1990 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1990?
- January 3, 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- January 13, 1990 – L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- January 24, 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country’s first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
- January 27, 1990 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 7, 1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
- February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
- March 9, 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
- March 20, 1990 – Ferdinand Marcos’s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- April 7, 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
- June 20, 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- July 11, 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
- July 13, 1990 – An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
- July 16, 1990 – The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
- September 15, 1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- September 30, 1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
- November 15, 1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- November 19, 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
- November 22, 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
- December 1, 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
- December 22, 1990 – Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
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