Timeline 1990 to June 30
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1990 Jan 1, David
Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
(AP, 1/1/98)
1990 Jan 2, On Wall Street, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day above 2,800 for the first
time, at 2,810.15.
(AP, 1/2/00)
1990 Jan 2, A lahar from the Mt.
Redoubt volcano in Alaska flooded part of the oil terminal in Cook
Inlet.
(http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/About/What/Monitor/Hydrologic/AFMRedoubt.html)
1990 Jan 2, Alan Hale Jr.
(b.1921), Skipper on Gilligan's Island, died of cancer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hale_Jr.)
1990 Jan 3, Ousted Panamanian
leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking
refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.
(AP, 1/3/98)
1990 Jan 4, Charles Stuart, who
had claimed a gunman had killed his pregnant wife and wounded him,
leaped to his death from a Boston Harbor bridge after he became a
suspect.
(AP, 1/4/00)
1990 Jan 4, Deposed Panamanian
leader Manuel Noriega was arraigned in federal district court in Miami
on drug-trafficking charges.
(AP, 1/4/00)
1990 Jan 4, In Sindh Province,
Pakistan, an overcrowded 16-car passenger train collided with standing
freight train and more than 210 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1990 Jan 5, President Bush told a
news conference the United States had a strong case against deposed
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and said he was convinced Noriega
would receive a fair trial on drug-trafficking charges.
(AP, 1/5/00)
1990 Jan 6, Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney told CNN the U.S. invasion of Panama should not be viewed as a
new "Bush doctrine" inclined toward military intervention in countries
where democratic elections had been subverted.
(AP, 1/6/00)
1990 Jan 7, The president of El
Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, said in a nationally broadcast address
that military men two months earlier had massacred six Jesuit priests,
their housekeeper and her daughter.
(AP, 1/7/00)
1990 Jan 8, Terry Thomas (78),
English comic (Heroes), died of Parkinson's disease.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry-Thomas)
1990 Jan 8, Military tribunals in
Romania began trials of the country's dreaded security forces who stood
accused of resisting the revolution that toppled Nicolae Ceausescu.
(AP, 1/8/00)
1990 Jan 9, The space shuttle
Columbia was launched on a 10-day mission that included retrieving a
drifting scientific satellite.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1990 Jan 10, NCAA approved the
random drug testing for college football players.
(http://tinyurl.com/ghgha)
1990 Jan 10, Chinese Premier Li
Peng lifted Beijing's 7-month-old martial law and said that by crushing
pro-democracy protests the army had saved China from "the abyss of
misery."
(AP, 1/10/00)
1990 Jan 11, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Lithuania, where he sought to assure
supporters of independence that they would have a say in their
republic's future.
(AP, 1/11/00)
1990 Jan 12, Astronauts aboard the
space shuttle Columbia retrieved an 11-ton floating science laboratory
in a rescue mission that kept the satellite from plunging to Earth.
(AP, 1/12/00)
1990 Jan 12, Civil Rights activist
Rev. Al Sharpton was stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
(http://tinyurl.com/fpmgu)
1990 Jan 12, Laurence J. Peter
(b.1919), author (Peter Principle), died of a stroke.
(www.nndb.com/lists/895/000106577/)
1990 Jan 13, L. Douglas Wilder of
Virginia, the nation's first elected black governor, took the oath of
office in Richmond.
(AP, 1/13/00)
1990 Jan 14, The Denver Broncos
and the San Francisco 49ers earned a trip to the Super Bowl by winning
the American and National Football Conference championships.
(AP, 1/14/00)
1990 Jan 16, Two Bank of Credit
and Commerce (BCCI) members pleaded guilty to money laundering.
(www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/08just.htm)
1990 Jan 16, The Soviet Union sent
more than 11,000 reinforcements to the Caucasus to halt a civil war
between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
(AP, 1/16/00)
1990 Jan 17, A federal judge in
Miami set March 1990 for the trial of ex-Panamanian leader Manuel
Noriega on drug trafficking charges. After initial delays, Noriega was
tried and convicted of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute
cocaine, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, later cut to 30
years.
(AP, 1/17/00)
1990 Jan 18, In an FBI sting,
Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession.
He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
(AP, 1/18/00)
1990 Jan 18, A jury in Los Angeles
acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother,
Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.
(AP, 1/18/00)
1990 Jan 19, Arthur J. Goldberg,
former Supreme Court justice, labor secretary and U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, was found dead in his Washington apartment at age
81.
(AP, 1/19/00)
1990 Jan 19, Elias Zayek, leader
of the Christian Phalange party of Lebanon was shot and killed in
Byblos. Samir Geagea, leader of the of the Lebanese Forces militia, was
later accused and convicted (5/20/96) of the murder.
(SFC, 5/21/96, p.A-11)
1990 Jan 19, Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh (b.1931), Indian guru (Osho), died in Pune, India. From 1981
to 1985 he resided in the US. His followers were involved in a
bio-terrorist attack in Oregon in 1984.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K6)(SFC, 6/15/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh)
1990 Jan 20, The space shuttle
Columbia returned from an 11-day mission.
(AP, 1/20/00)
1990 Jan 20, Actress Barbara
Stanwyck died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 82.
(AP, 1/20/00)
1990 Jan 20, The Soviets attacked
Baku, leaving dozens dead and wounded. Gen’l. Lebed led Russian forces
in Baku to crush the nationalist Azeri Popular Front. 62 civilians were
killed and more than 200 wounded when the Soviet army stormed into the
city of Baku to end what Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called
fratricidal killing between Muslim Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.
(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A21)(CO, Grolier’s Amer. Acad.
Enc./ Azerbaijan)(WSJ, 8/7/96, p.A15)(AP, 1/20/00)
1990 Jan 21, Azerbaijan Pres.
Aliyev made his first public appearance since his 1987 resignation from
the Soviet Politburo. He broke the information blackout and urged
int’l. condemnation of the Soviet attack. Mutinous military cadets
fired on troops patrolling the capital during a crackdown on a
nationalist uprising.
(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A21)(AP, 1/21/00)
1990 Jan 22, A jury in Syracuse,
N.Y., convicted graduate student Robert T. Morris of federal computer
tampering charges for unleashing a "worm" that crippled a computer
network.
(AP, 1/22/00)
1990 Jan 22, Up to 2 million
Azerbaijanis marched through the republic's capital to mourn those
killed when Soviet troops put down a nationalist revolt.
(AP, 1/22/00)
1990 Jan 23, The 101st US Congress
convened its second session, facing an agenda that included clean air
legislation and deficit reduction.
(AP, 1/23/00)
1990 Jan 23, In Oregon Keith
Hunter Jesperson (b.1955) began his career as a serial killer with the
sexual assault and murder of Taunja Bennett. He went on to murder 8
women. He was arrested in March, 1995. In October 1995 just before
going to trial, he pleaded guilty to the murder of Bennett. Multnomah
County Presiding Judge Donald H. Londer sentenced Jesperson to life in
prison, setting a minimum 30-year prison term before being eligible for
parole. Jesperson claimed to have murdered up to 160 people in
California, Florida, Washington, Oregon and Wyoming. In 2002 Jack
Olsen (d.2002) authored “I: The Creation of a Serial Killer.”
(SSFC, 8/18/02,
p.M2)(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/murder_1.html)
1990 Jan 24, The House voted
390-25 to override President Bush's veto of legislation protecting
Chinese students from deportation. Bush prevailed in a Senate vote the
next day.
(AP, 1/24/00)
1990 Jan 25, President Bush
proposed to add an additional $1.2 billion to the budget for the war on
drugs, including a 50% increase in military spending.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/index.html)
1990 Jan 25, An Avianca Boeing 707
ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, N.Y.; 73 of the 161 people
aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1990 Jan 25, Actress Ava Gardner,
star in 60 films, died in London at age 67. Her 3 husbands included
Mickey Rooney (1942-1943), Artie Shaw (1945-1946) and Frank Sinatra
(1951-1957).
