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LEAD: The Dow Jones industrial average scaled a new high yesterday in a move that brokers said was driven by high hopes that the President and Congress can soon come to grips with the deficit, as well as Wall Street euphoria over Friday's spectacular 63.07-point rise in the key market indicator and a big decline in interest rates.
LEAD: Diamandis Communications Inc. said yesterday that it was putting Woman's Day, its flagship publication, up for sale.
LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today officially rejected moves toward independence taken by Latvia and Estonia, saying the two Baltic republics lacked any legal basis for their attempts to leave the Soviet Union.
LEAD: Sy Jacobs, a Wall Street analyst, knew that the executives at Household International Inc. would not be pleased after he advised clients in February to sell the company's stock. What he did not expect was the silent treatment.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 1990, covering May 15, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Janet Jackson
Heart
Michael Bolton
1990Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jordan Leslie Christopher Eberle is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and captain of the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round in the 2008 NHL entry draft by the Edmonton Oilers and made his NHL debut with the Oilers in 2010.
1990Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist[†]
Lee Jong-hyun, also known by his mononym Jonghyun, is a South Korean musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He was the former lead guitarist and vocalist of South Korean rock band CNBLUE. He made his acting debut in an omnibus movie Acoustic in 2010, followed by his television debut in the Korean drama A Gentleman's Dignity in 2012. He appeared in television dramas Orange Marmalade (2015), Lingerie Girls’ Generation (2017) and Evergreen (2018).
1990Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model[†]
Stella Maynes Maxwell is a British-Irish model. She is a former Victoria's Secret Angel, and is also the face of the cosmetics brand Max Factor.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]