On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: While gentrification has brought changes to the Park Slope section of Brooklyn over the last decade, the transformation has involved mostly restoring and modernizing the neighborhood's picturesque rowhouses and stately mansions.
LEAD: As Egyptian and Moroccan troops began landing in Saudi Arabia to guard against the threat of an Iraqi invasion, President Bush made it plain today that it would please him if President Saddam Hussein of Iraq were to be overthrown.
LEAD: The nation, it seems fair to say, has never been in quite the same kind of economic bind it is in now.
LEAD: Some 50 million Americans share a belief that these are the last days. They are fundamentalist Christians, men and women who consider themselves ''reborn'' and who read the Bible as inerrant truth. They also, it turns out, read many other books, both fiction and nonfiction - so much so that one of publishing's fastest-growing markets is religious books, from the melodramatic visions of Hal Lindsey to the elegant apologia of C.
LEAD: Fifteen million men, women and children are biding their time outside their countries, often in great deprivation, internationally recognized as refugees.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 1990, covering August 12, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
1990Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer[†]
Mario Balotelli Barwuah is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Genoa.
1990Marvin Zeegelaar, Dutch footballer[†]
Marvin Romeo Kwasie Zeegelaar is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a left midfielder.
1990Martin Zurawsky, German footballer[†]
Martin Zurawsky is a German footballer who plays for NOFV-Oberliga Süd club VfB Krieschow.
1990Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (born 1903)[†]
Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.
1990Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.[†]
Sue, officially designated FMNH PR 2081, is one of the largest, most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]