1990

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1990
	Germany will be reunified .
; Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the Schengen Agreement .	; ; The Baltic states declare their independence from the Soviet Union .;

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Calendar overview 1990

January
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
1	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
2	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
3	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
4th	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
5	29	30th	31

February
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
5				1	2	3	4th
6th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
7th	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
8th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
9	26th	27	28

March
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
9				1	2	3	4th
10	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
12	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
13	26th	27	28	29	30th	31

April
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
13							1
14th	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
15th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
16	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
17th	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
18th	30th

May
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
18th		1	2	3	4th	5	6th
19th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
20th	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
21st	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
22nd	28	29	30th	31

June
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
22nd					1	2	3
23	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
24	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
25th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
26th	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th

July
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
26th							1
27	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
28	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
29	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
30th	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
31	30th	31

August
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
31			1	2	3	4th	5
32	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
33	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
34	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th
35	27	28	29	30th	31

September
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
35						1	2
36	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
37	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
38	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
39	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th

October
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
40	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
41	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
42	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
43	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
44	29	30th	31

November
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
44				1	2	3	4th
45	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
46	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
47	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
48	26th	27	28	29	30th

December
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
48						1	2
49	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
50	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
51	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
52	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
1	31

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The year 1990 was marked by numerous political innovations and marked the beginning of the 1990s. German reunification went down in history as one of the most formative events , after the end of the Cold War was actually sealed with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 . With the declaration of independence of some member states, the end of the Soviet Union was in sight, which then actually collapsed in 1991. In South Africa the era of apartheid ended after decades .

Annual dedications

1990 is "International Year of Literature"
The golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany)
The beech (Fagus sylvatica) is tree of the year (Kuratorium Baum des Jahres / Germany)
The pyramidal dogwort (Anacamptis pyramidalis) is Orchid of the Year (Arbeitsgruppe Heimische Orchideen / Germany )

Events

The year 1990 is welcomed at the Brandenburg Gate.

Politics and world events

January

0January 1st : Arnold Koller becomes Federal President of Switzerland .
January 15 : turning point in the GDR . Demonstrators storm the Berlin Stasi headquarters. The BStU is still processing the files secured in this way .
January 20 : Military intervention in Baku

February

0February 2 : USSR : The Central Committee of the CPSU gives up the party's monopoly on power.

0February 3 : Bulgaria . Andrei Lukanov becomes Prime Minister.

0February 5 : The electoral alliance Allianz for Germany is closed. Eight representatives of the Central Round Table (including Wolfgang Ullmann , Rainer Eppelmann , Matthias Platzeck , Tatjana Böhm ) are accepted into the Modrow government .

February 11 : Nelson Mandela's unconditional release marks the beginning of the end of apartheid .

0From February 11th : Serious unrest takes place in Dushanbe , the capital of the Tajik Soviet Republic .

February 12 : The two adventurers Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner end with the achievement of Scott Base after 92 days and 2,800 kilometers walk her over the South Pole runny Antarctica -Durchquerung.

February 15 : In the Celle trial against the DOB (Dirk Breschinski), Pedro (Peter Carl) and a hacker named Urmel who were involved in the KGB hack - along with Karl Koch . You will be sentenced to probation from two years to 14 months.

February 16 : SWAPO politician Sam Nujoma is elected the first president of independent Namibia .

February 25 : In the elections in Nicaragua , the anti-Scandinavian electoral alliance Unión Nacional Opositora (UNO) surprisingly wins with 55.2 percent of the vote over the Sandinistas , who receive 40.8 percent.

March

March 11th : Lithuania declares independence .

March 11 : Said Mohamed Djohar is elected President of the Comoros .

March 11 : In Chile , Patricio Aylwin takes over the office of President from Augusto Pinochet , one of the most important events in the country's return to democracy .

March 13 : Judge Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first woman to be named President of Haiti . She succeeds Hérard Abraham , who, as a previously successful coup against President Prosper Avril, resigns from office after three days.

March 14 : Mikhail Gorbachev is elected President of the USSR .

March 16 : The 6-day Wild Lily student movement begins in Taipei, Taiwan .

March 18 : The first free election to the People's Chamber in the GDR is held.

March 19: Saarland's Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine is unanimously nominated by the SPD party executive as candidate for Chancellor for the Bundestag election on December 2.

March 19: The jury of the city of Homburg awards the writer Rolf Haufs their Holderlin Prize.

March 21 : With Nujoma's swearing in as President by UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuéllar , Namibia's independence is achieved .

March 21 : Lee Teng-hui is elected President by the National Assembly in Taiwan .

