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LEAD: The American Bar Association has given Judge David H. Souter its highest possible rating in evaluating his fitness to be a Supreme Court Justice, officials of the group said today.
LEAD: New York City officials said yesterday that the Census Bureau may have missed 200,000 housing units in its count of the city for the 1990 census.
LEAD: In a sweeping directive apparently intended to mobilize Saudi society for possible war with Iraq, King Fahd has ordered the expansion of the armed forces and has called for wider participation of women in the labor force.
LEAD: Oil prices jumped 6.6 percent in New York yesterday, but traders cited no compelling reason, except an attitude of general pessimism about the Persian Gulf, and Monday's price rise in London when the New York market was closed for Labor Day.
LEAD: Most of the world's airlines will seek to increase fares on international routes by about 7 percent to 8 percent by Oct. 1 to help cope with the rapid rise in fuel costs in the wake of the Persian Gulf crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1990, covering September 5, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Poison
1990Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer[†]
Antonio Esposito is an Italian footballer who plays for Lupa Roma as a midfielder or defender.
1990Francesca Segarelli, Dominican tennis player[†]
Francesca Segarelli is a Dominican former professional tennis player.
1990Lance Stephenson, American basketball player[†]
Lance Stephenson Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He attended Lincoln High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, where he was named Mr. New York Basketball after his senior year and appeared in the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game. He later played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. He is widely known for his wily and unique playstyle, which includes flashy passing, quick drives to the rim, and humorous celebrations.
1990Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater[†]
Yuna Kim, also credited in eastern name order as Kim Yuna or Kim Yeon-a, is a South Korean figure skater. Known for her well-rounded skills, achievements, popularity, and impact on the sport, she is one of the most highly recognized athletes in South Korea and regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history, being commonly referred to as "Queen Yuna". Kim started skating at five years old and competed in women's singles from 2001 to 2014. She is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World champion the 2009 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 2006 World Junior champion, the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time South Korean national champion.
1990Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer[†]
Franco Zuculini is an Argentine footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
1990Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907)[†]
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was an English colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last governor of British Cyprus.
1990Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903)[†]
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.
1990Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896)[†]
Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
1990Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.[†]
The Sri Lankan civil war was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island, due to the continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lanka government.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]