WHAT HAPPENED IN 1990.
Look what happened the 1990.

Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (1. March 1990)

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

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

Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. (11. March 1990)

Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. (11. March 1990)

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

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

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. (18. March 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)

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

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

The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba. (27. March 1990)

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. (28. March 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)

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

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