1990


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Year 1990 () was a (link displays the 1990 ).

From January 27, it was the in the.

It is often considered the final year of the era; although others consider  to be the last year.

January

 * -, the former leader of , surrenders to forces.
 * - Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in,.
 * - The is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
 * - n Lt. Gen., who led a coup against Dr. Apolo 's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in ,.
 * - is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
 * - In, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
 * - becomes the first elected  governor as he takes office in.
 * - Thousands storm the headquarters in  in an attempt to view their government records.
 * -, Mayor is arrested for  possession in an  sting.
 * - is convicted of releasing the.
 * - crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and  officials.
 * - - The  kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
 * - The city of in the  briefly declares independence.
 * - The defend their, winning their 4th  overall with a 55-10 thrashing of the  in  at the  in ,.
 * - The trial of, former skipper of the , begins in .  He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst  to date.
 * - The first in,  opens.

February

 * - : In, President allows the  to legally function again and promises to free.
 * - becomes the president of.
 * - : The Central Committee of the agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
 * - n  announces that  will be released the next day.
 * knocks out to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.
 * is released from Victor Verster Prison, near, , after 26 years behind bars.
 * , the best selling game for, is released in
 * - : An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite.
 * - The and  restore diplomatic relations after 8 years.   The UK had severed ties in response to 's invasion of the, a , in.
 * The s are defeated in the n elections.
 * The agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from  by,.
 * - : and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
 * The s are defeated in the n elections.
 * The agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from  by,.
 * - : and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

March

 * A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in, , kills 16 people.
 * is raided by the, prompting the later formation of the.
 * The discontinues its daily  ration.
 * - An sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
 * Police seal off in South  after another  against the.
 * is sworn in as, becoming the first female and to serve in that position.
 * Premier confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the.
 * - Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, is ousted in.
 * declares independence from the.
 * is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected an president since.
 * hangs journalist  for spying.   Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
 * is elected as the first executive president of the.
 * The announces that 's declaration of independence is invalid.
 * Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the in  by 2 thieves posing as police officers.   This is the largest art theft in  history, and the paintings (as of ) have not been recovered.
 * holds its first free elections.
 * - 's widow,, goes on trial for , , and.
 * - After 75 years of n rule, becomes independent.
 * - : The government of n prime minister Bob Hawke is re-elected for a 4th term.
 * In, a fire due to at an illegal  called "" kills 87.
 * announced his intention to retire at the end of the year.
 * - : The begins broadcasting  to.
 * - U.S. President posthumously awards  the.
 * - "": A massive anti- demonstration in, , turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.
 * In, a fire due to at an illegal  called "" kills 87.
 * announced his intention to retire at the end of the year.
 * - : The begins broadcasting  to.
 * - U.S. President posthumously awards  the.
 * - "": A massive anti- demonstration in, , turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.
 * - "": A massive anti- demonstration in, , turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.

April

 * - The largest prison riot in Britain's history begins at in, and will continue for nearly four weeks, until
 * - 's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
 * - :  is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
 * dies from
 * , a -registered ferry, catches fire en route from to, leaving 158 dead.
 * - The apologizes for the.
 * - Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an party in.
 * - ': The is launched aboard Space Shuttle '.
 * The Space Shuttle  places the into.
 * and agree to merge currency and economies on.
 * was elected of  making her the 1st woman President in.
 * and agree to merge currency and economies on.
 * was elected of  making her the 1st woman President in.
 * was elected of  making her the 1st woman President in.

May

 * - In, , a man brandishing a knife robs courier Nicholas Lane of s worth £292 million (the largest  to date).
 * - declares independence from the.
 * - The 35th takes place in,.
 * -  by is sold for a record $82.5 million.
 * - , creator of , dies suddenly from organ failure at the age of 53.
 * - The removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
 * - The first post- presidential and parliamentary elections are held in.
 * - The leaders of the and the  announce the unification of their countries as the.
 * - releases.
 * - The defeat the  in the  for their fifth Stanley Cup.
 * - celebrates its  statehood.

