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LEAD: Armed with new information about the viewing and listening habits of children, the Federal Communications Commission made a new effort today to impose a complete ban on what it considers indecent radio and television broadcasts.
LEAD: The story is familiar: An American company develops and dominates a consumer electronics market, only to lose it to lower-cost competitors from East Asia. It happened with color television sets, calculators, digital watches and computer games, among many other products.
LEAD: It took 10 days for Mikhail S. Gorbachev to secure his triumph over the Communist Party, and less than a minute tonight to cast doubt on the value of his victory.
LEAD: In a move that would sharply expand both its local telephone operations and its fast-growing cellular telephone business, the GTE Corporation said yesterday that it had reached a preliminary agreement with the Contel Corporation to acquire the Atlanta-based company in a stock swap. The deal would be worth about $6 billion, based on yesterday's closing stock prices.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 11, 1990, covering July 13, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Wilson Phillips
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Kieran Foran is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth or halfback for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1990Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer[†]
Eduardo Antonio Salvio is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Lanús.
1990Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.[†]
The Lenin Peak disaster occurred on 13 July 1990 when 43 climbers were killed during an avalanche on the 7,134-meter-high mountain peak in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The deadly avalanche was triggered by a moment magnitude scale 6.4 earthquake which struck at a depth of 216.8 km beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in neighbouring Afghanistan. The incident is believed to be the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]