What events took place in 1990?

Answer 1

HIGHLIGHTS OF 1990

January 18 - In Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

January 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials

January 29 - The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill to date.

January 31 - The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens.

February 2 - In South Africa, President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to free Nelson Mandela.

February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.

February 13 - An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

March 18 - Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

March 18 - East Germany holds its first free elections.

April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

April 24 - West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.

May 16 - Jim Henson dies at 1:21 a.m. from organ failure at the age of 53 at New York Hospital.

May 17 - The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.

May 22 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.

June 2 - The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.

June 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale kills thousands in the Iranian city of Manjil.[3]

June 26 - U.S. President Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit. This will greatly decrease his popularity in subsequent years.

July 16 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.

August 2 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

August 23 - East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.

September 11 - President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

October 3 - East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.

October 25 - Evander Holyfield defeats James "Buster" Douglas for the Heavyweight Boxing crown.

November 12 - Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan.

November 29 - The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

December 1 - Establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last Ice Age, Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

December 3 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

December 9 - Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.

December 11 - American mob boss John Gotti is arrested.

December 16 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.

OTHER:

Academy Award, Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

Emmy Award, Best Drama Series: L.A. Law

Emmy Award, Best Comedy Series: Murphy Brown

Grammy Awards:

Record of the Year: "Wind Beneath My Wings," Bette Midler

Album of the Year: Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt (Capitol)

Song of the Year: "Wind Beneath My Wings," Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar, songwriters

The Simpsons debuts on Fox

Seinfeld debuts on NBC.

Euro dance band Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know Its True," and has its Grammy award revoked

Answer 2

Milhouse Van Houten bought a brown paper bag with the phrase "Rosie had twenty polka dots" on it.

Answer 3

Some big events that happened in 1980 were the US boycotted the USSR Olympics and Mt. Saint Helen erupted killing 60 people. Ronald Reagan became President.

Answer 4

babys were born and lots of people were sick while some people were happy some sad alot of things happened then i cannot list all of them but i could list some thank you bye :)