Iraq invades Kuwait.
Cost Of Living
Yearly Inflation Rate ― 5.39%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average ― 2633
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve ― 10.00%
Average Cost of new house ― $123,000.00
Average Income per year ― $28,960.00
Average Monthly Rent ― $465
Cost of a gallon of Gas ― $1.34
Price for a new Isuzu Rodeo ― $12,4900
IBM PS1 Computer ― From $999 - $1,999
Events of 1990
Saddam Hussein orders Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait.
North and South Yemen, also known as the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, are unified as the Republic of Yemen in May. North Yemen had been a part of the Ottoman Empire prior to its independence in 1918 after the Ottoman collapse. South Yemen had been a part of the British Empire until 1967 when it became an independent socialist republic. In 1990, the two nations decided to merge under the leadership of Ali Salem al Beidh (from South Yemen) and Ali Abdullah Saleh (from North Yemen). After the announcement, the new nation was to go through a 30 month transitional period.
Manji-Rudbar Earthquake
1. Iran is hit with a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on June 21st.
2. The earthquake hit near the Caspian Sea, northwest of Tehran and near the cities of Rudbar and Munjil.
3. The earthquake effected an area of about 20,000 square miles, destroying thousands of homes. An estimated 400,000 people were left homeless after the disaster.
4. The death toll was estimated between 35,000 and 50,000 people and up to 135,000 people were injured.
Berners-Lee’s proposal outlined a plan for a system that would use hypertext, web pages, browsers, and web servers to share documents across the internet. Berners-Lee had first proposed his idea to colleagues at CERN in Switzerland who then worked with him to develop the system for about two years before it became functional. His original goal was to make the sharing of documents easy and universal for scientists and education purposes around the globe but had acknowledged the potential for commercial involvement. The creation of the World Wide Web has since formed the standard for how we access and use the internet.
Operation Desert Shield begins as the United States and the UK send troops to Kuwait.
Lech Walesa becomes president of Poland.
The Saturn range of cars are launched by General Motors.
One of the largest and most well-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossilized skeletons is found by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson near Faith, South Dakota in August of 1990. The skeleton was named “Sue” after the person who discovered it. “Sue” was over 90 percent complete and measured about thirteen feet all and forty feet long. A team of six uncovered the skeleton over about seventeen days to remove “Sue” from the bluff where she was discovered. Chicago’s Field Museum eventually purchased the specimen for over 8 million dollars and spent tens of thousands of hours preserving and assembling one of the most important dinosaur discoveries to ever be seen.
Earthquake in Iran kills 50,000.
Americas favorite animated family The Simpsons is aired on Fox for the first time.
A Formal Ban on the trade of ivory is introduced.
During February of 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years of imprisonment. Mandela had been one of the prominent leaders in the anti-apartheid movement. He joined the movement in 1944 and soon became the deputy national president of the oldest black political organization in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC). In 1964, he was imprisoned for his involvement in a paramilitary branch of the ANC that had been retaliating against the government for an attack on peaceful protesters. After Mandela’s release, he became the head of the anti-apartheid movement and helped negotiate its end. In 1994 he became the first black president of South Africa after being elected in the first multiracial elections.
The joint ESA / NASA space probe "Ulysses" was launched.
1. The Ulysses space craft was launched in 1990 and was a joint effort between the ESA and NASA.
2. The probe’s mission was studying the Sun and solar system’s magnetic field, also known as the heliosphere.
3. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) space probe “Ulysses” reached its southern most latitude in its orbit around the Sun during September of 1994.
4. The Ulysses mission was only expected to last for five years but it continued for about eighteen years and ended in 2009.
The official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins in June of 1990. The wall had been built in 1961 by the Communist-run East Germany to prevent defectors from traveling over the border to Capitalist-run West Germany. Control of the Berlin Wall ended in November of 1989 when it was announced that East German citizens would be allowed to cross the border with complete freedom. The removal of the wall began in June of 1990 and by October, the reunification of West and East Germany was completed. Demolition on the wall was finished in 1992.
Poll Tax introduced in UK causing mass demonstrations who claimed the tax moved the tax burden from the rich to the poor. Blah, socialists, blah, communists, blah, Marxists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Industrialized countries agree to stop dumping waste into the oceans of the world.
John M. Poindexter (former national security adviser) is convicted on multiple felony counts.
Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British PM after John Major is chosen to lead the country and conservative party.
A stampede of religious pilgrims in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca on July 2nd leaves 1,400 dead.
A fire at an unlicensed social club called Happy Land in New York City kills 87.
In January of 1990 the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to visitors for the first time due to fears over the safety and stability of the building. Engineers worked on restructuring and stabilizing the building by taking some of the weight out of the tower and straightening it by about eighteen inches. By December of 2001 it was reopened to the public and declared to be stable for at least another few hundred years. The Leaning Tower of Pisa had originally been constructed over a span of about 200 years between the 1170’s and the 1370’s and the tilt began to form almost immediately, caused by the building of a poor foundation on too soft of soil.
East and West Germany reunite including currency and economies.
President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a historic agreement to end production of chemical weapons.
In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation. Another international Leftist pile of crap.
Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.
Art thieves steal 12 works of art from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston.
Prisoners Riot in Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England keeping control of the prison for 25 days
Namibia Gains Independence From South AfricaRussia.
Boris N. Yeltsin becomes president of the Russian republic.
West Germany Wins 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Customs officers seize a part of the barrel (130 feet long) of a Supergun bound for Iraq.
Great Britain is gripped by a heat wave and the highest recorded temperatures in British history are recorded of 37.1C, or 99F in Nailstone, Leicestershire.
Popular Culture
Popular Films
Popular Musicians
Technology
Yearly Inflation Rate ― 5.39%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average ― 2633
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve ― 10.00%
Average Cost of new house ― $123,000.00
Average Income per year ― $28,960.00
Average Monthly Rent ― $465
Cost of a gallon of Gas ― $1.34
Price for a new Isuzu Rodeo ― $12,4900
IBM PS1 Computer ― From $999 - $1,999
Events of 1990
Saddam Hussein orders Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait.
North and South Yemen, also known as the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, are unified as the Republic of Yemen in May. North Yemen had been a part of the Ottoman Empire prior to its independence in 1918 after the Ottoman collapse. South Yemen had been a part of the British Empire until 1967 when it became an independent socialist republic. In 1990, the two nations decided to merge under the leadership of Ali Salem al Beidh (from South Yemen) and Ali Abdullah Saleh (from North Yemen). After the announcement, the new nation was to go through a 30 month transitional period.
Manji-Rudbar Earthquake
1. Iran is hit with a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on June 21st.
2. The earthquake hit near the Caspian Sea, northwest of Tehran and near the cities of Rudbar and Munjil.
3. The earthquake effected an area of about 20,000 square miles, destroying thousands of homes. An estimated 400,000 people were left homeless after the disaster.
4. The death toll was estimated between 35,000 and 50,000 people and up to 135,000 people were injured.
Berners-Lee’s proposal outlined a plan for a system that would use hypertext, web pages, browsers, and web servers to share documents across the internet. Berners-Lee had first proposed his idea to colleagues at CERN in Switzerland who then worked with him to develop the system for about two years before it became functional. His original goal was to make the sharing of documents easy and universal for scientists and education purposes around the globe but had acknowledged the potential for commercial involvement. The creation of the World Wide Web has since formed the standard for how we access and use the internet.
Operation Desert Shield begins as the United States and the UK send troops to Kuwait.
Lech Walesa becomes president of Poland.
The Saturn range of cars are launched by General Motors.
One of the largest and most well-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossilized skeletons is found by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson near Faith, South Dakota in August of 1990. The skeleton was named “Sue” after the person who discovered it. “Sue” was over 90 percent complete and measured about thirteen feet all and forty feet long. A team of six uncovered the skeleton over about seventeen days to remove “Sue” from the bluff where she was discovered. Chicago’s Field Museum eventually purchased the specimen for over 8 million dollars and spent tens of thousands of hours preserving and assembling one of the most important dinosaur discoveries to ever be seen.
Earthquake in Iran kills 50,000.
Americas favorite animated family The Simpsons is aired on Fox for the first time.
A Formal Ban on the trade of ivory is introduced.
During February of 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years of imprisonment. Mandela had been one of the prominent leaders in the anti-apartheid movement. He joined the movement in 1944 and soon became the deputy national president of the oldest black political organization in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC). In 1964, he was imprisoned for his involvement in a paramilitary branch of the ANC that had been retaliating against the government for an attack on peaceful protesters. After Mandela’s release, he became the head of the anti-apartheid movement and helped negotiate its end. In 1994 he became the first black president of South Africa after being elected in the first multiracial elections.
