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Jan 16, 2009

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Year by Year: 1900-2008	View a 1990 calendar

World Events

• General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama (Jan. 3).
  
  
• Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power (Jan. 22).
  
  
• Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government (Feb. 7). Background: Dissolution of the USSR
  
  
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 27½ years (Feb. 11).
  
  
• US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments (June 1).
  
  
• Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (July 6).
  
  
• Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2 et seq.). Background: The Persian Gulf War
  
  
• East and West Germany reunited (Aug. 31 et seq.).
  
  
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister (Nov. 22); John Major succeeds her (Nov. 28).
  
  
• Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff Presidential election (Dec. 9).
  
  

U.S. Events

• US Supreme Court upsets law banning flag burning (June 11).
  
  
• US Appeals Court overturns Oliver North's Iran-Contra conviction (July 20).
  
  
• Republicans set back in midterm elections (Nov. 8).
  
  

Economics

Sports

Super Bowl

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

World Cup

Entertainment

Events

• The X rating is replaced by NC-17 (no children under 17).
• Ninety-nine percent of U.S. households have at least one radio, with the average owning five.
• The Simpsons debuts on Fox and becomes an instant hit.
• Euro dance band Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know Its True," and has its Grammy award revoked.
• Seinfeld debuts on NBC.
• Entertainment Weekly hits newsstands.

Movies

• Dances with Wolves, GoodFellas, Henry and June, Reversal of Fortune

Books

• Robert Bly, Iron John
• A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
• Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
• John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

Science

• The Hubble Space Telescope is launched (Apr. 25).
• President Bush signs the Clean Air Act, mandating a variety of pollution-reducing changes in the automobile and fuel industries. Background: Environment & Nature
• The FDA approves use of the surgically-implanted contraceptive Norplant. Background: Birth & Contraception

Deaths

• B.F. Skinner
  
  
• Jim Henson
  
  
• Greta Garbo
  
  
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
  
  
• Le Duc Tho
  
  
• José Napoleón Duarte
  
  

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