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19901990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1990 in video gaming January - January 3 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
- January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello, the man who led the coup against Dr Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
- January 10 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- January 11 - Massive (200,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
- January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi HQ in Berlin in an attempt to view their records.
- January 16 - Alternative rock band They Might Be Giants releases their third album, Flood.
- January 18:
- January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
- January 25
- Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK airport officials.
- The Berlin Wall starts to come down.
- January 29 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
- January 31 - The first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia.
February March April-July August-September October - October 3 - German re-unification, East Germany became part of Germany
- October 5 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days (Friday, January 3, 1840 - Friday, October 5, 1990), The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on the 8th
- October 8 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount
- October 15 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation
- October 27 - Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan choses Askar Akayev as republic's first president
- October 27 - New Zealand general election returns National with record number of seats - 67; Labour 29, NewLabour 1
November December Births - January 7 - Liam Aiken, child actor
- January 21 -Jacob William Smith, child actor
- January 30 - Jake Thomas, actor (Lizzie McGuire)
- February 13 - Erdini Qoigyijabu, eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, according to the Chinese government
- February 28 - Anna Muzychuk, Ukrainian chess player
- March 16 - James Bulger, toddler murdered in Merseyside, United Kingdom (d. 1993)
- March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
- April 15 - Emma Watson, actress (Harry Potter series)
- April 25 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, according to the Government of Tibet in Exile
- May 16 - Thomas Sangster, actor
- July 17 - Mattie Stepanek, young poet (d. 2004)
- July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
- August 6 - JonBent Ramsey
- September 30 - Tobi Atkins, actor
- October 19 - Janet Leon, pop singer (PLAY)
- October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, child actor
- November 30 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
- December 20 - JoJo (born Joanna Noelle Levesque), pop singer
- December 24 - Joshua Bryant, went missing in 2001 Body found July, 4 2004.
Deaths - January 2 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor, Gilligan's Island (b. 1918)
- March 13 - Karl Mnchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
- April 17 - Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
- May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets (b. 1936)
- May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr., actor, dancer, singer (b. 1925)
- July 7 - Bill Cullen, game show host (b. 1920)
- August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (b. 1954)
- September 16 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- September 26 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (b. 1907)
- October 14 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor (b. 1918)
Uncertain dates For a brief while in early 1990, Romania had a civil war in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the opposition was for Nicolae Ceausescu and the Communist regime, and those for the new regime.
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