1990

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s

Years: 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 - 1990 - 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

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Births

Deaths

• April 15 - Greta Garbo, Swedish film star.
• October 14 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor
• October 16 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer

Events

• February 11 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win world heavyweight boxing crown.
• February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster prison, near Cape Town, South Africa
• August 2 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War
• November 22 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending three decades of military rule
• West Germany wins Football World Cup in Italy

Sport

• January 28 - Super Bowl XXIV San Francisco 49ers (55) def. Denver Broncos (10)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
• Chemistry - Elias James Corey
• Medicine - Joseph E Murray, E Donnall Thomas
• Literature - Octavio Paz
• Peace - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
• Economics - Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, William Sharpe