June

 * U.S. President and  leader  sign a  to end  production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
 * Members of the shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the . Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in  and Davies is killed at a railway station in,.
 * - The spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 9. 37 tornadoes occurred in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the  of.
 * - opens to the public
 * - The begins in Italy.
 * - The parliament of the formally declares its sovereignty.
 * An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the kills thousands in the ian city of
 * - The defeat the  in the.
 * - Underwater volcano erupts in the.
 * - Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral,, becoming the first women priests in the.
 * U.S. President Bush breaks his 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.
 * In, the temperature reaches an all-time record high of 122 degrees for the city.
 * U.S. President Bush breaks his 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.
 * In, the temperature reaches an all-time record high of 122 degrees for the city.

July

 * - A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to kills 1,426.
 * - defeats  1-0 to win the.
 * - kill 168 Muslims in,.
 * - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the kills over 1,600 in the.
 * ,, is named as the new.
 * The declares the  of the s in.
 * - U.S. President signs the, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
 * The parliament building and a government television house in, are stormed by the  in a  attempt which lasts 5 days.    Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then , , who is shot in the leg).
 * declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the.
 * - becomes president of.
 * - A  kills British M.P., a staunch.
 * - becomes president of.
 * - A  kills British M.P., a staunch.

August

 * - : invades, eventually leading to the.
 * - : The orders a global  against  in response to its invasion of.
 * - At 12:34:56 (both a.m. and p.m.) the time and date by British reckoning is 12:34:56 7/8/90.
 * - conducts his final concert, ending with 's  performed by the.
 * - writer  is released from  after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
 * - Blues musician dies in a helicopter crash along with 4 others following a concert near.
 * - (F5 on the ) struck the towns of, , and , in , killing 29 people.  Strongest tornado to date to strike the

September

 * - The sculpture Good Defeats Evil by sculptor is erected outside the  in.
 * - declares its independence from the  ; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
 * - : n president is captured by rebel leader  and killed in a filmed execution.
 * - : President delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove i soldiers from.
 * - The two states and the  sign the  in, paving the way for.
 * - In, the chooses  to host the 1996 Summer Olympics.
 * - The tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir  at his home near, .   Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former  survives.
 * -  finished.

October

 * - and   into a single.
 * - After 150 years, 10 months and 2 days (Friday,, - Friday, , 1990),   newspaper in  is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
 * - : In, i police kill 17 s and wound over 100 near the mosque on the
 * - announces his retirement from conducting. Unbeknownst to anyone other than himself and his doctors, he is fatally ill.
 * - : military forces invade and occupy, ousting General 's government.  This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
 * - dies of a heart attack at his home in . He is 72 years old.
 * - leader  is awarded the  for his efforts to lessen  tensions and reform his nation.
 * - The defeat the  to win the.
 * - First set up by  in
 * - defeats  for the Heavyweight  crown.
 * The of  chooses  as the republic's first.
 * The returns the  with record number of 67 seats.
 * The returns the  with record number of 67 seats.

November

 * - defeats odds-on favourite  to become the first female.
 * - Rabbi, founder of the far-right , is shot dead after a speech at a hotel.
 * - is enthroned as the 125th emperor of.
 * - publishes a more formal proposal for the.
 * - The first known page is written.
 * - and  sign a treaty confirming the border at the.
 * - : '' is launched on a classified military mission.
 * - The (aka ) is released in.
 * - announces she will not contest the second ballot of the  for the.
 * - and  win the first round of the  in.
 * - wins the second ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election and his two rivals,  and, concede defeat.
 * - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the UK; succeeds her as Party Leader and is appointed  by.
 * - : The passes, authorizing military intervention in  if that nation does not withdraw its forces from  and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, ,.

December

 * - Establishing the first ground connection between the and the mainland of  since the last,  workers from the  and  meet 40 meters beneath the  seabed.
 * - A coalition led by Chancellor wins the first free all- elections since.
 * At, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
 * is elected the first female president of the.
 * releases the Western hostages.
 * President of  is forced to resign following massive protests.
 * becomes President of.
 * wins the 2nd round of 's.
 * - is arrested.
 * - is elected president of, ending 3 decades of military rule.
 * - Footballer, the captain of and an  international defender, is sentenced to 4 months in prison and banned from driving for 2 years after being found guilty of drunk driving in connection with an accident in  on  this year.
 * - n holds his title by winning the  match against his countryman.
 * - is elected president of, ending 3 decades of military rule.
 * - Footballer, the captain of and an  international defender, is sentenced to 4 months in prison and banned from driving for 2 years after being found guilty of drunk driving in connection with an accident in  on  this year.
 * - n holds his title by winning the  match against his countryman.

