WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1990
Find out what all happened March to August 1990

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

The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days. (27. July 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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. (29. March 1990)

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

The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3. (27. July 1990)