WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1990
Find out what all happened March to May 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. (19. March 1990)

A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people. (7. April 1990)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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