Feb 28 The space shuttle Atlantis launches from Cape Canaveral, to place a spy satellite in orbit.

Feb 26 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991

Feb 14 An Indian Airlines jetliner crashes while landing in southern India, killing 94 passengers and crew.

Feb 07 Hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spill off the California coast near Huntington Beach, from the tanker, American Trader.

Feb 26 President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.

Feb 27 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

Feb 23 Ian Smith 173 New Zealand vs India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat

Feb 23 Jose Napoleon Duarte, former Salvadoran president, dies at age 64.

Feb 11 James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown

Feb 25 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas

Feb 13 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa

Feb 09 Bottles of Perrier water are voluntarily recalled in the U.S. after benzene is detected in a small number of bottles.

Feb 28 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine

Feb 24 Publisher Malcolm Forbes dies in Far Hills, NJ, at age 70.

Feb 19 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal

Feb 19 Soyuz TM-9 lands

Feb 14 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

Feb 11 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson loses the title when he is knocked out in the tenth round in a fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo.

Feb 09 Namibia's constitution ratified

Feb 01 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations.

Feb 25 Nationwide pro-democracy marches in the Soviet Union

Feb 21 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win

Feb 08 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

Feb 11 South African activist Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison.

Feb 10 South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela, the black activist imprisoned for 27 years, will be released the next day.

Feb 14 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some

Feb 02 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of English princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt

Feb 09 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV

Feb 07 The Soviet Communist Party leadership agrees to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy

Feb 25 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup

Feb 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge

Apr 04 "The Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV

Apr 04 "The Marshall Chronicles" premiers on ABC-TV

Apr 30 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space

Apr 25 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres

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