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LEAD: Outside Pearl Jones's classroom lie the scars of poverty: vacant lots choked with weeds and trash, smoke-blackened buildings and housing projects where even the balconies have chain-link fences.
LEAD: rrSteven Scott Productions, which books acts for everything from Super Bowl parties to cable-television quiz shows to automobile dealerships, advertised in Back Stage that it was again holding auditions for ''unique and unusual acts.'' So what's ''unique and unusual?'' It varies. Past auditioners have included a woman who recites poetry to salt and pepper shakers; a man who jumps into rolls of toilet tissue and then wraps himself like a mummy within 10 seconds, and a pantomimist who imitates a monkey eating a banana.
LEAD: Bertelsmann A.G., the owner of Bantam Doubleday Dell, is believed to be close to reaching a deal to sell its 39 Doubleday Book Shops to Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton.
LEAD: One of the nation's largest real estate firms said today that many of its commercial properties were so troubled financially that it had no choice but to stop paying certain bills.
LEAD: The Chrysler Corporation today posted a loss of $664 million in the fourth quarter and a 65.8 percent drop in profits for the year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 1990, covering February 14, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Chris Babb, American basketball player[†]
Chris Babb is an American professional basketball player for BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque of the French LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for Pennsylvania State University and Iowa State University.
1990Brett Dier, Canadian actor[†]
Brett Jordan Dier is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Michael Cordero Jr. on Jane the Virgin. He is also known for his recurring roles on the Canadian TV shows Bomb Girls and The L.A. Complex, and for his main role as "C.B." on the ABC sitcom Schooled.
1990Bogdan Kiselevich, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Bogdan Alexandrovich Kiselevich is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Florida Panthers.
1990Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer[†]
Sefa Yılmaz is a Turkish footballer who plays as a winger for TFF Second League club Bucaspor 1928.
1990Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.[†]
Indian Airlines Flight 605 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bombay to Bangalore. On 14 February 1990, an Airbus A320-231 registered as VT-EPN, crashed onto a golf course while attempting to land at Bangalore, killing 92 of 146 people on board.
1990The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.[†]
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 166.40 AU from Earth as of May 2025, it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]