WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1990
Find out what all happened April to August 1990

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

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

North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. (22. May 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)

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)

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)

The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen. (21. May 1990)

Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty. (12. June 1990)

The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines. (1. May 1990)

George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to "get dirt" on Dave Winfield. (30. July 1990)

Asteroid Eureka is discovered. (20. June 1990)

The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. (29. May 1990)

More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops. (10. August 1990)

Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. (24. April 1990)

The Magellan space probe reaches Venus. (10. August 1990)

Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. (12. August 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)

Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation. (4. May 1990)

An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. (28. August 1990)

Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position. (25. April 1990)