On this day
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LEAD: The chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties, two men who agree on very little, have both taken up the call for free television time for candidates and the major parties.
LEAD: Giving a lift to the Bush Administration's debt policy, Venezuela and its bankers announced agreement yesterday on the basic terms of a plan for debt reduction and new loans.
LEAD: When a country has two problems, sometimes it must choose to fight only one of them.
LEAD: The trade deficit widened to $9.3 billion in January as oil imports surged to refill stocks depleted during December's record cold, the Commerce Department reported today. In December, the trade deficit totaled a revised $7.7 billion.
LEAD: A man identifying himself as the intruder who illegally penetrated part of a nationwide computer linkup said yesterday that he had done so to taunt computer security specialists who have denounced activities like his.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 1990, covering March 21, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Michael Bolton
The B-52s
1990Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer[†]
Mandy Grace Capristo, also known mononymously as Mandy, is a German singer and songwriter.
1990Ryann Krais, American runner and heptathlete[†]
Ryann Krais is an American athlete. She is a gold and bronze medalist from the 2007 World Youth Championships.
1990Darius Miller, American basketball player[†]
Darius Tiyon Miller is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats and finished his senior season by winning the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on the 2011–12 Kentucky Wildcats team.
1990Alex Nimo, Liberian-American soccer player[†]
Alexander Frank Nimo is a former soccer player. Born in Liberia, he represented the United States at youth level.
1990Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.[†]
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the northeast, approximating a quadripoint, Zimbabwe lies less than 200 metres away along the Zambezi River near Kazungula, Zambia. Namibia's capital and largest city is Windhoek.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]