Historical Events for Year 1990 (Part 5)
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Aug 11th - Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
Aug 11th - NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
Aug 12th - 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
Aug 12th - 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
Aug 12th - Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
Aug 12th - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
Aug 14th - Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
Aug 14th - Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
Aug 15th - 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
Aug 15th - Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
Aug 15th - Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
Aug 16th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
Aug 16th - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
Aug 17th - "Exorcist 3" premieres
Aug 17th - Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
Aug 17th - Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
Aug 19th - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
Aug 19th - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
Aug 19th - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
Aug 20th - Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
Aug 20th - George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
Aug 20th - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
Aug 20th - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
Aug 22nd - Pres Bush calls up military reserves
Aug 23rd - Armenia declares independence
Aug 23rd - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
Aug 23rd - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
Aug 24th - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
Aug 24th - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
Aug 25th - Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
Aug 25th - UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
Aug 26th - 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
Aug 26th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
Aug 26th - Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
Aug 27th - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
Aug 27th - Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
Aug 27th - Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
Aug 27th - WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
Aug 28th - Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
Aug 28th - Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
Aug 29th - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
Aug 29th - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
Aug 30th - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
Aug 30th - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
Aug 31st - Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
Aug 31st - East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
Aug 31st - Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
Sep 1st - "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs
Sep 1st - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs
Sep 1st - Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
Sep 1st - Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
Sep 2nd - "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
Sep 2nd - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
Sep 3rd - 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0
Sep 3rd - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Sep 3rd - Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
Sep 3rd - Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
Sep 3rd - White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
Sep 5th - Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
Sep 5th - Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight US Open final
Sep 6th - 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins
Sep 7th - "Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances
Sep 7th - Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
Sep 8th - 104th US Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76)
Sep 8th - Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC
Sep 9th - 110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62)
Sep 9th - Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
Sep 9th - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces
Sep 9th - Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
Sep 9th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship
Sep 10th - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open
Sep 10th - 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
Sep 10th - Ellis Island reopens as a museum
Sep 10th - George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
Sep 10th - Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
Sep 10th - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
Sep 10th - Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
Sep 10th - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
Sep 12th - "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
Sep 12th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
Sep 12th - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
Sep 13th - Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
Sep 13th - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
Sep 13th - Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
Sep 13th - Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
Sep 14th - Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
Sep 15th - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win
Sep 15th - Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
Sep 15th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
Sep 15th - Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
Sep 15th - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
Sep 16th - 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
Sep 16th - 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig
Sep 16th - Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed
Sep 16th - Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
Sep 16th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
Sep 16th - Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
Sep 17th - Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
Sep 17th - Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
Sep 18th - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
Sep 18th - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
Sep 18th - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
Sep 20th - Both Germanys ratify reunification
Sep 20th - Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
Sep 20th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 20th - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
Sep 21st - Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
Sep 21st - Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
Sep 21st - Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68
Sep 22nd - Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
Sep 22nd - Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits
Sep 23rd - Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
Sep 23rd - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
Sep 23rd - Saddam says he will destroy Israel
Sep 24th - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
Sep 24th - South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
Sep 24th - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
Sep 24th - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
Sep 24th - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
Sep 25th - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
Sep 25th - 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
Sep 25th - Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
Sep 25th - Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
Sep 25th - UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
Sep 26th - Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
Sep 27th - Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
Sep 27th - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
Sep 27th - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
Sep 27th - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
Sep 27th - Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
Sep 27th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 28th - Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
Sep 28th - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
Sep 29th - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
Sep 29th - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
Sep 29th - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
Sep 29th - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
Sep 29th - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
Sep 29th - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
Sep 29th - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
Sep 29th - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
Sep 30th - Chic White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park
Sep 30th - Pitts Pirates wins NL East title
Sep 30th - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
Oct 1st - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
Oct 1st - Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
Oct 1st - Pres Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
Oct 1st - Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
Oct 2nd - "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs
Oct 2nd - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany

