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LEAD: KENNETH Culver, M.D., and Richard Mulligan, Ph.D., both work at the vanguard of human gene therapy, the grand new scientific enterprise to treat patients afflicted with genetic diseases by inserting foreign genes into their cells.
LEAD: Robert W. Lake, a professor at Rutgers, is nationally known for conducting research surveys. ''If money were my goal, I could do focus groups for J. Walter Thompson,'' he said. ''I could do survey groups about cat food or toilet tissue and get paid tons. I could do social-impact statements for big developers.
LEAD: Lithuania's only oil refinery shut down tonight, its reserves exhausted by a five-day fuel embargo imposed by the Kremlin in the hope of weakening the republic's spirit of independence.
LEAD: With her dark eyes darting around a Brooklyn courtroom, Gina Feliciano told her story yesterday.
LEAD: In a rare gesture of protest, the first black professor at the Harvard Law School said today that he had requested a leave of absence without pay until Harvard appoints a tenured black woman to its law faculty.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 18, 1990, covering April 24, 1990.
Bonnie Raitt
Sinead O'Connor
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
Michael Bolton
1990Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress[†]
Kim Tae-ri is a South Korean actress. She gained widespread recognition for her breakout role as Sook-hee in Park Chan-wook's critically acclaimed film The Handmaiden (2016), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and earned her multiple Best New Actress awards. She went on to star in 1987: When the Day Comes (2017), Little Forest (2018), and Space Sweepers (2021).
1990Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player[†]
Jan Veselý is a Czech professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.10 m, he can play both the power forward and center positions. He was selected sixth overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards. Veselý is a Three-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection.
1990STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.[†]
STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the tenth flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1990Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.[†]
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. At its closest point to the mainland, it is about one kilometre offshore. In 1942, the island became a sacrifice zone, and was dangerous for all mammals after military experiments with the anthrax bacterium, until it was decontaminated in 1990.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]