Date: March 18, 1990
Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title. Date: February 11, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 11 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1990British Airways Flight 5390 Emergency…
Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. Date: March 4, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 4 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. Date: March 11, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 11 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1990Indian Peace Keeping Force Leaves Sri Lanka, Ending Intervention March…
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) More events from 1990Romania Holds…
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) More events from 1990Apartheid Ends: de Klerk Unbans ANC, Promises Mandela Release…
Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. Date: March 18, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1990Bush and Gorbachev Sign Chemical Weapons Treaty, June…