March 24 : Islom Karimov becomes president of Uzbekistan .

March 25th : First democratic parliamentary elections since 1945 in Hungary .

former logo of TV Martí

March 27 : The US television channel TV Martí , broadcast to Cuba , begins operations.

March 30 : Estonia declares itself a republic. On May 4th it declares itself independent. See Singing Revolution

April

0April 1 : The private local stations in North Rhine-Westphalia start. Radio Duisburg is the first to go on air.

0April 3 : Petar Mladenow becomes President of Bulgaria .

0April 5 : 18 days after the first free elections to the People's Chamber of the GDR , the GDR is constituted and elects Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president.

0April 6 : Protests by the Nepalese opposition are brutally suppressed. 300 people die.

0April 9th : The multiparty system is introduced in Nepal .

April 12 : Lothar de Maizière becomes the first (and last) democratically elected Prime Minister of the GDR .

April 12th : In Hardegg the border crossing over the Thaya bridge Hardegg - Čížov into the ČSFR is opened.

April 13 : The Soviet Union admits the Katyn massacre . President Mikhail Gorbachev confirms a killing decision by the Soviet leadership under Josef Stalin . At the instigation of the NKVD , more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war were executed in other places as well.

April 23 : Namibia becomes a member of the United Nations .

Chemnitz coat of arms

Former Entrance sign to Karl-Marx-Stadt

April 23rd : The citizen survey in Karl-Marx-Stadt shows: 76 percent choose the old city name “ Chemnitz ”. The name will be changed on June 1st .
April 24 : Nursultan Nazarbayev becomes President of Kazakhstan .
April 25 : Oskar Lafontaine is critically injured in an attack.

May

0May 4th : Latvia declares independence.
0May 5 : The first round of the two-plus-four talks on the reunification of the two German states begins in Bonn .
0May 6th : In the GDR the first free local elections take place in municipalities and districts, after “massive” election frauds were uncovered in the previous year's local elections.

May 17 : The World Health Organization (WHO) removes homosexuality from the diagnosis code for diseases.
May 18 : Theo Waigel and Walter Romberg sign the German-German State Treaty for the formation of an economic, social and monetary union.
May 22nd : The unification of the two Yemeni states , the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Republic of Yemen , takes place.
May 23 : The unexplained death of the opposition politician Joseph Rendjambe in Gabon triggers riots and riots in Libreville and Port-Gentil .
May 25 : General elections are held in Myanmar .
May 30th : The new constitution in Schleswig-Holstein comes into force.
May 30th : France imposes an import ban on all British beef products following the outbreak of BSE .
May 30th : The freely elected Croatian Parliament ( Sabor ) is constituted. Franjo Tuđman becomes Croatian President ( Predsjednik Republike ).
May 31 : A cultural agreement is concluded between the Federal Republic of Germany and Singapore , which has been in force since August 23, 1991 .

June

0June 6th : Susanne Albrecht is arrested in East Berlin - as the first of the RAF terrorists who left the GDR and had a new identity .

0June 8th : In the first free parliamentary elections since 1946 in Czechoslovakia , after the end of communist rule, the civil rights movements win .

June 10 : British Airways flight 5390 loses a cockpit window through which the captain of the aircraft is sucked out and only with the help of the crew does not completely fall out of the aircraft.

June 11th : GDR Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière officially visits the USA and has a meeting with President George HW Bush .

June 12 : The Russian Soviet Republic announces its sovereignty from the Soviet Union .

Remnants of the Berlin Wall on Niederkirchnerstrasse (2004)

June 13 : The final demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.

June 17 : In the Federal Republic of Germany for the last time non-working holiday , since only national memorial day .

June 19 : The Schengen Agreement is signed by the Benelux countries , the Federal Republic of Germany and France .

June 22nd : While the second round of negotiations on the two-plus-four contract begins in Berlin , Checkpoint Charlie is being dismantled.

23 June : Moldova's declaration of sovereignty

June 28 : The CSCE Human Rights Conference in Copenhagen agrees to lay down basic democratic principles such as free elections and a multi-party system .

June 29 : With the update of the Montreal Protocol during the Ozone Protection Conference in London, it is decided to end the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) worldwide by the year 2000.

July

0July 1 : In the GDR triggers the entry into force of the economic, monetary and social union that the two German states Deutsche Mark , the Mark of the GDR as legal tender from.
0July 1 : Restrictions on movement of goods between Australia and New Zealand are lifted.
July 11th : The ten-day 28th party congress of the CPSU comes to an end. Mikhail Gorbachev is re-elected as its General Secretary.
15 / July 16 : Mikhail Gorbachev accepted in talks with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl membership of a unified Germany in NATO .
July 19 : The Federal Constitutional Court judges different notice periods for blue-collar and white-collar workers as incompatible with the Basic Law .
July 22nd : The People's Chamber of the GDR passes the Land Introduction Act .

