On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 1990, covering May 12, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Janet Jackson
Heart
Michael Bolton
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
Depeche Mode
Lisa Stansfield
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Florent Amodio, French figure skater[†]
Florent Amodio is a French figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 2011 European champion, a four-time French national champion, and the 2008 JGP Final champion. He has represented France at two Winter Olympics.
1990Etika, American YouTuber and live streamer (died 2019)[†]
Desmond Daniel Amofah, known online as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer. Amofah became known online for his enthusiastic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers and Nintendo Direct presentations and for playing and reacting to various games. He resided in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, and his father is the Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah.
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LEAD: In a rare live television speech from a packed City Council chamber last night, Mayor David N. Dinkins appealed to New Yorkers for racial unity and said he would do ''whatever is necessary'' to maintain public order and safety.
LEAD: Trying to quell the storm caused by the remarks of his chief of staff, President Bush insisted today that he was willing to discuss everything, including taxes, in the upcoming budget negotiations.
LEAD: The Procter & Gamble Company, the nation's largest television advertiser of packaged goods, has pulled its advertising from a Boston television station because it broadcast commercials saying that buying the company's Folgers coffee helps bring ''misery, destruction and death'' in El Salvador.
LEAD: Responding to instructions from Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, the military services have prepared new long-term spending plans that call for a major contraction of the armed forces by the end of the decade.
LEAD: The feud that has raged for years between Dave Winfield and his boss, George Steinbrenner, rose to a new and even more bizarre level today when the Yankees announced they had traded the 38-year-old outfielder to the California Angels. Winfield, citing the basic labor agreement between major league baseball's players and owners, refused to accept the trade, leaving the status of the deal unclear.
LEAD: The second highest official at the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Donald B. Ayer, abruptly announced his resignation today, two weeks after he was forced to withdraw a letter of support for stringent sentencing guidelines for corporations convicted of crimes.
LEAD: In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state's courts.
LEAD: The wintertime jump in the nation's inflation rate appears to be wearing off, and inflation seems to be settling back to the moderate level that has prevailed over the last two years, a Government report indicated yesterday.
LEAD: All week long, the Government and the Roman Catholic faithful of southeastern Mexico prepared for the arrival of Pope John Paul II today. But at the Complete Evangelical Church of God here, the visit was greeted with an indifference bordering on hostility.
LEAD: ''We will never allow any group or any person to turn to violence or the threat of violence to intimidate others, no matter how legitimate their anger or frustration may be.'' - Mayor David N. Dinkins. [1:1]
LEAD: International 2-7 Two Jewish cemeteries in France have been found desecrated by vandals, bringing ominous warnings from French political and religious leaders that a racist mood is spreading across the country. Page 3 The father of the Prague Spring, Alexander Dubcek, came to Washington - not as the leader of a free Czechoslovakia, but to remind Americans that Slovaks as well as Czechs carried out the revolution of 1989.