(AP, 1/25/00)(SFEC, 3/12/00, Par p.2)
1990 Jan 26, Attorneys for Manuel
Noriega challenged the jurisdiction of U.S. courts to try the deposed
Panamanian leader on drug-trafficking charges, and said Noriega should
be declared a prisoner of war.
(AP, 1/26/00)
1990 Jan 27, In Romania, four top
associates of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu went on trial,
charged with abetting genocide.
(AP, 1/27/00)
1990 Jan 28, The San Francisco
49ers routed the Denver Broncos, 55-10, in the 24th Super Bowl.
(AP, 1/28/00)
1990 Jan 29, Former Exxon Valdez
skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges
stemming from the nation's worst oil spill; Hazelwood later was
acquitted of the major charges and convicted of a misdemeanor.
(AP, 1/29/00)
1990 Jan 30, A federal judge
ordered former President Reagan to provide excerpts of his personal
diaries to John M. Poindexter for the former national security
adviser's Iran-Contra trial. The judge later reversed himself, deciding
the material was not essential.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1990 Jan 31, McDonald's Corp.
opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.
(AP, 1/31/98)
1990 Jan, In Albania
demonstrations at Shkodra forced authorities to declare a state of
emergency.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1990 Feb 1, Jane Novak (b.1896),
film actress (Ghost Town), died of stroke in Woodland Hills, Ca. Her
career began with silent films.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8755790)
1990 Feb 1, East Germany's
Communist premier, Hans Modrow, appealed for negotiations with West
Germany to forge a "united fatherland."
(AP, 2/1/00)
1990 Feb 2, In a dramatic
concession to South Africa's black majority, President F.W. de Klerk
lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free
Nelson Mandela.
(AP, 2/2/00)
1990 Feb 3, The parliament of
Bulgaria elected economist Andrei Lukanov to replace a hard-line
Communist as premier. Lukanov became the prime minister after rising to
the number 2 spot of the Communist hierarchy under Zhivkov. He oversaw
the party’s formal break with Stalinism and victory in the first free
elections.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.A10)(AP, 2/3/00)
1990 Feb 4, Nine people were
killed as guerrillas attacked a bus carrying Israeli tourists near
Cairo, Egypt.
(AP, 2/4/00)
1990 Feb 4, Cheering protesters
thronged Moscow streets to demand that the Communists surrender their
stranglehold on power.
(AP, 2/4/00)
1990 Feb 5, The Nepali Congress
passed a resolution officially launching the "country-wide peaceful
mass movement." Shortly thereafter, as many as 475 opposition party
members, human rights advocates, students, lawyers and journalists were
arrested. In a number of incidents, police opened fire indiscriminately
into crowds of unarmed demonstrators. Estimates of the number killed
range from 50 to several hundred. While the lower figure probably is
more accurate, the precise figure may never be known because the police
disposed of many of the bodies in secret without conducting inquests.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1990/WR90/ASIA.BOU-07.htm)
1990 Feb 5, Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev told the Communist Party it had to earn the right to rule,
instead of treating it as an unchallenged right.
(AP, 2/5/00)
1990 Feb 6, Soviet Communist Party
leaders decided to extend a two-day party session by an extra day amid
controversy over Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposals to
revamp the country's political structure.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1990 Feb 7, An 811-foot tanker,
the American Trader, spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of
Alaskan crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif.
(AP, 2/7/00)
1990 Feb 7, Judith Clancy
(b.1950), SF artist, died of cancer.
(www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1095157331)
1990 Feb 7, In Pakistan riots
broke out between rival political parties and 22 people were hurt.
(http://tinyurl.com/htbtm)
1990 Feb 7, The Soviet Union's
Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for
control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power.
(AP, 2/7/00)
1990 Feb 8, CBS television
temporarily suspended Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and anti-black
remarks in a gay magazine interview.
(HN, 2/8/99)
1990 Feb 9, John Gotti (1940-2002)
was acquitted of charges that he commissioned the Westies gang to shoot
a union official in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. This earned him the
nickname "The Teflon Don."
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A2)
1990 Feb 9, Perrier Group of
America Inc. announced it was voluntarily recalling its inventory of
mineral water in the United States after tests showed the presence of
benzene in a small number of bottles.
(AP, 2/9/00)
1990 Feb 9, The Galileo satellite,
launched Oct. 18, 1989, made its closest approach to Venus.
(www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/90/release_1990_0124.html)
1990 Feb 10, In Indonesia Mount
Kelud erupted. Some 33 post eruption lahars took place from Feb
15-mar28 and more than 30 people were killed with hundreds injured.
(AP,
11/3/07)(www.springerlink.com/content/x7d7qvad0ct3c9bf/)
1990 Feb 10, South African
President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela
would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
(AP, 2/10/00)
1990 Feb 11, In a stunning upset,
heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was knocked out in the 10th round of
his fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1990 Feb 11, Nelson Mandela was
released from a South African prison after being detained for 27 years
as a political prisoner fighting against Apartheid.
(AP, 2/11/97)(HN, 2/11/99)
1990 Feb 12, President Bush
rejected Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's new initiative for
troop reductions in Europe, but predicted a "major success" on arms
control at the superpower summit in June.
(AP, 2/12/00)
1990 Feb 12, Robert Ouko (b.1931),
Kenya’s foreign minister and member of the Luo tribe, was murdered
during his investigation of corruption charges against the government.
(Econ, 2/9/08,
p.51)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ouko)
1990 Feb 13, At a conference in
Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged agreement with
the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite
Germany.
(AP, 2/13/00)
1990 Feb 14, Space probe Voyager 1
took photographs of entire solar system.
(www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conMediaFile.4331)
1990 Feb 14, Ninety-four people
were killed when an Indian Airlines passenger jet crashed while landing
at a southern Indian airport.
(AP, 2/14/00)
1990 Feb 15, Professional baseball
owners locked out their players.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1990 Feb 15, President Bush and
the leaders of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru met in Cartagena, Colombia
for a drug-fighting summit.
(AP, 2/15/00)
1990 Feb 16, Former President
Reagan began two days of giving a videotaped deposition in Los Angeles
for the Iran-Contra trial of former national security adviser John
Poindexter.
(AP, 2/16/00)
1990 Feb 17, Former President
Reagan spent a second day in a Los Angeles courtroom, giving videotaped
testimony about the Iran-Contra affair for the trial of his former
national security adviser, John Poindexter.
(AP, 2/17/00)
1990 Feb 18, In general elections,
Japan's conservative governing party held onto its 34-year-old majority
in the Parliament's lower house.
(AP, 2/18/00)
1990 Feb 19, US Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney, snubbed by Philippine President Corazon Aquino, met in
Manila with Defense Minister Fidel Ramos to discuss the future of U.S.
bases in the country.
(AP, 2/19/00)
1990 Feb 19, Michael Powell (84),
English director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), died.
(www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/447167/index.html)
1990 Feb 20, President Bush
welcomed Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel to the White House,
promising trade rewards for Prague's moves toward democracy.
(AP, 2/20/00)
1990 Feb 21, Addressing the U.S.
Congress, Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel said his nation welcomed
U.S. help after decades of Soviet domination, but also said Europe
should eventually "decide for itself" how long American and Soviet
troops should remain.
(AP, 2/21/00)
1990 Feb 22, Former President
Reagan's videotaped testimony for the trial of former national security
adviser John Poindexter was released in Washington; in his deposition,
Reagan said he never had "any inkling" his aides were secretly arming
the Nicaraguan Contras.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1990 Feb 23, James Gavin (b.1907),
US commander 82nd Airborne Div (Normandy), died. He was known as “the
jumping general” for parachuting along with combat troops in WW II.
(www.britannica.com/dday/article-9000825)
1990 Feb 23, Former Salvadoran
President Jose Napoleon Duarte died at age 64.
