1990 in History

Events in History

Events 1 - 100 of 523

• 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 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 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 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

• Jan 11 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence

• 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 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
• Jan 15 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
• 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 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 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 22 Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
• Jan 22 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

• Jan 24 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
• Jan 24 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
• 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 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 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ

• Feb 4 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
• Feb 4 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
• 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 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 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 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 19 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
• Feb 19 Soyuz TM-9 lands
• Feb 23 Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
• Feb 25 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
• 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 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 2 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
• 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 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 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 11 Lithuania declares its Independence
• 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 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 A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch
• Mar 21 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
• Mar 22 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
• 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 25 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

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Birthdays in History

• Jan 26 Peter Sagan, Slovakian professional cyclist (World Road Champion 2016), born in Žilina, Slovakia
• Feb 3 Cody Newton Gifford, American write, producer, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford, born in NYC, New York
• Feb 4 Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū, born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
• Feb 11 Princess Ayah of Jordan, niece of King Abdullah II of Jordan, born in Amman, Jordan
• Feb 13 Olivia Federici, British synchronized swimmer, born in Plymouth, United Kingdom
• Feb 24 Ryan Swain, English presenter (Minister FM), born in Malton, England
• Mar 7 Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins, born in New Germany, Minnesota
• Mar 23 Eugenie, Princess of York and daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, born in London
• Mar 27 Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer, born in Bendigo, Australia
• Mar 31 Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist, killed by the New IRA in a terrorist attack, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2019)
• Apr 9 Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad, born in Los Angeles, California
• May 5 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, American daughter of Caroline, born in NYC, New York
• May 26 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
• May 31 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasem
• Jun 4 Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Snapchat (Snap Inc.), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jun 23 Samuel Lee, FIFA 08 World Champion
• Jul 31 Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler, born in Penza, Russia
• Aug 29 Sam Stern, British chef and author, born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Nov 25 Yasmin van der Meer, 15 millionth Netherlander

Weddings in History

• Feb 2 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
• Jun 9 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
• Jul 17 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis

• Sep 16 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
• Sep 29 Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords

Deaths in History

Deaths 1 - 100 of 231

• Jan 1 Suzuki Sochu, Japanese-born Zen teacher, dies at 80
• Jan 1 James W. Wood, American astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 65
• Jan 4 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
• Jan 4 Robert F Adams, American sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
• Jan 4 Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
• Jan 4 Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
• Jan 5 Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
• Jan 7 Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
• Jan 9 Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
• Jan 12 Laurence J. Peter, Canadian author (Peter Principle), dies of a stroke at 70
• Jan 14 Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
• Jan 17 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
• Jan 17 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, African-American social activist (NYC cabinet), dies at 90
• Jan 19 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian leader of the Rajneesh movement, dies at 58
• Jan 19 Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
• Jan 19 Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher, dies at 84
• Jan 20 Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
• Jan 20 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese imperial prince and 30th Prime Minister of Japan, dies at 102
• Jan 23 Mariano Rumor, Italian politician (PM, 1968-70; 73-1974), dies
• Jan 25 Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
• Jan 26 Boy Trip, Dutch minister, dies at 68
• Jan 26 Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
• Jan 31 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
• Feb 7 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
• Feb 7 Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
• Feb 7 Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
• Feb 8 George de Mestral, Swiss engineer (invented Velcro), dies at 83

• Feb 17 Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39
• Feb 19 Michael Powell, English director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
• Feb 23 Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch lawyer and politician (Liberal), dies at 53
• Feb 23 James Gavin, US 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy), dies at 82
• Feb 23 Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62

• Feb 24 Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italy (1978-85), dies at 93
• Feb 26 Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
• Feb 27 Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
• Mar 3 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
• Mar 3 Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
• Mar 5 Gloria Carter Spann, US President Jimmy Carter's sister, dies of cancer at 63
• Mar 10 Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
• Mar 12 Wallace Breem, British author (Eagle in the Snow), dies at 73
• Mar 13 Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment), commits suicide at 86
• Mar 15 Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
• Mar 20 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
• Mar 22 Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer and engineer, dies at 62
• Mar 24 An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70
• Mar 26 Halston, American fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame), dies of AIDs at 68
• Mar 29 Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
• Mar 31 Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies
• Apr 5 Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist and poet, dies at 59
• Apr 6 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dressed woman), dies at 73
• Apr 6 Ronald E Evans, American astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
• Apr 8 Ryan White, American hemophiliac AIDS sufferer, dies at 18
• Apr 11 Barbara Miller, British stage and screen actress (Blackadder), dies of a brain tumor at 71
• Apr 11 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece, dies at 86
• Apr 14 Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
• Apr 15 Ulrich Becher, German writer & playwright, dies at 80
• Apr 17 Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
• Apr 19 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 52
• Apr 20 Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
• Apr 21 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
• Apr 21 Erté, French artist
• Apr 24 Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
• Apr 26 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian presidential candidate, assassinated at 38
• May 2 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
• May 3 Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
• May 4 Don Appell, American writer and director, dies at 70
• May 8 Tomas O'Fiach [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
• May 9 Pauline Frederick, American journalist & author, dies at 84
• May 10 Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
• May 12 Andrei Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of Communist Party, dies at 83
• May 13 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
• May 16 Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
• May 21 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
• May 21 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
• May 27 Robert B. Meyner, American politician (44th Governor of New Jersey), dies at 81
• May 28 Giorgio Manganelli, writer, dies at 67
• May 28 Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
• Jun 2 Robert Noyce, American inventor (co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968), dies at 62
• Jun 2 Shriram Sharma, Indian spiritual leader and founder of "All World Gayatri Pariwar", dies at 78
• Jun 5 Jan Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist and anatomist, dies at 83
• Jun 5 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
• Jun 8 Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
• Jun 8 Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies

• Jun 16 Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer, dies at 83
• Jun 17 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
• Jun 17 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
• Jun 21 Cedric Belfrage, English writer and journalist (co-founder of National Guardian), dies at 85
• Jun 22 Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank, Russian Physicist and Nobel Laureate (Cherenkov radiation), dies at 81
• Jun 26 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
• Jun 28 Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
• Jun 29 Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
• Jul 1 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
• Jul 2 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist and General Secretary of SASO, dies in automobile accident at 39
• Jul 3 Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
• Jul 3 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
• Jul 5 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
• Jul 6 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46

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