1990

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

Births

Deaths

• 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

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]?