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LEAD: For the first time, researchers have shown that drug treatment can reduce paralysis and other disability in people with serious spinal cord injury.
LEAD: Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez moved yesterday to strengthen his authority over New York City's local school boards, appointing three trustees to take over the financial operations of one Brooklyn district and temporarily blocking the forced departure of the superintendent in another.
LEAD: Soviet forces took over the State Prosecutor's Office in the Lithuanian capital today and seized the printing plant where the republic's main independence newspapers are printed, Lithuanian officials said.
LEAD: The Pentagon will no longer block exports of the least powerful American mainframes, leaving control to the Commerce Department. Page 31.
LEAD: Daylight saving time resumes at 2 A.M. tomorrow. Clocks are set ahead one hour.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 28, 1990, covering March 31, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Bonnie Raitt
Michael Bolton
Phil Collins
1990George Iloka, American football player[†]
George Arinze Iloka is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boise State Broncos and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL draft.
1990Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (died 2019)[†]
Lyra Catherine McKee was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer, a news aggregator website. On 18 April 2019, McKee was fatally shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Derry.
1990Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player[†]
Sandra Roma is a former tennis player from Sweden.
1990Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.[†]
The poll tax riots were a series of riots in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge, introduced by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The largest protest occurred in central London on Saturday 31 March 1990, shortly before the tax was due to come into force in England and Wales.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]