On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Benjamin Weir felt awkward in his sandals and ragged beard. David Jacobsen felt angry at his captors, at the press, at the world. Lawrence Martin Jenco just wanted to look out the window, hungry to see the earth and the sky and the trees.
LEAD: Should Darryl Strawberry have tried to dive for Ken Caminiti's looping line drive in the 10th inning? Would it have made a difference in the game between the Mets and the Astros?
LEAD: A burned car and two police vehicles, their windshields shattered and their bodies dented, are the only solid remains of the rage between feuding Mohawk factions that tore through the town of St. Regis with automatic gunfire last week.
LEAD: SINCE 1875, 1,370 thoroughbred horses have run in 115 Kentucky Derbies. Some were the greatest champions the sport has ever known. Not one of them, though, came to town with as good a record as Mister Frisky will carry onto the track this Saturday for the 116th Derby.
LEAD: Amgen Inc.'s new drug for anemia, the latest biotechnology blockbuster, might set an industry record for first-year sales. Yet Amgen is shielded from competition by a law meant to encourage development of drugs for which there is supposed to be only a small market.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 25, 1990, covering April 30, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
1990Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete[†]
Jonathan Callum Brownlee is an English professional duathlete and triathlete. He is a six-time World champion, and one-time Olympic champion in triathlon.
1990Mac DeMarco, Canadian singer-songwriter[†]
McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He has released five full-length studio albums: his debut 2 (2012), Salad Days (2014), This Old Dog (2017), Here Comes the Cowboy (2019), and Five Easy Hot Dogs (2023). He additionally released the mini-albums Rock and Roll Night Club in 2012 and Another One in 2015, as well as the compilation album One Wayne G in 2023. In addition to those albums are his singles, and all of his albums have had demo albums released after them. His style of music has been described as "blue wave" and slacker rock, or, by DeMarco himself, "jizz jazz".
1990Kaarel Kiidron, Estonian footballer[†]
Kaarel Kiidron is a retired Estonian footballer who last played in Estonia for JK Tammeka Tartu, as a defender.
1990Paula Ribó, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Paula Ribó González, is a Spanish singer, actress and playwright best known for her musical project Rigoberta Bandini, for which she writes, performs, and produces the music. Ribó's multi-departmental professional career started at age seven, when she provided the Iberian Spanish dubbing voice work for the title character of the children animated series Caillou. She continued to work as a voice actress in both Catalan and Castilian for international firms such as Universal and Disney starring in big productions such as Peter Pan and Brave, as well as in film series like The Twilight Saga or The Divergent Series and musical films such as Les Misérables, Sing and Frozen. She also has been the regular Spanish-dubbed voice of Emma Stone, Dakota Fanning and Shailene Woodley.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]