On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Up on the top floor of a hotel suite in downtown Duluth, Minn., a bottle of champagne is chilling in an ice-filled bucket. The bucket stands on a table by a bucket. The bucket stands on a table by a window that affords a scenic view of Lake Superior. Two delicate glasses - approximating champagne flutes - complete this still The recipients of the v.i.p.
LEAD: More than half of the states are battling serious budget problems as they approach the final months of the fiscal year, and eight Eastern states are striving to avoid deficits that could disrupt statewide and local programs.
LEAD: To help as many as 1,000 of their employees buy affordable homes, four New Jersey companies have joined a state agency there to underwrite mortgages in what may be the first such program in the country. Dubbed HOPE, or Home Ownership for Performing Employees, the companies guarantee up to 20 percent of a home loan for selected employees, while the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency underwrites the entire amount.
LEAD: As Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu headed for California to meet with President Bush last week, Japan-bashing was on the rise in the financial markets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1990, covering March 4, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Andrea Bowen, American actress[†]
Andrea Bowen is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Broadway musicals such as Les Misérables and The Sound of Music. In 2004, she began playing the role of Julie Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, a role she played on a regular basis until 2008. She later appeared on a recurring basis until the show ended in 2012. Bowen later went on to star in a number of Lifetime television films.
1990Draymond Green, American basketball player[†]
Draymond Jamal Green is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Green, who plays primarily at the power forward position, is a four-time NBA champion, a four-time NBA All-Star, a two-time member of the All-NBA Team, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Considered one of the greatest defensive players of all-time, he is a nine-time All-Defensive Team member, was NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, and led the league in steals the same year.
1990Paddy Madden, Irish footballer[†]
Patrick Stephen Madden is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Chesterfield. He represented the Republic of Ireland national team at various levels, playing once for the senior team in 2013.
1990Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer[†]
Francisco Mérida Pérez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
1990Hank Gathers, American basketball player (born 1967)[†]
Eric Wilson "Hank" Gathers Jr. was an American college basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions in the West Coast Conference (WCC). As a junior in 1989, he became the second player in NCAA Division I history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same season. Gathers was a consensus second-team All-American as a senior in 1990. His No. 44 was retired by the Lions, who also placed a statue of him in his honor outside their home arena Gersten Pavilion.
1990American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.[†]
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.
1990Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.[†]
Lennox Leslie Wongama Ngweyesizwe Sebe was the chief minister of the Xhosa bantustan of Ciskei after its self-rule in 1972, and the nominally independent country's first president from 1983. He was the Chief of the AmaKhambashe Tribal Authority and his praise name (isikhahlelo) was Ngweyesizwe.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]