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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Jean-Éric Vergne, French racing driver[†]
Jean-Éric Serge Raymond Vergne, also known by his initials JEV, is a French racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Peugeot and in Formula E for DS Penske. In formula racing, Vergne competed in Formula One from 2012 to 2014, and has won a record two Formula E Championship titles with Techeetah.
1990Taylor Walker, Australian footballer[†]
Taylor Walker is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with pick 75 in the 2007 national draft and captained Adelaide from 2015 to 2019.
1990Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (born 1923)[†]
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant". His studio and performance career spanned more than 40 years.
1990Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.[†]
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 55th president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously, she was a member of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1980.
LEAD: SAM ARNOLD has been known to open champagne bottles by slashing off their necks off with a tomahawk. Such Wild West tactics are fairly typical for this mild-mannered, soft-voiced historian, radio commentator, food writer and restaurateur. He runs a popular restaurant, the Fort, an adobe reconstruction of a historic
LEAD: A young black man from Bensonhurst admitted yesterday that he helped bring softball bats to where a group of white neighbors was gathering the night Yusuf K. Hawkins was killed.
LEAD: In a thunderous overture to a promised new era in astronomy, the space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit today with the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope, which scientists believe will give them a commanding view of the universe as it was, is and will be.
LEAD: The leading pro-Israeli lobby in the United States told the Israeli Government today that its covert sponsorship of a Jewish settlement in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem could seriously damage American-Israeli relations.
LEAD: In a copyright decision calling into question the legal status of hundreds of motion pictures, the Supreme Court ruled today that the current owners of Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rear Window'' had infringed the copyright of the short story on which the 1954 movie classic was based.
LEAD: Jillian Matthews swiveled in the big chair and studied the mirror. The 6-year-old was being fitted with two wigs - one straight and one curly. She pursed her lips and fussily scrutinized the curly one.
LEAD: Irene Fried graduated from Public School 94 when Fiorello La Guardia was still Mayor and the surrounding northeast Bronx neighborhood was predominantly Italian, Jewish and Irish. Today Mrs. Fried is a special-education teacher at her old school.
LEAD: After years that brought some of the sharpest economic gains since World War II, the Northeast is now trailing the rest of the nation in job growth.
LEAD: Apologizing for his crimes but defending the ''junk bond'' market he created, Michael R. Milken pleaded guilty yesterday to six felony charges of securities fraud and conspiracy. The 43-year-old financier agreed to pay $600 million in fines and penalties.
LEAD: Michael R. Milken, the dethroned king of ''junk bonds,'' admitted yesterday that he had cheated some customers, rigged the prices of some stocks and bonds, and engaged in sham transactions designed to fool Federal regulators and help a crony avoid paying taxes.
LEAD: Government reports provided fresh evidence today that the economy has successfully skirted recession but that it now confronts a problem of stepped-up inflation that may prompt the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy this spring.