1990 in History (Part 6)

Events in History

Events 501 - 559 of 559

Nov 28 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister

Nov 28 Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Nov 30 US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

Dec 1 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
Dec 1 Hissène Habré of Chad 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 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 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 5 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
Dec 5 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
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 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 Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
Dec 16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 16 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
Dec 17 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 18 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington, D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
Dec 18 Bush reiterates his "no concessions" stance against Iraq
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 26 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
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 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Dec 31 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace