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LEAD: After hours of emotional debate over what is art and what is pornography, the House of Representatives tonight overwhelmingly approved a bill to extend the life of the National Endowment for the Arts for three years and leave judgments about obscenity to the courts.
LEAD: The Palestine Liberation Organization is straining the American-led international coalition against Iraq by pressing ahead with its own Security Council resolution condemning Israel.
LEAD: The budget impasse grew even more complex today as Congressional Democrats and Republicans pushed rival plans, and conflicting statements at the White House added to the air of confusion.
LEAD: Several thousand Orthodox Jews, enveloped in religious fervor, danced and sang holding Torah scrolls at the base of the Western Wall tonight, celebrating the end of a religious holiday as hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood guard from all sides.
LEAD: Stocks fell again yesterday, partly in reaction to a 63 percent dividend reduction by Chemical Banking, the nation's sixth-largest banking company. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day down 42.82, at 2,365.10, a 17-month low.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1990, covering October 12, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
George Michael
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Henri Lansbury, English footballer[†]
Henri George Lansbury is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Throughout his career, he played for Arsenal, where he ascended from the club's academy, in addition to spells with sides Scunthorpe United, Watford, Norwich City, Aston Villa FC, West Ham United and Nottingham Forest, Bristol City and Luton Town. He achieved consecutive promotions to the Premier League in 2010–11 with Norwich and 2011–12 with West Ham. Lansbury also played for England as a youth international.
1990Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (born 1926)[†]
Rifaat El Mahgoub was an Egyptian politician who was serving as speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt until his assassination in 1990. He was a member of the then ruling National Democratic Party.
1990Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (born 1899)[†]
Peter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence. His system of philosophy was inspired by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as his firm advocacy of antinatalism. His thoughts regarding the error of human life are presented in the essay "The Last Messiah". This essay is a shorter version of his best-known work, the philosophical treatise On the Tragic.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]