(AP, 2/23/00)
1990 Feb 24, Magazine publisher
Malcolm Forbes died in Far Hills, N.J. at age 70.
(AP, 2/24/00)
1990 Feb 24, Johnnie Ray (63),
fifties balladeer (Cry), died in Los Angeles of liver failure.
(AP, 2/24/00)
1990 Feb 25, Enver Hadri, a human
rights leader, was allegedly shot in the head by Veselin Vukotic and
two other men while he was stopped at a traffic light in Brussels,
Belgium. Hadri had papers on him incriminating former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic in assassinations. All three gunmen were
believed to be hitmen working for the Yugoslav secret service. Veselin
was arrested in Spain in 2006.
(AP, 2/27/06)
1990 Feb 25, Nicaraguans voted in
an election that led to an upset victory for opponents of the ruling
Sandinistas. Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, lost to
Violeta Chamorro.
(WSJ, 3/12/96, p. A-16)(AP, 2/25/98)
1990 Feb 26, USSR agreed to
withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1990 Feb 27, The US Supreme Court
ruled that prison officials could force inmates to take powerful
anti-psychotic drugs without a judge's consent.
(AP, 2/27/00)
1990 Feb 27, Exxon Corp and Exxon
Shipping were indicted on 5 criminal counts for the oil spill at
Valdez, Alaska.
(www.epa.gov/history/topics/valdez/02.htm)
1990 Feb 28, Space shuttle
Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on a secret mission to
place a spy satellite in orbit.
(AP, 2/28/00)
1990 Feb, Cisco Systems Corp. went
public.
(SFC,11/5/97, p.D1)
1990 Feb, In Germany a group of
artists occupied Tacheles, a building in East Berlin, two months before
it was scheduled for demolition. The squatters saved it by getting the
city to declare it a historic landmark. Their lease ended Dec. 31,
2008, and residents were advised to move out though no court order was
issued.
(AP, 2/13/09)
1990 Mar 1, The controversial
Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on
line after two decades of protests and legal struggles.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1990 Mar 1, Benin nullified its
constitution.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1990 Mar 1, Luis Alberto Lacelle
was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1990 Mar 2, More than 6,000
drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. The company, later
declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1990 Mar 2, A grenade attack in
downtown Panama killed a U.S. soldier and injured 28 other people at
the My Place discotheque on Via Espania and Calle 50.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1990 Mar 3, President Bush sparked
controversy by expressing opposition to the settlement of Soviet Jewish
refugees in East Jerusalem.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1990 Mar 3, Carole Gist (20) of
Michigan was 1st black crowned 39th Miss USA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1990 Mar 4, The 20th Easter Seal
Telethon was held.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1990 Mar 4, Atlantis 6, the US
65th manned space mission STS 36, returned from space.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1990 Mar 4, Voters in the Soviet
republics of Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine participated in local
and legislative elections, resulting in notable gains for reformists
and nationalists.
(AP, 3/4/00)
1990 Mar 5, To the cheers of
onlookers, workers in Bucharest, Romania, finally succeeded in removing
a 25-foot, seven-ton bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin from its
foundation.
(AP, 3/5/00)
1990 Mar 6, The Soviet parliament
overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories
and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1990 Mar 7, Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan announced the US government would
propose a more informative food-labeling system that would require the
disclosure of the fat, fiber and cholesterol content of nearly all
packaged foods.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1990 Mar 8, Opening arguments were
heard in the Iran-Contra trial of former national security adviser John
M. Poindexter.
(AP, 3/8/00)
1990 Mar 8, NYC's Zodiac killer
shoot his 1st victim, Mario Orosco. Orozco survived a bullet lodged
near his spine.
(http://karisable.com/skazzodiac.htm)
1990 Mar 9, Dr. Antonia Novello
(b.1944) was sworn in as the US surgeon general, becoming the first
woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job. Dr. Novello became
Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in 1999.
(AP,
3/9/98)(www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/history/bionovello.htm)
1990 Mar 10, Haitian ruler Lt.
Gen. Prosper Avril resigned during a popular uprising against his
military regime.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1990 Mar 11, Chile’s General
Augusto Pinochet gave up power after 16 years of rule, but remained
commander of the army.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1990 Mar 11, The Lithuanian
parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its
independence. The Supreme Council promulgated the historic document:
"On the Re-establishment of the Independent State of Lithuania."
Validity of the 1938 Constitution was briefly reinstated and the
provisional Fundamental Law was adopted. Vytautas Landsbergis was
elected president of Lithuania under the party Sajudis. Landsbergis was
elected Chairman of the Council with Bronislovas Juozas Kuzmickas,
Kazimieras Motieka and Ceslovas Stankevicius as Vice Chairmen, with
Liuvikas Sabutis as Secretary. Four governments were formed under
tenure of the Council. They were led by Kazimiera Danute Prunskiene,
Albertas Simenas, Gediminas Vagnorius and Aleksandras Algirdas Abisala.
Moscow responded with an economic blockade that brought industry and
transportation to a standstill. In June the Lithuanians agreed to
suspend independence.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(CSOE)(HN, 3/11/98)(AP, 3/11/00)
1990 Mar 12, Vice President Quayle
met in Santiago, Chile, with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who
promised to peacefully relinquish power to Violeta Chamorro, the
U.S.-backed candidate who had won Nicaragua's presidential election.
(AP, 3/12/00)
1990 Mar 13, President Bush lifted
trade sanctions against Nicaragua in a show of support for
President-elect Violeta Chamorro.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1990 Mar 13, The Soviet Congress
of People's Deputies approved Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposals for a
multiparty political system headed by a powerful president.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1990 Mar 13, Bruno Bettelheim
(86), Austrian-US psychoanalyst, committed suicide. His books included
"The Empty Fortress" (1967), on infantile autism and "the Use of
Enchantment" (1976), a study of fairy tales. In 1996 Richard Pollak
wrote: "The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim." In
2002 Theron Raines authored "Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno
Bettelheim."
(SFC, 12/29/96, BR p.1)(SSFC, 9/8/02,
p.M4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim)
1990 Mar 14, The United States,
the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and West and East Germany held their
first formal meeting on reunifying the German states.
(AP, 3/14/00)
1990 Mar 14, The Soviet Congress
elected Mikhail S. Gorbachev president of the Soviet Congress, a day
after creating the post.
(HN, 3/14/98)(AP, 3/14/00)
1990 Mar 15, Iraq executed
London-based journalist Farzad Bazoft, claiming he was a spy.
(AP, 3/15/00)
1990 Mar 15, The Israeli
government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir lost a vote of confidence
in the Knesset after Shamir refused to accept a U.S. plan for
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
(AP, 3/15/00)
1990 Mar 16, South African
President F.W. de Klerk announced that exiled African National Congress
leaders could return home for talks with the white-led government.
(AP, 3/16/00)
1990 Mar 18, There was a theft of
art work from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 2 men
dressed as policemen made off with masterworks that included
Rembrandt’s "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee," Vermeer’s "The Concert,"
Manet’s "Chez Tortoni," and 5 paintings and drawings by Edgar Degas and
a 1200 BC Chinese bronze beaker valued at $300 million. The theft led
Sen. Edward Kennedy to sponsor the museum theft provision of the 1994
Omnibus Crime Act. In 2009 Ulrich Boser authored “The Gardner Heist.”
(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A8)(WSJ, 5/13/97, p.A21)(SFC,
8/26/97, p.A3)(SFC,12/15/97, p.A3)(WSJ, 2/20/09, p.W10)
1990 Mar 18, An alliance of
conservative parties won a surprising victory over the Communists in
East Germany's first free elections.
(AP, 3/18/00)
1990 Mar 19, Latvia's political
opposition claimed victory in the republic's first free elections in 50
years, and reformers also claimed victories in crucial runoffs held in
Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine.
