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LEAD: Six times in the last month, the eastbound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge were closed for a full night, stranding thousands of unwitting commuters in snarled, honking processions along other escape routes from lower Manhattan.
LEAD: Because of the Madison Avenue Street Fair, Madison Avenue will be closed on Sunday from 37th to 50th Streets from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.
LEAD: Allianz A.G., Europe's largest insurance company, announced yesterday that it would buy the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the American property and casualty insurer, for $3.3 billion in cash.
LEAD: Six months after taking office with a mandate from the Mayor to ''take back our streets and our parks, by night as well as by day,'' Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown, while well regarded, has yet to show that he can make a difference.
LEAD: R. H. Macy & Company, in a move dors about the retailer's financial strength, said yesterday that it had sold a 1 percent stake in the company for a price that values its equity at $1.5 billion - about four times what investors paid when the company was taken private four years ago.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 1990, covering August 3, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
1990Jourdan Dunn, English model[†]
Jourdan Sherise Dunn is a British model. She was discovered in Hammersmith Primark in 2006 and signed to The Squad Management in London. She began appearing on international runways in early 2007. In February 2008, she was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade.
1990Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer[†]
Kang Min-kyung is a South Korean singer and actress. She is one half of the duo Davichi, who rose to fame upon the release of their debut album Amaranth in 2008. Davichi has since released 3 studio albums, 6 extended plays and several hit songs such as "Don't Say Goodbye", "Turtle", "Missing You Today" and "8282". Kang has also pursued acting, appearing in television dramas such as Smile, Mom (2010), Vampire Idol (2011), Haeundae Lovers (2012) and family drama The Dearest Lady (2015). On February 27, 2019, she debuted as a solo artist with her first extended play Kang Min Kyung Vol. 1.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]