WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1990
Find out what all happened March to December 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)

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

South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia. (20. September 1990)

The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted. (15. November 1990)

The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths. (2. June 1990)

In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph). (18. May 1990)

Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship. (22. December 1990)

Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually triggers the fall of communism in Albania. (11. December 1990)

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

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

At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing seven passengers and one crew member aboard flight 1482. (3. December 1990)

Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s. (24. October 1990)

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

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

Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin. (22. June 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 F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. (28. August 1990)

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