1990 year

See also: Category: 1990

January

• January 1 - In Austria , in the political district of Neusiedl am See of the federal state of Burgenland , as a result of the abolition of the political community of Gattendorf-Neudorf , three new independent (autonomous) political communities of Gattendorf , Neudorf and Potsnoyzidl were formed . ^[2]
• January 3 - In Panama , US officials detained former country leader Manuel Noriega and transported him to Florida , where he stood trial in connection with drug smuggling charges.
• January 4 - Railway accident in Sangi , Pakistan . Due to the collision of two trains, 200 to 300 people died and about 700 were injured.
• January 7 - The leaning tower of Pisa was closed to tourists for security reasons.
• January 9 - 33rd launch ( STS-32 ) under the Space Shuttle program. 9th shuttle Columbia flight. Crew - Daniel Brandenstein , James Weatherby , Bonnie Dunbar , Marsha Ivins , David Lowe .
• January 10 - Time Inc. merger completed and Warner Communications Inc. which formed the company Time Warner .
• January 11th
  • In the Lithuanian SSR, 300 thousand people took part in a demonstration for independence.
  • In Novorossiysk , a party of tanks was detained , which the ANT cooperative tried to export abroad.
• January 12 - Romania , the first of the Warsaw Pact countries banned the activities of the Communist Party .
• January 13 - Tu-134 disaster near Pervouralsk .
• January 13 - 19 - pogroms of Armenians in Baku , USSR .
• January 15
  • The Karabakh conflict : Soviet troops were deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh to end ethnic clashes.
  • In Berlin , the GDR, thousands of people seized the headquarters of the Stasi , trying to get a dossier on themselves.
  • The Bulgarian National Assembly voted to abolish the communist monopoly on power.
• January 16 - Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the restoration of Rostropovich M. L. and Vishnevskaya G. P. in USSR citizenship . "
• January 18th
  • The collapse of the USSR : The Armenian SSR declared war on the Azerbaijan SSR .
  • Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrested by the FBI for drug possession.
• January 20 - “ Black January ”: Soviet troops entered Baku ; the city declared a state of emergency . 130 dead, about 700 - wounded.
• January 22 - in Yugoslavia, the communist monopoly on power is abolished.
• January 25 - in New York , a Boeing 707-321B aircraft of the Colombian company Avianca crashed , killing 73 of 158 people on board.
• January 25 - 26 - As a result of a , 97 people were killed in Europe ^[3] .
• January 26 - In connection with the tense situation in Kashmir , India, a direct army command and curfew were introduced.
• January 27th
  • The Belarusian language is declared the state language in the BSSR .
  • Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero became President of Honduras (until January 27, 1994 ).
• January 28 - in Poland, the PUWP was dissolved.
• January 31 - the first McDonald's restaurant in the USSR was opened in Moscow .

February

• 1st of February
  • The government of Yugoslavia sent troops to the autonomous region of Kosovo in connection with the confrontation between armed groups of ethnic Albanians and official Serbian authorities.
  • In Czechoslovakia, the State Security Service , the political police, was abolished.
  • The crash of IL-76 near Panevezys - the largest plane crash in Lithuania (8 dead).
• February 2 - South African President Frederick de Klerk authorized the African National Congress party and promised to release Nelson Mandela (released February 11 ).
• February 4 - A 200,000-strong demonstration was held in Moscow in support of the course of democratic reforms and the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution.
• February 7 - in the USSR the monopoly of communists on political power is abolished. The CPSU Central Committee voted to abolish the 6th article of the Constitution of the USSR “on the leading role of the CPSU” .
• 11 February
  • In the USSR , the manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-9 was launched, landing on August 9, 1990. Launch and landing crew - A. Solovyov , A. N. Balandin .
  • In the match for the world heavyweight boxing champion, James Douglas defeated Mike Tyson .
• February 12 - 14 - riots in Dushanbe , Tajik SSR . 22 people were killed, 565 wounded.
• February 13 - German Unification : an agreement was signed on a two-stage plan for the reunification of Germany and the GDR .
• February 14 - from the American space probe Voyager-1 , a photograph of Pale Blue Dot was transmitted on which the Earth is visible from a distance of 6 billion kilometers.
• February 15 - diplomatic relations between Argentina and Great Britain were restored, which were broken in 1982 due to the Falkland War .
• February 16 - Sam Nujoma , leader of the People’s Organization of South West Africa, was elected the first president of independent Namibia ( on February 21, the Republic of Namibia was proclaimed an independent sovereign state).
• February 19 - landing of the Soyuz TM-8 spacecraft . The crew of the landing - A. S. Viktorenko and A. A. Serebrov .
• February 21 - Kenyan authorities banned protest demonstrations held under the banner of the resignation of the President of My country and the investigation of the murder of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• February 24 - The collapse of the USSR : in the elections to the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR, the nationalists defeat the Communists .
• February 26th
  • The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR adopted a law on private peasant farms and a law on various forms of ownership.
  • The USSR agreed to withdraw all troops from Czechoslovakia by July 1991 .
  • In the elections in Nicaragua, the Sandinista were defeated.
• February 28 - 34th launch ( STS-36 ) under the Space Shuttle program. 6th shuttle flight Atlantis . Crew - John Creighton , John Casper , David Hilmers , Richard Mullane , Pierre Tuot . Flight for the US Department of Defense.

