July 1990 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 2 Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

Jul 2 TV cooking competition show "MasterChef" presented by Loyd Grossman, and created by Franc Roddam, first airs in the UK
Jul 3 Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he is later kidnapped and executed
Jul 3 Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
Jul 4 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
Jul 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Jul 8 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
Jul 11 Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.

Event of Interest

Jul 12 Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party

Jul 12 In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
Jul 14 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
Jul 14 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
Jul 16 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
Jul 16 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
Jul 16 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities

Event of Interest

Jul 16 The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa

Jul 16 Ukraine declares independence
Jul 17 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
Jul 19 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
Jul 19 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
Jul 20 Justice William J. Brennan Jr. resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
Jul 21 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle, Washington
Jul 23 South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested
Jul 24 Ms. Magazine hits newsstands again after an 8 month hiatus
Jul 24 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
Jul 25 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
Jul 25 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 26 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode

Event of Interest

Jul 26 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

Jul 27 White-Russia declares independence

Event of Interest

Jul 28 Alberto Fujimori installed as President of Peru

Jul 28 Blackout hits Chicago
Jul 29 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
Jul 30 Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering
Jul 30 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
Jul 30 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
Jul 31 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence

Birthdays in History

Jul 31 Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler, born in Penza, Russia

Weddings in History

Yasser Arafat

Jul 17 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27)

Jul 17 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis

Deaths in History

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 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 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
Jul 6 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
Jul 7 Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
Jul 7 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
Jul 9 Brigitte D'Ortschy, German author, trnslator and Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
Jul 10 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, dies at 55
Jul 10 Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
Jul 12 Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
Jul 13 Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81
Jul 16 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), dies at 62
Jul 17 Tony Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944)), dies at 88
Jul 18 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Astérix, Tintin), dies at 79

Jul 18 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
Jul 18 Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
Jul 20 Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
Jul 21 Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
Jul 21 Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
Jul 21 Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65
Jul 23 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
Jul 24 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
Jul 27 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
Jul 27 Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90
Jul 28 Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124
Jul 28 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician (Chancellor, 1970-83; Foreign Minister, 1959-66), dies at 79
Jul 29 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
Jul 30 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
Jul 30 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
Jul 31 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72