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LEAD: The talks never moved much beyond the exploratory stage, but Tom Seaver said his brush with the vacancy in the Yankee front office last month left him both intrigued and interested. If another team calls, he will listen.
LEAD: The landmarks preservation movement has profound implications for the maintenance of schools, churches and synagogues, libraries, fire houses, post offices, streets and roadways. It also bears a relation to environmental protection generally. So it seems appropriate that the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation has organized a forum on Sept.
LEAD: The Youth Service Opportunities Project has been encouraging high school and college students to volunteer at soup kitchens and drop-in centers for the homeless since 1983.
LEAD: There were debuts both smashing and encouraging and debacles both achingly endured and narrowly averted. There were innings of inspiration and innings of anxiety, all of which added up to a game of profound importance and satisfaction for the Mets yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 1990, covering September 2, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
Mariah Carey
Anita Baker
1990Marcus Ericsson, Swedish race car driver[†]
Marcus Thorbjörn Ericsson is a Swedish racing driver, who competes in the IndyCar Series for Andretti. Ericsson competed in Formula One from 2014 to 2018. In American open-wheel racing, Ericsson won the Indianapolis 500 in 2022 with Chip Ganassi Racing.
1990Shayla Worley, American gymnast[†]
Shayla Worley is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold-medal-winning American team at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She trained for most of her athletic career at Orlando Metro Gymnastics, where she was coached by Jeff Wood and Christi Barineau. From 2009 to 2013, she competed at the University of Georgia, the 10-time NCAA champion in gymnastics.
1990Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (born 1937)[†]
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the age of 53.
1990Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.[†]
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldova–Ukraine border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. Transnistria is officially designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester or as Stînga Nistrului.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]