|
| |
19th century
|
| |
20th century
|
| |
21st century
|
| |
1987
|
| |
1988
|
| |
1989
|
| |
1990
|
| |
1991
|
| |
1992
|
| |
1993
|
| |
1960s
|
| |
1970s
|
| |
1980s
|
| |
1990s
|
| |
2000s
|
| |
2010s
|
| |
2020s
|
"" redirects here; for the Enigma album, see
('''
MCMXC ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Monday of the
Gregorian Calendar .
- January 3 - Former leader of Panama , Manuel Noriega , surrenders to American forces.
- January 4 - Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in Ghotki , Pakistan .
- January 7 - The Leaning Tower Of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
- January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello , the man who led the coup against Dr Apolo Milton Obote 's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum , Sudan .
- January 10 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- January 11 - 200,000 demonstrate in favor of Lithuania n independence.
- January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond , Virginia .
- January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi HQ in Berlin in an attempt to view their records.
- January 18 - Washington, DC , Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for Drug possession in an FBI sting.
- January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Worm .
- January 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK airport officials.
- January 25 - January 26 - Burns' Day Storm rages over northwestern Europe - 97 dead
- January 27 - City of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR declares brief Independence
- January 28 - The San Francisco 49ers trounce the Denver Broncos , 55-10, in Super Bowl XXIV .
- January 29 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez , Joseph Hazelwood , begins in Anchorage, Alaska . He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst Oil Spill .
- January 31 - The first McDonald's in Moscow , USSR opens.
- March 1 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo kills 16.
- March 1 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service , prompting the later formation of the EFF .
- March 1 - Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues the daily Rum ration
- March 6 - An SR-71 sets a US transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
- March 9 - Police seals off Brixton South London after another night of protests against the Poll Tax
- March 9 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General Of The United States , becoming the first female and Hispanic to serve in that position
- March 9 - Newfoundland And Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord , effectively killing the Accord
- March 10 - 18 months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti
- March 11 - Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union
- March 11 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chile an president since 1970
- is hang British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish , a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice
- March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union
- March 15 - The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania 's declaration of independence is invalid
- March 18 - 12 paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen by two thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts . This is the largest art theft in US history and the paintings (as of 2006 ) have not been recovered
- March 18 - East Germany holds first free elections since 1932
- March 20 - Ferdinand Marcos 's widow, Imelda Marcos , goes on trial for Bribery , Embezzlement , and Racketeering
- March 21 - After 75 Years of South Africa n rule Namibia becomes independent
- March 23 - Gerald Bull assassinated in Brussels
- March 24 - The government of Australia n prime minister Bob Hawke is Re-elected for a 4th term.
- March 25 - In New York City , a fire due to arson at an illegal Social Club called " Happy Land " kills 87
- begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba
- March 27 - Namibia becomes a state independent of South Africa
- March 28 - President George H. W. Bush presents Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal .
- March 31 - A massive anti- Poll Tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square , London , turns into a riot. 471 people are injured, with 341 arrested. The incident is subsequently known as "The Second Battle of Trafalgar".
- October 3 - German Re-unification , East Germany becomes part of the Federal Republic Of Germany and in consequence part of the '' European Community '' (EC), which later became the European Union .
- October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days (Friday, January 3 , 1840 - Friday, October 5 , 1990), ''The Herald'' Broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as ''The Port Phillip Herald'', it is merged with its morning Tabloid sister paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the first issue of the new Herald Sun , described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on the 8th
- , Israel i police kill 17 Palestinian s and wound over 100 near the Dome Of The Rock mosque on the Temple Mount
- military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon , ousting General Michel Aoun 's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
- October 15 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.
- October 25 - Evander Holyfield defeats James 'Buster' Douglas , for the Heavyweight Boxing crown.
- October 27 - Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first President
- October 27 - New Zealand general Election returns National with record number of seats - 67; Labour 29, NewLabour 1
For a brief while in early 1990,
Romania had a civil war in the aftermath of the
Romanian Revolution Of 1989 , the opposition was for
Nicolae Ceauşescu and the
Communist regime, and those for the new
Regime .
