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LEAD: The Nicaraguan rebels agreed today to disband their forces in Honduras by April 20, five days before the inauguration of President-elect Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua.
LEAD: For the second time in 10 years, Canada is caught in the throes of an emotional and divisive debate over its future as a united country. Once again, the issue is language. For the moment, the tone - in either French or English - is pessimistic.
LEAD: From the sidelines, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Lithuania seem to be two prideful political forces blundering toward a fateful collision.
LEAD: The Soviet Union has announced that it will severely limit flights to Israel for emigrating Soviet Jews, and Yitzhak Shamir, the interim Prime Minister, held urgent meetings to find a way to counteract the Soviet decision. The Soviet announcement said that Aeroflot would no longer issue tickets to Soviet Jews planning to emigrate to Israel by flying through Hungary, a heavily used transit point.
LEAD: The Soviet authorities sent a column of tanks and paratroopers rumbling past an all-night session of the Lithuanian Parliament early this morning, in what witnesses described as the strongest attempt yet to intimidate the republic into abandoning its declaration of independence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 1990, covering March 24, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Michael Bolton
The B-52s
1990Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor[†]
Aljur Mikael Guiang Abrenica is a Filipino actor, dancer, model and singer. He appeared on the fourth season of StarStruck.. He was the former husband of Kyline Padilla not later also separated.
1990Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress[†]
Keisha Castle-Hughes is a New Zealand actress. She made her acting debut in the drama film Whale Rider (2002), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest nominee in such category. Her subsequent films include the biblical drama film The Nativity Story (2006) and the teen film Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008).
1990Starlin Castro, American baseball player[†]
Starlin DeJesus Castro is a Dominican professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Miami Marlins and Washington Nationals. Castro is a four-time MLB All-Star and holds the record for most runs batted in in an MLB debut. In 2011, he led the National League in hits, becoming the youngest player to do so.
1990Lacey Evans, American wrestler[†]
Macey Estrella-Kadlec is an American professional wrestler and former U.S. Marine. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Lacey Evans.
1990Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer[†]
Alyssa Jean Healy is an Australian cricketer who plays for and captains the Australian women's national team. She also plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket, as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL and captains the UP Warriorz in Women's Premier League in India. She made her international debut in February 2010.
1990JonTron, American YouTuber[†]
Jonathan Aryan Jafari, better known online as JonTron, is an American YouTuber. He created the eponymous YouTube web series JonTron, where he reviews and parodies video games, films and other media.
1990Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (born 1922)[†]
Raymond Walter Goulding was an American comedian, who, together with Bob Elliott formed the comedy duo of Bob and Ray. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the fourth of five children of Thomas Goulding, an overseer in a textile mill, and his wife Mary. Upon graduation from high school at age 17, Ray Goulding was hired as a $15-a-week announcer on local station WLLH, using the name 'Dennis Howard' to avoid confusion with his older brother Phil, an announcer in Boston radio at the time. A year later Ray was hired by Boston radio station WEEI under his own name.
1990Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.[†]
The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord between India and Sri Lanka of 1987 which was intended to end the Sri Lankan civil war between separatist Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists, principally the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and the Sri Lankan Military.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]