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LEAD: The National Institutes of Health will open a full-scale investigation of possible misconduct in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Gallo, one of America's most prominent AIDS researchers, Federal officials said today.
LEAD: A Cincinnati jury today acquitted the Contemporary Arts Center here and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe last spring.
LEAD: Congress approved stopgap spending legislation last night to buy time to repair the wreckage left when the House rejected the budget compromise. But the White House said President Bush, in an attempt to force Congress to pass a budget, would not sign the stopgap bill.
LEAD: The House of Representatives passed a major crime bill today after approving an amendment that would permit prisoners under death sentences to seek reversal of their sentences if they could produce evidence suggesting a pattern of racial discrimination in prior state cases.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 1990, covering October 6, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
Jon Bon Jovi
George Michael
1990Quincy Acy, American basketball player and coach[†]
Quincy Jyrome Acy is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Wichita State Shockers of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). He played college basketball for the Baylor Bears. Acy played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Toronto Raptors, Sacramento Kings, New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks, Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns. He also played in the NBA Development League and overseas in China, Israel and Greece.
1990Scarlett Byrne, English actress[†]
Scarlett Hannah Hefner is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Slytherin student Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter series, and as Nora Hildegard in The Vampire Diaries.
1990Jordan Hamilton, American basketball player[†]
Jordan Christian Hamilton is an American professional basketball player for the Al-Difaa Al-Jawi of the West Asia League. He played college basketball for the University of Texas.
1990Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Marcus Lars Johansson is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League. He was selected by the Washington Capitals in the first round, 24th overall, of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
1990Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Nazem Kadri is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kadri won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022, becoming the first Muslim player to hoist the trophy.
1990Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress[†]
Han Sun-hwa, also known mononymously as Sunhwa, is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Secret. She made her television debut in 2004 while participating in SBS' Superstar Survival as a finalist, and in 2009, she was a regular cast member on a variety show called Invincible Youth. Aside from music, she also ventured into acting and made her debut in the 2010 drama, More Charming By The Day. Some of her notable works include School 2017 (2017), My Contracted Husband, Mr. Oh (2018), Work Later, Drink Now (2021–2023) and My Sweet Mobster (2024).
1990Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (born 1919)[†]
Bahriye Üçok was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved.
1990Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.[†]
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft as of December 2024. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25,000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]