Historical Events in 1990 (Part 2)

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• Mar 31 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV

• Mar 31 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
• Mar 31 Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws

• Apr 1 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
• Apr 1 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
• Apr 1 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn, 88-81; Cardinal point guard Jennifer Azzi MOP
• Apr 1 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
• Apr 1 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers

• Apr 2 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke, 103-73; record largest margin of victory in a championship game; Runnin' Rebels' first title
• Apr 4 "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV

• Apr 4 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody

• Apr 5 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary

• Apr 7 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
• Apr 7 Farm Aid IV concert
• Apr 7 John Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
• Apr 7 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
• Apr 7 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
• Apr 7 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
• Apr 7 144th Grand National: Marcus Armytage aboard 16/1 bet Mr Frisk wins in race record 8m 47.8s; 2 equine fatalities during the race
• Apr 8 "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
• Apr 8 "Twin Peaks" created by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan premieres on ABC-TV

• Apr 8 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
• Apr 8 Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die
• Apr 8 New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
• Apr 9 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
• Apr 9 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
• Apr 9 NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
• Apr 9 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
• Apr 10 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma, Japan
• Apr 10 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
• Apr 11 Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
• Apr 11 NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
• Apr 11 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary


• Apr 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• Apr 12 H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn't buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins
• Apr 12 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers

• Apr 12 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for the Holocaust and asks for forgiveness
• Apr 13 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
• Apr 13 Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
• Apr 13 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
• Apr 15 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
• Apr 15 Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England), combination best

• Apr 16 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
• Apr 16 94th Boston Marathon: Gelindo Bordin is first Italian event winner in race record 2:08:19; Portugal's Rosa Mota wins her 3rd woman's title in 2:25:24
• Apr 16 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
• Apr 16 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
• Apr 17 Gas explosion on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
• Apr 18 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
• Apr 18 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
• Apr 18 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
• Apr 19 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce
• Apr 19 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
• Apr 19 Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
• Apr 19 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

• Apr 20 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
• Apr 21 "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
• Apr 21 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
• Apr 21 Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
• Apr 22 "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
• Apr 22 Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
• Apr 22 NFL Draft: University of Illinois quarterback Jeff George first pick by Indianapolis Colts
• Apr 24 Brian Friel's play "Dancing at Lughnasa" premieres in Dublin (Tony Award Best Play)
• Apr 24 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
• Apr 24 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
• Apr 24 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
• Apr 24 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
• Apr 25 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: George Strait, Clint Black, and Kathy Mattea win
• Apr 25 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
• Apr 25 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6-year term as Nicaragua's president
• Apr 25 Hong Kong actress Carina Lau is abducted by Triad members
• Apr 26 "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
• Apr 26 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
• Apr 26 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
• Apr 26 NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case

• Apr 27 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
• Apr 27 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
• Apr 27 Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
• Apr 28 "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances
• Apr 28 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
• Apr 28 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
• Apr 28 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
• Apr 29 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
• Apr 29 Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
• Apr 29 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
• Apr 29 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
• Apr 30 As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
• Apr 30 Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
• Apr 30 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
• Apr 30 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
• May 1 "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
• May 2 "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 performances
• May 2 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

• May 4 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
• May 4 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
• May 4 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
• May 5 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
• May 5 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
• May 5 35th Eurovision Song Contest: Toto Cutugno for Italy wins singing "Insieme: 1992" in Zagreb

• May 8 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
• May 8 Reindependence Day of Estonia
• May 9 NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
• May 9 Sampdoria of Italy win 30th European Cup Winner's Cup against Anderlecht of Belgium 2-0 in Gothenburg
• May 9 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Boston Bruins beat Washington Capitals, 4 games to 0
• May 10 "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 45 performances
• May 10 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph

• May 11 NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
• May 12 Comic Relief USA '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million

• May 12 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
• May 13 "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 performances
• May 14 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
• May 14 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53
• May 15 "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 performances

• May 15 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
• May 15 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
• May 15 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe

• May 16 Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
• May 17 "Cheers" star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
• May 17 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
• May 17 European court rules on pension rights for men & women
• May 17 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
• May 17 World Health Organization takes homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses

• May 18 East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
• May 18 Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
• May 18 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
• May 18 TV movie "Return To Green Acres" airs

• May 19 115th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6

• May 20 "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
• May 20 Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space
• May 21 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68


• May 21 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
• May 21 43rd Cannes Film Festival: "Wild at Heart" directed by David Lynch wins the Palme d'Or
• May 22 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
• May 22 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
• May 22 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen

• May 23 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
• May 23 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
• May 23 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
• May 23 34th European Cup: Milan beats Benfica 1-0 at Vienna
• May 24 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Oilers' 5th Cup win in 7 years
• May 24 A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both
• May 26 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• May 27 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
• May 27 Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
• May 27 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
• May 28 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
• May 28 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show" debuts on CBS-TV
• May 28 Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
• May 28 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
• May 29 An earthquake hits Peru, killing over 200

• May 29 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,870.49
• May 29 NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson

• May 30 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
• May 31 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
• May 31 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
• May 31 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
• Jun 1 "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 performances
• Jun 1 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
• Jun 1 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
• Jun 1 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
• Jun 2 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
• Jun 2 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
• Jun 3 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
• Jun 3 44th Tony Awards: "Grapes of Wrath" and "City of Angels" win
• Jun 4 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless
• Jun 4 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
• Jun 4 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
• Jun 4 NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
• Jun 4 Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die

• Jun 6 2nd International Rock Awards
• Jun 6 For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
• Jun 6 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager

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