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1990




Events

   * 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
     independece.
   * January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American
     governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
   * 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.
   * January 18 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug
     possession in an FBI sting.
   * January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988
     Internet worm.
   * 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 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.
   * February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster prison,
     near Cape Town, South Africa
   * February 13 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a
     two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
   * 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 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 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.
   * 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 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 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 28 - President George H. W. Bush presents Jesse Owens with the
     Congressional Gold Medal.
   * 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 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space
     Telescope into orbit.
   * May 15 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a
     record $82.5 million.
   * May 20 - The first post- Communist presidential and parliamentary
     elections are held in Romania.
   * May 22 - Yemen is unified.
   * May 22 - Windows 3.0 is released by MicroSoft
   * July 16 - In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the
     Richter Scale kills over 1600.
   * July 28 - Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru
   * August 2 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the
     Gulf War
   * August 6 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a
     global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of
     Kuwait.
   * October 3 - German reunification, East Germany became part of Germany
   * October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days,
     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.
   * November 1 Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to
     become the first woman President of Ireland
   * November 11 - The U.N. Security Council passes resolution 678, giving
     Iraq until January 15, 1991 to withdrawal its forces from Kuwait.
   * November 21 - The Super Famicom is released in Japan
   * November 22 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the
     United Kingdom.
   * Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending three
     decades of military rule
   * December 31 - Russian Gary Kasparov holds his title by winning the
     World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1990 in film
        o Dances With Wolves starring Kevin Costner
        o Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
        o Ghost starring Demi Moore
        o Goodfellas
   * 1990 in television
        o Legislation signed into law requiring close captioning decoders in
          all large color TVs manufactured after July 1, 1993

Births

   * April 15 - Emma Watson, English actress.
   * December 28 - Sarah Marple-Cantrell, American student and later suicide
     victim.

Deaths

   * January 7 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star
   * January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
   * January 19 - Herbert Wehner, German politician
   * January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
   * January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
   * February 8 - Del Shannon, entertainer (suicide)
   * February 23 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador
   * February 24 - Malcolm Forbes, publisher
   * March 13 - Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist, psychiatrist
   * March 15 - Tom Harmon, American football star, broadcaster
   * March 17 - Capucine, actress
   * March 20 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
   * March 24 - An Wang, computer pioneer
   * March 26 - Halston, fashion designer
   * April 3 - Sarah Vaughn, singer
   * April 15 - Greta Garbo, Swedish film star.
   * April 25 - Dexter Gordon, jazz musician
   * May 10 - Walker Percy, author
   * May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets
   * May 16 - Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, actor, comedian
   * May 22 - Rocky Graziano, boxer
   * June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
   * August 25 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
   * October 13 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (born 1911)
   * October 14 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor
   * October 16 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
   * October 23 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
   * December 2 -- Aaron Copland, American composer
   * December 14 - Friedrich DŸrrenmatt, writer

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
   * Chemistry - Elias James Corey
   * Medicine - Joseph E Murray, E Donnall Thomas
   * Literature - Octavio Paz
   * Peace - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (?????? ????????)
   * Economics - Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, William Sharpe

Holidays

   * January 1 - New Year's Day
   * January 15 - Martin Luther King Junior Day
   * February 2 - Groundhog Day
   * February 14 - Valentine's Day
   * February 19 - Presidents' Day
   * March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day
   * April 13 - Good Friday
   * April 15 - Easter
   * May 13 - Mother's Day
   * May 28 - Memorial Day
   * June 14 - Flag Day
   * June 17 - Father's Day
   * July 4 - Independence Day USA
   * September 3 - Labor Day
   * October 8 - Columbus Day
   * October 31 - Halloween
   * November 11 - Veteran's Day
   * November 22 - Thanksgiving
   * December 12 - Hanukkah
   * December 25 - Christmas
   * December 31 - New Year's Eve

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