August

0August 1 : Shelju Shelev becomes President of Bulgaria .
0August 2nd : Second Gulf War : Iraqi troops invade Kuwait .
0August 3rd : declaration of sovereignty of Armenia
0August 6 : Second Gulf War: The United Nations instigates resolution 661 economic sanctions against Iraq, which invaded Kuwait.
0August 9 : The annexation of Kuwait by Iraq is from the UN Security Council for null and void explained. During the Gulf War, he calls for the Iraqi army to withdraw from the country immediately.
August 10 : A special Arab League summit meets after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
August 12 : The West German FDP unites with the Bund Free Democrats , the German Forum Party (DFP) and the GDR FDP at a special party conference in Hanover . Two block parties of the GDR , the LDPD and the NDPD , have joined forces in the Bund Free Democrats .

August 22nd : Sao Tome and Principe adopts a new constitution.

August 23 : The East Berlin People's Chamber votes in favor of the GDR joining the Federal Republic of Germany.

August 31 : On the way to the reunification of the two German states , the Unification Treaty is signed in Berlin .

August: A peace agreement ends the Lebanese civil war after 15 years .

September

September 10 : At a meeting in Jakarta , representatives of the Cambodian parties agree on the adoption of the UN peace plan .

September 12 : On the way to the reunification of the two German states , the two-plus-four treaty is signed in Moscow .

September 12 : The Faroe Islands win an international match with a historic 1-0 over Austria .

September 13 : The Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a cooperation and non-aggression agreement with a term of 20 years.

September 18 : Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

Palace of the Republic, 1977

September 19 : The Palace of the Republic is closed due to asbestos contamination.

September 23 : A popular initiative for a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction is adopted in Switzerland .

September 24 : The National People's Army of the GDR is out of the Warsaw Pact in terms of German unification removed. Rainer Eppelmann as Minister for Disarmament and Defense of the GDR and the commander-in-chief in the Warsaw Pact, Soviet Army General Pyotr G. Luschew , sign a protocol in East Berlin to leave the military organization of the Alliance.

September 27 : The West and East German Social Democrats meet in Berlin . The chairman of the Eastern SPD , Wolfgang Thierse , becomes deputy chairman of the entire SPD at the party congress .

September 27 : With the unanimous decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court for women , the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last Swiss canton to introduce women’s right to vote .

September 29th : The Federal Constitutional Court declares the right to vote for the first all-German Bundestag election unconstitutional and demands a. separate threshold clauses for the area of the current Federal Republic as well as for the accession area.

October

0October 1 : CDU East and West unite at a party conference in Hamburg. The foreign ministers of the four victorious powers of the Second World War declare Germany a sovereign state in New York City.

0October 2 : From Uganda from the start of Tutsi founded -Flüchtlingen Rwandan Patriotic Front with an invasion in Rwanda to that of Hutus to overthrow led government.

0October 3 : With the accession of the areas of the GDR including East Berlin to the scope of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , the reunification of the two German states takes place. In addition, the adopted by the parliament of the GDR on July 22 occurs ländereinführungsgesetz into force. As soon as the parliaments of the victorious powers have ratified the Two-Plus-Four Treaty , as intended, the remainder of the Allies' rights of reservation with regard to all of Germany and Berlin will expire as a result of World War II and Germany would become completely sovereign . For the first time, October 3rd as the Day of German Unity is also a national holiday for all of Germany .

0October 7th : National Council election in Austria . SPÖ under Chancellor Vranitzky party with the strongest vote.

October 12 : The President of the People's Assembly, Refaat Al-Mahgoub , is assassinated in Egypt .

October 12 : Wolfgang Schäuble , German Federal Minister of the Interior , is seriously injured in a gunshot attack.

October 14 : Elections to the state parliaments take place in the new federal states and in Bavaria . The CDU becomes the strongest party in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , the SPD in the elections to the Brandenburg state parliament - the CSU wins the Bavarian state election with an absolute majority.

Head and mouth of a preserved basking mouth shark

October 21 : In a drift net - the sixth specimen ever - a basking mouth shark is found and - provided with transmitters - released the next day
October 22 : Turkmenistan declares itself sovereign .
October 25 : Kazakhstan declares sovereignty within the USSR ; in the following year it becomes an independent state.
October 27 : Saparmurat Niyazov becomes President of Turkmenistan .