March

• March 1
  • The People's Republic of Benin changed its name to the Republic of Benin .
  • The President of Uruguay was Luis Alberto Lacayo (until March 1, 1995 ).
  • Fire at Sheraton Hotel in Cairo , Egypt , killing 16 people.
  • The US Secret Service carried out investigative actions at the office of Steve Jackson Games . This later stimulated the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation .
• March 4 - the elections of people's deputies in the RSFSR , the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR were held .
• March, 6
  • Perestroika : the USSR adopted the Law on Property .
  • In Afghanistan, the government of President Najibullah suppressed an attempted coup .
• March 9 - during the Mongolian democratic revolution, Zhambyn Batmunkh dissolved the Politburo of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party .
• March 10 - As a result of a military coup in Haiti , President Prosper Avril was overthrown. On March 12, Erta Pascal-Truillo became the new president of the country.
• 11th of March
  • The collapse of the USSR : Lithuania announced the restoration of independence ^[4] .
  • The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary has begun .
  • In Chile, for the first time since 1970, the democratically elected president, Patricio Aylvin, took office.
• March 12 - The III Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR opened in Moscow (until March 15 ).
• March 14th
  • In Israel, the coalition government of national unity resigned after Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir removed the post of Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres .
  • The presidential elections were held at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR , in which M.S. Gorbachev won, becoming the first and last president of the USSR .
  • From article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR, reference to the leading and guiding role of the CPSU is excluded - the abolition of the one-party system in the USSR .
• March 15th
  • The post of President of the USSR was introduced.
  • The collapse of the USSR : The Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared the Act on the Restoration of the State of Lithuania illegal.
  • The USSR established diplomatic relations with the Vatican .
  • The president of Brazil was Fernando Color di Melo (until December 29, 1992 ).
• March 16 - Nicholas Brathwaite became Prime Minister of Grenada for the second time (until February 1, 1995 ).
• March 17 - a government was formed in Lithuania headed by the Prime Minister of the “Amber Lady” Kazimira Prunskene (until January 10, 1991 ).
• March 18
  • The GDR held the first free parliamentary elections. 48% of voters supported the Union for Germany organization.
  • The robbery of the Isabella Garden Museum in Boston , as a result of which the museum lost its best exhibits.
• March 20 - In the Philippines, the widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Imelda Marcos is jailed on charges of bribery, embezzlement, and extortion.
• March 21
  • Namibia gained independence after 75 years of governing the Republic of South Africa .
  • Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat became the Chairman of the Great People's Khural (head of state) of Mongolia ( he was elected president on September 3 , until June 20, 1997 ).
• March 24
  • India withdrew its troops from Sri Lanka .
  • Federal elections in Australia . Prime Minister Robert Hawke re-elected for a 4th term.
• March 25
  • The collapse of the USSR : to neutralize the supporters of Lithuania’s secession from the USSR, the Soviet authorities sent tanks to Vilnius .
  • The collapse of the USSR : The Communist Party of Estonia announced its withdrawal from the CPSU .
  • In New York , 87 people died as a result of the arson of the illegal Happy Land club.
• March 26 - The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles . The best film is recognized as " Miss Daisy Driver ".
• March 27 - The United States began broadcasting TV Martí in Cuba .
• March 29 - The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was transformed into the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (in the Slovak language the Czech-Slovak Federal Republic).
• March 30 - USSR collapse : Estonia suspended the USSR Constitution on its territory.
• March 31 - “The Second Battle of Trafalgar”: a mass demonstration against the poll tax on Trafalgar Square in London escalated into riots, 471 people were injured, 341 were arrested.

