The Magellan space probe gets to Venus. The Magellan spacecraft was the first planetary explorer to be launched by a space shuttle when it was…
Tag: 1990
22 May 1990
North and South Yemen join to create the Republic of Yemen. Although there are no cultural, ethnic and linguistic elements that could divide the North…
16 April 1990
Jack Kevorkian (“Doctor Death”)participates in his first assisted suicide. Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been known as “Dr. Death” since at least 1956, when he conducted…
13 February 1990
An agreement is reached on the plan to reunite Germany. The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined…
22 November 1990
Lech Walesa is elected as the President of Poland. Lech Walesa is known for his valiant effort to free his native Poland from Communist rule….
13 November 1990
In Aramoana, near Dunedin in New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people. On November 13th, 1990, residents of the small seaside town of Aramoana…
26 July 1990
President George Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 into law.
9 September 1990
184 minority Tamil civilians are massacred by the Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.