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1990 is a
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See also:
1990_in_aviation
1990_in_film
1990_in_literature
1990_in_music
1990_in_sports
1990_in_television
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
F.W._de_Klerk allows the African_National_Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson_Mandela free.
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
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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
and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.
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.
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.
begins broadcasting TV_Marti to Cuba
March_28 - President George_H._W._Bush presents Jesse_Owens with the Congressional_Gold_Medal.
April-September
is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal but the convictions were later reversed after an appeal.
April_12 - Christian_Bernard, F.R.C., becomes Imperator of AMORC
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
invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf_War
orders a global trade_embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
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.
, 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.
, 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.
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