Historical Events In 1990

Mar 29 Prime Minister Bob Hawke claims victory in Australian election, becoming first Labor winner of four consecutive terms.

Mar 14 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson

Mar 24 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka

Mar 19 First world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)

Mar 01 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay

Mar 06 The Soviet government allows its citizens to own factories and hire workers.

Mar 23 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill

Mar 13 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada

Mar 04 A 6.1 earthquake occurred in Pakistan at least 11 people killed, about 40 injured and many homes and buildings damaged in the Kalat area. Also felt at Quetta and Mastung

Mar 25 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

Mar 02 A grenade attack at a Panama discotheque kills a US soldier and injures 28 other people.

Mar 18 East Germany's first elections in over sixty years

Mar 18 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen

Mar 11 Lithuania declares it's Independence

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

Mar 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 29 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro

Mar 18 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch

Mar 14 4th Soul Train Music Awards Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson

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

Mar 09 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as first hispanic/female US surgeon general

Mar 09 In St. John's Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord

Mar 18 The first free elections in German Democratic Republic, Conservatives beat Communists

Mar 10 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva &Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

Mar 10 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)

Mar 10 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti

Mar 31 Thousands riot against new poll tax in central London, leaving 75 civilians and 58 police injured and 341 demonstrators under arrest.

Mar 18 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends

Mar 22 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill

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