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LEAD: The special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee has recommended that the panel clear two of the five Senators under investigation for their links to the savings and loan debacle, Congressional officials said today.
LEAD: A promise to increase assistance to children in poor countries was made by the World Bank and other agencies as world leaders prepared for a United Nations summit meeting on the plight of children.
LEAD: On a journey to Fao, the obliterated landscape resembles nothing so much as a nightmarish vision of hell. It was here that 173,000 Iraqis and Iranians died in their recent war.
LEAD: Even if Mayor David N. Dinkins agrees next week, as expected, to hire thousands of new police officers for New York City, the process of recruiting and training them is so complex that the last of them would probably not be ready for duty on the streets for two years, with luck.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 1990, covering September 29, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
Jon Bon Jovi
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Doug Brochu, American voice actor[†]
Douglas Mark Brochu is an American actor, comedian and producer. He is best known for his role as Grady Mitchell in the Disney Channel Original Series, Sonny with a Chance (2009–2011) and So Random! (2011–2012).
1990Jordan Schroeder, American ice hockey player[†]
Jordan John Schroeder is an American professional ice hockey center who currently plays for Brynäs IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
1990Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.[†]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Episcopal Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National Cathedral or National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church. The cathedral is located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The structure is of Neo-Gothic design closely modeled on English Gothic style of the late fourteenth century. It is the second-largest church building in the United States, and the third-tallest building in Washington, D.C. The cathedral is the seat of both the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the bishop of the Diocese of Washington. Over 270,000 people visit the structure annually.
1990The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.[†]
The Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics YF-22 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The design team, with Lockheed as the prime contractor, was a finalist in the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition, and two prototypes were built for the demonstration/validation phase. The YF-22 team won the contest against the YF-23 team for full-scale development and the design was developed into the Lockheed Martin F-22. The YF-22 has a similar aerodynamic layout and configuration as the F-22, but with notable differences in the overall shaping such as the position and design of the cockpit, tail fins and wings, and in internal structural layout.
1990The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.[†]
The Tampere Hall is the largest congress centre in the Nordic countries, located in the southern edge of Sorsapuisto, in the centre of Tampere, Finland. It was inaugurated on September 29, 1990. Opposite of the Tampere Hall is the main building of the University of Tampere, and the Tampere railway station is only half a kilometre away. The seating capacity of the main auditorium is 1,756.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]