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1990

1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

1990 in video gaming

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 against 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:
  • * Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
  • * Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
  • 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.
  • * 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

  • February 2 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
  • February 7 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power
  • February 10 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.
  • February 11
  • * James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win world heavyweight boxing crown.
  • * Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster prison, near Cape Town, South Africa
  • February 12 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released on the Nintendo Entertainment System console and sold over 6 million copies worldwide. It is known as the best selling video game in history.
  • February 13 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany
  • February 15 - The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic links after 8 years. The UK had broken off links in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory
  • February 26 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections
  • February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.

    March

  • March 1
  • * A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo kills 16.
  • * Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the EFF.
  • * 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
  • * 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 declares independence from the Soviet Union
  • * 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
  • * Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union
  • * 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
  • * 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
  • * A massive poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London turns into a riot. 417 people injured, 341 arrested
  • March 24- The government of Australian prime minister Bob Hawke is re-elected for a 4th term.
  • 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.
  • March 31 - London anti-Poll Tax Riots in Trafalgar Square. Incident subsequently known as "The Second Battle of Trafalgar"

    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
  • * Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire enroute from Norway to Denmark - 158 dead
  • 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
  • * 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.
  • 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.
  • * Windows 3.0 is released by Microsoft
  • 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.
  • * West Germany defeats Argentina to win the Football World Cup 1990
  • 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

  • August 2 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
  • August 3 - The highest temperature ever recorded in UK - 37.1 °C at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire
  • August 6 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
  • August 19 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  • August 27- Music legend Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash along with 4 others
  • September 11 - President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
  • September 12 - The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

    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 13 - Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
  • 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 - Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan choses Askar Akayev as republic's first president
  • 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 1 - The Australian domestic avation market is de-regulated
  • November 5 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

    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.
  • New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published in the United States.
  • Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
  • First Anglican female priests in the United Kingdom are ordained at St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • Robert Runcie announces resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury. George Carey succeeds him.
  • Homosexual Acts between Consenting adults decriminalized in Queensland


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