The joint ESA / NASA space probe "Ulysses" was launched.
1. The Ulysses space craft was launched in 1990 and was a joint effort between the ESA and NASA.
2. The probe’s mission was studying the Sun and solar system’s magnetic field, also known as the heliosphere.
3. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) space probe “Ulysses” reached its southern most latitude in its orbit around the Sun during September of 1994.
4. The Ulysses mission was only expected to last for five years but it continued for about eighteen years and ended in 2009.
The official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins in June of 1990. The wall had been built in 1961 by the Communist-run East Germany to prevent defectors from traveling over the border to Capitalist-run West Germany. Control of the Berlin Wall ended in November of 1989 when it was announced that East German citizens would be allowed to cross the border with complete freedom. The removal of the wall began in June of 1990 and by October, the reunification of West and East Germany was completed. Demolition on the wall was finished in 1992.
Poll Tax introduced in UK causing mass demonstrations who claimed the tax moved the tax burden from the rich to the poor. Blah, socialists, blah, communists, blah, Marxists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Industrialized countries agree to stop dumping waste into the oceans of the world.
John M. Poindexter (former national security adviser) is convicted on multiple felony counts.
Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British PM after John Major is chosen to lead the country and conservative party.
A stampede of religious pilgrims in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca on July 2nd leaves 1,400 dead.
A fire at an unlicensed social club called Happy Land in New York City kills 87.
In January of 1990 the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to visitors for the first time due to fears over the safety and stability of the building. Engineers worked on restructuring and stabilizing the building by taking some of the weight out of the tower and straightening it by about eighteen inches. By December of 2001 it was reopened to the public and declared to be stable for at least another few hundred years. The Leaning Tower of Pisa had originally been constructed over a span of about 200 years between the 1170’s and the 1370’s and the tilt began to form almost immediately, caused by the building of a poor foundation on too soft of soil.
East and West Germany reunite including currency and economies.
President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a historic agreement to end production of chemical weapons.
In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation. Another international Leftist pile of crap.
Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.
Art thieves steal 12 works of art from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston.
Prisoners Riot in Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England keeping control of the prison for 25 days
Namibia Gains Independence From South AfricaRussia.
Boris N. Yeltsin becomes president of the Russian republic.
West Germany Wins 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Customs officers seize a part of the barrel (130 feet long) of a Supergun bound for Iraq.
Great Britain is gripped by a heat wave and the highest recorded temperatures in British history are recorded of 37.1C, or 99F in Nailstone, Leicestershire.
Popular Culture
- The Sci/Fi Channel on Cable TV starts transmitting
- Twin Peaks premieres on ABC
- The Milli Vanilli duo's producer reveals that the Grammy winning pop duo were lip synching in the songs on the album which gained them the award
Popular Films
- Home Alone
- Ghost
- Dances with Wolves
- Pretty Woman
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- The Hunt for Red October
- Total Recall
- Die Hard 2
- Dick Tracy
- Edward Scissorhands,
- The Godfather Part III
Popular Musicians
- Tears For Fears
- Kylie Minogue
- Janet Jackson with " Black Cat "
- Jon Bon Jovi with " Blaze of Glory "
- Erasure
- Maxi Priest
- Rod Stewart
- Depeche Mode
- The Blues Brothers
- Garth Brooks
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Billy Joel
- Phil Collins
- Vanilla Ice with " Ice Ice Baby "
- Whitney Houston
- Aerosmith
- Cher
- Dannii Minogue
- Mariah Carey
- The B-52's
Technology
- The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit revolutionizing astronomy.
- Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written
- Microsoft Releases Windows 3.0
- A 16 megabit chip is shown for the first time
- The First Known Case of AIDS is traced back to 1959
- The Space Probe Voyager launched in 1977 photographed the Solar System at a distance of 3.7 miles from the SUN
- 18 years after its launch the US Space Probe Pioneer reaches a distance of 46.5 billion miles beyond all planetary orbits
- Depletion of the Ozone Layer is discovered above the North Pole
- The First in-car Satellite Navigation System is sold by Pioneer.
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