WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1990
Find out what all happened March to September 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)

British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities (10. June 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)

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

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

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway. (19. June 1990)

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

Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed. (29. September 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)

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa. (30. September 1990)

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

German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. (1. July 1990)

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

Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. (23. August 1990)

The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow. (19. June 1990)

Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. (18. September 1990)

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

George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. (1. June 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)

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