Historical Events for February 1990
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Months in 1990: January March April May June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 58 of 58
2nd - Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
2nd - South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs
3rd - Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
3rd - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
3rd - NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
4th - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
4th - Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
4th - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
4th - Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
4th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
4th - Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
4th - Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
4th - St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
5th - Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
6th - Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
6th - Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
6th - Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
7th - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
7th - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
7th - Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood Calif scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
8th - David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
8th - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
9th - "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
9th - Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
9th - Galileo flies by Venus
9th - Namibia's constitution ratified
10th - 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
10th - Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
10th - Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
10th - S Afr Pres de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
10th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
11th - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
11th - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
11th - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
13th - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
13th - Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
13th - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
14th - Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
14th - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
14th - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
15th - Baseball owners lock out players
18th - Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
19th - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
19th - Soyuz TM-9 lands
21st - 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
22nd - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
23rd - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
24th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
25th - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
25th - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
25th - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
26th - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
26th - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
27th - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
27th - No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
28th - Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
28th - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
