1990 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1990?
- January 20, 1990 – On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku.
- 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.
- January 31, 1990 – The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
- February 2, 1990 – Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
- February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
- March 11, 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
- March 27, 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- May 15, 1990 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
- 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 21, 1990 – Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen.
- June 20, 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- June 30, 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- July 27, 1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
- August 2, 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- August 10, 1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
- August 23, 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
- 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 re-unification.
- November 12, 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 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.
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