(AP, 3/19/00)
1990 Mar 19, Kremlin warned
Lithuania against taking over factories, putting up border posts.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1990 Mar 20, Namibia became an
independent nation, marking the end of 75 years of South African rule.
The South African colony gained independence after 25 years of
guerrilla war. Namibians began petitioning the U.N. as early as 1947,
developing political parties, most notably SWAPO (South West Africa
People‘s Organization) to voice opposition to South African rule. Armed
resistance to South African rule began in earnest in the 1970s and
continued into the 1980s, which combined with drought and other
factors, contributed to an overwhelming drain to South Africa‘s
economy. The UN Security Council eventually demanded independence for
Namibia, but transition elections were not agreed to by South Africa
until December 1988 after a military disaster involving Angola. The UN
Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) started work in April 1989 with
elections giving SWAPO 57% of the vote. On March 21 of the following
year, the South African flag was lowered and the Namibian flag raised
in Namibia‘s National Stadium.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.20A)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.T4)(AP,
3/20/00)(HNQ, 2/13/01)
1990 Mar 20, The last Indian
peacekeepers left Sri Lanka.
(www.india-seminar.com/1999/479/479%20mehta.htm)
1990 Mar 21, Secretary of State
James Baker met black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela in Namibia.
(AP, 3/21/00)
1990 Mar 21, Elkins, West
Virginia, reported a record national low of minus 16 degrees.
(SFC, 3/21/09, p.D10)
1990 Mar 21, Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev increased pressure on the breakaway republic of Lithuania,
ordering its citizens to turn in their guns.
(AP, 3/21/00)
1990 Mar 22, A jury in Anchorage,
Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three
major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but
convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/00)
1990 Mar 23, Former Exxon Valdez
Captain Joseph Hazelwood was sentenced by a judge in Anchorage, Alaska,
to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution
for his role in the 1989 oil spill.
(AP, 3/23/00)
1990 Mar 23, Rene Enriquez (56),
actor (Hill St Blues), died of pancreatic cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0258089/)
1990 Mar 24, Soviet military
vehicles rumbled through the heart of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius
as lawmakers in the breakaway Baltic republic voted to transfer their
power to foreign soil if they were attacked or arrested.
(AP, 3/24/00)
1990 Mar 25, Star Trek V won as
worst picture in the 10th Golden Raspberry Awards.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Golden_Raspberry_Awards)
1990 Mar 25 Eighty-seven
people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed
when an arson fire raced through the illegal Happy Land Social Club in
New York City. Julio Gonzalez, 36, was charged with arson and murder.
Gonzalez was convicted in August 1991 and was sentenced to 174
twenty-five-year sentences (a total of 4,350 years), the longest
sentence ever handed down in New York. He is eligible for parole in
2015.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(arsonist))
1990 Mar 26, "Driving Miss Daisy"
won best picture at the 62nd annual Academy Awards and captured the
best actress prize for Jessica Tandy; Daniel Day-Lewis was named best
actor for "My Left Foot."
(AP, 3/26/00)
1990 Mar 26, Designer Halston died
in San Francisco at age 57.
(AP, 3/26/00)
1990 Mar 27, The U.S. began test
broadcasts of TV Marti to Cuba, which promptly jammed the signal.
(AP, 3/27/00)
1990 Mar 27, Soviet soldiers began
rounding up Lithuanians who had fled the Red Army after the republic's
declaration of independence.
(AP, 3/27/00)
1990 Mar 28, Jesse Owens
(1913-1980) was awarded (posthumously) the Congressional Gold Medal
from President George Bush.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens)
1990 Mar 28, British customs
officials announced they had foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40
American-made devices for triggering nuclear weapons, following an
18-month investigation by U.S. and British authorities.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1990 Mar 29, President Bush,
addressing the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, declared his
administration "on a wartime footing" against the disease, and called
for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the
virus.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1990 Mar 30, Idaho Gov. Cecil
Andrus vetoed a highly restrictive state abortion measure, saying the
bill gave a woman and her family no flexibility in cases of rape and
incest.
(AP, 3/30/00)
1990 Mar 30, Harry Bridges
(b.1901), Australian-born SF labor activist, died.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A19)
1990 Mar 31, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned the defiant Baltic republic of Lithuania to
annul its declaration of independence or face "grave consequences."
(AP, 3/31/00)
1990 Mar 31, Hundreds of people
were injured in rioting in London over Britain's so-called "poll tax."
The poll-tax disturbances helped to bring down PM Margaret Thatcher.
(AP, 3/31/00)(Econ, 3/8/08, p.66)
1990 Mar, Over 700 people from
around the world gathered for the First International Ecocity
Conference in Berkeley, Ca.
(PacDis, Spring '94, p. 27)
1990 Mar, GM and SAAB completed
setting up a joint auto-making venture in Europe. They had agreed on
Dec. 15, 1989, to form a 50-50 joint auto-making company, called Saab
Automobile A.B.
(http://tinyurl.com/oktgl)
1990 Mar, Several people were
killed and hundreds injured in clashes between Romanians and ethnic
Hungarians in the Transylvanian city of Targu Mures. The Szeklers make
up about a third of Romania's 1.4 million Hungarian minority.
(AP, 10/8/06)
1990 Mar, Namibia, the South
African colony, gained independence.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.20A)
1990 Mar, Following the Sudanese
government's failure to make any move toward restoring democracy after
the June 1989 military coup, the US government suspended all
development assistance to Sudan under Section 513 of the Foreign
Assistance Act, which mandates a cutoff in most U.S. aid to any nation
where an elected government has been overthrown in a coup. However,
food aid under P.L. 480 and humanitarian assistance are permitted to
continue.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/WR92/AFW-09.htm)
1990 Apr 1, The US Federal Hourly
Minimum Wage was set at $3.80 an hour.
(www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm)
1990 Apr 1, CBS fired sportscaster
Brent Musburger (b.1939).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Musburger)
1990 Apr 1, More Soviet military
vehicles rolled through the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, a day after
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned the Baltic republic to
annul its declaration of independence.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1990 Apr 2, The University of
Nevada at Las Vegas won the NCAA college basketball championship,
defeating Duke 103-73.
(AP, 4/2/00)
1990 Apr 2, Saddam Hussein of Iraq
threatened to hit Israel with binary chemical weapons.
(http://tinyurl.com/oz5my)
1990 Apr 2, In a conciliatory
gesture, the president of Lithuania invited Kremlin officials to
discuss the republic's secession drive.
(AP, 4/2/00)
1990 Apr 3, Sarah Vaughan (66),
Jazz singer, died in suburban Los Angeles.
(AP, 4/3/00)
1990 Apr 3, A delegation from the
rebellious republic of Lithuania met with an adviser to Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev.
(AP, 4/3/00)
1990 Apr 4, Secretary of State
James Baker met in Washington with his Soviet counterpart, Eduard
Shevardnadze, for three days of talks on the Lithuanian crisis and arms
control.
(AP, 4/4/00)
1990 Apr 4, Security law violator
Ivan Boesky was released from federal custody.
(http://www3.cnn.com/almanac/9804/04/)
1990 Apr 5, It was announced that
President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev would hold their first
full-scale summit in the United States.
(AP, 4/5/00)
1990 Apr 5, Paul Newman won a
court victory over Julius Gold to keep giving all profits from Newman
foods to charity.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1990-4/1990-04-05-CBS-15.html)
1990 Apr 6, Secretary of State
James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze concluded
three days of talks in Washington, after which Shevardnadze handed
President Bush a letter from Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
(AP, 4/6/00)
1990 Apr 7, A display of Robert
Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts
Center, the same day the center and its director were indicted on
obscenity charges. Both were later acquitted.
(AP, 4/7/00)
1990 Apr 7, Former national
security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his
Iran-Contra trial. However, a federal appeals court later reversed the
convictions.
(HN, 4/7/97)(AP, 4/7/00)
1990 Apr 7, In Myanmar a
double-decker ferry sank in Gyaing River during a storm and 215 people
were believed drowned.