November

0November 6th : The 9th additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights , which enables every citizen to appeal personally to the European Court of Human Rights , is presented.

0November 7th : Mary Robinson , nominated by the Irish Labor Party for the Irish presidential election , is surprisingly elected and is the first woman in this office.

0November 9th : Nepal receives a democratic constitution.

0November 9 : The Soviet Union and Germany sign the “Treaty on Good Neighborhood, Partnership and Cooperation”.

November 11 : The UN Security Council passes Resolution 678: Iraq is to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991 .

November 12 : Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan .

November 14th : Signing of the German-Polish border treaty .

November 14th: Mainzer Strasse in Berlin is cleared .

November 15: The Alternative List announces the red-green coalition ( Senate Momper ).

November 19 : OSCE summit in Paris

November 21 : In the Charter of Paris , the division of Europe into East and West in the Cold War is declared over. 32 European countries as well as the USA and Canada are committed to a democracy based on human rights and fundamental freedoms , to prosperity through economic freedom and social justice, and to equal security for the contracting states .

November 22 : Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . John Major will be her successor on November 28th.

November 28 : Lee Kuan Yew resigns as Prime Minister of Singapore after 31 years.

November 29 : early election of the people's assembly in Egypt . Atef Sedky remains Prime Minister.

December

0December 2 : In the 1990 Bundestag election , the first all-German elections , Helmut Kohl's government is confirmed in office.

0December 5 : President Hossain Mohammad Ershad is overthrown in Bangladesh .

0December 7th : With the entry into force of the Electricity Feed Act in Germany, electricity generation from renewable energy sources is politically supported significantly.

0December 9th : Lech Wałęsa wins the presidential election in Poland .

December 11th : After a referendum , the new constitution comes into force in Benin .

Flag of Kyrgyzstan

December 15 : Kyrgyzstan declares its sovereignty

December 17th : A multiparty system is introduced in Albania .

December 19 : Bulgaria receives a government under Dimitar Popov .

December 20 : The first all-German Bundestag meets for a constituent session in Berlin.

December 22nd : New constitution in Croatia, a semi-presidential system designed primarily to concentrate the political power of former President Franjo Tuđman .

December 23rd : In Slovenia , 95 percent of voters vote in a referendum to break away from the state of Yugoslavia . The country's independence is subsequently declared on June 25, 1991.

December 30th : The BND law , which regulates the organization, tasks and powers of the Federal Intelligence Service , comes into force.

economy

January 26th : The Deutsche Terminbörse starts trading as the first fully electronic exchange in Germany.

January 31 : The first Russian McDonald’s restaurant opens in Moscow .

January 31 : The coal -promoting Radbod in Bockum-Hoevel is shut down.

February 28 : In the Soviet Union , private farmers are enabled to buy land and pass it on to their descendants. This eases the land reform based on Lenin's decree on land of 1917.

May 29 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Bangladesh

May 29 : An agreement to establish the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBWD) is signed.

June 20 : The EEC and EFTA begin negotiations on the creation of the European Economic Area (EEA).

June 21 : The Budapest Stock Exchange is reopened under significant influence of the Vienna Stock Exchange .

July 7th : The businessman Bernard Tapie acquires 80 percent of the shares in the sporting goods manufacturer adidas from the Dassler family for 1.6 billion French francs .

13 July : As the legal successor of Gosbank is Bank Rossii as Central Bank of Russia established.

October 22nd : Trade agreement between the EC and Romania

Ford buys Jaguar

November 26th : The Shanghai Stock Exchange is founded.

December 19 : The rocket soundings in Zingst are temporarily suspended for security reasons.

December 31 : The SDAG Wismut stops mining in Saxony and Thuringia. This ends uranium mining in Germany.

science and technology

Hiten space probe

January 24th : The Japanese space probe Hiten is launched into orbit around the earth, it will later reach the moon .
April 24th : The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-31 mission .
August 10 : The space probe Magellan occurs after a 15-month trip to the orbit of Venus , a
September 2nd : The Silver Arrow (ET 201) of the Cologne-Bonn Railways has its last day of operation.
September 14 : The worldwide Human Genome Project to decipher the human genome is founded
December 25 : At CERN , the first prototype system with HTTP , HTML and the combination of web server and web browser on a NeXT computer goes into operation.

society

January 18 : Washington Mayor Marion Barry is arrested by the FBI for possession and use of a drug .

July 14th : Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr is found murdered.

November 13 : The Aramoana rampage in New Zealand develops out of an argument between two neighbors. The perpetrator then shoots 13 people and dies the next morning after another exchange of fire with police officers from his sustained injuries.

