January 1, 1990: David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.

January 3rd 1990, during the United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.

30 years ago does not belong in this forum. Thai would be the 80’s.

30 years ago does not belong in this forum. Thai would be the 80’s.

Dude, 30 years ago was the year 1990.

Dude, 30 years ago was the year 1990.


WRONG.

January 10th 1990 - Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery."

WRONG.

Please be joking. You can tell by literally subtracting 2020 from 1990.

Please be joking. You can tell by literally subtracting 2020 from 1990.


I get 2000.

January 13th 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

January 13th 1990 - In Maryland, a magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurs, the largest historical earthquake in Maryland.

January 13th 1990 - The Walt Disney World Swan Hotel opens in Walt Disney World.

January 13th 1990, New Kids On The Block had their second and last No.1 UK single with 'Hangin' Tough.' They had a further 7 Top 10 hits by the end of 1991. They broke up after that, but set the scene for numerous boy bands throughout the 90s.

January 13th 1990, New Kids On The Block had their second and last No.1 UK single with 'Hangin' Tough.' They had a further 7 Top 10 hits by the end of 1991. They broke up after that, but set the scene for numerous boy bands throughout the 90s.

I remember it very well. O0

January 13th 1990 - The Walt Disney World Swan Hotel opens in Walt Disney World.


Yep, my parents and I were among the earliest patrons the following winter.

I remember it very well. O0


Can you believe that was 29 years ago? I swear if honestly feels like yesterday’s

January 15th 1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch.

January 15th 1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch.

Ooh. :o

The very same day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s actual birthday day was observed as a holiday for the first time.

January 22nd 1990 - Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Slash used profanity numerous times on live television while accepting an American Music Award.

January 22nd 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Junior is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

January 28th 1990, Super Bowl XXIV was played at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana; the NFC champion San Francisco 49ers defeated the AFC champion Denver Broncos by an overwhelming score of 55 to 10.

January 29th 1990 - Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, went on trial in Anchorage, AK, on charges that stemmed from America's worst oil spill. Hazelwood was later acquitted of all the major charges and was convicted of a misdemeanor.

February 5th 1990 - NBC-TV obtained the television rights to all of Notre Dame's home football games for the next five years. Notre Dame was the first school to sell its games to a major TV network.

February 11th 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

February 12th 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

February 13th 1990 - In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.

February 18th 1990 - The movie "Death of the Incredible Hulk" aired.

February 18th 1990, Freddie Mercury made his final public appearance on stage when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, held at the Dominion Theatre, London, England.

February 24th 1990 - Bob Dylan joined Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby to sing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" at a Los Angeles tribute to the late Roy Orbison.

February 27th 1990 - The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

March 3rd 1990 - The 100th episode of "ALF" aired on NBC.

March 3rd 1990 - The 100th episode of "ALF" aired on NBC.


The episode where ALF calls himself Wolf the Primal Melmacian Hunting Machine after the Tanners wanted him to go on a diet.

March 3rd 1990, During a world tour Paul McCartney played the first of 6 sold-out nights at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan. The final night was broadcast live to venues in 10 other Japanese cities; Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Matsuyama, Nagoya, Niigata, Osaka, Sapporp, Sendai and Takamatsu.

March 10th 1990 - Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

March 11th 1990 - The Perry Mason TV movie "The Case of the Desperate Deception" was aired.

March 18th 1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

March 18th 1990 - The first free elections took place in East Germany.

March 18th 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

March 18th 1990 - Loyola Marymount beats Michigan Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score.

March 19th 1990 - The first world ice hockey tournament for women was held in Ottawa, Canada.

March 20th 1990 - Imelda Marcos, widow of ex-Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, went on trial for racketeering, embezzlement and bribery.

March 20th 1990 - In Rumania, tanks were sent to the town of Tirgu Mures to quell ethnic riots.

March 23rd 1990 - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for the 1989 oil spill.

Also March 23, 1990 - Pretty Woman is released in theaters. Its title is taken from the Roy Orbison classic, "(Oh) Pretty Woman." Julia Roberts and Richard Gere reunited for the 1999 film Runaway Bride.

Pretty Woman is one of my favorite movies. I love the style in that film. So 80s becoming early 90s!

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March 25th 1990 - Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.

March 25th 1990 - In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.

March 25th 1990, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee was arrested for mooning at the audience during a gig in Augusta. Lee was charged with indecent exposure.

March 27th 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.

March 28th 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

March 29th 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 30, 1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released in theaters. Turtlemania starts shortly afterward.

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March 30th 1990 - Jack Nicklaus makes his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament.

March 31st 1990 – Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.

April 2nd 1990, Eric Clapton was fined £300 with £10 costs by Walton-on- Thames Magistrates court, after being booked for speeding at 105mph; Clapton was also banned from driving for three months.

April 2nd 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.

April 2nd 1990, Nirvana went into Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin and started work on demo versions of ‘In Bloom’, ‘Dive’, ‘Lithium’, ‘Pay To Play’, ‘Imodium’, ‘Sappy’ and ‘Polly’ with Butch Vig producing.

April 4th 1990 - In the U.S., securities law violator Ivan Boesky was released from federal custody.

April 7th 1990 - At Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs went on display. On the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal.

April 7th 1990 – Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).

April 8th 1990 - The first episode of "Twin Peaks" aired on ABC-TV.

April 8th 1990 - In Nepal, King Birendra lifted the 30-year ban on political parties.

April 9th 1990 - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (New York City).

April 10th 1990, Tom Waits took Doritos Chips to court for using a 'Waits', sound-alike on radio ads. The jury awarded him $2.475 million in punitive damages, Waits comments after the case, 'now by law I have what I always felt I had...a distinctive voice.'

April 12th 1990 - Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers.

April 12th 1990, The Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre announced that Asteroids 4147-4150, would be named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr after the four members of The Beatles.

April 13th 1990 - The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. The Soviets had previously blamed the massacre on the Nazis.

April 18th 1990 - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines.

April 20th 1990 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

April 22nd 1990 - Lebanon releases US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months.

April 23rd 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

April 24th 1990 – Gruinard Island, of the coast of Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

April 25th 1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.

April 25th 1990 - The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope was placed into Earth's orbit. It was released by the space shuttle Discovery.

April 27th 1990 - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Michigan).

April 28th 1990 – “Chorus Line” closes at Shubert Theater in New York City after 6,137 performances (15 years).

April 29th 1990 - Chicago Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux threw a complete game shutout against the L.A. Dodgers at Dodger Stadium; Cubs won 4-0.

(I was at that game, and found it depressing that the Dodgers could not score at all.)

April 29th 1990 - Chicago Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux threw a complete game shutout against the L.A. Dodgers at Dodger Stadium; Cubs won 4-0.

(I was at that game, and found it depressing that the Dodgers could not score at all.)
On the same day...

April 29th 1990 - Dan Quisenberry (all-time American League save king, 238) announces his retirement.

April 29th 1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.

On the same day...

April 29th 1990 - Dan Quisenberry (all-time American League save king, 238) announces his retirement.

...and his record of saves achieved in the American League would eventually be overtaken by other pitchers in the decades that followed. In fact, Quisenberry (who ultimately passed away in 1998) had the most saves in Kansas City Royals team history until Jeff Montgomery overtook him in the 1990s (specifically, in '96).

April 30th 1990 - US hostage Frank Reed freed after four years in hands of pro-Iranians.

May 15th 1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.

May 18th 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).

May 20th 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

May 21, 1990 - The Newhart finale, "The Last Newhart," aired on CBS. After Dick Loudon gets hit by a golf ball, he famously awakens in Dr. Bob Hartley's bedroom from The Bob Newhart Show and tells Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) about the strange dream he just had.

Breaking Bad parodied the twist ending as an alternate ending crossing over with Bryan Cranston's earlier sitcom, Malcolm in the Middle.

May 22nd 1990 - At the Center City at Columbus Circle in New York, Microsoft introduces and ships Microsoft Windows 3.0. This version allows addressing memory above 640 kB. Microsoft spends US$3 million for opening-day marketing, as part of a US$10 million promotional campaign.

May 22nd 1990 - In a 16-inning game against the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs' right fielder Andre Dawson is walked five times intentionally, establishing a major league record.

May 27th 1990, The Stone Roses played at Spike Island, Widnes, Cheshire, England to a capacity crowd of 30,000. The event, considered a failure at the time due to sound problems and bad organisation, has become legendary over the years as a "Woodstock for the baggy generation."

May 28th 1990 - "The Dave Thomas Comedy Show" debuted on CBS.

May 28th 1990 - Superior Galleries conducts the Boys Town Sale coin auction in Beverly Hills California. The King of Siam Proof Set (with 1804 silver dollar) sells for $3.19 million, highest price paid for a single auction lot in numismatic history. Total sale is $21.5 million, highest grossing one-part numismatic auction to date.

May 28th 1990, Mitch Mitchell, former drummer with The Jimi Hendrix Experience took out a High Court action against Private Eye magazine over an allegedly defamatory item. Are You Experienced?

May 29th 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

May 30th 1990: Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.

June 4th 1990, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ramon Martinez struck out 18 Atlanta Braves batters en route to a 6-0 victory.

