August 1990 in History

Events in History

Aug 2 US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia

Aug 3 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK record)
Aug 3 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
Aug 3 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
Aug 4 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temperature in Netherlands)
Aug 4 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq

Aug 6 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan

Aug 6 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

Aug 7 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield

Aug 8 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
Aug 9 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
Aug 9 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 launches
Aug 10 NASA's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
Aug 10 The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
Aug 11 ArenaBowl IV, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Detroit Drive beats Dallas Texans 51-27, Art Schlichter MVP
Aug 11 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
Aug 12 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania

Aug 12 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories

Aug 14 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
Aug 15 At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa
Aug 15 Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
Aug 16 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Aug 16 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq

Aug 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto

Aug 20 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
Aug 22 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves
Aug 23 Armenia declares independence
Aug 23 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
Aug 23 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
Aug 24 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
Aug 24 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
Aug 25 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
Aug 26 2 murdered college students found in Gainesville, Florida
Aug 27 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
Aug 27 Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.
Aug 28 F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
Aug 29 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13
Aug 29 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
Aug 30 Tatarstan announces its sovereignty with the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
Aug 31 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems

Aug 1 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
Aug 2 Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
Aug 3 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
Aug 5 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
Aug 6 Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78
Aug 6 Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician who founded the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), dies at 62
Aug 6 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
Aug 10 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
Aug 12 B. Kliban, American cartoonist known for his drawings of cats, usually with horrible puns (Love to Eat Them Mousies), dies at 55
Aug 18 B F Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
Aug 19 Anna Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, Dutch children's book writer, dies at 80
Aug 20 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist and writer, dies at 90
Aug 24 Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
Aug 24 Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer, dies at 48
Aug 25 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
Aug 26 Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (discovered 12 comets), dies at 77
Aug 28 Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, dies at 83
Aug 28 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies
Aug 29 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
Aug 30 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), dies at 78