(www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0005329.html)
1990 Apr 7, An arson fire aboard a
ferry en route from Norway to Denmark killed 158 people.
(AP, 4/7/00)
1990 Apr 8, The
cult series Twin Peaks premiered on ABC TV. It ran until Apr 18, 1991.
(SFC, 2/19/96, zz-1 p.3)(AP, 4/8/00)
1990 Apr 8, Ryan White (18), the
teen-age AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national
attention, died in Indianapolis. The Ryan White Foundation was
established for AIDS education programs after his death and it closed
its doors due to dwindling funds in 1999.
(AP, 4/8/97)(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A3)
1990 Apr 8, A global conference of
the Prague-based International Romani Union, a coalition of
organizations working to ease the plight of Gypsies, designated this
day as International Day of Roma.
(AP, 4/8/06)
1990 Apr 9, The baseball season
opened a week late because of a labor dispute.
(AP, 4/9/00)
1990 Apr 9, Humorist John Henry
Faulk, who challenged his blacklisting in the entertainment industry in
the 1950s, died in Austin, Texas, at age 76.
(AP, 4/9/00)
1990 Apr 10, Three European
hostages -- a French woman, a Belgian man and their two-year-old
daughter, who was born in captivity -- were released in Lebanon by the
Abu Nidal Palestinian guerrilla group following an appeal by Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1990 Apr 10, Teddy Wang Tei-huei
(57), Hong Kong real estate tycoon, was kidnapped for a 2nd time.
Abductors demanded $60 million. His wife Nina Wang paid a $34 million
installment, but it was too late. His body was never found. Wang was
declared legally dead in 1999.
(WSJ, 10/20/99, p.A23)(Econ, 7/3/04, p.52)
1990 Apr 11, Funeral services were
held in Indianapolis for AIDS patient Ryan White, who had died three
days earlier at age 18. Among the 1,500 mourners were first lady
Barbara Bush and singers Elton John and Michael Jackson.
(AP, 4/11/00)
1990 Apr 11, Constantine
Mitsotakis (b.1918) of the New Democracy party became prime minister of
Greece with one vote from an independently elected member of the
parliament. He held office to October 13, 1993.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Mitsotakis)
1990 Apr 12, Greyhound Bus hired
new drivers to replace strikers.
(www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi?askmonth=04&askday=12)
1990 Apr 12, James Brown (b.1933)
was moved to the lower Savannah Work Center in Aiken County, SC, after
serving 15 months.
(www.epinions.com/content_3372720260)
1990 Apr 12, In its first meeting,
East Germany's first democratically elected parliament acknowledged
responsibility for the Nazi Holocaust, and asked the forgiveness of
Jews and others who had suffered.
(AP, 4/12/00)
1990 Apr 13, The Soviet Union
accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of
imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, a massacre the Soviets
had previously blamed on the Nazis.
(AP, 4/13/97)
1990 Apr 14, The hip-hop group
Salt-N-Pepa hit the top #40 on the pop singles chart with "Expression."
(www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1990/04-14.htm)
1990 Apr 14, Lithuanian officials,
facing a Kremlin deadline to back away from their declaration of
independence, acknowledged that an economic blockade threatened by
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev could result in huge layoffs.
(AP, 4/14/00)
1990 Apr 15, Actress Greta Garbo
died in New York City at age 84. In 1997 Karen Swenson authored "Greta
Garbo: A Life Apart." In 2000 the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia
opened 55 letters written by Garbo to her lesbian friend Mercedes de
Acosta (d.1968) between 1931-1959. Acosta was a Spanish aristocrat
turned Hollywood screenwriter.
(AP, 4/15/97)(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A5)
1990 Apr 16, The Supreme Court
rejected appeals by Dalton Prejean, a nearly retarded man, who was
condemned to die for the 1977 murder of a Louisiana state trooper.
Prejean was executed the following month. The court also let stand a
ban on school dances in the Bible Belt town of Purdy, Mo.
(AP, 4/16/00)
1990 Apr 17, President Bush warned
the Soviet Union against carrying out an economic blockade of
Lithuania, hinting at "appropriate responses."
(AP, 4/17/00)
1990 Apr 17, The Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy, the civil rights activist and top aide to Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., died in Atlanta at age 64.
(AP, 4/17/00)
1990 Apr 18, The US Supreme Court
ruled that states may make it a crime to possess or look at child
pornography, even in one's home.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1990 Apr 18, Bankruptcy court
forced Frank Lorenzo (b.1940) to give up Eastern Airlines.
(www.airlinesafety.com/Unions/UnionVictoryAtEastern.htm)
1990 Apr 18, A Franco-German
proposal was made at the Dublin summit for the political union of the
12 European Community member countries.
(www.unesco.org/mitterrand/anglais/ieuroues.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/36pexa)
1990 Apr 18, The Soviet Union shut
off a pipeline that supplied the rebellious republic of Lithuania with
crude oil; a day later, the Soviets severely reduced the flow of
natural gas.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1990 Apr 19, Nicaragua's
nine-year-old civil war appeared near an end as Contra guerrillas,
leftist Sandinistas and the incoming government agreed to a truce and a
deadline for the rebels to disarm.
(AP, 4/19/00)
1990 Apr 20, Former junk bond
financier Michael Milken agreed to plead guilty to six felonies and pay
$600 million in penalties to settle the largest securities fraud case
in history.
(AP, 4/20/00)
1990 Apr 20, Pete Rose pleaded
guilty to two felony counts of filing false income tax returns.
(http://reds.enquirer.com/2004/01/06/red1timeline.html)
1990 Apr 21, Bob Engel, a National
League umpire was arrested in Bakersfield, Ca., for stealing baseball
cards.
(http://tinyurl.com/qfma3)
1990 Apr 21, Pope John Paul II was
greeted by hundreds of thousands of people as he visited Czechoslovakia
to help celebrate the nation's peaceful overthrow of communist rule.
(AP, 4/21/00)
1990 Apr 22, Pro-Iranian
kidnappers in Lebanon freed American hostage Robert Polhill after
nearly 39 months of captivity.
(AP, 4/22/00)
1990 Apr 22, Millions of Americans
joined in a worldwide 20th anniversary celebration of the first Earth
Day.
(AP, 4/22/00)
1990 Apr 23, Freed American
hostage Robert Polhill, released in Lebanon the day before, enjoyed his
first full day of freedom in nearly 39 months at the U.S. Air Force
hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany.
(AP, 4/23/00)
1990 Apr 24, Security law violator
Michael Milken pleaded guilty to 6 felonies.
(www.johnreedstark.com/ClassMaterials/LitigationReleases/Milken1991.htm)
1990 Apr 24, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the $1.5
billion Hubble Space Telescope. It cost $2 billion. The orbital period
of the telescope was 97 Minutes. In 2008 Robert Zimmerman authored “The
Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the
Visionaries Who Built It.”
(AP, 4/24/97)(NG, 1/’94, p.23)(WSJ, 2/14/97,
p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/98, p.E3)(WSJ, 6/16/08, p.A13)
1990 Apr 24, West and East Germany
agreed to merge currency and economies on July 1.
(www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1990/1990-3-3.htm)
1990 Apr 25, In the 25th Academy
of Country Music Awards Clint Black and Kathy Mattea won.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1990 Apr 25, The Hubble Space
Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle "Discovery."
(AP, 4/25/00)
1990 Apr 25, Dexter Gordon (67),
jazz saxophonist, died in Philadelphia.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1990 Apr 25, Violeta Barrios de
Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua for a six year term,
ending 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule.
(AP, 4/25/97)(HN, 4/25/98)
1990 Apr 26, Israeli PM Yitzhak
Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, was chosen to form a new
government after Labor Party leader Shimon Peres failed to form a
coalition.