June 6, 1990

New Kids On The Block release Step By Step to the delight of teenaged girls and the horror of some of their parents. They embark on the Magic Summer Tour.  The tour was sponsored by McDonald's and by Coca Cola.  Now 30 years later New Kids On The Block are celebrating the release of Step By Step and now the fans that were teenagers back then are now middle-aged women.

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June 7, 1990 - Nickelodeon Studios opened at Universal Studios in Orlando Florida (Now Universal Orlando). Also unveiled that day was the Nickelodeon Declaration of Kids' Rights.

http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2017/01/nickelodeons-declaration-of-kids-rights.html

Nickelodeon Studios officially closed April 30, 2005. Many of their live action shows had already moved to LA's Nickelodeon on Sunset from 1997-2017.

June 9th 1990, Bailiffs repossessed the mansion owned by the group 5 Star after non-payment of the mortgage. The group had achieved 15 top 20 hits over five years.

June 11th 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.

The June 1990 Mineriad began on this date in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections. (It would finally end on Friday, the 15th.)

15 June 1990: Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law was agreed (would come into force 1997).

June 20th 1990 - The Asteroid known as Eureka was discovered.

June 7, 1990 - Nickelodeon Studios opened at Universal Studios in Orlando Florida (Now Universal Orlando). Also unveiled that day was the Nickelodeon Declaration of Kids' Rights.

http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2017/01/nickelodeons-declaration-of-kids-rights.html

Nickelodeon Studios officially closed April 30, 2005. Many of their live action shows had already moved to LA's Nickelodeon on Sunset from 1997-2017.

A sad day, April 30th was. Nowadays Nickelodeon is crap and most of their live action shows are run by a pedophile with a foot fetish.

June 21st 1990 - US House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass Senate.

June 21st 1990 - US House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass Senate.

And for me that was my last day of my 4th-grade school year. The end of having to put up with an unpleasant teacher. (However, there were several positive things that I experienced during the year.)

June 22nd 1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

June 22nd 1990, Ry Cooder and David Lindley, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O'Connor, Deacon Blue, De La Soul, Adamski, Blue Aeroplanes, Julian Cope, Del Amitri, Jesus Jones, James and The Pale Saints all appeared on the first day of this years Glastonbury Festival. A three day ticket cost £38.

June 22nd 1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit.

June 23rd 1990, 13-year-old Keith Sorrentino filed a $500,000 (£294,118) lawsuit against Madonna, claiming he suffered nightmares and bed-wetting problems after an incident outside Madonna's home when she allegedly flung him to the ground.

June 23rd 1990, Buddy Holly's Gibson acoustic guitar sold for £139,658 ($237,419) in a Sotheby's auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself.

June 23rd 1990, Buddy Holly's Gibson acoustic guitar sold for £139,658 ($237,419) in a Sotheby's auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself.

"Ohhh oh, I look just like Buddy Holly..."

"Ohhh oh, I look just like Buddy Holly..."

That would be a line from a certain Wheezer song, which was a hit four years later...

Also on this day in 1990: In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord of 1987 dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.

June 25th 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.

June 28th 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.

30 years ago I had my brain tumor

30 years ago I had my brain tumor

Sorry you had to endure it at such a young age. :(

yeah, the worst time of my life and most people would not want to go through this again but if I can keep the doctors from radiating me I wouldn't have had a stroke and other medical problems.

yeah, the worst time of my life and most people would not want to go through this again but if I can keep the doctors from radiating me I wouldn't have had a stroke and other medical problems.
Sorry to hear the details of this, there has been similar conditions within my family, but treatment was before was properly established.

Take good care.

June 29th 1990 - New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak.

June 29th 1990 - New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak.

Also in Major League Baseball that day, Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers threw a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals.

https://www.truebluela.com/2020/6/29/21306260/fernando-valenzuela-no-hitter-dodgers-1990

The final batter that Fernando faced was ex-Dodger Pedro Guerrero, who was not only a longtime former teammate of his, but also a birthday boy (Pedro turned 34 that very day).

Also in Major League Baseball that day, Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers threw a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals.

https://www.truebluela.com/2020/6/29/21306260/fernando-valenzuela-no-hitter-dodgers-1990

The final batter that Fernando faced was ex-Dodger Pedro Guerrero, who was not only a longtime former teammate of his, but also a birthday boy (Pedro turned 34 that very day).


A second no-hitter was also thrown that day: Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays. (Stewart had also been a Dodger previously in his career. Not only that, he would join the Jays later in his career!)

July 1st 1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

July 9th 1990 - MTB Banking Corporation of New York sells a US $20 coin, 1907, Ultra High Relief, Proof-68 NGC, for over $1.5 million, a price record for a single US coin.

July 16th 1990 - New York City's Empire State Building catches fire; no fatalities.