April

• April 1 - In the UK, 1,000 prisoners from Strenlhuis prison, Manchester , rioted and captured most of the building (the last prisoners surrendered to the authorities on April 25 after the storming of the prison by special forces ). The longest prison riot in UK history.
• April 2 - Asus was founded in Taiwan .
• April 3
  • King of Belgium Baudouin I temporarily abandoned the throne so that the country's parliament could allow abortion . The monarch refused to sign the new law for reasons of principle.
  • The collapse of the USSR : the Law of the USSR “On the procedure for resolving issues related to the withdrawal of a Union republic from the USSR” ^[5] .
• April 7 - in the Skagerrak Strait, the Scandinavian Star ferry caught fire on the way from Norway to Denmark , 158 people died.
• April 8th
  • Parliamentary elections in Greece , victory by a slight margin won the party New Democracy . On April 11, Konstantinos Mitsotakis takes over as Prime Minister .
  • Parliamentary elections in Hungary were overwhelmingly won by the center-right Democratic Forum and its allies.
• April 10 - The 21st Komsomol Congress began its work in Moscow .
• April 11 - at a customs station in Teesside , UK , components of the "super-gun" intended for Iraq were detained.
• April 12 - Lothar de Meziere became chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR .
• April 13 - The USSR recognized responsibility for the Katyn execution .
• April 16th
  • Democrat Gavriil Popov was elected Chairman of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies.
  • The 1990 World Hockey Championship opened in Switzerland , the USSR national team became the world champion (until May 2 ).
• April 17 - the USSR stopped supplying gas to Lithuania first, then oil and coal, and the beginning of the economic blockade of the republic.
• 20 April
  • Czechoslovakia was transformed into a confederation - the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.
  • STS-31 : Discovery shuttle launched with the Hubble Space Telescope on board (launched into orbit on April 24 ).
• April 22 - in Romania , the action of civil disobedience of the Golaniada began .
• April 23
  • 76% of residents of Karl-Marx-Stadt ( GDR ) voted to return the city to its former name - Chemnitz .
  • Namibia becomes the 160th member of the UN and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
• April 24th
  • GDR and Germany signed an agreement on the unification of economies and the transition to a single currency by July 1 .
  • 35th launch ( STS-31 ) on the Space Shuttle program. 10th shuttle Discovery flight. Crew - Lauren Shriver , Charles Bolden , Stephen Hawley , Bruce McCandless , Katherine Sullivan .
• April 25 - Violetta Chamorro was elected President of Nicaragua .
• April 30 - The Europe Plus radio station began broadcasting in Moscow .

May

• May 1 - in Moscow, on Red Square, immediately after the traditional May Day passage of workers' columns, an alternative demonstration of democratic forces with anti-Soviet slogans took place ^[6] .
• May 2 - in London, a man, waving a knife, seized bearer bonds from a courier in the amount of £ 292 million (the largest robbery in history ).
• May 3 - three world records were set in the USSR in two flights on a Tu-142 LL plane .
• May 4th
  • The collapse of the USSR : Latvia adopted a declaration on the restoration of independence ^[7] .
  • Konstantinos Karamanlis for the second time became president of Greece (until March 10, 1995 ).
• May 5 - The 35th Eurovision Song Contest was held in Zagreb , Yugoslavia .
• May 8 - The collapse of the USSR : Estonia declared independence.
• May 15 - painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh sold for a record $ 82.5 million.
• May 16 - The First Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR began in Moscow (until June 22 ).
• May 17 - The World Health Organization excluded homosexuality from the list of diseases, this day began to be celebrated as " International Day Against Homophobia ."
• May 18 - The French train TGV Atlantique set a speed record, accelerating to 515.3 km / h.
• May 20 - the first after the overthrow of communism , and the first after 1937, free presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Romania . Ion Iliescu was elected President of the country.
• 22nd of May
  • The leaders of the Northern ( Yemen Arab Republic ) and Southern ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ) Yemen announced the unification of their states into a single Republic of Yemen .
  • Microsoft has released Windows 3.0 .
• May 23 - Anatoly Sobchak was elected chairman of the Leningrad Council of People's Deputies.
• May 24 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov proposed a plan for a phased transition "to a regulated market economy." The beginning of panic in the consumer market. The introduction of a normalized distribution of basic food products.
• May 27th
  • Clashes in Yerevan between militias and units of the Soviet Army , 24 dead from the Armenian side.
  • The National League for Democracy won the multi-party parliamentary elections in Myanmar , but the military refused to transfer power to the civilian government.
• May 29
  • Boris Yeltsin was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR , defeating the candidates proposed by M. S. Gorbachev .
  • In Paris, an agreement was signed on the establishment of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

