Historical Events In 1990

Mar 08 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots first victim, Mario Orosco

Mar 28 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

Mar 21 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances

Mar 07 3 passengers killed &162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)

Mar 21 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

Mar 02 More than 6,000 bus drivers go on strike against US transportation company Greyhound.

Mar 15 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil

Mar 11 16th People's Choice Awards

Mar 20 Namibia gains independence after 105 years

Mar 14 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress

Mar 27 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

Mar 04 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space

Mar 06 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1 08 17

Mar 10 4th American Comedy Awards: When Harry Met Sally

Mar 27 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final

Mar 22 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games

Mar 10 World Ice Dance Championship in Halifax won by Marina Klimova &Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR)

Mar 05 The Crown charges 8 Canadian flour mills with rigging prices for food aid; $500 million over 12 years, so much for corporate ethics

Mar 28 Three arrested in London in plot to smuggle US-made nuclear triggering devices to Iraq.

Mar 10 4th American Comedy Awards When Harry Met Sally

Mar 26 62nd Academy Awards "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win

Mar 02 Greyhound Bus goes on strike

Mar 11 Lithuania declares its independence from the USSR

Mar 10 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (Canada)

Mar 27 Provincial finance ministers decline to help Ottawa collect GST, but later some can be "BOUGHT"

Mar 31 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws

Mar 20 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident

Mar 18 In a step towards the unification of Germany, the Conservative alliance wins the East German parliamentary elections with 48 per cent of vote.

Mar 25 in the Puntarenas and San Jose areas of Costa Rica, a 7.0 earthquake injured 10 and damaged 60 building severely

Mar 12 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland

Mar 20 The Canadian government to pass law forcing financial institutions to keep records of large cash transactions; so criminals cannot launder money

Mar 31 "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV

Mar 25 10th Golden Raspberry Awards Star Trek V wins

Mar 03 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan), first black crowned 39th Miss USA

Mar 19 Bridgetown Barbados, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 1939- forgives $182 million debt owed by Caribbean countries to Canada

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