December 1990 in History

Events in History

Dec 1 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel

Dec 1 Dictator of Chad Hissène Habré flees to Cameroon

Dec 1 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
Dec 1 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
Dec 2 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
Dec 2 First time 12 people in space at the same time
Dec 2 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
Dec 4 An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
Dec 4 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
Dec 4 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages

Dec 5 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination

Dec 5 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
Dec 5 Iraq announces willingness to speak with US about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis

Dec 6 Saddam Hussein announces release of all foreign hostages

Dec 6 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature sells, at aucton, for $23,100
Dec 7 Iraqi Parliament endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
Dec 8 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
Dec 8 Spacecraft Galileo flies by Earth at an altitude of 597 miles (960 km) to use the planet's gravity to build speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
Dec 9 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
Dec 9 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14

Dec 9 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's 1st direct presidential election in Poland

Dec 13 South African President F. W. de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid

Dec 13 US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace
Dec 14 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
Dec 16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 16 Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
Dec 17 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 18 Bush reiterates his "no concessions" stance against Iraq
Dec 18 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington, D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
Dec 20 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
Dec 20 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million

Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns

Dec 20 The world's first website and server go live at CERN
Dec 21 Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
Dec 22 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
Dec 22 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
Dec 22 Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
Dec 23 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Dec 24 Saddam Hussein says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
Dec 28 2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
Dec 30 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
Dec 31 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
Dec 31 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace

Dec 1 Indian diplomat and politician who was the 1st woman to hold a cabinet post in India, dies at 90

Dec 6 Malaysia's founding father, 1st Prime Minister of Malaya (1957-63) and Malaysia (1963-70), dies at 87

Dec 7 Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter, dies at 86
Dec 7 Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet and novelist (Pentagonia), dies at 47
Dec 10 Armand Hammer, American industrialist (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
Dec 11 Fernand Collin, Belgian economist and banker, dies at 92
Dec 14 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss playwright & novelist (The Physicists, The Visit). dies of heart failure at 69
Dec 14 Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn und Taxis, German businessman, dies at 64
Dec 16 Douglas Campbell, American aviator and World War I flying ace, dies at 94
Dec 21 Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works, Lockheed U-2, SR-71 Blackbird), dies at 80
Dec 24 Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
Dec 25 Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
Dec 26 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33
Dec 28 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65
Dec 28 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies
Dec 31 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62