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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