(AP, 4/26/00)
1990 Apr 27, The aperture door of
the Hubble Space Telescope was opened by ground controllers as the
space shuttle Discovery, which had carried the Hubble into orbit,
prepared to return home.
(AP, 4/27/00)
1990 Apr 28, Anti-abortion
demonstrators marched in Washington D.C.; authorities put the number of
protesters at 200,000, but organizers claimed a turnout of about
700,000.
(AP, 4/28/00)
1990 Apr 29, The space shuttle
Discovery landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a
mission which included deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1990 Apr 30, Hostage Frank Reed
was released by his captives in Lebanon, the second American freed in
eight days.
(AP, 4/30/00)
1990 Apr, Argentina’s Congress
under Pres. Carlos Menem added 4 new seats to the 5-member Supreme
Court.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.46)
1990 Apr, In Japan the Aum Shinri
Kyo cult sent three trucks into central Tokyo to spray poisonous
botulin mists. The convoy then attacked US bases at Yokohama and
Yokosuka. The botulin did not work and the cult turned to use anthrax.
(SFC, 5/27/98, p.A12)
1990 Apr, A pro-independence
coalition won in Slovenia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1990 May 1, In Hampton, NH,
William Flynn (16) and a friend shot and killed Gregory Smart (b.1965),
the husband of Pamela Smart (23) with whom Flynn was having an affair.
Flynn was sentenced 28 years to life. Smart had enlisted Flynn to kill
her husband and was sentenced to life in prison.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7090228)
1990 May 1, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other Kremlin leaders were jeered by thousands
of people during the annual May Day parade in Red Square.
(AP, 5/1/00)
1990 May 2, David Rappaport (38),
British 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), committed suicide by gunshot in
California.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0710884/)
1990 May 2, The government of
South Africa and the African National Congress opened their first
formal talks aimed at paving the way for more substantive negotiations
on dismantling apartheid.
(AP, 5/2/00)
1990 May 3, The US federal
government approved the use of the drug AZT to treat children infected
with the AIDS virus.
(AP, 5/3/00)
1990 May 4, Latvia's parliament
voted 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence. The Russophone
Ravnopraviye (Equal Rights Movement) boycotted this resolution by
walking out of parliament.
(http://countrystudies.us/latvia/20.htm)
1990 May 4, The South African
government and the African National Congress concluded historic talks
in Cape Town with a joint statement agreeing on a "common commitment
toward the resolution of the existing climate of violence."
(AP, 5/4/00)
1990 May 5, "Unbridled" won the
116th running of the Kentucky Derby.
(AP, 5/5/00)
1990 May 5, Five people were
killed as 3 small fishing boats capsized in the Strait of Juan De Fuca,
along the northwest int’l. border between the US and Canada.
(SFC, 5/5/09, p.D8)
1990 May 6, Freed American hostage
Frank Reed said at a news conference in Arlington, Va., that he had
been savagely beaten by his captors in Lebanon after two unsuccessful
escape attempts.
(AP, 5/6/00)
1990 May 6, Former president P.W.
Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party as a protest against
the apartheid reform program of his successor F.W. de Klerk.
(www.cnn.com/almanac/9805/06/)
1990 May 7, The White House put
aside President Bush's pledge of no new taxes, saying talks to strike a
budget deal with Congress would have "no preconditions."
(AP, 5/7/00)
1990 May 8, One crewman was
killed, 18 others injured in a fire aboard the guided-missile destroyer
USS Conyngham in the Atlantic, about 100 miles southeast of Norfolk,
Va.
(AP, 5/8/00)
1990 May 8, NY Newsday reporter
Jimmy Breslin was suspended for a racial slur.
(http://www.totse.com/en/ego/literary_genius/yuh.html)
1990 May 9, President Bush and
congressional leaders announced plans for emergency budget talks, with
tax increases and spending cuts on the negotiating table.
(AP, 5/9/00)
1990 May 9, A major cyclone made
landfall on Andhra Pradesh, India. It dissipated 2 days later over
central India. Strong flooding caused 510 human fatalities, but the
effect on agriculture was substantial. More than 100,000 animals were
killed,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990-1994_North_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_seasons)
1990 May 10, The government of
China announced the release of 211 dissidents who had been involved in
pro-democracy demonstrations a year earlier.
(AP, 5/10/00)
1990 May 10, Walker Percy
(b.1916), Mississippi-raised physician, novelist (Lancelot), died of
cancer in Covington, Louisiana. His book "The Moviegoer" was the 1962
winner of the National Book Award." His last book, The Thanatos
Syndrome, appeared in 1987.
(www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/percy_walker/)(WSJ,
3/26/03, p.D8)
1990 May 11, President Bush, on a
two-day trip of college commencement speeches, told reporters aboard
Air Force One that there were "no conditions" going into a budget
summit with Congress.
(AP, 5/11/00)
1990 May 11, The center fuel tank
of Philippine Air Lines B737-300 exploded as the plane pushed back from
the gate and 8 people were killed.
(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
1990 May 12, The tune "Sending All
My Love" by Linear reached #8 on the pop singles chart.
(www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1990/05-12.htm)
1990 May 12, The presidents of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania forged a united front by reviving a 1934
political alliance in hopes of enhancing their drive for independence
from the Soviet Union.
(AP, 5/12/00)
1990 May 13, Thomas Walker was
shot to death at his home in Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County. In
1991 his wife Hudie Joyce Walker was convicted of 2nd degree murder and
sentenced 19 years to life in jail. In 2007 she was granted a new trial
due to issues involving battered women’s syndrome.
(SFC, 2/8/07, p.B2)
1990 May 14, In separate decrees,
Soviet President Gorbachev declared that the republics of Estonia and
Latvia had no legal basis for moving toward independence.
(AP, 5/14/00)
1990 May 15, Congressional leaders
and Bush administration officials began a bipartisan summit on the
fiscal 1991 budget and its deficit.
(AP, 5/15/00)
1990 May 15, The "Portrait of
Doctor Gachet" (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) sold for $82.5
million to Ryoei Saito, Japan's second-largest paper manufacturer.
(www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0753.htm)
1990 May 16, Sammy Davis Jr. (64),
entertainer, died in Los Angeles. Davis owed the IRS $5 million at his
death. A settlement was later reached for $300,000. In 2003 Wil Haygood
authored "In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr."
(AP, 5/16/00)(SSFC, 1/21/01, Par p.2)(WSJ, 11/7/03,
p.W9)
1990 May 16, Jim Henson (53),
"Muppets" creator, died in NYC.
(AP, 5/16/00)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001345/)
1990 May 17, The effective date
for pension rights for both men and women as ruled by a European court
in 1994.
(www.opas.org.uk/PensionRights/EqualTreatment/equalTreatment.htm)
1990 May 17, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev met in Moscow with Lithuanian Prime Minister
Kazimiera Prunskiene, Gorbachev's first face-to-face meeting with a
senior official of the defiant Baltic republics.
(AP, 5/17/00)
1990 May 18, The TV movie "Return
To Green Acres" aired.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1990 May 18, In the face of heated
student protests, the trustees of all-women Mills College in Oakland,
Ca., voted to rescind their earlier decision to admit men.
(AP, 5/18/00)
1990 May 18, Jill Ireland (54),
actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), died of cancer.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1990 May 18, East and West Germany
signed a monetary union treaty.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1990 May 18, The French TGV-train
hit record speed of 515.3 kph.
(www.netfundu.com/geography/aworld/france.htm)
1990 May 19, The tune "Vogue" by
Madonna peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
(www.onmc.iinet.net.au/top/1990.htm)
1990 May 19, Summer Squall won the
Preakness Stakes.
(www.lanesendstakes.com/milestones.html)
1990 May 19, Secretary of State
James A. Baker III concluded an agreement with the Soviet Union to
destroy chemical weapons and settle longstanding disputes over limits
on nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
(AP, 5/19/00)
1990 May 20, The Hubble Space
Telescope sent back its first photographs.
