1990
1990 (MCMXC) was a common year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1990th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 990th year of the 2nd millennium; the 90th year of the 20th century; and the 1st year of the 1990s. It is often considered the final year of the Cold War era.
Events
January
- January 1 - Glasgow starts its year as European City of Culture.
- January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrenders to American forces.
- January 4 – Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
- January 7 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
- January 10 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- January 11 – Cold War: In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
- January 15 – Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
- January 20 – Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.[1][2]
- January 22 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
- January 25 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
- January 25–January 26 – The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
February
March
- March 1
- March 6 – An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
- March 9
- March 10 – Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti.
- March 11
- March 15
- March 18
- March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- March 21 – After 75 years of South African rule, Namibia becomes independent.
- March 25
- March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
- March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
- March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- March 30 – Cold War: After its first free elections during the Soviet era on March 18, Estonia declares Soviet rule to have been illegal since 1940.
- March 31 – "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A massive anti-poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.
April
May
June
July
August
- August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- August 6 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
- August 10 – A passenger bus, moving by the route "Tbilisi-Agdam" is blown up, 20 people died and 30 were injured. Organizers of the crime, Armenians A. Avanesian and M. Tatevosian, were brought to criminal trial.[5]
- August 12 – "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
- August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
- August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.[6]
- August 24 – Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
- August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).
- August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
September
October
November
December
Date unknown
World population
World population |
|
1990 |
1985 |
1995 |
World |
5,263,593,000 |
4,830,979,000 |
432,614,000 |
+8.95 % |
5,674,380,000 |
410,787,000 |
+7.80 % |
Africa |
622,443,000 |
541,718,000 |
80,629,000 |
+14.88 % |
707,462,000 |
85,019,000 |
+13.66 % |
Asia |
3,167,807,000 |
2,887,552,000 |
280,255,000 |
+9.71 % |
3,430,052,000 |
262,245,000 |
+8.28 % |
Europe |
721,582,000 |
706,009,000 |
15,573,000 |
+2.21 % |
727,405,000 |
5,823,000 |
+0.81 % |
Latin America |
441,525,000 |
401,469,000 |
40,056,000 |
+9.98 % |
481,099,000 |
39,574,000 |
+8.96 % |
North America |
283,549,000 |
269,456,000 |
14,093,000 |
+5.23 % |
299,438,000 |
15,889,000 |
+5.60 % |
Oceania |
26,687,000 |
24,678,000 |
2,009,000 |
+8.14 % |
28,924,000 |
2,237,000 |
+8.38 % |
Births
January
February
March
April
- April 2 – Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
- April 5 – Miura Haruma, Japanese actor
- April 6 - Charlie McDermott, American actor
- April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
- April 10
- April 15 – Emma Watson, English actress
- April 16
- April 17 – Astrit Ajdarevic, Swedish professional football player
- April 19 – Kim Chiu, Filipina actress
- April 23 – Dev Patel, British actor
- April 24 - Alexa Nicole, American pornographic actress
- April 30 - Madison Riley, American actress
May
June
- June 2
- June 4 – Zac Farro, American drummer
- June 6 – Ashleigh Chisholm, Australian actress
- June 7 – Daniel Rich, Australian rules footballer
- June 10 – Niamh Perry, Irish actress and singer
- June 11 - Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
- June 12 – Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
- June 13 – Aaron Johnson, British actor
- June 17 – Jordan Henderson, English international footballer
- June 18 – Sandra Izbaşa, Romanian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
- June 21
- June 22 – Kei Inoo, Japanese singer/actor
- June 25 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress
- June 28 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
- June 29 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
July
- July 1 – Angelo Balanta, Colombian footballer
- July 2 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
- July 4
- July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
- July 9
- July 11
- July 16 – James Maslow, American actor and singer
- July 18 – Saul Alvarez, Mexican boxer
- July 19 - Rosie Jones, English glamour model
- July 23 – Kevin Reynolds, Canadian Figure Skater
- July 24 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
- July 27
- July 28 – Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper
- July 29 – Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
August
- August 1 – Jack O'Connell, British actor
- August 6 – JonBenét Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (d. 1996)
- August 9 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
- August 10 – Tai Woffinden, English speedway rider
- August 12 – Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
- August 15 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
- August 17 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
- August 20 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
- August 27 - Madison Welch, English glamour model
- August 29 - Nicole Anderson, American actress
- August 28 – Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
- August 1 – Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
September
- September 3 – Abbas Ali, Pakistani footballer
- September 4 – Danny Worsnop, British musician
- September 5 – Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
- September 6 – John Wall, American basketball player
- September 8 – Matt Barkley, American football player
- September 9
- September 13 – Jamie Anderson, American snowboarder
- September 19 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
- September 20
- September 21 – Christian Serratos, American actress
- September 23
- September 25 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
- September 28 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- September 29 - Doug Brochu, American actor
- September 30 - Gracie Glam, American pornographic actress
October
November
December
Deaths
January
- January 2
- January 4
- January 5 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
- January 6
- January 7 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player (b. 1908)
- January 8
- January 9
- January 10 – Lyle R. Wheeler, American art director (b. 1905)
- January 15 – Gordon Jackson (actor), Scottish actor (b. 1923)
- January 17 – Charles Hernu, French politician, former minister of Defense (b. 1923)
