WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1990
Find out what all happened August to December 1990

After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. (5. 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)

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

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. (12. November 1990)

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. (1. December 1990)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership. (22. November 1990)

German reunification. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day. (3. October 1990)

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

Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. (19. November 1990)

Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. (23. August 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)

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

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. (5. September 1990)

The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification. (12. September 1990)

Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. (2. September 1990)

Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. (17. November 1990)

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

Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn. (24. September 1990)

Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. (7. November 1990)

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. (15. November 1990)