Historical Events In 1990
Dec 28 2 die in a NYC subway accident
Dec 05 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
Dec 27 San Francisco became the first city to adopt regulations regarding video display terminals in the workplace
Dec 23 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Dec 11 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
Dec 01 Engineers digging a rail tunnel under the English Channel link up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed, and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age
Dec 06 Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages
Dec 22 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
Dec 12 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
Dec 01 Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their first joint session
Dec 04 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
Dec 04 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
Dec 20 Eduard Shevardnadze resigns as Soviet foreign minister
Dec 02 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
Dec 22 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president
Dec 10 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
Dec 25 "Godfather III" premiers
Dec 07 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement
Dec 09 Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland
Dec 07 Iraqi parliament endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
Dec 09 In Poland, Lech Walesa wins a landslide victory in the Presidential elections
Dec 14 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
Dec 24 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's main target
Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
Dec 15 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
Dec 22 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
Dec 02 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
Dec 05 The Canadian Broadcast Corp. cuts its spending by $108 million, slashes 1100 jobs and closes or reduces regiona news bureaus to 11 stations
Dec 11 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga TN, due to fog
Aug 27 Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka.
Aug 11 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
Aug 27 Fifty-two Americans, previously held hostage by Iraq, reach freedom in Turkey.
Aug 28 Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein
Aug 06 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba &Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
Aug 03 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
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