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LEAD: The national economy has become so sluggish that 16 states, with more than a third of the nation's population, are in a recession or close to one, an analysis of employment data shows. And throughout the country, people are talking of stagnant wages, falling real estate prices, deeply indebted corporations and jobs that are getting harder to find.
LEAD: Harvey Gantt is telling the Harvey Gantt story, spinning it into a rich tapestry of the American Dream.
LEAD: Marie Blood regaled a standing-room-only crowd of several hundred here tonight with childhood reminiscences of her famous uncle, Harry Houdini, jumping off bridges, escaping from handcuffs and tickling her without using his hands.
LEAD: Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said today that the Justice Department was not convinced that Neil Bush, the President's son, had engaged in criminal actions while a director at the failed Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association in Denver.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 11, 1990, covering July 16, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Wilson Phillips
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player[â ]
Bureta Faraimo is a United States international rugby league footballer who plays on the wing for the Doncaster RLFC in the RFL League 1.
1990James Maslow, American actor, singer and dancer[â ]
James David Maslow is an American actor, singer, dancer and model. He played the role of James Diamond on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush, had roles in The Frozen Ground and Seeds of Yesterday, and is a member of the boyband Big Time Rush.
1990Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter[â ]
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, better known as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Born in the Ojuelegba suburb of Surulere, Lagos, Wizkid is a voice in the emerging Afrobeats movement. His music is a blend of Afrobeats, afropop, R&B, afrobeat, reggae, dancehall, and pop. He began recording music at the age of 11 and released a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. In 2009, Wizkid signed a record deal with Banky W's Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E). He rose to the limelight after releasing "Holla at Your Boy", the lead single from his debut studio album, Superstar (2011), which also spawned the singles "Tease Me/Bad Guys" and "Don't Dull".
1990Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer[â ]
Johann Sylvain Pierre Zarco is a French Grand Prix motorcycle racer, best known for winning the 2015 and 2016 Moto2 World Championships with his 2015 triumph being a record points total for the intermediate class. He is a MotoGP race winner, and currently rides for Castrol Honda LCR in MotoGP.
1990Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (born 1927)[â ]
Robert Blackburn was an Irish educationalist. He was an early pioneer of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and was instrumental in establishing the first United World College (UWC) in the early 1960s. In 1968, Blackburn was appointed United World College International Secretary.
1990Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1922)[â ]
Miguel Muñoz MozĂșn was a Spanish football player and manager.
1990The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.[â ]
The 1990 Luzon earthquake occurred on July 16 at 4:26Â p.m. (PDT) or 3:26Â p.m. (PST) on the densely populated island of Luzon in the Philippines. The shock had a surface-wave magnitude of 7.8 and produced a 125Â km-long ground rupture that stretched from Dingalan to Kayapa. The event was a result of strike-slip movements along the Philippine Fault and the Digdig Fault within the Philippine fault system. The earthquake's epicenter was near the town of Rizal, Nueva Ecija, northeast of Cabanatuan. An estimated 1,621 people were killed, most of the fatalities located in Central Luzon and the Cordillera region.
1990The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.[â ]
The Verkhovna Rada, officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[â ]