Undated

 * For a brief while in early 1990, had a civil war in the aftermath of the, the opposition was for  and the  regime, and those for the new.
 * New Revised Standard Version of the is published in the United States.
 * Metropolitan Aleksy of elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of  and all.
 * Channel 7 + 10 networks go into receivership (Australia).
 * Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in.

Fictional
The following are references to year 1990 in fiction: (unknown).

January-February

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 * -, Ukrainian chess player
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 * -, American singer
 * -, American murder victim (d. )
 * -, German-born actress
 * -, eleventh Panchen Lama
 * -, American child actress
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, Ukrainian chess player

March-April

 * -, British stage actor
 * -, American actress
 * -, American conjoined twins
 * -, British kidnapping and murder victim (d. )
 * -, Australian-born, New Zealand raised actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, English actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, American actor

May-June

 * -, Australian actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, Croatian musician
 * -, Filipino actor and singer
 * -, Argentine basketball player
 * -, American actor
 * -, American actress
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, Canadian actress
 * -, Canadian actress

July-August

 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer
 * -, Son of
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, American rapper
 * -, British actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, American beauty queen and murder victim (d. )
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, British actress
 * -, English singer
 * -, Spanish footballer

September-October

 * -, Dutch actress
 * -, Daughter of
 * -, American singer
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, English Footballer
 * -, American actress
 * -, Spanish basketball player
 * -, American actor
 * -, American singer
 * -, American jazz musician and composer

November-December

 * -, Canadian actor
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, American rapper
 * -, American actress
 * -, Irish Peer
 * -, American actor
 * -, twin American actors
 * -, British singer
 * -, Norwegian chess player
 * -, Italian actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer/actress
 * -, French actor
 * -, American actress

January

 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, American electrical engineering (b. )
 * -, Russian physicist, laureate (b. )
 * -, baseball player (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, Russian-American photographer (b. )
 * -, one of the founding members of  (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, American historian of science (b. )

February

 * -, Former British heavyweight boxing champion (b. )
 * -, American composer (b. )
 * -, American musician and singer (b. )
 * -, British director (b. )
 * -, American pop artist (b. )
 * -, publisher of (b. )
 * -, Jewish-American scholar (b. )

March

 * -, German conductor (b. )
 * -, American child psychologist (b. )
 * -, British rock bassist (b. )
 * - (born Germaine Lefebvre), French actress (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, Russian footballer (b. )

April

 * -, American jazz vocalist (b. )
 * -, AIDS activist (b. )
 * -, Swedish actress (b. )
 * -, American civil rights leader (b. )
 * -, Hispanic wrestler and father of (b. )
 * - (pseudonym Erté), French  artist (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )

May

 * -, Northern Irish clergyman (b. )
 * -, American actor, dancer, and singer (b. )
 * -, American puppeteer and filmmaker (b. )
 * -, English actress (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )

June

 * -, English actor (b. )
 * -, American singer (b. )
 * - Dame, British soprano (b. )
 * -, Russian physicist, laureate (b. )

July

 * -, American game show host (b. )
 * -, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. )
 * -, English actress (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, Canadian comedian (b. )
 * -, French cartoonist (b. )
 * -, Argentinian writer (b. )
 * -, American keyboard player (b. )

August

 * -, English footballer (b. )
 * -, British-born American actress (b. )
 * -, Russian singer, actor and poet (b. )
 * -, American singer and actress (b. )
 * -, American psychologist (b. )
 * -, American guitarist (b. )

September

 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, English historian (b. )
 * -, English cricketer (b. )
 * -, Italian novelist (b. )
 * -, Australian writer, laureate (b. )

October

 * -, English footballer and manager (b. )
 * -, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, American composer and conductor (b. )

November

 * -, American rabbi and founder of the (b. )
 * -, American physicist, laureate (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )

December

 * -, American composer (b. )
 * -, Greek singer and songwriter (b. )
 * -, Cuban writer (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, Swiss writer (b. )
 * -, American World War I pilot (b. )
 * -, Jamaican musician (b. )

Unknown dates

 * (none)

Nobel prizes

 * -, , and

Templeton Prize

 * (Joint Award)
 * (Joint Award)

Right Livelihood Award

 * ,, and  (Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare)