Historical Events in 1990

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• Jan 1 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st African American mayor of New York City
• Jan 1 Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ

• Jan 1 NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
• Jan 1 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
• Jan 1 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
• Jan 1 76th Rose Bowl: #12 Southern California beats #3 Michigan, 17-10
• Jan 1 56th Sugar Bowl: #2 Miami beats #7 Alabama, 33-25
• Jan 1 19th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Florida State beats #6 Nebraska, 41-17
• Jan 1 56th Orange Bowl: #4 Notre Dame beats #1 Colorado, 21-6

• Jan 2 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

• Jan 4 307 dead and 700 injured after overloaded passenger train collides with empty freight train in Pakistan
• Jan 5 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
• Jan 6 NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)


• Jan 7 Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64
• Jan 7 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
• Jan 9 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
• Jan 9 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78

• Jan 9 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
• Jan 10 "Les Miserables" opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore

• Jan 10 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
• Jan 11 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
• Jan 11 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
• Jan 11 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)

• Jan 12 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
• Jan 13 1st elected African American Governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
• Jan 14 11th ACE Cable Awards: CNN wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the events in Beijing, China
• Jan 14 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf

• Jan 14 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: San Francisco 49ers beat Los Angeles Rams, 30-3

• Jan 15 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards: Santa Barbara wins
• Jan 15 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
• Jan 15 In a shrewd move, Detroit Tigers sign 1st baseman Cecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan; hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the 1990s
• Jan 15 Golden State coach Don Nelson becomes 2nd man in NBA history to appear in 1,000 games both as a player and coach (joining Lenny Wilkens) as the Warriors lose to the Indiana Pacers, 144-105
• Jan 15 In a bizarre twist in the NHL, Washington Capitals fire coach Brian Murray, who had been head coach since 1981; replace him with his brother Terry, who had been coaching in the minors
• Jan 16 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
• Jan 17 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
• Jan 17 Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
• Jan 17 The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, the Four Tops, Hank Ballard, the Platters, and The Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• Jan 18 South Africa says it is reconsidering ban on African National Congress
• Jan 18 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
• Jan 19 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
• Jan 19 Police break up protests in Johannesburg against the cricket players defying a boycott on playing in apartheid South Africa
• Jan 19 Turning point in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administrated Kashmir due to violence from Muslim militants

• Jan 20 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
• Jan 20 Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku

• Jan 21 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

• Jan 22 Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
• Jan 22 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
• Jan 22 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

• Jan 23 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores twin test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
• Jan 24 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
• Jan 24 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
• Jan 24 LAs' Pat Riley becomes the 13th and fastest coach to reach the 500-victory plateau as the Lakers down the Indiana Pacers, 120-111; Riley (500-184) surpasses Don Nelson (500-317) to reach milestone
• Jan 25 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
• Jan 25 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
• Jan 25 The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe
• Jan 25 Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Jan 26 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
• Jan 26 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking African American female in a major-league front office)

• Jan 27 6th Sundance Film Festival: "Chameleon Street" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Jan 28 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London

• Jan 28 Romanian protest against Ion Iliescu government

• Jan 29 Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

• Jan 31 1st McDonalds in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow
• Jan 31 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
• Jan 31 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ

• Feb 3 Jockey Bill Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
• Feb 4 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
• Feb 4 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
• Feb 4 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
• Feb 4 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
• Feb 4 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 27-21; MVP: Jerry Gray, LA Rams, DB

• Feb 4 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
• Feb 5 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)

• Feb 6 Groundbreaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
• Feb 6 Steve Briers of Wales recites entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds backwards!
• Feb 7 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
• Feb 7 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
• Feb 7 Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
• Feb 8 David Hares "Racing Demon" premieres in London
• Feb 8 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
• Feb 9 "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
• Feb 9 Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
• Feb 9 Spacecraft Galileo flies by Venus at an altitude of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in a gravity assist maneuver to gain speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
• Feb 9 Namibia's constitution ratified
• Feb 9 40th Berlin International Film Festival: "Music Box" and "Larks on a String" win the Golden Bear (tie)
• Feb 10 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
• Feb 10 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water

• Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

• Feb 11 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa
• Feb 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• Feb 13 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa

• Feb 13 US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify
• Feb 14 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
• Feb 14 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
• Feb 14 Space probe Voyager 1 takes a photograph of the entire solar system, the images transmitted in real-time with earth a 'pale blue dot'


• Feb 15 Baseball owners lock out players

• Feb 19 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
• Feb 19 Soyuz TM-9 lands
• Feb 21 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins

• Feb 22 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
• Feb 23 Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
• Feb 23 “Hold On” single released by En Vogue (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
• Feb 25 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• Feb 25 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
• Feb 25 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
• Feb 26 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
• Feb 26 The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
• Feb 27 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
• Feb 27 No-one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years

• Feb 27 "Hold On" single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
• Feb 28 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
• Feb 28 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
• Mar 1 Benin nullifies its constitution
• Mar 1 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
• Mar 1 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Mar 1 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132
• Mar 2 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
• Mar 3 Carole Gist (20) is the 1st African American to be crowned Miss USA in Wichita, Kansas
• Mar 4 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
• Mar 6 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
• Mar 7 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
• Mar 7 Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m


• Mar 8 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
• Mar 9 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st Hispanic and female US Surgeon General
• Mar 10 4th American Comedy Award: "When Harry Met Sally"
• Mar 10 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
• Mar 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
• Mar 10 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
• Mar 10 Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
• Mar 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
• Mar 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Mar 11 Lithuania declares its Independence
• Mar 11 37th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia, 70-61
• Mar 11 31st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
• Mar 11 11th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 78-75
• Mar 12 LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland
• Mar 13 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada

• Mar 14 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
• Mar 15 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
• Mar 17 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
• Mar 17 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
• Mar 18 Largest art robbery in US history: 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
• Mar 18 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
• Mar 18 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
• Mar 18 A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch
• Mar 18 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jodie Mudd wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Mark Calcavecchia; winner's cheque $270,000
• Mar 19 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)

• Mar 21 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 149 performances


• Mar 21 "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
• Mar 21 "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
• Mar 21 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
• Mar 22 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
• Mar 22 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
• Mar 22 The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
• Mar 23 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
• Mar 24 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
• Mar 24 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
• Mar 25 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
• Mar 25 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
• Mar 25 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

• Mar 27 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
• Mar 27 NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
• Mar 27 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
• Mar 28 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient

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