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1990 in the United States
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Events from the year 1990 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President - George H W Bush
• Vice President - Dan Quayle

Events

January

• January 10 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
• January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
• January 18 – In Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
• January 22 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
• January 25 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials.
• January 29 – The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill to date.
• January 31 – Cold War: The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens.

February

February 14: Pale Blue Dot

• February 11 – James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.
• February 13 – Drexel Burnham Lambert files for bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11.
• February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot picture was sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, it was about 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) from Earth.
• February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.

March

• March 1 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• March 6 – An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
• March 9 – Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
• March 18 – Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007) have not been recovered.
• March 25 – In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
• March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
• March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
• March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

April

• April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
• April 7 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
• April 9 – Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. was established.
• April 20 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
• April 24 – The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

May

• May 22 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
• May 24 – The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Boston Bruins in the 1990 Stanley Cup Finals for their fifth Stanley Cup.

June

• June 1 – Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
• June 2 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
• June 7 – Universal Studios Florida opens to the public.
• June 14 – 1990 NBA Finals: The Detroit Pistons defeat the Portland Trail Blazers.
• June 26 – U.S. President Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit. This will greatly decrease his popularity in subsequent years.

July

• July 26 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.

August

• August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
• August 6 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
• August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
• August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) striles the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).

September

• September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
• September 12 – Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
• September 18 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta, Georgia.
• September 29 – Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.

October

• October 9 – Leonard Bernstein announces his retirement from conducting; unbeknownst to anyone other than himself and his doctors, he is terminally ill.
• October 14 – Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City. He is 72 years old.
• October 25 – Evander Holyfield defeats James 'Buster' Douglas for the Heavyweight Boxing crown.

November

• November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
• November 15 – STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified military mission.
• November 29 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

December

• December 3 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
• December 11 – American mob boss John Gotti is arrested.

Undated

• The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published in the United States.

Births

January

• January 7 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
• January 7 – Liam Aiken, American actor
• January 8 – Maci Wainwright, American singer-songwriter
• January 15 – Chris Warren Jr., American actor
• January 26 – Christopher Massey, American actor
• January 30 – Jake Thomas, American actor

February

• February 3 – Sean Kingston, American singer
• February 9 – Camille Winbush, American Actress
• February 10 – Craig Sorger, American murder victim (d. 2003)
• February 14 – Emily Mae Young, American actress

March

• March 4 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
• March 8 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins

April

• April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
• April 16 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
• April 19 – Brittany Robertson, American actress
• April 23 – Matthew Underwood, American actor

May

• May 2 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
• May 24 – Joey Logano , American race car driver
• May 30 – Dean Collins, American actor

July

• July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
• July 24 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
• July 27 – Nick Hogan, American television personality
• July 28 – Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper

August

• August 6 – JonBenét Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (d. 1996)
• August 31 – Oliver Adams, American actor

September

• September 8 – Matt Barkley, American football player
• September 13 – Jamie Anderson (snowboarder), American snowboarder
• September 19 – Patrick Breeding, American singer
• September 21 – Christian Serratos, American actress
• September 21 – Allison Scagliotti-Smith, American actress

October

• October 18 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
• October 22 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
• October 23 – Stevie Brock, American singer
• October 25 – Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and composer

December

• December 20 – JoJo, American singer/actress
• December 23 – Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress
• December 28 – David Archuleta, American singer

Deaths

January

• January 2 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
• January 4 – Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
• January 9 – Spud Chandler, American baseball player (b. 1907)
• January 20 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
• January 23 – Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952)
• January 25 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
• January 26 – Lewis Mumford, American historian of science (b. 1895)

February

• February 2 – Mel Lewis, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
• February 7 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
• February 8 – Del Shannon, American musician and singer (b. 1934)
• February 16 – Keith Haring, American pop artist (b. 1954)
• February 24 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1919)
• February 27 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, American scholar (b. 1903)

March

• March 13 – Bruno Bettelheim, American child psychologist (b. 1903)
• March 19 – Andrew Wood, American musician (b. 1966)

April

• April 3 – Sarah Vaughan, American jazz vocalist (b. 1924)
• April 8 – Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
• April 17 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (b. 1926)
• April 18 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and father of Eddie Guerrero (b. 1921)
• April 23 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)

May

• May 16 – Sammy Davis Jr., American actor, dancer, and singer (b. 1925)
• May 16 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer and filmmaker (b. 1936)
• May 25 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)

June

• June 3 – Robert Noyce, American businessman and inventor (b. 1927)
• June 3 – Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)

July

• July 7 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
• July 26 – Brent Mydland, American keyboard player (b. 1952)

August

• August 17 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
• August 18 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
• August 27 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)

September

• September 4 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)

October

• October 14 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)

November

• November 5 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and political figure (b. 1932)
• November 17 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• November 27 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)

December

• December 2 – Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
• December 7 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
• December 15 – Edmund Parker, American Kenpo founder (b.1931)
• December 16 – Douglas Campbell, American World War I pilot (b. 1896)

External links

• Media related to 1990 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons