On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: America's private golf clubs, stubbornly resistant to change and isolated from social turmoil, are facing the most rigorous scrutiny in their history because of restrictive admission policies.
LEAD: When the Berlin wall fell last year, South Koreans sat transfixed, their eyes on Europe but their minds on their own border of barbed wire, mines and tank traps, and they glumly concluded that it could never happen here. Now no one is quite so sure.
LEAD: After weeks of deliberation, Gov. Buddy Roemer today vetoed legislation that would have severely restricted abortions in Louisiana, and angry legislators threatened to return to the capital and resurrect an even stricter abortion bill.
LEAD: The New York State Board of Regents today dismissed all charges of misconduct against Dr. Elliot M. Gross, the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, ending a five-year state investigation.
LEAD: The McMartin preschool child molesting case came to a conclusion today when a jury said it was ''hopelessly and irreversibly'' deadlocked in Raymond Buckey's retrial on charges of molesting three girls at the school. The judge declared a mistrial.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 1990, covering July 28, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
New Kids on the Block
Wilson Phillips
Soundtrack
1990Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor[†]
DeAndre Cortez Way, known professionally as Soulja Boy, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to prominence with his self-released 2007 debut single, "Crank That ", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 for seven non-consecutive weeks. After its commercial re-release by Collipark Music, an imprint of Interscope Records, the song and its follow-up, "Soulja Girl", both preceded the release of his debut studio album, Souljaboytellem.com (2007). Despite unfavorable critical reception, it peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and spawned the single "Yahhh!".
1990Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer[†]
Simone Pizzuti is an Italian footballer who plays for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Lecco.
1990Jill Esmond, English actress (born 1908)[†]
Jill Esmond Moore was an English stage and screen actress.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]