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LEAD: Rosemary Baker hummed to herself on the No. 5 train to the Bronx on her way to work at a construction site. She shrugged off fears of crime, even after the rash of violence in recent weeks that has left four children dead.
LEAD: For more than a decade, Room 325 has been a backwater of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry: two cluttered rows of battered gray desks where bureaucrats watched over oil stockpiles while others fought trade wars or built new industries in electronics or aerospace.
LEAD: If President Bush had been listening, he might have been reassured by the talk the last couple of mornings around the tables at Bert & Ernie's Restaurant in Plattsburg, a town of 2,100 people in western Missouri farm country, where patrons begin filtering in at the first daylight.
LEAD: The most serious charges filed against a 33-year-old messenger who the police identified as the so-called Dart Man were reduced to misdemeanors yesterday by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
LEAD: The price of oil dropped more than $2 a barrel yesterday, and the price of gasoline fell more than 6 cents a gallon, following reports that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would increase their production to mitigate a feared oil shortage.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 1990, covering August 9, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
1990Ä°shak DoÄan, Turkish footballer[â ]
Ä°shak DoÄan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left back for German club TSG Sprockhövel.
1990Sarah McBride, American LGBT activist[â ]
Sarah Elizabeth McBride is an American activist and politician who is the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Delaware Senate from January 2021 to January 2025, representing the state's 1st senate district. Prior, she was the national press secretary of the Human Rights Campaign from 2016 to 2021. McBride is the nation's highest ranking openly transgender elected official and the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress.
1990Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player[â ]
Stuart McInally is a retired Scottish professional rugby union player who played as a hooker most notably for United Rugby Championship club Edinburgh and the Scotland national team.
1990Brice Roger, French skier[â ]
Brice Roger is a World Cup alpine ski racer from France. From Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie, he specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. He made his World Cup debut at age twenty in January 2011.
1990D'Arcy Short, Australian cricketer[â ]
D'Arcy John Matthew Short is an Australian international cricketer, who plays One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Australian national team. At the domestic level, he plays for Western Australia and the Adelaide Strikers. He made his international debut for Australia in February 2018.
1990Bill SkarsgĂ„rd, Swedish actor[â ]
Bill Istvan GĂŒnther SkarsgĂ„rd is a Swedish actor. He is known for portraying Pennywise in the horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019). Other horror appearances were in the series Hemlock Grove (2013â2015) and Castle Rock (2018â2019) and the films Barbarian (2022) and Nosferatu (2024).
1990Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (born 1914)[â ]
Joseph Mercer was an English footballer and manager. Mercer, who played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal in his footballing career, also went on to manage Aston Villa and Manchester City, and was the caretaker manager of the England national football team.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[â ]