1990

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Events[edit]

January 22 - The League of Communists of Yugoslavia is dissolved.
January 30 - The Polish United Workers' Party is dissolved.
January 31 - The United States ends its invasion of Panama.
February - On the recommendation of the United States as well as other Central American countries, the Nicaraguan Contras agree to ceasefire terms with the Sandinista National Liberation Front and agree to disarm and disband themselves.
February 6 - Juan Manuel Cardenas Jr. is found guilty of the murder of his classmate and love interest, Jacalyn Rene Calabrese, he was sent to one year of jail.
March 11 - Augusto Pinochet steps down as President of Chile.
March 21 - End of the South African Border War.
April 24 - Nursultan Nazarbayev is elected President of Kazakhstan.
April 25 - Daniel Ortega's first term as President of Nicaragua comes to an end.
May 20 - The Oyoun Qara massacre: Ami Popper kills 7 Palestinian Arabs at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion, Israel. He is apprehended by the Israeli police an hour later.
May 22 - Yemen is unified under the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is named president of the new republic.
June 11 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre over 600 Sri Lankan police officers in the Eastern Province.
July 26 - Alberto Fujimori is elected President of Peru.
July 30 - British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow is assassinated by an Irish Republican Army car bomb outside his home in England.
August 2 - Saddam Hussein invades and tries to annex Kuwait. Beginning of the Gulf War.
September 9 - Prince Johnson's Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (a breakaway faction of Charles Taylor's NPFL) captures Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. He subsequently captures, tortures, and brutally murders President Samuel Doe in an internationally televised display.
October 1 - The Rwandan Civil War begins when the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invades the country from Uganda to oppose the MRND regime of Juvénal Habyarimana.
October 3 - Germany is reunified as Federal Republic of Germany.
October 13 - End of the Lebanese Civil War.
October 23 - End of the Third Indochina War.
November 5 - Meir Kahane is assassinated by Egyptian national El Sayyid Nosair shortly after giving a speech at the New York Marriott East Side hotel in New York City. The incident is considered to be one of the earliest examples of Islamic terrorism in the United States.
November 28 - Lee Kuan Yew steps down as Prime Minister of Singapore.
December 1 - Hissène Habré is deposed as President of Chad and goes into exile in Senegal. Idriss Déby declares himself president.
December 17 - Hassan Ngeze publishes The Hutu Ten Commandments, a document which becomes the central doctrine of the Hutu Power movement.
December 22 - Franjo Tuđman is elected the first President of Croatia.

Births[edit]

Villain births[edit]

January 10 - Satoshi Uematsu
February 27 - Rachel Wade
March 21 – Brian Draper
March 27 - Ian David Long
March 29 - Ovidio Guzmán López
June 14 – Torey Adamcik
June 26 - Eleanor de Freitas
July 23 - David Minto
October 9 - Takahiro Shiraishi
October 27 – Brenton Tarrant
December 15 - Deyione Eason

Victim births[edit]

January 3 - Amber Tuccaro and Dewayne Lewis
January 4 - Thurlene Stillday
January 17 - Brett McKinnon
January 18 - Porntip Ardam
January 13 - Asia Cottom
February 10 - Craig Sorger
February 15 - Jessica Logan
February 20 - Rodney Dickens
March 16 - James Bulger & Sarah Said
March 31 - Jerrica Spellman
April 13 - Austin Eubanks
April 21 - Mercedez Flores
April 24 - Ashley Mason
May 12 - Oscar Aracena-Montero
May 16 - Victoria Clydesdale
May 18 - Tore Eikeland
May 26 - Alicia White
May 30 - Abigail McLennan
June 5 - Courtney LeBlanc
July 12 - Geraldo Ortiz-Jimenez
June 17 - Maddie Clifton and Stacey Mitchell
June 19 - Bernard Curtis Brown II
June 28 - Kristin Settles
August 6 - JonBenét Ramsey
September 16 - Leroy Valentin-Fernandez
September 24 - Timothy Jarman
September 21 - Bobby Fisher, Jr.
October 2 - Sophie North
October 13 - Anthony Laureano Disla
October 27 - Sameli Nurmi
October 30 - Tabitha Lillelid
November 9 - Gilberto Silva-Menendez
November 10 - Megan Turner
November 16 - Anah Hodges
December 6 - Hector Alvarez
December 7 - Sarah Ludemann
December 12 - Amanda Alvear
December 19 - John Petrie
December 21 - Yingying Zhang
December 30 - Lauren Cho
Unknown - Maren Ueland

Deaths[edit]

Villain deaths[edit]

January 4 - Charles Stuart
January 19 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
April 22 - Albert Salmi
April 23 - Charlie Wilson
April 25 - Michalina Meskauskiene
June 11 - Vaso Čubrilović
June 16 - Gertrude Baniszewski
June 18 - James Edward Pough
June 25 - Ronald Gene Simmons Sr.
July 1 - Ivan Serov
August 1 - Graham Young
August 11 - Gustavo Gaviria
September 9 - Samuel Doe
November 5 - Meir Kahane

Victim deaths[edit]

April 22 - Roberta Salmi
July 6 - William R. Higgins
July 30 - Ian Gow
August 19 - Ebony Simpson
December 24 - Tammy Homolka