1990

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1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

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Events

January

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa, closed on January 7

February

March

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Patricio Aylwin becomes President of Chile on March 11

April

May

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July

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Washington National Cathedral, completed on September 29
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Germany is reunited on October 3
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Margaret Thatcher leaves office on November 28

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September

October

November

December

Other Events

  • Chris Farley and Adam Sandler join Saturday Night Live.
  • The poorly received Cop Rock preimieres on television, TV's first (and last) musical police drama.
  • Legislation is signed into United States law requiring close captioning decoders in all large color TVs manufactured after July 1, 1993.
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Births

January

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Toni Kroos

February

March

April

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Kristen Stewart
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Emma Watson

May

June

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August

September

October

November

December

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Deaths

January

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Alberto Lleras Camargo
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Pavel Cherenkov
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Naruhiko Higashikuni
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Mariano Rumor
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Ava Gardner
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Lewis Mumford

February

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Alessandro Pertini

March

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Lev Yashin

April

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Sarah Vaughan
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Ryan White
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Greta Garbo

May

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Jim Henson

June

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Rex Harrison
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Robert Noyce
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José Figueres Ferrer
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Ilya Frank

July

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Yun Posun
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Manuel Puig
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Bruno Kreisky

August

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Viktor Tsoi
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Pearl Bailey
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Stevie Ray Vaughan

September

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Ahti Karjalainen
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Samuel Doe
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Alberto Moravia
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Patrick White

October

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Le Duc Tho
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Leonard Bernstein

November

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Yiannis Ritsos
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Robert Hofstadter
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Roald Dahl

December

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Aaron Copland
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Joan Bennett
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Vasili Lazarev
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Nobel Prizes

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Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured with Ronald Reagan) won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Media related to 1990 at Wikimedia Commons

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