July 16th 1990 – The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

July 16th 1990 - New York City's Empire State Building catches fire; no fatalities.

July 16th 1990 – The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.


Also on that day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average got oh-so-close to the 3,000 milestone... but finished the day at a quarter-of-a-point shy of the milestone, at 2,999.75...
and would not get back up to that level again for another nine months, when it finally cracked the 3K milestone in April of 1991.

July 16th 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

^ Lotsa things happened that day!

Anyways... on July 21st 1990, Taiwanese military police ordered the deportation of 76 illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat holds, causing 25 deaths due to suffocation. :(

July 22nd 1990: Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.

These events occurred on July 25th 1990:
George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
The Serb Democratic Party (Croatia) declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.

Yesterday...
July 26th 1990 - US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games.

Yesterday...
July 26th 1990 - US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games.

Also, President George H W Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act.

August 2nd 1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

August 20th 1990, Aerosmith appeared at The Marquee Club London. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page joined the band on stage for a blues jam.

August 23rd 1990:

Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
Fox's animated series The Simpsons began airing on Thursday nights. (This stint would last four years before the programme returned to Sunday nights.)

August 26th 1990:
In Sofia, Bulgaria, protesters set fire to the headquarters of the governing Bulgarian Socialist Party.
In sports, Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive home runs.

August 28th 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

September 20th 1990, South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

The United Nations World Summit for Children, which was held the weekend of September 29th-30th of 1990, drew more than 70 world leaders to United Nations Headquarters.

October 6th, 1990 – Sega's Game Gear color handheld is released in Japan.

October 5th 1990 – After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

October 13th 1990 – Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.

October 15th 1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

October 24th 1990, Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.

October 25, 1990 - The first-ever Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" premiered on Fox.

After Marge's prologue spoofing the disclaimer at the beginning of 1932's Frankenstein, Bart and Lisa tell each other three scary stories:

Bad Dream House: A parody of creepy house movies such as The Amityville Horror. It wasn't the only one. The episode "Realty Bites" features Marge selling a house to Ned Flanders which was the site of a homicide.

Hungry are the Damned: A parody of "To Serve Man" debuting Kang and Kodos.

A retelling of Poe's "The Raven" narrated by James Earl Jones.

The Treehouse of Horror series is now 31 strong, with said 31st installment set to air next Sunday after the World Series has concluded.

November 2nd 1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

November 16th 1990 - German-based band Milli Vanilli was forced to give back their Best New Artist Grammy Award because it was revealed that its members did not actually sing on their album Girl You Know It's True, and that the vocals were all provided by session musicians instead.

November 22, 1990 - The Undertaker made his WWF debut in the 1990 Survivor Series. Thirty years to the day, The 2020 WWE Survivor Series will mark The Undertaker's retirement.

November 22nd 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.

November 22nd 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.

Six days later, on November 28th 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.

November 30, 1990 - Stephen King's Misery, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Kathy Bates and James Caan, is released in theaters. Bates won an Oscar for her role as deranged fan Annie Wilkes.

December 1st 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

December 7, 1990 - Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands is released in theaters. Starring Johnny Depp, it featured one of Vincent Price's last major roles, as the Inventor.

December 8th 1990 – Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth for the first time.

December 8th 1990 – Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth for the first time.
Two years later... in 1992, the Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth for the second time.

The U.K. woke up to a deep fall of “the wrong sort of snow”. Heavy rain turned to snow, which then settled on many power lines with sufficient weight to bring the lines down. Our town was without power for three or four days, and some villages did’t get power until January.

December 11, 1990: 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog

December 23rd 1990: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.

December 25th 1990: British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.

January 2nd 1991: Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city, namely the District of Columbia. (Not only that, she became the first female mayor of that particular city.)

January 5th 1991 – Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.

January 5th 1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.

January 7th 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

January 7th 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

I returned to school after a two-week winter break (that day was a Monday). :)

January 12th 1991 – Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

January 13th 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.

January 15th 1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

January 16th 1991 - Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

January 18th 1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years of operations, citing financial problems. (Later in the year, on December 4, Pan American World Airways would cease its operations.)

January 19th 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

January 20th 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

January 22nd 1991 - During the Gulf War, The British Army SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero, is deployed in Iraq.

January 26th 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.

January 27th 1991 - Super Bowl XXV was played at the now-defunct Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The NFC champion New York Giants narrowly defeated the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, 20-19.

This was during the time of the Gulf War. A memorable performance of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", sung by Whitney Houston preceded the game. Her rendition was critically acclaimed and regarded as one of the best performances of the U.S. national anthem in history; it even hit the charts that year. (A decade later, in the wake of the Nine-Eleven attacks, the recording was re-released and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and got certified Platinum by the RIAA.)

February 7th 1991 - Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.