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Months in Year 1990: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 901 - 957 of 957

Dec 5th - Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
Dec 5th - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
Dec 6th - NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
Dec 6th - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
Dec 6th - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
Dec 7th - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
Dec 7th - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
Dec 8th - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
Dec 8th - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
Dec 9th - Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
Dec 9th - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
Dec 9th - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
Dec 9th - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
Dec 9th - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
Dec 10th - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
Dec 10th - Soyuz TM-10 lands
Dec 10th - Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
Dec 11th - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
Dec 11th - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
Dec 12th - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
Dec 12th - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
Dec 13th - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
Dec 13th - Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
Dec 13th - Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
Dec 14th - Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
Dec 14th - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
Dec 15th - Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
Dec 16th - Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti
Dec 16th - KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 16th - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
Dec 17th - KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
Dec 18th - NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
Dec 18th - NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Wash DC as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
Dec 20th - Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
Dec 20th - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
Dec 20th - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
Dec 21st - Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
Dec 22nd - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
Dec 22nd - Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
Dec 22nd - Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
Dec 23rd - "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs
Dec 23rd - Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Dec 24th - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
Dec 24th - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
Dec 25th - "Godfather III" premieres
Dec 25th - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
Dec 26th - Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
Dec 26th - Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
Dec 26th - Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
Dec 28th - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
Dec 28th - Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
Dec 29th - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
Dec 30th - "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
Dec 30th - 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
Dec 31st - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
Dec 31st - Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Dec 31st - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace

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