(AP, 5/20/00)
1990 May 20, An Israeli opened
fire on a group of Palestinian laborers south of Tel Aviv, killing
seven; the gunman was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 5/20/00)
1990 May 20, Romania's ruling
National Salvation Front scored victories in the country's first free
elections in more than 50 years.
(AP, 5/20/00)
1990 May 21, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed three Palestinians in violence sparked by the slayings of
seven Palestinians by an Israeli civilian a day earlier.
(AP, 5/21/00)
1990 May 22, Microsoft released
Windows 3.0.
(www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/windows/win30)
1990 May 22, Boxer Rocky Graziano
died in New York at age 71.
(AP, 5/22/00)
1990 May 22, After years of
conflict, pro-Western North Yemen and pro-Soviet South Yemen merged to
form the Republic of Yemen. The North was conservative and the South
was socialist.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)(AP, 5/22/98)
1990 May 23, Clinton’s campaign
for a 5th term as governor of Arkansas received a $60,000 loan from the
Perry County Bank. More cash was requested a few days later.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A7)
1990 May 23, Neil Bush, son of the
president, denied any wrongdoing as a director of a failed Denver
savings-and-loan in testimony before Congress. The cost of rescuing US
savings & loan failures was put at up to $130 billion.
(AP,
5/23/00)(www.mof.go.jp/english/f_review/fr51e.htm)
1990 May 23, The Soviet Union
unveiled an economic-reform program that included plans for a national
referendum.
(AP, 5/23/00)
1990 May 24, Darryl Cherney and
Judi Bari (11/7/49-3/2/97), environmental activists in the Earth First!
movement, were injured after a pipe bomb exploded in their car as they
drove through Oakland, Ca. They were arrested while in the hospital on
charges of transporting a bomb but the charges were never filed. They
later filed a suit against the FBI and Oakland police for false arrest,
illegal search and seizure and conspiracy to violate free-speech
rights. Bari died of liver cancer in 1997. In 2002 a jury awarded $2.9
million to Bari’s estate and $1.5 million to Cherney saying the FBI had
framed them as eco-terrorists. In 2004 the government settled civil
suits for $2 million. In 2004 Kate Coleman authored “The Secret Wars of
Judi Bari.”
(SFC,10/21/97, p.A20)(SFC, 6/12/02, p.A1)(SFC,
4/23/04, p.B1)(SFC, 1/18/05, p.D1)
1990 May 24, The Edmonton Oilers
won their fifth Stanley Cup as they defeated the Boston Bruins, four
games to one.
(AP, 5/24/00)
1990 May 25, A congressional
report cast doubts on the US Navy’s official finding that a troubled
sailor probably had caused the blast that killed 47 servicemen aboard
the battleship USS "Iowa."
(AP, 5/25/00)
1990 May 25, Vic Tayback (60),
actor (Mel-Alice), died of a heart attack.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0851861/)
1990 May 26, Soviet maverick
politician Boris N. Yeltsin failed in a second round of voting to win
the presidency of the Russian Federation. He succeeded in a third round
of balloting three days later.
(AP, 5/26/00)
1990 May 27, The political
opposition of Burma (Myanmar) scored a victory in the country’s first
free, multiparty elections in three decades. The military rulers
allowed democratic elections but ignored the results when the National
League of Aung San Suu Kyi won 392 of 485 contested seats.
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A12)(AP, 5/27/00)
1990 May 27, Cesar Gaviria
Trujillo was elected president of Colombia. Luis Carlos Galan, Colombia
presidential candidate, had been shot and killed while campaigning
south of Bogota. He was so far ahead in the polls for the presidential
elections that he was virtually assured of victory. His campaign
manager, Cesar Gaviria, ran in his place after the attack and was
elected president. Immediately after Galan's assassination, the
president at the time, Virgilio Barco, retaliated by reinstating
extraditions.
(AP, 5/27/00)(AP, 5/13/05)
1990 May 27, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev tried to calm his nation’s economic nerves with a
hastily scheduled television address. The radical Democratic Party held
its 1st political meetings in Moscow.
(AP, 5/27/00)
1990 May 28, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad with a
keynote address in which he said if Israel were to deploy nuclear or
chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with "weapons of
mass destruction."
(AP, 5/28/00)
1990 May 29, Dow Jones average
hits a record 2,870.49.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1990 May 29, Boris N. Yeltsin was
elected president of the Russian republic in the third round of
balloting by the Russian parliament. This gave him a base from which to
attack Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
(AP, 5/29/97)(HN, 5/29/99)
1990 May 29, Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Canada en route to his
Washington summit with President Bush.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1990 May 29, Northern Peru was
struck by an earthquake that claimed as many as 200 lives.
(www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64C3R8?OpenDocument)
1990 May 30, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Washington for his summit with
President Bush.
(AP, 5/30/00)
1990 May 31, Seinfeld, starring
Jerry Seinfeld, debuted on NBC. [see July 5, 1989]
(www.geocities.com/r_stroup/seinepis.html)
1990 May 31, President Bush and
his wife, Barbara, welcomed Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in a
ceremony on South Lawn of the White House. The two leaders and their
aides then held talks on German reunification.
(AP, 5/31/00)
1990 May 31, In NYC the Zodiac
killer shot a 3rd victim. Joseph Ponce died from his wound on June 24.
(http://karisable.com/skazzodiac.htm)
1990 May, In Croatia Franjo
Tudjman led a party that advocated a Yugoslav confederation of
sovereign states.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1990 Jun 1, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed more than a dozen
bilateral accords in the second day of their Washington summit.
Meanwhile, Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev traveled to Wellesley
College in Massachusetts to deliver commencement addresses.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1990 Jun 1, E! Entertainment
Television was launched.
(http://tinyurl.com/jwhwu)
1990 Jun 1, The Dow Jones Avg. hit
a record high of 2,900.97.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1990 Jun 2, On the third day of
their Washington summit, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev held informal talks at the Camp David presidential retreat in
Maryland.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1990 Jun 2, Jack Gilford (b.1908),
comedic actor (Cocoon II), died of stomach cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0318527/)
1990 Jun 2, Sir Rex Harrison
(82), actor (My Fair Lady), died in New York.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1990 Jun 2, Frederick Mellinger
(76), founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, died.
(www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/mnames-nf/Mellinger+Frederick)
1990 Jun 3, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded their Washington summit
with a joint news conference at the White House. Gorbachev and his
delegation then flew to Minnesota for a whirlwind tour of
Minneapolis-St. Paul.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1990 Jun 3, "City of Angels" won
Best Musical and "The Grapes of Wrath" won Best Play at the 44th Tony
Awards.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1990 Jun 3, Robert Noyce (b.1927),
co-inventor of the integrated circuit, co-founder and 1st CEO of Intel
Corp. (1968), died at age 62. In 2005 Leslie Berlin authored “The Man
Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley.
(www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/legacies/noyce.html)(SSFC,
7/10/05, p.E1)
1990 Jun 4, Janet Adkins (54) of
Portland, Ore., became the first person to use a suicide machine
developed by Dr. Kevorkian. This began a national debate over the right
to die.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A3)(www.lectlaw.com/files/cas20.htm)
1990 Jun 4, Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev closed out his US visit in northern California, where
he held a reunion with former President Reagan and met with South
Korean President Roh Tae-woo in San Francisco, and addressed students
at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
(AP, 6/4/00)
1990 Jun 5, Authorities in Oakland
County, Michigan, moved to prevent Dr. Jack Kevorkian from continuing
to make available a suicide device that Janet Adkins, an Oregon woman
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, had used a day earlier to take her
own life.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1990 Jun 5, In South Africa a
representative from the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in Durban met with
the Commissioner of the SAP (South African Police) to call for a change
in the "cultural weapons" policy.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1991/southafrica1/6.htm)
1990 Jun 5, Vasily V. Kuznetsov
(b.1901), president of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), died in
Moscow.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Kuznetsov)
1990 Jun 6, A federal judge in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, declared the 2 Live Crew album "As Nasty As
They Wanna Be" to be obscene. The decision was later overturned on
appeal.