June

• June 1st
  • Cold war : US and USSR presidents George W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement to stop the production of chemical weapons and destroy their existing stockpiles.
  • The IRA committed the killing of two British troops in England and Germany .
• 2 June
  • The first commodity exchange in the USSR was opened in Moscow .
  • A series of 88 tornadoes in the states of Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky and Ohio , USA , killing 12 people.
• June 4 - 6 - The collapse of the USSR : Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan.
• June 6-16 - in Freising , the sixth plenary session of the Joint International Commission on Theological Dialogue was held , its theme was Uniatism ^[8] .
• June 7th
  • The Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church opened in Moscow , at which Alexy II was elected Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (intronized on June 10 ).
  • President of South Africa Frederick de Klerk lifted the state of emergency for four years in all regions of the country except the province of Natal .
• June 8
  • The first free parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia after 1946, the Civil Forum movement won.
  • In Italy , the World Cup began.
• June 10 - incident with BAC 1-11 over Didcot : a poorly installed windshield detached on a British Airways plane and the crew commander was half thrown out of the cockpit. The co-pilot was able to land a plane at Southampton Airport. The incident did without human casualties. PIC and one flight attendant were injured.
• 12 June
  • The Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR was adopted. The priority of Russian laws over all-Union legislation is introduced.
  • In local elections in Algeria, fundamentalists from the Islamic National Salvation Front gained control of most of the councils in cities and provinces.
• June 13 - 15 - riots in Bucharest , Romania .
• June 16 - American astronomer Mark Showalter discovered the satellite of Saturn Pan .
• June 19 - The Communist Party of the RSFSR (as part of the CPSU ) was created.
• June 20 - The collapse of the USSR : The Uzbek SSR proclaimed sovereignty .
• June 21 - an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in Iran , with an epicenter in the city of Manjill . Thousands of people died.
• June, 22
  • In the Philippines , the eruption of the underwater volcano Didicas.
  • The Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Newfoundland refuse to ratify the 1987 Lake Michigan Federal and Provincial Constitutional Agreement, which grants Quebec the status of “special society.”
• June 23 - The collapse of the USSR : The Moldavian SSR proclaimed sovereignty .
• June 24
  • In Belfast , UK , the first women Kathleen Yong and Irene Templeton were ordained priests of the Church of England .
  • The last concert of Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group took place in Luzhniki .
• June 26 - US President George W. Bush broke his campaign promise of “no new taxes,” increasing taxes to reduce the budget deficit. This undermined his popularity in the next few years.
• June 27 - A solemn disarmament ceremony was held in Nicaragua , symbolizing the end of the civil war ^[9] .
• June 29 - Lithuania suspended the Declaration of Sovereignty during negotiations with the government of the USSR .
• June 30 - Il-62 accident in Yakutsk .

July

• July 1 - German Unification : GDR transfers management of the economy, monetary circulation and social policy to the Government of Germany and the Bundesbank of Germany. The West German mark is becoming the main currency in the GDR.
• July 2 - in Mecca , 1426 people died in a crush in an underground passage .
• July 2 - 13 - the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU took place - the last Congress of the CPSU until its abolition in 1991.
• July 6th
  • During a football match in Mogadishu, in response to spontaneous anti-government protests, President Siad Barre’s guards opened fire in the stands, 65 were killed and more than 300 were seriously injured.
  • In Bulgaria , Chairman ( President ) Peter Mladenov resigned.
• July 7 - The first joint concert of the Three Tenors took place in Rome - Placido Domingo , Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti . The concert was broadcast live on television around the world.
• July 8 - In the final of the World Cup, the German national team defeated Argentina with a score of 1-0.
• July 9 - 11 - meeting of the " Big Seven " in Houston , USA , devoted largely to questions of economic assistance to the USSR .
• July 11 - political strike at 100 mines of Donbass .
• July 12 - At the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin and a number of supporters of reforms quit the party.
• July 13 - The State Bank of the RSFSR was established .
• July 14 - VGTRK was formed.
• July 15
  • Sri Lanka Civil War : Tamil Eelam liberation tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo .
  • The Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR voted for sovereignty and a policy of neutrality .
• July 16
  • The collapse of the USSR : Ukrainian SSR proclaimed sovereignty .
  • In the Philippines, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 occurred , killing more than 1,600 people.
• July 17 - the historical name Tver was returned to the city of Kalinin.
• July 20 - the historical name Vladikavkaz was returned to the city of Ordzhonikidze.
• July 25 - The Serbian Democratic Party proclaimed the sovereignty of the Serbian population of Croatia .
• July 27th
  • The collapse of the USSR : Byelorussian SSR declared sovereignty .
  • Coup attempt in the state of Trinidad and Tobago . In armed clashes (before August 1 ), between 6 and 30 people died. The prime minister of the country, A. N. R. Robinson, was wounded.
• July 28 - Alberto Fujimori became President of Peru (until November 17, 2000 ).
• July 29
  • The first free parliamentary elections in Mongolia .
  • Civil war in Liberia : troops loyal to President Samuel Dow killed 600 refugees who took refuge in one of the capital's churches in Monrovia ( on August 5, the United States sent marines to Liberia to evacuate American citizens from Monrovia).

