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LEAD: Reform Judaism voted today for the first time to admit acknowledged, sexually active homosexuals into its rabbinate.
LEAD: STRAIGHT from the horse's mouth, archeologists have learned that humans probably became equestrians at least 6,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. The finding could mean that horseback riding, not the invention of the wheel as most scholars have thought, was the first significant innovation in human land transport.
LEAD: Garrit and Lelia Lydecker tried everything to stop their bright 17-year-old Rachel from marrying so young, but the high school junior would not bend and on Dec. 30, 1988, before a town justice, Rachel wed Rick Quick, 19, a hospital van driver.
LEAD: John Cocke does not fit the stereotype of an I.B.M. scientist. Over the last 35 years, he has articulated his ideas on computer design far more often on bar napkins in the wee hours than in articles for scientific journals. He is a man so consumed by his work that he sometimes leaves unlaundered shirts stuffed in his filing cabinet, and a team cleaning his office once found $4,000 worth of his stock certificates in the trash can.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 1990, covering June 26, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
Sinead O'Connor
Soundtrack
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner[†]
Belaynesh Oljira Jemama is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes mainly in 10K and half marathon races. She represented her country at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2013 World Championships and the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2011 and 2013.
1990Iman Shumpert, American basketball player[†]
Iman Asante Shumpert is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Shumpert was selected by the New York Knicks with the 17th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. He was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015 and won an NBA championship with them in 2016. Shumpert also had stints with the Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets and Brooklyn Nets.
1990Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer[†]
Igor Subbotin is an Estonian international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Estonian Esiliiga club Nõmme Kalju U21.
1990Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (born 1909)[†]
Anni Viktoria Blomqvist, née Karlsson, was a Finland-Swedish novelist.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]