- January 18
- January 19
- January 20
- January 22
- January 23
- January 24 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
- January 25
- January 26 – Lewis Mumford, American historian of science (b. 1895)
- January 27 – Helen Jerome Eddy, American actress (b. 1897)
- January 28 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet/author (b. 1918)
February
March
April
- April 2 – Aldo Fabrizi, Italian actor (b. 1905)
- April 3 – Sarah Vaughan, American jazz vocalist (b. 1924)
- April 7 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut, NASA Apollo program (b. 1933)
- April 8
- April 10 – Fortune Gordien, American Olympic athlete (b. 1922)
- April 14
- April 15 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
- April 17 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
- April 18
- April 19 – Marco Aurelio Robles, Panamanian politician, former President of the Republic (b. 1905)
- April 20 – Horst Sindermann, East German politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1915)
- April 21 – Erté (Romain de Tirtoff), French Art Deco artist (b. 1892)
- April 22 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
- April 23 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
- April 25 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1923)
- April 26 – Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez, Colombian politician (b. 1951)
- April 27 – Bella Spewack, American songwriter (b. 1899)
May
- May 1 – Sunset Carson, American actor (b. 1920)
- May 2 – David Rappaport, American actor (b. 1951)
- May 3 – Pimen I of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1910)
- May 6 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
- May 8 – Tomás Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1923)
- May 10 – Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
- May 12 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (b. 1906)
- May 14 – Franklyn Seales, American actor (b. 1952)
- May 16
- May 18 – Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
- May 21 – Max Wall, English actor (b. 1908)
- May 22 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1919)
- May 25 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
- May 29 – Hussein bin Onn, Malay politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1922)
- May 31 – Willy Spühler, Swiss politician, former President of the Confederation (b. 1902)
June
- June 2 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
- June 3
- June 4 – Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1907)
- June 5 – Vasili Kuznetsov, Soviet politician, former provisional head of the State (b. 1901)
- June 7
- June 8 – José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician, former President of the Republic (b. 1906)
- June 12 – Lord Terence O'Neill, Northern Irish politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1914)
- June 15 – Leonard Sachs, British actor (b. 1909)
- June 16 – Dame Eva Turner, British soprano (b. 1892)
- June 20 – Ina Balin, American actress (b. 1937)
- June 22 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
- June 24 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, former head of State (b. 1907)
- June 29 – Irving Wallace, American writer (b. 1916)
- June 30 – Lynne Carol, British actress (b. 1914)
July
- July 4 – Phil Boggs, American Olympic diver (b. 1949)
- July 7
- July 8 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
- July 13 – Lois Moran, American actress (b. 1909)
- July 15
- July 18
- July 19 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
- July 21 – Joe Turner, American jazz pianist (b. 1907)
- July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
- July 23 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese television engineer (b. 1899)
- July 26 – Brent Mydland, American keyboard player (b. 1952)
- July 29 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Social Democratic politician, former Federal Chancellor (b. 1911)
- July 31 – Fernando Sancho, Spanish actor (b. 1916)
August
- August 1
- August 2 – Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
- August 4
- August 6 – Jacques Soustelle, French politician and anthropologist (b. 1912)
- August 9 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
- August 12 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
- August 15 – Victor Tsoi, Russian singer, actor and poet (b. 1962)
- August 17 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
- August 18 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
- August 22
- August 23 – David Rose, British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
- August 24 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist (b. 1941)
- August 26 – Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan politician and poet (b. 1928)
- August 27
- August 31 – Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1949)
September
- September 1 – Geir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1925)
- September 4 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)
- September 6 – Tom Fogerty, American musician (b. 1941)
- September 7
- September 9
- September 16 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- September 19 – Hermes Pan, American choreographer (b. 1910)
- September 21 – Xu Xiangqian, Communist military leader in the People's Republic of China, former Defense minister. (b. 1901)
- September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (b. 1907)
- September 30 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
October
- October 1 – Curtis LeMay, American Air Force General (b. 1906)
- October 3 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
- October 4
- October 5 – Peter Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1928)
- October 7
- October 13
- October 14 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
- October 15 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress (b. 1932)
- October 16 – Art Blakey, American jazz musician (b. 1919)
- October 20 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
- October 21 – Dany Chamoun, Lebanese politician (b. 1934)
- October 22 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
- October 23 – Zephania Mothopeng, South African politician, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) (b. 1913)
- October 26 – William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (b. 1901)
- October 27
- October 29 – William F. Smith, American lawyer. former Attorney General of the United States. (b. 1917)
November
- November 3 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
- November 4 – Henry Cravatte, Luxembourgian Social Democratic politician, former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1911)
- November 5 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and political figure (b. 1932)
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912)
- November 11
- November 12 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
- November 13 – Don Chaffey, British film director (b. 1917)
- November 17 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- November 23
- November 26 – Ludwig von Moos, Swiss politician, former President of the Confederation (b. 1910)
- November 27 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)
December
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Fields Medal
Right Livelihood Award
In Fiction
References