August

• August 1
  • The USSR launched the manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 , landing on December 10, 1990. Launch crew - G. M. Manakov , G. M. Strekalov .
  • The USSR Law on Mass Media (prohibition of censorship, the establishment of editorial staff).
  • Accident Yak-40 near Stepanakert , 46 dead.
• August 2 - Iraqi army invades Kuwait , the beginning of the Kuwait crisis .
• August 3 - Hungarian President Arpad Gönz took office.
• August 6th
  • In response to the Iraqi army invading Kuwait , the UN Security Council announced a trade embargo against Iraq .
  • Pakistani President dismisses Benazir Bhutto government for allegations of corruption and incompetence.
• August 7 - Cesar Gaviria became President of Colombia (until August 7, 1994 ).
• August 8 - West African states send multinational armed forces to Liberia to end the civil war in that country.
• August 9 - landing of the Soyuz TM-9 spacecraft . The landing crew - A. Ya. Solovyov , A.N. Balandin .
• August 13 - Perestroika : in the USSR, President Mikhail Gorbachev issued a decree on the rehabilitation of victims of Stalinist repressions.
• August 15
  • Perestroika : in the USSR, President Mikhail Gorbachev issued a decree on the return of citizenship to dissidents expelled from the country, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn .
  • Iraq enters into a peace treaty with Iran , fulfilling all its requirements.
  • Viktor Tsoi , the leader of the Kino rock band, died in a car accident.
• August 17 - Serbs in Croatia launched the Log Revolution , opposing the nationalist measures of the Croatian authorities and creating their autonomy.
• August 19
  • Leonard Bernstein conducted a concert for the last time, ending with a Beethoven Symphony No. 7 .
  • Fifteen inmates of the Neryungri temporary detention center hijacked a Tu-154 plane to Pakistan.
• August 21 - During the clashes between representatives of the African National Congress and the tribalist Zulu Inkata movement in urban settlements of the Transvaal province , South Africa , 400 people were killed.
• August 22
  • The collapse of the USSR : Turkmen SSR proclaimed sovereignty .
  • In the USSR , the radio station Echo of Moscow began broadcasting.
• August 23
  • The collapse of the USSR : The Armenian SSR proclaimed its independence ^[10] .
  • Cold war : Germany and the German Democratic Republic announced that the two German states would unite on October 3 .
• 24 августа — в Ливане после пятилетнего заключения (похищен 11 апреля 1986 ) освобождён североирландский писатель Брайан Кинан.
• 26 августа — в Сплите , Югославия открылся XV Чемпионат Европы по лёгкой атлетике (до 2 сентября ).
• 28 августа — города Плейнфилд, Крест Хилл и Джойлет в штате Иллинойс , США разрушены торнадо Плейнфелд (силой F5 по шкале Фуджиты ). Погибло 29 человек.
• August 30th
  • В СССР опубликована программа перехода к рыночной экономике 500 дней , программа реализована не была.
  • Принята Декларация о государственном суверенитете Татарстана .

Сентябрь

• 2 сентября — Распад СССР : Приднестровье объявило о своём отделении от Молдавской ССР , но этот акт не получил официального признания.
• 4 сентября — Джеффри Палмер ушёл в отставку с поста премьер-министра лейбористского правительства Новой Зеландии . Новым премьер-министром стал Майкл Мур .
• 5 сентября — компания IBM впервые анонсировала последовательный волоконно-оптический интерфейс ESCON .
• 9th of September
  • Первая гражданская война в Либерии , президент страны Самуэль Доу захвачен повстанцами во главе с Принсом Джонсоном и казнён.
  • Столкновение двух Як-40 в Павлодаре .
• 12 сентября — Объединение Германии : в Москве представители двух германских государств и четырёх великих держав подписали Договор об окончательном урегулировании в отношении Германии проложивший путь к окончательному объединению Германии.
• 14 сентября — при заходе на посадку в свердловский аэропорт Кольцово потерпел катастрофу самолёт Як-42, погибли 4 человека.
• 17 сентября — восстановлены дипломатические отношения между СССР и Саудовской Аравией (прерваны в 1938 году ).
• September 18th
  • В газете « Комсомольская правда » опубликована статья Александра Солженицына «Как нам обустроить Россию?» .
  • Международный Олимпийский Комитет принял решение о проведении XXVI Летних Олимпийских Игр в Атланте , США .
• 19 сентября — зарегистрирован национальный домен верхнего уровня для Советского Союза — .su .
• 20 сентября — Распад СССР : Южная Осетия объявила о своём отделении от Грузинской ССР .
• 22 сентября — в Пекине открылись XI Азиатские игры (до 7 октября ).
• September 27
  • ГДР вышла из Организации Варшавского договора .
  • Великобритания и Иран восстановили дипломатические отношения , прерванные во время скандала вокруг книги Салмана Рушди .
• 28 сентября — в Югославии парламент союзной республики Сербия проголосовал за лишение округа Косово статуса автономии.
• 29 сентября — завершено строительство Вашингтонского кафедрального собора (начато 29 сентября 1907 года ).
• 30 сентября — установлены дипломатические отношения между СССР и Южной Кореей .

