1990

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1987 1988 198919901991 1992 1993

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.

Events[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, closed on January 7

February[change | change source]

March[change | change source]

Patricio Aylwin becomes President of Chile on March 11

April[change | change source]

May[change | change source]

June[change | change source]

July[change | change source]

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

August[change | change source]

September[change | change source]

October[change | change source]

November[change | change source]

December[change | change source]

Other Events[change | change source]

  • 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.

Births[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

Toni Kroos

February[change | change source]

March[change | change source]

April[change | change source]

Kristen Stewart
Emma Watson

May[change | change source]

June[change | change source]

July[change | change source]

August[change | change source]

September[change | change source]

October[change | change source]

November[change | change source]

December[change | change source]

Deaths[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

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

February[change | change source]

Alessandro Pertini

March[change | change source]

Lev Yashin

April[change | change source]

Sarah Vaughan
Ryan White
Greta Garbo

May[change | change source]

Jim Henson

June[change | change source]

Rex Harrison
Robert Noyce
José Figueres Ferrer
Ilya Frank

July[change | change source]

Yun Posun
Manuel Puig
Bruno Kreisky

August[change | change source]

Viktor Tsoi
Pearl Bailey
Stevie Ray Vaughan

September[change | change source]

Ahti Karjalainen
Samuel Doe
Alberto Moravia
Patrick White

October[change | change source]

Le Duc Tho
Leonard Bernstein

November[change | change source]

Yiannis Ritsos
Robert Hofstadter
Roald Dahl

December[change | change source]

Aaron Copland
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Joan Bennett
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Vasili Lazarev

Nobel Prizes[change | change source]

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

New books[change | change source]

Movies released[change | change source]

Hit songs[change | change source]

Other websites[change | change source]

Media related to 1990 at Wikimedia Commons