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LEAD: In a long-awaited agreement that will keep a vital semiconductor technology under United States ownership, a California company said yesterday that it would acquire a division of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation that makes the sophisticated machines needed to develop the world's most-advanced computer chips.
LEAD: The Circle K Corporation, the troubled convenience-store chain, filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code last night.
LEAD: President Bush opened budget negotiations with Congress today by refusing a request from the Democratic Congressional leadership that he make a televised address outlining the nation's economic problems and putting forward his own remedy.
LEAD: With its ancient copper mash vats, ponderous oak barrels and age-old beer-making techniques, this city's famed Pilsner Urquell brewery long took a back seat to other enterprises as Communist central planners invested massively in favored industries like machinery and steel.
LEAD: Crowds of anti-independence protesters stormed the Parliament buildings in Latvia and neighboring Estonia today in the largest display of physical force since the Baltic republics began their formal withdrawal from the Soviet Union.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 16, 1990, covering May 16, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Heart
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
1990Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player[†]
Amanda Carreras is an inactive British tennis player from Gibraltar.
1990Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor[†]
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is an English actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005). He voiced Ferb in the first four seasons of Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015), and subsequently gained wider attention with his roles as Jake Murray in Accused (2010–2012), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013–2014) and Newt in the Maze Runner trilogy (2014–2018). Continued acclaim ensued with the independent films Nowhere Boy (2009), in which he portrayed Paul McCartney, Bright Star (2009), and Death of a Superhero (2011).
1990Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter[†]
Darko Šarović is a Serbian medical doctor, PhD in child psychiatry, Master of Science in psychology, and former professional athlete who specialised in the short sprint events, holding a national 100m record. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds both Serbian and Swedish citizenships.
1990Omar Strong, American basketball player[†]
Omar Strong Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Windsor Express of the NBL Canada. In 2012–13, he was a senior at Texas Southern University and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
1990Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (born 1925)[†]
Samuel George Davis Jr. was an American singer, actor, comedian, dancer, and musician.
1990Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (born 1936)[†]
James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating Fraggle Rock (1983–1987) and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]