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LEAD: HETEROSEXUAL transmission of AIDS continues to advance slowly in the United States as a whole, but in some inner cities the virus is beginning to move morerapidly through heterosexual intercourse.
LEAD: A ninth-century illuminated and illustrated manuscript of the Four Gospels in a jewel-encrusted gold-and-silver binding, which disappeared from a mine shaft in American-occupied Germany shortly after the Nazi collapse in 1945, will be returned today to West Germany.
LEAD: The General Motors Corporation said yesterday that it had made a long-term commitment to the National Broadcasting Company for television advertising in prime time, during National Football League games and on NBC cable ventures, including CNBC and Sports Channel America.
LEAD: Stephen L. D'Andrilli says he is no different from a real-estate agent, an accountant, an auto mechanic or a dentist: for a fee, he provides a service. The fee is $2,500. The service is brokering pistol permits for scared New Yorkers.
LEAD: The savings rate of Americans rose to 5.8 percent of their disposable income in March as consumer spending failed to match an increase in personal incomes, the Commerce Department reported today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 25, 1990, covering May 1, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
1990Scooter Gennett, American baseball player[†]
Ryan Joseph "Scooter" Gennett is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, and San Francisco Giants. On June 6, 2017, he became the 17th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a single game.
1990Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress[†]
Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress and singer. She is known for her role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club, although her breakthrough film role came in Tomorrow, When the War Began, a 2010 film adaptation of the teen novel of the same name in which she played lead protagonist Ellie Linton. She also played Lady Kenna in the CW series Reign from 2013 to 2015 and had a recurring role in the ABC2 series Please Like Me from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, Stasey starred as Ada on the Fox television drama APB, which was cancelled after one season in May 2017. In 2020, she starred in the short film Laura Hasn't Slept and had a brief role as the same character in the feature film version Smile (2022).
1990Sergio Franchi, Italian-American tenor and actor (born 1926)[†]
Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA Victor signed him to a seven-year contract and in October of that year Franchi appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]