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Date	Event
January 1, 1990	David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
January 3, 1990	United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
January 4, 1990	In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
January 10, 1990	Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
January 12, 1990	A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
January 13, 1990	Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
January 18, 1990	Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
January 19, 1990	Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.[16]
January 20, 1990	Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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 25, 1990	Avianca Flight 52 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.
February 2, 1990	Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
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.
February 11, 1990	Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
February 12, 1990	Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
February 13, 1990	German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
February 14, 1990	Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
February 14, 1990	The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
March 1, 1990	Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
March 2, 1990	Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
March 4, 1990	American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.
March 4, 1990	Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.
March 10, 1990	In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
March 11, 1990	Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
March 11, 1990	Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
March 15, 1990	Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
March 18, 1990	Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
March 18, 1990	In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
March 19, 1990	The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
March 20, 1990	Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
March 21, 1990	Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
March 24, 1990	Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
March 27, 1990	The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
March 28, 1990	United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
March 29, 1990	The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
March 31, 1990	Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
April 4, 1990	The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
April 7, 1990	A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
April 7, 1990	John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair.
April 9, 1990	An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
April 9, 1990	The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
April 11, 1990	Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
April 12, 1990	Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
April 16, 1990	"Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
April 23, 1990	Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
April 24, 1990	STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
April 24, 1990	Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
April 25, 1990	Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
May 4, 1990	Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
May 13, 1990	The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
May 17, 1990	The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
May 18, 1990	In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
May 20, 1990	The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
May 22, 1990	North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
May 29, 1990	The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
May 30, 1990	Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
June 1, 1990	Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
June 2, 1990	The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
June 10, 1990	British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.
June 12, 1990	Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
June 13, 1990	First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
June 19, 1990	The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
June 19, 1990	The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
June 20, 1990	Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
June 20, 1990	The 7.4 Mw  Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
June 22, 1990	Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
June 30, 1990	East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
July 1, 1990	German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
July 2, 1990	In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
July 11, 1990	Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
July 13, 1990	Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.
July 16, 1990	The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
July 16, 1990	The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
July 21, 1990	Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
July 22, 1990	Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.
July 26, 1990	The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
July 27, 1990	The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.
July 27, 1990	The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
July 30, 1990	Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
August 2, 1990	Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
August 6, 1990	Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
August 7, 1990	First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
August 8, 1990	Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
August 10, 1990	The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
August 12, 1990	Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
August 13, 1990	A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
August 23, 1990	Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
August 23, 1990	Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 23, 1990	West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
August 28, 1990	Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
August 28, 1990	An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
September 2, 1990	Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
September 5, 1990	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
September 9, 1990	Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
September 11, 1990	A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
September 12, 1990	The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
September 12, 1990	The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
September 16, 1990	The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
September 18, 1990	Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
September 20, 1990	South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
September 29, 1990	Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
September 29, 1990	The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
September 29, 1990	The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.
October 2, 1990	Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
October 3, 1990	The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
October 5, 1990	After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
October 8, 1990	First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.
October 13, 1990	Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
October 15, 1990	Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
October 24, 1990	Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
October 28, 1990	Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
November 2, 1990	British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
November 5, 1990	Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
November 7, 1990	Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
November 12, 1990	Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
November 12, 1990	Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
November 13, 1990	In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
November 14, 1990	After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
November 15, 1990	The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
November 16, 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 17, 1990	Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
November 20, 1990	Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
November 21, 1990	Bangkok Airways Flight 125 crashes on approach to Samui Airport, killing 38.
November 22, 1990	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
November 28, 1990	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.
December 1, 1990	Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
December 6, 1990	A military jet of the Italian Air Force, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
December 8, 1990	The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time.
December 11, 1990	Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
December 11, 1990	Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured
December 22, 1990	Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
December 22, 1990	Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
December 23, 1990	History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.