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1990 is a common year
starting on Monday (click link for calendar).
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 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, Jr. 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
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 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-September
October
- 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.
- 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
December
Year in topic
Births
Deaths
January-March
- 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
- January 26 - Lewis
Mumford, philosopher, writer
- January 26 - Higashikuni Naruhiko, Japanese prime minister
- 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 22 - Gerald Bull,
engineer
- March 24 - An Wang, computer pioneer
- March 26 - Halston, fashion
designer
April-December
- 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
- July 7 - Bill Cullen, game show host
- July 29 - Bruno Kreisky,
Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
- August 25 - Morley
Callaghan, Canadian writer
- August 27 - Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan, Blues guitarist
- October 13 - Le Duc Tho,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1911)
- October 14 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor
- October 16 - Art Blakey,
jazz drummer
- October 23 - Louis
Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
- October 27 - Elliott Roosevelt, author,
personality
- December 2 -- Aaron
Copland, American composer
- December 14 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer
- December 31 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut
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