(AP, 6/6/00)
1990 Jun 7, Barbara Baxley
(b.1923), actress (Norma Rae), died of a heart attack in NYC.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0062642/)
1990 Jun 7, South African
President F.W. de Klerk announced he was lifting a four-year-old state
of emergency in three of the country’s four provinces, with the
exception of Natal.
(AP, 6/7/00)
1990 Jun 8, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir announced he had succeeded in forming a new right-wing
coalition government, ending a three-month-old political crisis.
(AP, 6/8/00)
1990 Jun 9, "Go and Go" won the
122nd running of the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/9/00)
1990 Jun 10, Alberto Fujimori was
elected president of Peru by a narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargos
Llosa.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1990 Jun 10, Two members of the
rap group 2 Live Crew were arrested in Hollywood, Florida. They and a
third band member were acquitted of obscenity charges October 20th.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1990 Jun 11, A federal judge
sentenced former national security adviser John M. Poindexter to six
months in prison for making false statements to Congress about the
Iran-Contra affair. However, Poindexter’s convictions were later
overturned.
(AP, 6/11/00)
1990 Jun 11, The US Supreme Court
struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
(AP, 6/11/00)
1990 Jun 11, The UN appoints
Olivia Newton-John as its 1st Goodwill Ambassador to the Environment.
(http://hometown.aol.com/author31/discov.htm)
1990 Jun 12, In a speech to the
Supreme Soviet legislature, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev eased his
objection to a reunified Germany holding membership in NATO.
(AP, 6/12/00)
1990 Jun 12, Boris Yeltsin led a
vote at the Congress of Peoples Deputies on a "declaration of
Sovereignty for Russia."
(SFC, 6/10/96, p.A16)
1990 Jun 13, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, urged Israel to accept a US plan for peace talks. Baker gave
out the telephone number for the White House switchboard, telling the
Israelis publicly, "When you’re serious about this, call us."
(AP, 6/13/00)
1990 Jun 13, East German border
guards and demolition experts from the Bundeswehr started the official
demolition of the Berlin Wall.
(www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=26512)
1990 Jun 14, The US Supreme Court
upheld, by a six-to-three vote, police checkpoints that examine drivers
for signs of intoxication.
(AP, 6/14/00)
1990 Jun 15, Real estate mogul
Donald Trump missed a payment due on junk bonds used to finance one of
his Atlantic City, New Jersey, resorts.
(AP, 6/15/00)
1990 Jun 16, A crowd in the
Netherlands welcomed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela,
who thanked them for staunch Dutch support for the anti-apartheid
movement.
(AP, 6/16/00)
1990 Jun 17, South African black
nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrived in Ottawa,
Canada, en route to an eleven-day tour of the United States.
(AP, 6/17/00)
1990 Jun 18, James Edward Pough
went on a shooting rampage at an auto-financing company office in
Jacksonville, Florida, after his car was repossessed. He fatally
wounded 8 people before killing himself.
(AP, 6/18/00)(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.A7)
1990 Jun 19, Opening statements
were presented in the drug and perjury trial of Washington DC Mayor
Marion S. Barry Junior. Barry was later convicted of a single count of
misdemeanor drug possession, and sentenced to six months in prison.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1990 Jun 19, NYC's Zodiac killer
shot a 4th victim, Larry Parham, who survived.
(http://karisable.com/skazzodiac.htm)
1990 Jun 20, South African black
nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrived in New York
City for a ticker-tape parade in their honor as they began an
eight-city US tour.
(AP, 6/20/00)
1990 Jun 20, The Communist
Initiative created its neoconservative Russian Communist Party. Among
the founders were Gennady Zyuganov, Valentin Kuptsov, and Alexander
Rutskoi. Gorbachev still ran the country.
(SFC, 6/10/96, p.A16)
1990 Jun 21, An estimated 50,000
Iranians were killed in a magnitude 7.3 to 7.7 earthquake. The
earthquake killed some 35,000 people in Gilan and neighboring Zanjan
province.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.C1)(AP, 6/21/00)(AP, 6/22/02)
1990 Jun 22, George W. Bush, a
director of Harken Energy Corp., a Texas oil company, sold 212,140
shares at $4 per share just before huge losses were reported. Corporate
disclosure of the sale was filed months later.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/9/02, p.A12)(WSJ,
7/10/02, p.A8)
1990 Jun 22, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela addressed delegates at the United
Nations, where he said victory for a democratic, non-racial South
Africa was "within our grasp."
(AP, 6/22/00)
1990 Jun 23, The tune "That's The
Way Of The World" by D'Mob with Cathy Dennis hit #1 on Billboard
magazine’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number-one_dance_hits_of_1990_(USA))
1990 Jun 23, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela received a tumultuous welcome in Boston
as he continued his US tour.
(AP, 6/23/00)
1990 Jun 24, Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan was virtually drowned out by jeering
demonstrators as he addressed the Sixth International AIDS conference
in San Francisco.
(AP, 6/24/00)
1990 Jun 24, South African black
nationalist Nelson Mandela arrived in Washington.
(AP, 6/24/00)
1990 Jun 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled that family members cannot end the lives of comatose relatives
unless those relatives previously made their wishes known.
(www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v4n2/)
1990 Jun 25, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela met with President Bush at the White
House.
(AP, 6/25/00)
1990 Jun 26, President Bush, who’d
campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax
increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package
worked out with congressional negotiators.
(AP, 6/26/00)
1990 Jun 26, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela addressed the U.S. Congress, asking for
"material resources" to hasten the end of white-led rule.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1990 Jun 27, Jose Canseco signed a
record $4,700,000 per year baseball contract with the Oakland A's.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1990 Jun 27, NASA announced that a
flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the
instrument from achieving optimum focus.
(AP, 6/27/00)
1990 Jun 27, Salman Rushdie,
condemned to death by Iran, contributed $8600 to help their earthquake
victims.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1990 Jun 28, Jurors in the drug
and perjury trial of Washington DC Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. viewed a
videotape showing Barry smoking crack cocaine during an FBI hotel-room
sting operation. Barry was later convicted of a single count of
misdemeanor drug possession.
(AP, 6/28/00)
1990 Jun 29, Fernando Valenzuela
of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dave Stewart of the Oakland A’s became
the first pitchers to hurl no-hitters in both the National and American
Leagues on the same day. Oakland shut out the Blue Jays, 5-to-0, while
Los Angeles blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-to-0.
(AP, 6/29/00)
1990 Jun 30, Harken Energy
reported a $23 million 2nd quarter loss. George W. Bush was a director
at Harken.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A19)
1990 Jun 30, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela visited Oakland, California, a day after
receiving a star-studded welcome in Los Angeles.
(AP, 6/30/00)
1990 Jun, At Cunningham Lake near
Omaha a fisherman caught a 2-pound black piranha.
(NH, 8/96, p.66)
1990 Jun, In Michigan Dr. Jack
Kevorkian asked Janet Good (d.1997 at 73) if he could use her house for
his first assisted suicide. She initially said ok but after conferring
with her husband, a retired police officer, declined the request on the
grounds that it might be illegal.
(SFC, 8/27/97, p.A9)
1990 Jun, The FTC launched a probe
into possible collusion between Microsoft and IBM.
(Wired, 12/98, p.197)
1990 Jun, In Bulgaria the former
Communist Party, renamed the Socialist party, won parliamentary
elections.
(SFC, 5/2/97, p.A14)
1990 Jun, In Romania miners,
transported into Bucharest in government vehicles, destroyed hundreds
of Interior Ministry files. Over 2 years well organized mobs of rural
coal miners descended on Bucharest 4 times to knock the heads of
student leaders, opposition politicians and others.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A11)
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