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LEAD: In an unusually stern report, the New York State Financial Control Board warned yesterday that New York City's budget probably will not be balanced in the current fiscal year or the one that starts on July 1 unless it makes even deeper, more painful spending cuts.
LEAD: In a case that offers a wealth of detail about how penny-stock ''boiler rooms'' operate, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit yesterday against a New York brokerage house, accusing it of having used fraud, lies and fictional analysts' reports to sell high-risk stocks by telephone to investors across the country.
LEAD: The Communist Party replaced its entire leadership today and voted to give up its constitutional monopoly on power in preparation for free elections expected to be held later this year.
LEAD: The rogues' gallery of New Yorkers convicted of corruption during the Koch administration provided one measure of the further decline of Irish-American influence in city politics: virtually none were of Irish descent.
LEAD: Harried by hyperinflation and mounting debts, a new young economic team takes office here Thursday carrying blueprints of free-market reforms designed to turn Brazil into an economic world power this decade.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 14, 1990, covering March 15, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
The B-52s
1990Nick Ahmed, American baseball player[†]
Nicholas Mark Ahmed is an American professional baseball shortstop who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, and Texas Rangers. He has won the Gold Glove Award twice, in 2018 and 2019.
1990Tavon Austin, American football player[†]
Tavon Wesley Austin is an American former professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers, receiving first-team All-American honors twice and was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft.
1990JD McDonagh, Irish professional wrestler[†]
Jordan Devlin is an Irish professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name JD McDonagh and is a member of The Judgment Day. In WWE, he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion and one-time NXT Cruiserweight Champion, holding the latter for 439 days to become its longest-reigning champion.
1990Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-English journalist (born 1958)[†]
Farzad Bazoft was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer. He was arrested by Iraqi authorities and executed in 1990 after being convicted of spying for Israel while working in Iraq.
1990Tom Harmon, American football player and sportscaster (born 1919)[†]
Thomas Dudley Harmon, nicknamed "Old 98", was an American football player, military pilot, actor, and sports broadcaster.
1990Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.[†]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]