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LEAD: Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. is expected to announce today that Jonathan S. Linen, an executive with its parent, the American Express Company, will be named to head its brokerage and asset management divisions, Wall Street executives said yesterday.
LEAD: One hundred seventy Democratic members of Congress have asked President Bush to seek $100 million in additional money for the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute fraud in the savings and loan industry.
LEAD: Moscow stores featured fresh supplies of stoicism today, with shoppers forced to brandish their domestic passports and face a ration list rapidly growing to include everything from light bulbs to socks.
LEAD: AS racial and ethnic violence erupts throughout the world, psychologists are striving to understand what impels people to acts of hatred, particularly when they act in groups.
LEAD: The New York State Republican Party suffered a serious setback today when a traditional ally, the Conservative Party, prepared to field its own candidate for governor rather than endorse the Republican leaders' choice.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 23, 1990, covering May 29, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Heart
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
1990Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher[†]
Joseph Carlo Biagini is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs. The San Francisco Giants selected Biagini in the 26th round of the 2011 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut for Toronto in 2016. Born in the United States, he represented the Italy national baseball team.
1990Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (died 2017)[†]
Erica Garner-Snipes was an American activist who advocated for police reform, particularly in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism following the 2014 killing of her father, Eric Garner, after a New York City police officer placed him in a lethal chokehold during an arrest.
1990The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.[†]
The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR and since 1992 Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation was the supreme government institution in the Russian SFSR and in the Russian Federation from 16 May 1990 to 21 September 1993. Elected on 4 March 1990 for a period of five years, it was dissolved by presidential decree during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 and ended de facto when the Russian White House was attacked on 4 October 1993. The Congress played an important role in some of the most important events in the history of Russia during this period, such as the declaration of state sovereignty of Russia within the USSR, the rise of Boris Yeltsin, and economic reforms.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]