January 1990 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jan 3 Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities

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

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Jan 10 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989

Shopping bags in hand, an unknown protester stands in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square

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

Al Sharpton Stabbed

Jan 12 Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Jan 12 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
Jan 13 Douglas Wilder, 1st elected African American Governor inaugurated (Virginia)

Event of Interest

Jan 14 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf

UN Secretary-General and Prime Minister of Peru Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

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

Event of Interest

Jan 22 President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan

Jan 22 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
Jan 24 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
Jan 24 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
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 Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
Jan 25 The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe
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

Deaths in History

Jan 1 James W. Wood, American astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 65
Jan 1 Suzuki Sochu, Japanese-born Zen teacher, dies at 80
Jan 4 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
Jan 4 Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer and photographer who created high-speed photography techniques, dies at 86
Jan 4 Robert F Adams, American sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
Jan 4 Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
Jan 7 Gail Lucas, American entertainer, dies at 37
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 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, African-American social activist (NYC cabinet), dies at 90
Jan 17 Charles Hernu, French politician (Minister of Defense, 1981-85; Mayor of Villeurbanne, 1977-90), and environmental antagonist, dies at 66
Jan 19 Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and statesman (UN ambassador, Supreme Court justice 1962-65), dies at 81
Jan 19 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian leader of the Rajneesh movement, dies at 58
Jan 19 Herbert Wehner, German politician (Member of the Bundestag, 1949-83; chairman of the SPD, 1969-83), dies of complications from Binswanger's disease at 83
Jan 19 Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher, dies at 84
Jan 20 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese imperial prince and 30th Prime Minister of Japan, dies at 102
Jan 23 Mariano Rumor, Italian politician (Prime Minister of Italy, 1968-70; 73-1974), dies at 74
Jan 25 Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
Jan 26 Boy Trip, Dutch minister, dies at 68
Jan 26 Lewis Mumford, American cultural historian, city planner and writer, dies at 94
Jan 31 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)