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LEAD: Michele G. and Nancy S., a lesbian couple, had lived together for 11 years when they decided to rear children. Ms. G. found a sperm donor, took part in the artificial insemination of Ms. S. and was present in June 1980 at the delivery of a baby girl. On the child's birth certificate, Ms. S. was listed under ''mother,'' Ms.
LEAD: The conservative pillar of the Politburo, Yegor K. Ligachev, roused delegates to the nationwide congress of the Communist Party today by deploring the five years of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's rule as a period of wavering and ''blind radicalism.''
LEAD: Because of holiday production requirements, The Times is printed today in two sections. The Living Section begins on page 37 and Business Day on page 43.
LEAD: The Energy Department today raised by 50 percent its estimate of the cost of cleaning up radioactive and toxic wastes at nuclear weapon production sites around the country over the next five years.
LEAD: Dr. Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, elected yesterday as the new president of the New York City Board of Education, is an ardent champion of multicultural education, the idea that children can be taught to appreciate and respect the human coat of many colors. It is a subject that was bred in the bone.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 1990, covering July 4, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
Sinead O'Connor
1990Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player[†]
Jake William Gardiner is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 17th overall by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
1990Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer[†]
Richard Mpong is a Ghanaian professional footballer who currently plays as a winger, for Elmina Sharks and the Ghana national football team.
1990Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer[†]
Naoki Yamada is a Japanese footballer who plays for J3 League club FC Gifu.
1990Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer[†]
Ihar Syarheyevich Yasinski is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays for Bumprom Gomel.
1990Olive Ann Burns, American journalist and author (born 1924)[†]
Olive Ann Burns was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]