Октябрь

• 2 октября — в аэропорту Гуанчжоу столкнулись 3 самолёта : захваченный террористом Boeing 737-247 компании Xianmen Airlines задел Boeing 757-21B компании China Southern Airlines и Boeing 707-3J6B компании China Souhtwest Airlines, погибли 128 человек. Самый смертоносный угон самолёта в XX веке.
• 3 октября — объединение Восточной и Западной Германий в единую Федеративную Республику Германию .
• 5 октября — Великобритания присоединилась к европейскому механизму валютных курсов (с 8 октября ).
• 6 октября — 36-й старт ( STS-41 ) по программе Спейс Шаттл , 11-й полёт шаттла Дискавери . Экипаж — Ричард Ричардс , Роберт Кабана , Уильям Шеперд , Брюс Мелник , Томас Эйкерс .
• 8 октября — Арабо-израильский конфликт : в Иерусалиме израильская полиция убила 17 и ранила около 100 палестинцев возле мечети Купол Скалы на Храмовой горе . Позднее Израиль отказался сотрудничать с представителями ООН в расследовании обстоятельств инцидента.
• October 11
  • Сербский бизнесмен Желько Ражнатович «Аркан» и 19 футбольных фанатов из Белграда создали Сербскую добровольческую гвардию . Менее чем через год она начала воевать в Хорватии , а потом и в Боснии .
  • Принята Декларация о государственном суверенитете Башкирской АССР .
• 13 октября — Гражданская война в Ливане : сирийские войска оккупировали горный Ливан , вытеснив вооружённые силы правительства Мишеля Ауна .
• 15 октября — президенту СССР Михаилу Горбачёву присуждена Нобелевская премия мира «В знак признания его ведущей роли в мирном процессе, который сегодня характеризует важную составную часть жизни международного сообщества» .
• 17 октября — начал работу сайт IMDb .
• 19 октября — правящая Национальная партия ЮАР формально разрешила приём в свои ряды представителей всех рас.
• 20 - 21 октября — учредительный съезд движения « Демократическая Россия ».
• 21 октября — в Лондоне впервые отмечен День яблока .
• 22 октября
  • Распад СССР : Киргизская ССР провозгласила суверенитет .
  • Перестройка : городу Горький возвращено историческое название Нижний Новгород .
  • Распад СССР : Казахская ССР провозгласила суверенитет .
• 24 октября — Пакистанская народная партия , возглавляемая Беназир Бхутто , на парламентских выборах проиграла Исламскому демократическому альянсу (лидер которого Наваз Шариф 6 ноября стал премьер-министром страны ).
• 25 октября
  • Приднестровский конфликт : попытка подавить сепаратистское движение в Гагаузии ( Молдавская ССР ).
  • Вышел первый выпуск программы телекомпании ВИD « Поле чудес », ставшей российским аналогом американской программы «Wheel of Fortune» (Колесо фортуны).
• 27 октября
  • Аскар Акаев избран первым президентом Киргизской ССР ( президент Киргизии до 11 апреля 2005 года ).
  • В Риме прошла встреча на высшем уровне руководителей стран-участников Европейского сообщества . Все члены за исключением Великобритании проголосовали за переход ко 2-му этапу создания к 1994 году экономического и валютного союза и за введение единой европейской валюты к 2000 году .
  • На всеобщих выборах в Новой Зеландии победу одержала Национальная партия заняв рекордные 67 мест в парламенте.
• 28 октября — выборы в Верховный Совет Грузинской ССР , победу одержали оппозиционные партии, выступавшие под лозунгами независимости республики и введения рыночной экономики.
• 30 октября — Перестройка : на Лубянской площади в Москве установлен Соловецкий камень в память о жертвах политических репрессий.
• 31 октября — Верховный Совет РСФСР принял закон о передаче в ведение властей РСФСР контроля над природными ресурсами и промышленностью республики.

Ноябрь

• 1 ноября — вступил в силу Указ Президента СССР «О введении коммерческого курса рубля к иностранным валютам и мерах по созданию общесоюзного валютного рынка». Курс советского рубля к доллару был установлен в размере 1,8 рубля за один доллар США ^[11] .
• November 2
  • Приднестровский конфликт : вооружённые столкновения в Дубоссарах и Бендерах .
  • Смена правительства в Новой Зеландии , премьер-министром стал Джим Болджер (до 8 декабря 1997 ).
• 3 ноября — смена правительства в Норвегии , премьер-министром стала Гру Харлем Брунтланд (до 25 октября 1996 ).
• 3 - 12 ноября — в Москве состоялся первый в СССР теннисный турнир ATP Кубок Кремля .
• 5 ноября — в московском метро переименовывание станций, носящих «коммунистические» названия: «Площадь Свердлова» (ныне «Театральная» ), «Дзержинская» ( «Лубянка» ), «Кировская» ( «Чистые пруды» ) и других.
• 7 ноября
  • последняя демонстрация и парад военной техники на Красной площади в честь годовщины Октябрьского переворота , организованные на государственном уровне. Во время демонстрации произошло покушение на М. С. Горбачёва.
  • впервые на территории России был отмечен День непримиримости — памятная дата, отмечаемая несгибаемыми противниками Октябрьского переворота ^[12] .
• 10 ноября — смена правительства в Индии , новым премьер-министром стал Чандра Шекхар Сингх .
• 11 ноября — вышел первый выпуск « Российской газеты ».
• 12 ноября
  • Королём Лесото стал Летсие III .
  • Тим Бернерс-Ли и Роберт Кайо из Европейской организации по ядерным исследованиям ( CERN ) опубликовали официальное предложение по проекту гипертекстового языка и Всемирной Паутины. Вскоре в рамках этого проекта был разработан первый в мире веб-браузер .
• 14 ноября
  • Перестройка : впервые официально признаётся наличие в СССР безработных — около 2 миллионов человек.
  • Германия и Польша подписали договор подтверждающий статус границы между ними.
  • Катастрофа DC-9 под Цюрихом .
• 15 ноября — 37-й старт ( STS-38 ) по программе Спейс Шаттл . 7-й полёт шаттла Атлантис . Экипаж — Ричард Кови, Фрэнк Калбертсон , Чарлз Гемар, Роберт Спрингер, Карл Мид. Полёт для министерства обороны США .
• 17 ноября — авария Ту-154 под Дубенцом .
• 19 ноября
  • В эфир советского телевидения вышел первый выпуск программы Оба-На! .
  • Катастрофа Ми-8 под Бахардоком .
• 20 ноября — в Новочеркасске арестован маньяк Андрей Чикатило .
• 21 ноября
  • В Париже подписана Парижская хартия для новой Европы , обозначившая фактический конец холодной войны .
  • Авария Ил-62 в аэропорту Маган .
• 23 ноября — Верховный Совет СССР предоставил чрезвычайные полномочия президенту Михаилу Горбачёву для поддержания порядка в СССР .
• 26 ноября — после 31 года пребывания в должности ушёл в отставку с поста премьер-министра Сингапура Ли Куан Ю .
• 27 ноября — в Москве открылся II Съезд народных депутатов РСФСР (до 15 декабря ).
• 28 ноября — премьер-министр Великобритании Маргарет Тэтчер вышла в отставку, её сменил на посту Джон Мейджор .
• 29 ноября — Война в Персидском заливе : Совет Безопасности ООН принял Резолюцию 678, разрешающую военное вторжение в Ирак , если он не выведет свои войска из Кувейта и не освободит иностранных заложников до 15 января 1991 года .

