Historical Events in 1990 (Part 3)

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• Jul 3 Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he is later kidnapped and executed
• Jul 3 Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
• Jul 4 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address

• Jul 4 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
• Jul 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Jul 7 New Jersey Devils sign star Russian defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov to NHL contracts despite criticism they are taking North American jobs

• Jul 8 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
• Jul 8 Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning
• Jul 8 FIFA World Cup Final, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy: 85th minute penalty by Andreas Brehme gives West Germany, 1-0 win over Argentina
• Jul 8 Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7

• Jul 10 Final day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee as New Zealand go down by 114 runs in 3rd Test v England at Edgbaston
• Jul 11 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
• Jul 11 Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins between Mohawk people and town of Oka

• Jul 12 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
• Jul 12 In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
• Jul 14 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
• Jul 14 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jul 16 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
• Jul 16 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
• Jul 16 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
• Jul 16 Rick Dee's "Into the Night" premieres on ABC-TV

• Jul 16 Ukraine declares independence
• Jul 17 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
• Jul 17 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0

• Jul 19 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies

• Jul 19 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
• Jul 20 Justice William J. Brennan Jr. resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
• Jul 21 Goodwill Games II opens in Seattle, Washington

• Jul 22 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
• Jul 23 Rosie Jones (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
• Jul 23 South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested
• Jul 24 Ms. Magazine hits newsstands again after an 8 month hiatus
• Jul 24 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait

• Jul 25 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)

• Jul 25 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
• Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• Jul 26 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
• Jul 26 US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games

• Jul 27 White-Russia declares independence

• Jul 28 Blackout hits Chicago
• Jul 29 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
• Jul 29 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
• Jul 30 Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering

• Jul 30 Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
• Jul 30 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
• Jul 30 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
• Jul 31 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence

• Aug 1 British pop-reggae band UB40 deported from Seychelles after being arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession
• Aug 1 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
• Aug 1 Soyuz TM-10 launches
• Aug 2 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
• Aug 2 US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia
• Aug 2 Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
• Aug 3 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK record)
• Aug 3 NY Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas sets a MLB record for hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at bats (72)
• Aug 3 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
• Aug 3 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
• Aug 4 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temperature in Netherlands)
• Aug 4 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq

• Aug 6 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

• Aug 8 Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)

• Aug 8 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
• Aug 8 Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
• Aug 9 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
• Aug 9 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 launches
• Aug 10 NASA's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
• Aug 10 The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
• Aug 11 ArenaBowl IV, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Detroit Drive beats Dallas Texans 51-27, Art Schlichter MVP
• Aug 11 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
• Aug 12 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania

• Aug 14 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
• Aug 14 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
• Aug 15 At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa

• Aug 15 Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
• Aug 16 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Aug 16 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
• Aug 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto

• Aug 17 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR

• Aug 19 Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
• Aug 20 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
• Aug 20 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
• Aug 20 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
• Aug 20 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
• Aug 22 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves
• Aug 23 Armenia declares independence
• Aug 23 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
• Aug 23 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
• Aug 24 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
• Aug 24 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
• Aug 25 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
• Aug 25 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
• Aug 26 2 murdered college students found in Gainesville, Florida

• Aug 27 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
• Aug 27 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
• Aug 27 Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.

• Aug 28 F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
• Aug 29 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13
• Aug 29 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
• Aug 30 Tatarstan announces its sovereignty with the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic

• Aug 31 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
• Aug 31 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
• Sep 1 Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
• Sep 2 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco
• Sep 2 Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0
• Sep 3 Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)

• Sep 3 White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen tops Dave Righetti's MLB record with 47th save in Chicago's 4-2 win v Royals; Thigpen finishes season with 57 saves
• Sep 5 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
• Sep 6 US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq
• Sep 8 Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC
• Sep 9 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
• Sep 9 Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces
• Sep 9 Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
• Sep 10 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
• Sep 10 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different

• Sep 10 Ellis Island reopens as a museum
• Sep 10 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Sep 10 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
• Sep 10 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
• Sep 12 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge

• Sep 13 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
• Sep 13 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
• Sep 13 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
• Sep 13 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
• Sep 14 Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
• Sep 15 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
• Sep 15 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
• Sep 15 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
• Sep 16 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig win
• Sep 16 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George H. W. Bush
• Sep 16 Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
• Sep 17 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
• Sep 17 Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
• Sep 18 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
• Sep 18 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
• Sep 18 Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
• Sep 18 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

• Sep 20 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification
• Sep 20 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia
• Sep 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 21 MLB Commissioner Faye Vincent turns down Chicago White Sox bid to reinstate 68-year-old Minnie Miñoso
• Sep 21 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
• Sep 21 Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
• Sep 21 Reports that US refinery problems will lead to a loss in capacity and aggressive remarks by Saddam Hussein send crude prices to new highs

• Sep 22 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
• Sep 23 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
• Sep 23 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
• Sep 24 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact

• Sep 24 Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
• Sep 24 Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike first and his intention to damage oil fields in the region if Iraq does strike
• Sep 24 South African President F. W. de Klerk meets US President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
• Sep 24 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
• Sep 24 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
• Sep 25 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
• Sep 25 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
• Sep 25 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
• Sep 25 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
• Sep 26 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
• Sep 27 American punk rocker Dee Dee Ramone arrested for marijuana possession in Washington Square Park, NYC
• Sep 27 Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
• Sep 27 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif

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