Historical Events for January 1990
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Months in 1990: February March April May June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 71 of 71
1st - David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
1st - Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
1st - NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
1st - Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
1st - FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
2nd - Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
2nd - Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
3rd - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
5th - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
6th - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
7th - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
7th - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
9th - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
9th - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
9th - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
9th - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
10th - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
10th - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
10th - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
11th - 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
11th - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
11th - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
11th - Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
12th - Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
12th - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
13th - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
14th - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
14th - 11th ACE Cable Awards
14th - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
15th - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
15th - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
15th - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
15th - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
15th - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
16th - 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
17th - 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
17th - Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
17th - Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
17th - Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
18th - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
18th - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
19th - Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
20th - 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
20th - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
20th - Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.
21st - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
21st - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
21st - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
22nd - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
22nd - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
22nd - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
22nd - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
23rd - Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
24th - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
25th - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
25th - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
25th - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
25th - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
25th - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
26th - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
26th - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
27th - 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
28th - "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
28th - 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
28th - Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
29th - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
31st - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
31st - 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
31st - Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
31st - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.