Декабрь

• 1 декабря
  • Гражданская война в Чаде : повстанцы во главе с Идрисом Деби захватили столицу страны Нджамену , президент Хиссен Хабре бежал из страны. 2 декабря Идрис Деби стал президентом страны.
  • Завершилась прокладка Евротоннеля : встретились проходчики с французской и британской стороны.
  • Народная Республика Мозамбик изменила наименование на Республика Мозамбик .
• 2 декабря
  • В СССР осуществлён запуск пилотируемого КК Союз ТМ-11 , приземление 26 мая 1991 года . Экипаж старта — В. М. Афанасьев (приземление 26 мая 1991 года ), М. Х. Манаров и гражданин Японии — Т. Акияма .
  • 38-й старт ( STS-35 ) по программе Спейс Шаттл . 10-й полёт шаттла Колумбия . Экипаж — Вэнс Бранд, Гай Гарднер, Джеффри Хоффман , Джон Лаундж, Роберт Паркер, Сэмюел Дарранс, Роналд Паризи.
  • По результатам выборов в объединённой Германии канцлером страны становится Гельмут Коль .
• 2 — 5 декабря — начало массовых беспорядков на национальной почве в Намангане ( Узбекской ССР ). Погибли 5 солдат срочной службы и 3 участника беспорядков.
• 3 декабря — в должность вступила первая женщина- президент Ирландии Мэри Робинсон .
• 6 декабря
  • Война в Персидском заливе : президент Ирака Саддам Хусейн освободил иностранных заложников, захваченных в Кувейте .
  • Президент Бангладеш Хуссейн Эршад был вынужден подать в отставку из-за компании массовых протестов.
• 8 декабря — опубликован закон РСФСР «О свободе вероисповеданий» .
• 9 декабря
  • Слободан Милошевич стал президентом Сербии .
  • Во втором туре президентских выборов в Польше одержал победу Лех Валенса (вступил в должность 25 декабря ).
• 10 декабря
  • Приземление корабля Союз ТМ-10 . Экипаж посадки — Г. М. Манаков , Г. М. Стрекалов и Т. Акияма ( Япония ).
  • « Радио России » ( ВГТРК ) начало вещание на первом канале радиоточек .
• 11 декабря
  • Председатель КГБ СССР Крючков выступил по телевидению с заявлением о заговоре западных стран против СССР и их намерениях добиться его распада.
  • Вступил в силу Договор между СССР и США об ограничении подземных испытаний ядерного оружия .
  • В США арестован один из главарей мафии Джон Готти .
• 14 декабря — в Москве открылся IV Съезд народных депутатов СССР (до 26 декабря ).
• 20 декабря — Эдуард Шеварднадзе ушёл в отставку с поста министра иностранных дел СССР , заявив, что в стране существует угроза установления диктаторского режима.
• 21 декабря — в СССР вышел первый номер « Независимой газеты ».
• 22 декабря — принята первая конституция Республики Хорватии .
• 23 декабря — в Югославии граждане Словении на плебисците высказываются за выход республики из состава Югославии и создание независимого государства.
• 24 декабря — бескровный военный переворот ( «телефонный переворот» ) в Суринаме во главе с Дези Баутерсе . Президентом страны 29 декабря стал Йоханнес Крааг (до 16 сентября 1991 ).
• 26 декабря
  • Съезд народных депутатов СССР выбрал на пост вице-президента СССР Геннадия Янаева .
  • Реформа советского правительства, вместо Совета Министров СССР создан Кабинет Министров СССР . В отставку с поста председателя Совета Министров СССР по состоянию здоровья подал Николай Рыжков .
• 27 декабря — Верховный Совет РСФСР объявил Рождество выходным днём.

