1990 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1990?
- January 7, 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- January 20, 1990 – On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku.
- 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 14, 1990 – 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
- March 15, 1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
- March 25, 1990 – The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.
- 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 – 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- May 22, 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- June 1, 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- June 12, 1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
- August 23, 1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- September 19, 1990 – Delhi University student Rajiv Goswami attempts Self Immolation during Anti-Reservation agitation in India. Though he survived, his Self Immolation inspired nearly 150 self immolation bids and indirectly led to the Resignation of V P Singh Govt.
- September 20, 1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- October 5, 1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- October 8, 1990 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
- November 22, 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
- November 23, 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
- November 26, 1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
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