WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1990
Find out what all happened March to April 1990

Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (12. April 1990)

Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. (20. March 1990)

Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph. (6. March 1990)

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. (18. March 1990)

Germans in the German Democratic Republic voted in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. (18. March 1990)

The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx. (25. March 1990)

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. (15. March 1990)

Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (23. April 1990)

STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble into orbit. (24. April 1990)

200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. (31. March 1990)

In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup. (10. March 1990)

Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress. (2. March 1990)

The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. (29. March 1990)

The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. (16. April 1990)

The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba. (27. March 1990)

Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. (11. April 1990)

Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. (11. March 1990)

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. (28. March 1990)

Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal). (7. April 1990)

Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. (21. March 1990)