On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 14, 1990, covering March 16, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
The B-52s
Michael Bolton
Linda Ronstadt (Featuring Aaron Neville)
Billy Joel
Alannah Myles
Aerosmith
1990Andre Young, American basketball player[†]
Andre Young is a retired American professional basketball player. Standing at 5 ft 9 in, Young played the point guard or shooting guard position. He played four years of collegiate basketball with Clemson followed by three seasons of playing professionally in multiple countries in Europe.
1990Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1898)[†]
Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific composer, Bacon wrote over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.
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LEAD: Nearly 9,000 miles from the Supreme Court, on the Pacific island of Guam, a territorial legislature has passed the most restrictive abortion legislation in the United States, a measure that explicitly challenges the constitutional right to abortion that was established in the landmark Roe v. Wade case.
LEAD: Five years ago today in Beirut, in the clear light of a city that was just waking up to another weary morning of war, Terry A. Anderson played tennis for an hour on a court by the sea.
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev assumed the Soviet Union's new executive presidency today, and vowed to use his added powers to move his reluctant country more rapidly in the direction of a market economy.
LEAD: Davidoff International, whose Havana cigars are among the most expensive and prestigious in the world, has formally ended relations with Cuba.
LEAD: Six months after opening talks on the deep-rooted causes of their trade problems, Japan and the United States are dissatisfied with each other's concessions. And the Japanese are fearful that the discussions themselves are making tensions even worse.
LEAD: The management of Saks Fifth Avenue said yesterday that it had joined forces with a Japanese retailer in an offer to buy the 46-store chain from B.A.T. Industries, its London-based parent.
LEAD: The Soviet Parliament overwhelmingly rejected Lithuania's declaration of independence, but the resolution was stripped of vague threats of retaliation. Page A6.
LEAD: Gov. Jim Florio told the Legislature today that his plan to impose $1.4 billion in new taxes in the next fiscal year was unavoidable if New Jersey is to look the future squarely in the eye.
LEAD: No Trace of Drug in Gathers The autopsy on Hank Gathers, the Loyola Marymount basketball star who collapsed and died, found no trace of heart medication. Page B9. Judge Medina Dies at 102 Harold R. Medina, the Federal judge who gained fame for his handling of the trial of 11 Communists in the 1940's, died in New Jersey.
LEAD: Because of the St. Patrick's Day Parade tomorrow, a number of streets in Manhattan will be closed. The parade begins at 11:30 A.M. at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue and heads north to 86th Street. Streets will close at 10:30 A.M. and reopen around 2:30 P.M.
LEAD: Robert Shaffer first thought the strange white cloud might be fog. Then the ground shook. The air exploded. Flames flashed. A few hours later, after the fires died and the smoke cleared, eight homes in this rural hamlet, 40 miles southwest of Albany, lay charred and in rubble.
LEAD: A closely watched proxy fight, the first of several battles for corporate control expected this year, ended yesterday when shareholders of the Xtra Corporation ousted its management.