Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. Date: April 24, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 24 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Date: April 24, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 24 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Date: April 23, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 23 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people. Date: April 12, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 12 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. Date: April 12, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 12 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅…
Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. Date: April 11, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 11 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants. Date: April 9, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic. Date: April 9, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR. Date: April 9, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election. Date: April 8, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 8 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)