1990
1990 is a common year
starting on Monday
Events
January
- January 3 - Former leader of Panama
Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
- January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apolo Milton Obote's government
dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
- January 10 - Time
Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- January 11 - Massive (200,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
- January 13 - Douglas
Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as
he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi HQ in Berlin in an attempt to view their records
- January 16 - Alternative rock band They Might Be
Giants releases their third album, Flood.
- January 18:
- January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
- January 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew
and JFK airport officials.
- January 25 - The Berlin
Wall starts to come down
- January 29 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
- January 31 - The first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia.
February
March
- March 1 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo kills 16.
- March 1 - Steve
Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service,
prompting the later formation of the EFF.
- March 1 - Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues the daily rum ration
- March 9 - Police seals off Brixton
South London after another night of protests against the poll tax
- March 9 - Dr. Antonia
Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic to serve in that position
- March 9 - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord
- March 10 - 18 months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti
- March 11 - Lithuania becomes
independent from the Soviet Union
- March 11 - Patricio
Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chilean president since
1973
- March 15 - Gulf War: Iraqis hang British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is
sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice
- March 15 - Mikhail
Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet
Union
- March 15 - The Soviet
Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid
- March 18 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen by two
thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history and the paintings (as of 2003) have not been recovered
- March 18 - East Germany
holds first free elections since 1932
- March 20 - Ferdinand
Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering
- March 21 - After 75 years of South African rule Namibia becomes
independent
- March 21 - A massive poll tax
demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London turns into a riot. 417 people injured, 341 arrested
- March 25 - In New York
City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87
- March 27 - Propaganda: The
United States begins broadcasting TV Marti to Cuba
- March 27 - Namibia becomes a state
independent of South Africa
- March 28 - President George H. W. Bush
presents Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal.
April-July
- April 7 - Iran
Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges
for his part in the scandal but the convictions were later reversed after an appeal
- April 7 - Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches
fire enroute from Norway to Denmark - 158 dead
- April 12 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., becomes Imperator of AMORC
- April 13 - Soviet Union
apologizes for the Katyn Massacre
- April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.It becomes operational
May 20
- April 24 - West and
East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1
- May 15 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
- 1990 Stanley Cup Finals start Edmonton Oilers vs. Boston Bruins
- May 19 - British agriculture Minister John Gummer feeds a hamburger to his 5-year-old daughter to counter rumours about the spread of Mad cow disease and its transmission to humans
- May 20 - The first post- Communist
presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania
- May 22 - The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as
the Republic of Yemen.
- May 22 - Windows 3.0 is
released by Microsoft
- May 25 - 1990 Stanley Cup Finals end Edmonton Oilers def Boston Bruins 4 games to 1
- Tuesday, May 29, 1990 - Rhode
Island celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- June 1 - U.S. President George Herbert
Walker Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's
stockpiles
- June 12 - The parliament of the Russian
Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day)
- June 22 - Underwater volcano Mount Didicas erupts in the Philippines
- July 2 - Stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the Mecca - 1426 pilgrims dead
- July 8 - At 12:34:56 PM the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.
- July 15 - Tamil Tigers kill
168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri
Lanka
- July 16 - In the Philippines,
an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600
- July 27 - The parliament building and a government tevelision house in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago were stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a Coup d'état attempt
which lasted five days. Approximately 26 to 30 people where killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A.N.R.
Robinson, who was shot in the leg).
- July 28 - Alberto
Fujimori becomes president of Peru
- July 30 - IRA car bomb kills British MP Ian Gow
August-September
October
- October 3 - German re-unification, East Germany became part
of Germany
- October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days
(Friday, January 3, 1840 - Friday, October 5, 1990), The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne,
Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as
The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper
The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun,
described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour
newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on the 8th.
- October 8 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem,
Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians
and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
- October 15 - Soviet
Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation
- October 27 - New
Zealand general election
returns National with record number of seats -
67; Labour 29, NewLabour 1.
November
- November 1 - Mary
Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first
woman President of Ireland.
- November 5 - Rabbi Meir
Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a
speech at a New York City hotel.
- November 11 - Gulf War: The
U.N. Security Council passes resolution 678, giving Iraq until Tuesday, January 15, 1991 to withdrawal its forces from
Kuwait
- November 12 - Crown Prince Akihito becomes the 125th Japanese monarch and takes the title Emperor Akihito of Japan
- November 12 - Tim
Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide
Web. [1] (http://www.w3.org/Proposal)
- November 13 - The first known web page is written.
- November 14 - Germany and
Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
- November 15 - Space Shuttle program: Space
Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- November 18 - Andrei Tjikatilo is arrested on
suspicion of serial murder and rape
- November 21 - The Super Famicom is released in Japan
- November 22 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- November 23 - Punk rock
band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States.
- November 25 - Lech
Walesa and Stanislaw
Tyminski win the 1st round of first presidential elections in Poland, see: December 9
- November 27 - The UK Conservative Party chooses John Major to
succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom.
- November 29 - Gulf War: The
United Nations Security Council
passes UN Security Council
Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not
withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
December
- December 1 - Channel
Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel
seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the United
Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age
- December 1 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ opens their live
concert Acoustic Christmas for the first time as the
first annual with Dramarama, The Havilinas, Chris Isaak, The Posies, Social Distortion, Soho and Trash Can Sinatras.
- December 2 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since
1932
- December 3 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers
and 4 crewmembers aboard flight 1482
- December 3 - Mary
Robinson is elected the first female President of
Ireland.
- December 6 - Saddam
Hussein releases the Western hostages
- December 9 - Slobodan Milosevic becomes President of Serbia
- December 9 - Lech Walesa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first
presidential election
- December 16 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending
three decades of military rule.
- December 31 - Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman
Anatoly Karpov.
Births
- January 7 - Liam Aiken,
child actor
- January 30 - Jake
Thomas, actor (Lizzie McGuire)
- February 13 - Erdini Qoigyijabu, eleventh reincarnation of the
Panchen Lama, according to the Chinese government
- February 28 - Anna
Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess playe
- March 16 - James Bulger,
toddler murdered in Merseyside, United Kingdom (d. 1993)
- March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
- March 28 - Daniel
Shanks, Norwegian weightlifter
- April 15 - Emma Watson,
actres (Harry Potter series)
- April 25 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, according to the Government of Tibet in Exile
- May 16 - Thomas
Sangster, actor
- July 17 - Mattie
Stepanek, young poet (d. 2004)
- July 24 - Daveigh Chase,
actress
- August 6 - JonBenét
Ramsey
- October 19 - Janet Leon,
pop singer (PLAY)
- October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, child actor
- November 30 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
- December 20 - JoJo (born Joanna
Noelle Levesque), pop singer
- December 24 - Joshua
Bryant, went missing in 2001 (presumed dead)
Deaths
Uncertain dates
For a brief while in early 1990, Romania had a civil war in the aftermath of the
Romanian Revolution of 1989, the opposition
was for Nicolae Ceausescu and the Communist regime, and those for the new regime.
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