WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1990
Find out what all happened April to October 1990

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. (10. September 1990)

Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins. (11. July 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)

The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. (17. May 1990)

The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. (29. September 1990)

The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. (20. May 1990)

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

George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. (1. June 1990)

The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge. (16. September 1990)

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history. (28. October 1990)

West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. (23. August 1990)

Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. (18. September 1990)

Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW - World Wide Web to new users. (23. August 1990)

Asteroid Eureka is discovered. (20. June 1990)

Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128. (2. October 1990)

Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. (28. August 1990)

Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. (6. August 1990)

An earthquake with its epicenter in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak). (13. July 1990)

Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system. (22. May 1990)

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush. (26. July 1990)