21 events found for 1990
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have
Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3'
Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament…
An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview, Texas, killed 17 people and injured five others.
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the…
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat…
Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group, began a coup attempt against the government of Trinidad and Tobago by…
British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional…
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex…
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was…
Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or…
Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in…
Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou,…
The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the…
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
Fifty Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels deserted their Ugandan Army posts and crossed the border from Uganda into Rwanda,…