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LEAD: Ten people, including a 9-year-old boy and seven teen-age girls, were wounded in the Bronx last night when a man who had apparently been arguing with his girlfriend pulled a gun and began firing, the police said.
LEAD: President Bush said for the first time today that he might agree to an increase in income tax rates for wealthy Americans as part of a budget compromise, but he later abandoned that position under strong pressure from Republican senators.
LEAD: New threats by President Saddam Hussein of Iraq toppled stocks yesterday in the wake of new fears that war in the Persian Gulf could be nearer.
LEAD: The United States, apparently trying to maintain the support of Arab countries opposed to Iraq, asked the United Nations Security Council tonight to approve a resolution condemning Israel for excessive use of force in killing at least 19 Palestinians on Monday.
LEAD: Newly uncovered evidence in the terrorist bombing of a Pan American jumbo jet in December 1988 indicates for the first time that Libyan intelligence agents may have assembled and planted the bomb that destroyed the plane, American Government investigators involved in the inquiry said this week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1990, covering October 10, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
George Michael
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Shelby Miller, American baseball player[†]
Shelby Charles Miller is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Tigers.
1990Geno Smith, American football player[†]
Eugene Cyril "Geno" Smith III is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers, leading them to multiple bowl games, breaking numerous passing records, and garnering multiple awards before being selected by the New York Jets in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft.
1990Kolten Wong, American baseball player[†]
Kolten Kaha Wong is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He made his MLB debut in 2013. Wong bats left-handed and throws right-handed.
1990Tom Murton, American penologist and activist (born 1928)[†]
Thomas O. Murton was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas. In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker.
1990Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and academic (born 1909)[†]
Nikolaos Pavlopoulos was a Greek sculptor and writer. His education in his years in Volos, he learned himself with calligraphy, music and theatre. When he finished at the Practical Lyceum at Volos, he moved to Athens where he became a sculptor at the school where his teacher was Thomas Thomopoulos. He was an academic wood and marble sculptor. Works that had presented in Greece and around the world. He was awarded at international event which happened in Paris, Rome, Florence, etc. After his death, the "Sculptor Nicolas Public Museum" is named after himself which features some of his great works.
1990Dorothy Stanley, American educator (born 1924)[†]
Dorothy Amora Stanley was an American educator, consultant, Miwok activist, and politician. Trained in Northern Miwok culture during her youth, she became involved in Native American affairs – particularly the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians – after her fourth marriage. An advocate for Native American interests, she served as vice-chair of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Central California Agency's advisory board and as chair of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Council in 1980. She was also an educator and demonstrator on Miwok culture, including basket-weaving, as well as an archaeological and academic consultant.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]