Historical Events for Year 1990 (Part 2)

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Mar 11th - 16th People's Choice Awards
Mar 11th - Lithuania declares it's Independence
Mar 11th - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
Mar 12th - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
Mar 13th - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
Mar 14th - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
Mar 14th - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
Mar 15th - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
Mar 17th - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
Mar 18th - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
Mar 18th - 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
Mar 18th - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
Mar 18th - Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
Mar 18th - Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
Mar 19th - 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
Mar 20th - LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
Mar 20th - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
Mar 21st - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs
Mar 21st - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
Mar 21st - "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
Mar 21st - Namibia becomes independent of S Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
Mar 22nd - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
Mar 22nd - "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
Mar 22nd - Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
Mar 22nd - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
Mar 23rd - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
Mar 24th - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
Mar 24th - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
Mar 25th - "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
Mar 25th - 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
Mar 25th - Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
Mar 25th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
Mar 26th - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
Mar 27th - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
Mar 27th - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
Mar 27th - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
Mar 28th - Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
Mar 28th - Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
Mar 28th - President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
Mar 30th - Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
Mar 31st - "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
Mar 31st - Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
Mar 31st - Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
Apr 1st - "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Apr 1st - 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
Apr 1st - 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
Apr 1st - 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
Apr 1st - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
Apr 1st - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
Apr 1st - It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
Apr 1st - Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
Apr 1st - Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan
Apr 2nd - 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
Apr 4th - "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
Apr 4th - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
Apr 4th - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
Apr 5th - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
Apr 5th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
Apr 5th - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
Apr 7th - BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
Apr 7th - Farm Aid IV concert
Apr 7th - John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
Apr 7th - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
Apr 7th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
Apr 7th - Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
Apr 8th - "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
Apr 8th - "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
Apr 8th - 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
Apr 8th - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
Apr 8th - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
Apr 8th - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
Apr 8th - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
Apr 9th - "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
Apr 9th - Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
Apr 9th - NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
Apr 9th - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
Apr 10th - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
Apr 10th - Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
Apr 11th - Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
Apr 11th - NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
Apr 11th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
Apr 11th - Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
Apr 12th - Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
Apr 12th - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
Apr 12th - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
Apr 13th - 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
Apr 13th - Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
Apr 13th - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
Apr 15th - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
Apr 15th - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best
Apr 16th - "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
Apr 16th - 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
Apr 16th - 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
Apr 16th - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
Apr 16th - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
Apr 17th - Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
Apr 18th - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
Apr 18th - Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
Apr 18th - Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
Apr 19th - Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming govt agree to truce
Apr 19th - Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
Apr 19th - Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
Apr 19th - Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
Apr 20th - Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
Apr 20th - 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
Apr 21st - "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
Apr 21st - National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
Apr 21st - Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
Apr 22nd - "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
Apr 22nd - Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
Apr 23rd - 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Apr 24th - Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
Apr 24th - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
Apr 24th - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
Apr 24th - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
Apr 24th - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
Apr 25th - 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
Apr 25th - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
Apr 25th - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
Apr 26th - "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
Apr 26th - 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
Apr 26th - Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
Apr 26th - NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case
Apr 26th - Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
Apr 27th - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
Apr 27th - Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
Apr 27th - Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
Apr 28th - "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances
Apr 28th - Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
Apr 28th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
Apr 28th - Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
Apr 28th - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
Apr 29th - "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
Apr 29th - Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
Apr 29th - STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
Apr 29th - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
Apr 30th - As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
Apr 30th - Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
Apr 30th - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
Apr 30th - US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
May 1st - "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
May 2nd - "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 perfs
May 2nd - South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
May 4th - Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
May 4th - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
May 4th - Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
May 4th - Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
May 5th - 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
May 5th - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
May 5th - Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia


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