Events in History in 1990 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 509

• Jun 20 Asteroid Eureka is discovered

• Jun 21 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
• Jun 21 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
• Jun 21 Parliaments of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
• Jun 21 US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
• Jun 22 Florida passes a law which prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit
• Jun 22 Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing has occurred in South Africa to reverse the ANC's position
• Jun 23 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty
• Jun 23 African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston
• Jun 23 Moldavia declares independence
• Jun 23 Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy
• Jun 25 120°F in Phoenix, Arizona
• Jun 25 African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George H. W. Bush at the White House
• Jun 25 Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia
• Jun 25 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
• Jun 26 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
• Jun 26 8 Kansas & Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
• Jun 26 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall

• Jun 29 World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
• Jun 30 East and West Germany merge their economies
• Jul 1 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
• Jul 1 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
• Jul 1 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
• Jul 2 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death after a panic in a tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Jul 27 White-Russia declares independence

• 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
• Aug 1 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
• Aug 1 Soyuz TM-10 launches
• Aug 2 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
• 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 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

• 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 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
• Sep 2 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco
• Sep 3 Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
• Sep 5 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
• Sep 6 US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq
• Sep 8 Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC
• Sep 9 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
• Sep 9 Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces

• Sep 10 Ellis Island reopens as a museum
• Sep 10 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Sep 10 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
• Sep 10 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
• Sep 12 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
• Sep 13 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
• Sep 13 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
• Sep 13 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
• Sep 14 Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
• Sep 15 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
• Sep 15 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
• Sep 16 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George H. W. Bush
• Sep 16 Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
• Sep 17 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
• Sep 17 Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
• Sep 18 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
• Sep 18 Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
• Sep 18 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
• Sep 20 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification
• Sep 20 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia
• Sep 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 21 Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
• Sep 21 Reports that US refinery problems will lead to a loss in capacity and aggressive remarks by Saddam Hussein send crude prices to new highs
• Sep 22 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
• Sep 23 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
• Sep 24 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact

• Sep 24 Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
• Sep 24 Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike first and his intention to damage oil fields in the region if Iraq does strike
• Sep 24 South African President F. W. de Klerk meets US President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
• Sep 24 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
• Sep 24 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
• Sep 25 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
• Sep 25 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
• Sep 26 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
• Sep 27 Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
• Sep 27 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
• Sep 27 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
• Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 28 Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House

• Sep 29 Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
• Sep 29 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time
• Sep 29 US Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
• Sep 29 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

• Oct 1 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
• Oct 1 Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean
• Oct 1 Saddam Hussein says he may be willing to negotiate the occupation of Kuwait and would consider foreign participation in negotiations

• Oct 1 US President George H. W. Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
• Oct 2 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
• Oct 2 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
• Oct 2 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to Supreme Court
• Oct 2 WW2 Allied nations cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
• Oct 3 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.
• Oct 4 Regional elections held in East Germany
• Oct 5 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
• Oct 6 Solar Polar Orbiter 'Ulysses' launched
• Oct 6 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
• Oct 7 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
• Oct 8 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
• Oct 8 US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
• Oct 9 David Souter, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
• Oct 9 Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
• Oct 10 American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week
• Oct 10 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
• Oct 11 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
• Oct 11 Libya's Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated
• Oct 11 Mexican writer Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
• Oct 11 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
• Oct 11 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait
• Oct 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 13 First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow
• Oct 13 Target Center, a multi-purpose arena in Minneapolis officially opens

• Oct 16 Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
• Oct 16 US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
• Oct 19 HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
• Oct 20 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
• Oct 20 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
• Oct 21 The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
• Oct 23 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
• Oct 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

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