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LEAD: Barbara Bush today gently confronted seniors at Wellesley College who had protested her choice as their commencement speaker, telling them that husbands and children are ultimately more important than careers.
LEAD: President Bush and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today consolidated the gains of their new relationship by signing the broadest Soviet-American understandings in two decades, including commitments to cut stockpiles of long-range nuclear arms and to eliminate most of their chemical weapons.
LEAD: Two judges in New York reopened the bankruptcy proceeding of the Manville Corporation yesterday by ordering a bankruptcy judge to overhaul drastically the procedures for compensating tens of thousands of victims of asbestos.
LEAD: The South African Government introduced legislation to do away with the law that provides for segregated public amenities, from libraries to toilets. Page 3.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 30, 1990, covering June 2, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Heart
Soundtrack
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Dane Rampe, Australian rules footballer[†]
Dane Rampe is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously served as co-captain of the Swans from 2019 until the end of the 2023 season.
1990Rex Harrison, English actor (born 1908)[†]
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He returned to Broadway portraying Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956) where he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
1990The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.[†]
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago in the northeast.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]