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LEAD: In his seven months as a supernova on the Senior PGA Tour, Lee Trevino has done everything a 50-year-old golfer can do except win one of the tour's major championships and beat Jack Nicklaus.
LEAD: Their season has been part folly and part frustration, but today the Yankees found a new low to their crazy summer.
LEAD: President Bush is proposing the withdrawal of NATO's nuclear artillery shells and other measures to build Soviet confidence in the alliance's peaceful intentions. Page A8.
LEAD: East Germans formed orderly lines across the land today to get their West German currency, irrevocably throwing in their lot with the capitalist world and turning into the home stretch toward reunification.
LEAD: After years of spending money on building and improving Long Island's roads, the State Department of Transportation has concluded that the best way to handle the traffic problems here is to also persuade people to drive less.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 1990, covering July 2, 1990.
New Kids on the Block
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
Sinead O'Connor
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Kayla Harrison, American judoka[†]
Kayla Jean Harrison is an American professional mixed martial artist and former judoka. She currently competes in the women's Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion. She is the first female fighter to win an Olympic gold medal and a UFC championship. She was a former two-time Professional Fighters League lightweight champion. As of June 10, 2025, she is #3 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings.
1990Merritt Mathias, American soccer player[†]
Merritt Elizabeth Mathias is an American former professional soccer player who most recently played as a right back for Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She has won three NWSL Shields and three NWSL Championships during her twelve seasons in the NWSL: one Championship with FC Kansas City, one Shield with Seattle Reign FC, and two doubles with the North Carolina Courage. She played extensively with the youth national team and earned one cap with the United States senior team in 2018.
1990Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player[†]
Morag McLellan is a Scottish female field hockey player who plays for the Scotland women's national field hockey team. She has represented Scotland in few international competitions including the 2013 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2010 Commonwealth Games, and 2014 Commonwealth Games.
1990Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer[†]
Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer. Her work includes both blockbuster and independent films, and her accolades include nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017, and Forbes named her the world's highest-paid actress in 2023.
1990Danny Rose, English footballer[†]
Daniel Lee Rose is an English former professional footballer who played as a left-back. With a tendency to play attacking football, Rose has been compared to Cyril Knowles, with particular focus placed on his speed, decision-making, and defensive abilities.
1990Bill Tupou, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Bill Tupou is a former Tonga international rugby league footballer who last played as a centre or on the wing for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League.
1990Snooky Lanson, American singer (born 1914)[†]
Roy Landman, better known as Snooky Lanson, was an American singer known for co-starring on the NBC TV show, Your Hit Parade.
1990In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.[†]
On 3 July 1990, 1,426 people were suffocated and trampled to death in a crowd crush or stampede event in a tunnel near Mecca during the Hajj.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]