Historical Events in 1990

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• Jan 1 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
• Jan 1 Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
• Jan 1 NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
• Jan 1 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
• Jan 2 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

• Jan 4 307 dead and 700 injured after overloaded passenger train collides with empty freight train in Pakistan
• Jan 5 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
• Jan 6 NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
• Jan 7 Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64
• Jan 7 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
• Jan 9 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
• Jan 9 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78

• Jan 9 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

• Jan 10 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
• Jan 11 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
• Jan 11 Actor Joseph Cotton (84) undergoes cancer operation to remove his larynx
• Jan 11 Bob Knight becomes college basketball's Big 10 winningest coach with his 229th victory

• Jan 12 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
• Jan 13 Douglas Wilder, 1st elected African American Governor inaugurated (Virginia)

• Jan 15 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
• Jan 15 Golden State coach Don Nelson becomes 2nd man in NBA history to appear in 1,000 games both as a player and coach (joining Lenny Wilkens) as the Warriors lose to the Indiana Pacers, 144-105
• Jan 15 In a bizarre twist in the NHL, Washington Capitals fire coach Brian Murray, who had been head coach since 1981; replace him with his brother Terry, who had been coaching in the minors
• Jan 15 In a shrewd move, Detroit Tigers sign 1st baseman Cecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan; hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the 1990s
• Jan 16 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering

• Jan 17 MLB pitcher Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oakland A's contract
• Jan 18 South Africa says it is reconsidering ban on African National Congress
• Jan 18 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
• Jan 19 Police break up protests in Johannesburg against the cricket players defying a boycott on playing in apartheid South Africa
• Jan 19 Turning point in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administrated Kashmir due to violence from Muslim militants
• Jan 20 Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku
• Jan 20 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
• Jan 21 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

• Jan 22 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
• Jan 22 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
• Jan 24 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
• Jan 24 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
• Jan 24 LAs' Pat Riley becomes the 13th and fastest coach to reach the 500-victory plateau as the Lakers down the Indiana Pacers, 120-111; Riley (500-184) surpasses Don Nelson (500-317) to reach milestone
• Jan 25 Avianca Flight 052 runs out of fuel and crashes into a hillside at Cove Neck, New York, killing 8 of the 9 crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board
• Jan 25 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
• Jan 25 Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Jan 25 The Burns' Day windstorm storm hits northwestern Europe
• Jan 26 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
• Jan 26 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking African American female in a major-league front office)
• Jan 28 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
• Jan 28 Romanian protest against Ion Iliescu government

• Jan 29 Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

• Jan 31 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
• Jan 31 1st McDonalds in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow
• Jan 31 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ

• Feb 4 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
• Feb 4 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
• Feb 4 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
• Feb 4 Lyudmila Narozhilenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)

• Feb 4 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
• Feb 5 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)

• Feb 6 Groundbreaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
• Feb 6 Steve Briers of Wales recites entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds backwards!
• Feb 7 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
• Feb 7 Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
• Feb 7 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
• Feb 8 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
• Feb 8 David Hares play "Racing Demon" premieres in London at the National Theatre
• Feb 9 "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
• Feb 9 Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
• Feb 9 Namibia's constitution ratified
• Feb 9 Spacecraft Galileo flies by Venus at an altitude of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in a gravity assist maneuver to gain speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
• Feb 10 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water

• Feb 11 Nelson Mandela is released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa

• Feb 13 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa

• Feb 13 US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify
• Feb 14 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
• Feb 14 Space probe Voyager 1 takes a photograph of the entire solar system, the images transmitted in real-time with earth a 'pale blue dot'
• Feb 15 Baseball owners lock out players

• Feb 19 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
• Feb 19 Soyuz TM-9 lands

• Feb 21 32nd Grammy Awards: "Wind Beneath My Wings"; "Nick of Time" win
• Feb 22 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
• Feb 23 Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
• Feb 23 “Hold On” single released by En Vogue (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
• Feb 25 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas

• Feb 26 The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
• Feb 26 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
• Feb 27 "Hold On" single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
• Feb 27 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

• Feb 28 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
• Feb 28 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
• Mar 1 Benin nullifies its constitution
• Mar 1 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132
• Mar 1 Luis Alberto Lacalle sworn in as the 36th President of Uruguay
• Mar 1 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Mar 2 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
• Mar 4 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
• Mar 6 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
• Mar 7 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
• Mar 7 Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m
• Mar 8 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
• Mar 9 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st Hispanic and female US Surgeon General
• Mar 10 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
• Mar 10 Ice Pairs World Championship at Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
• Mar 10 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
• Mar 10 Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
• Mar 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 11 Lithuania declares its Independence
• Mar 12 LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland
• Mar 13 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
• Mar 14 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
• Mar 15 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
• Mar 17 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
• Mar 18 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
• Mar 18 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
• Mar 18 A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch
• Mar 18 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
• Mar 19 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)

• Mar 21 "Normal Life" starring Max Gail, Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
• Mar 21 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

• Mar 22 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
• Mar 22 The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
• Mar 23 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
• Mar 24 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
• Mar 24 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
• Mar 25 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

• Mar 27 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
• Mar 27 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
• Mar 28 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient

• Mar 31 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
• Mar 31 Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws

• Apr 1 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
• Apr 1 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers

• Apr 1 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
• Apr 4 "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
• Apr 4 American stockbroker and securities law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
• Apr 4 Singer Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her tour bus accident

• Apr 5 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary

• Apr 7 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
• Apr 7 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
• Apr 7 John Poindexter (US National Security Advisor) found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress and obstruction regarding the Iran-Contra scandal
• Apr 7 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
• Apr 7 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary

• Apr 8 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
• Apr 8 New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
• Apr 8 Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die
• Apr 9 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV

• Apr 9 NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
• Apr 9 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall, New York City; record eclipsed in 2007
• Apr 10 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma, Japan

• Apr 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• Apr 11 MLB California Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
• Apr 11 NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
• Apr 11 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary playoffs
• Apr 12 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for the Holocaust and asks for forgiveness

• Apr 12 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
• Apr 12 H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn't buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins

• Apr 13 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis

• Apr 13 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1

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