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1990 (''' MCMXC ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday of the Gregorian Calendar .
Events
January
- January 3 - Former leader of Panama , Manuel Noriega , surrenders to American forces.
- January 4 - Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in Ghotki , Pakistan .
- 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 - 200,000 demonstrate in favor of Lithuania n 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 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 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK airport officials.
- January 25 - January 26 - Burns' Day Storm rages over northwestern Europe - 97 dead
- January 27 - City of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR declares brief Independence
- January 28 - The San Francisco 49ers trounce the Denver Broncos , 55-10, in Super Bowl XXIV .
- 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 in Moscow , USSR opens.
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 6 - An SR-71 sets a US transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
- 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 declares independence from the Soviet Union
- March 11 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chile an president since 1970
- is 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 from $100 to $300 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 2006 ) 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 Africa n rule Namibia becomes independent
- March 23 - Gerald Bull assassinated in Brussels
- March 24 - The government of Australia n prime minister Bob Hawke is Re-elected for a 4th term.
- March 25 - In New York City , a fire due to arson at an illegal Social Club called " Happy Land " kills 87
- begins broadcasting TV Martí 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 - A massive anti- Poll Tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square , London , turns into a riot. 471 people are injured, with 341 arrested. The incident is subsequently known as "The Second Battle of Trafalgar".
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
- October 3 - German Re-unification , East Germany becomes part of the Federal Republic Of Germany and in consequence part of the '' European Community '' (EC), which later became the European Union .
- 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
- , Israel i police kill 17 Palestinian s and wound over 100 near the Dome Of The Rock mosque on the Temple Mount
- 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 reform his nation.
- October 25 - Evander Holyfield defeats James 'Buster' Douglas , for the Heavyweight Boxing crown.
- October 27 - Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan chooses 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
December
Births
January
February
March
April
May
July
August
October
November
December
Deaths
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Nobel Prize
Fields Medalists
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
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 Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and those for the new Regime .
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