of $11 million announced yesterday.
LEAD: In a move that reflects the continuing turmoil on Wall Street, Peter A. Cohen, the chairman and chief executive of Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., resigned under pressure last night.
LEAD: Six words said to have been spoken by John Gotti - ''We're gonna, gonna bust him up'' - that prosecutors say is vital evidence against the reported Mafia leader were played yesterday at his trial.
LEAD: In an unusual advertising campaign, the Intel Corporation is bypassing its customers, the computer makers that use its microprocessors, to try to persuade computer users that they would be better off with its more powerful 386SX chip than its older 286 chip.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 31, 1990, covering January 31, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
Janet Jackson
Billy Joel
1990Cro, German rapper[†]
Carlo Waibel, better known by the stage name Cro, is a German rapper and singer. He describes his music as a mixture between rap and pop, which he calls "raop". He is known for wearing a panda mask on stage.
1990Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer[†]
Jacopo Fortunato is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for San Donà.
1990Nicolás Laprovíttola, Argentine basketball player[†]
Nicolás "Nico" Laprovíttola is an Argentine professional basketball player for FC Barcelona Bàsquet of the Spanish Liga ACB, and the EuroLeague. He is also a member of the Argentina national basketball team.
1990Jacob Markström, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Jacob Anders Markström is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Florida Panthers in the second round, 31st overall, of the 2008 NHL entry draft. He previously played for the Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, and Calgary Flames.
1990Kota Yabu, Japanese singer-songwriter, model, and actor[†]
Hey! Say! JUMP is an nine-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Smile-Up. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical copies.
1990Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (born 1901)[†]
Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus was a German zoologist and drawer.
1990Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian American biochemist and academic (born 1935)[†]
Rashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of Quranism. Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corrupted. Similarly, he believed that previous revelations of God, such as the Bible, contained contradictions due to human interference . Instead, he believed that the beliefs and practices of Islam should be based on the Quran alone. He is also known for his claims regarding the existence of a Quran code, also known as The Number 19.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]