Culture

January 2nd : The Wolf Foundation's art prize this year goes to painter Anselm Kiefer

January 7th : The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to visitors for security reasons

January 21 : World premiere of the ballet Medea by John Neumeier (choreography and libretto) by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Small House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart

January 31 : Italian premiere of Federico Fellini's last film The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna)

March 18 : Twelve paintings valued at $ 100 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston , Massachusetts by two thieves dressed as police officers . It is the largest art theft in US history.

March 26 : The German animated film Balance by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein wins an Oscar for best animated short film.

Entrance to the Sherlock Holmes Museum

March 27 : The Sherlock Holmes Museum opens in London .
March 28 : Bergerac's film Cyrano is shown for the first time in France and has garnered many awards.

April 6th : Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch is sprayed with sulfuric acid by a confused man in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam .

April 19 : The Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize is awarded for the first time in the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.

May 5th : World premiere of the musical drama The betrayed sea by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin

May 10 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Vietnam . In force since March 6, 1991

May 23 : cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Rwanda . In force since April 2, 1991

August 24th : The Diddl mouse is sketched by Thomas Goletz for the first time

October 1 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Guatemala . In force since April 23, 1992

October 17th : The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is founded, but it does not appear on the World Wide Web until 1994 . The current operator is amazon.com (founded in 1994)

October 30 : World premiere of the opera Tulifant by Gottfried von Eine in Vienna

Commissioning of the German Science Network

Foundation of the support group of the gallery for contemporary art

First award of the Carl Einstein Prize

music

May 5 : Toto Cutugno wins the 35th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Italy with the song Insieme 1992 in Zagreb .

July 21 : Roger Waters gives the biggest concert in the history of rock music ( The Wall ) on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin .

August 24th : The Wacken Open Air , later Europe's largest metal festival, takes place for the first time.

November 20 : A visitor to a Queensrÿche concert in Ichtegem, Belgium, is stabbed to death after a scuffle.

The Association of the Phonographic Industry recognizes the Hamburg band Helloween the golden records for the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 + Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 .

GWAR cancel their current US tour after guitarist Balzac left.

The Californian rock band Y&T split up.

The British boy band Take That is founded and becomes the most successful British boy band of all time.

See also: 1990 number one hits in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .

religion

February 22 : The Bavarian Administrative Court decides that for women in the Oberammergau Passion Play , regardless of their marital status and age equality applies.
September 10 : The Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast , the largest Christian church in the world, is consecrated

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

February 11 : James "Buster" Douglas wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Mike Tyson in the Tokyo Dome , Tokyo , Japan , by knockout.
May 9 : The GDR women's national soccer team plays its only international match that is lost 3-0 to the national soccer team of Czechoslovakia in the Karl Liebknecht Stadium in Potsdam-Babelsberg in front of around 800 spectators.
May 19 : 1. FC Kaiserslautern defeated Werder Bremen 3-2 in the German Cup final in Berlin and won the DFB Cup for the first time in its history .
June 8th : In the opening game of the 14th World Cup , Cameroon wins a 1-0 win against reigning world champions Argentina .
July 8th : Andreas Brehme turned a penalty against Argentina for the DFB team to win the final of the 14th World Cup 1-0 and become world champions for the third time.
August 27th : 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split , Croatia .
September 12 : International football match between Faroe Islands and Austria in Landskrona . The 1-0 for the amateurs from the Faroe Islands started a football fairy tale .
October 2 : In women's handball , the GDR wins the last German-German international match before reunification against the Federal Republic .
October 25 : Evander Holyfield wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against James "Buster" Douglas at The Mirage , Las Vegas , by knockout.
November 20 : The German Football Association (DFV) of the GDR decides to dissolve it.
December 31 : The last time in the fight for the world chess championship is the long rivals Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov on the board. Kasparov remains world champion after the last game with 12.5: 11.5 points.
Ayrton Senna becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time .

Disasters

January 4 : A railway accident near Sangi in Pakistan kills around 350 people and injures 700. A passenger and a freight train collided.
June 21 : The Manjil-Rudbar quake with a magnitude of 7.4 in Iran , 40,000 to 50,000 dead
July 2 : An outbreak of mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca kills 1,427 Muslim pilgrims on the Hajj .
July 16 : 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Luzon , Philippines , killing 1,621
October 2 : Baiyun , People's Republic of China . During the emergency landing of a hijacked Boeing 737 from Xiamen Airlines , a fight breaks out between the pilot and the hijacker and the machine gets out of control. She rams a Boeing 707 from China Southwest Airlines and then collides with a Boeing 757 from the same airline. 132 people die, 141 survive the disaster

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .