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

Results 1 - 72 of 72

1st - 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1st - British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1st - Hissène Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
1st - Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1st - Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1st - NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
2nd - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
2nd - 1st time 12 people in space
2nd - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
2nd - Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
2nd - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
3rd - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
4th - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
4th - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
5th - Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
5th - Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
5th - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
6th - NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
6th - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
6th - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
7th - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
7th - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
8th - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
8th - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
9th - Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
9th - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
9th - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
9th - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
9th - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
10th - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
10th - Soyuz TM-10 lands
10th - Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
11th - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
11th - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
12th - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
12th - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
13th - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
13th - Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
13th - Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
14th - Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
14th - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
15th - Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
16th - Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti
16th - KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
16th - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
17th - KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
18th - NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
18th - NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Wash DC as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
20th - Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
20th - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
20th - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
21st - Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
22nd - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
22nd - Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
22nd - Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
23rd - "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs
23rd - Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
24th - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
24th - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
25th - "Godfather III" premieres
25th - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
26th - Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
26th - Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
26th - Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
28th - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
28th - Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
29th - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
30th - "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
30th - 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
31st - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
31st - Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
31st - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace