9 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.