December 27 - By the Decree of the Government of the RSFSR, the Corps of Russian Rescuers was created. Subsequently, this date was considered the creation date of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and Rescue Day.

• December 31 - Soviet grandmaster Garry Kasparov retained the title of world chess champion following a match against Anatoly Karpov .

No exact dates

• In the USSR , the Moscow-Volokolamsk expressway, better known as Novorizhskoe highway, was put into operation.
• Baltika brewing company was founded in the USSR .
• Alfa Bank and VTB Bank were founded in the USSR .
• The US economy has entered a period of recession .
• A formal ban on ivory trade has been introduced in the world.
• Pioneer Corporation began selling satellite navigation systems for cars.

Ongoing Events

• Cold war
• Perestroika in the USSR .
• Burma Civil War
• Guatemala Civil War
• Eritrea War of Independence
• First civil war in Chad
• War in Western Sahara
• Ethiopian Civil War
• Lebanon Civil War
• Angola Civil War
• War in east timor
• Civil war in mozambique
• Aceh conflict
• Civil War in El Salvador
• Nicaraguan Civil War
• Second Civil War in Sudan
• Sri Lanka Civil War
• Turkish-Kurdish conflict
• First Palestinian Intifada
• Karabakh conflict
• Somalia Civil War
• Liberia's first civil war
• Civil War in Afghanistan
• Conflict in Indian Kashmir
• Georgian-South Ossetian conflict
• Civil War in Rwanda

The person of the year according to Time magazine is George W. Bush , the president of the United States.

January

• January 4 - Tony Kroos , German footballer , midfielder of the Spanish club Real Madrid and the German national team .
• January 13 - Liam Hemsworth , an Australian actor.
• January 19 - Khovansky, Yuri Mikhailovich , Russian video blogger.
• January 21 - Kelly Rohrbach , American actress and model.
• January 29 - Grzegorz Krychowiak , Polish footballer.

February

• February 1 - Laura Marling , English folk-rock performer, songwriter , singer and guitarist .
• February 3 - Sean Kingston , American singer, rapper, songwriter and actor.
• February 7 - Stephen Stamkos , Canadian hockey player.
• February 9 - Fedor Smolov , Russian footballer .
• February 16 - The Weeknd , Canadian singer and producer of Ethiopian descent.
• February 20 - Ciro Immobile , Italian footballer.
• February 28 - Sebastian Ore , German footballer

March

• March 6 - Clara Lago , Spanish actress.
• March 8 - Max Barskih , Ukrainian singer and composer, songwriter.
• March 17 - Hozier , Irish musician, songwriter.
• March 23 - Eugene York , a member of the royal family of Great Britain.
• March 29 - Jesse Volt , French and Canadian film actress.

April

• April 2 - Evgenia Kanaeva , Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics in 2008 and 2012 .
• April 3 - Dorothea Wierer , Italian biathlete.
• April 8 - (d. December 18, 2017) Kim Jonghyun , a South Korean singer and songwriter, member of the SHINee band.
• April 9 - Kristen Stewart , American actress .
• April 10 - Alex Pettifer , an English actor.
• April 13 - Comello, Lodovica , Italian actress, singer and dancer.
• April 15 - Emma Watson , British actress .
• April 16 - Aydamir Mugu , a Russian singer performing songs in Russian and Circassian.
• April 18 - Wojciech Schensny , Polish footballer , goalkeeper of Juventus and the national team of Poland .
• April 19 - Hector Herrera , Mexican footballer.
• April 21 - Nadia Dorofeeva , Ukrainian singer.
• April 23 - Dev Patel , a British Indian-born actor who became famous for his role as Jamal in the movie Slumdog Millionaire .

May

• May 26 - Yuri Vladimirovich Lodygin , Greek, Russian football goalkeeper.
• May 27 - Jonas Hector , German footballer
• May 28 - Kyle Walker , English footballer.
• May 31 - Juliano , Brazilian footballer.

June

• June 4 - Evan Spiegel , American entrepreneur, billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Snapchat messenger.
• June 7 - Iggy Azalea , Australian-American hip-hop singer, songwriter.
• June 11 - Christoph Lemetre , French sprinter runner . The first (and the only one for 2018) white sprinter, which ran 100 meters faster than 10 seconds.
• June 13 - Aaron Taylor-Johnson , British actor.
• June 14 - Regina Todorenko , Ukrainian TV presenter, singer, composer.
• June 16 - John Newman , British singer, songwriter.

July

• July 2 - Danny Rose , English footballer.
• July 2 - Margot Robbie , Australian film actress.
• July 11 - Carolina Wozniacki , Danish professional tennis player of Polish descent.

August

• August 1 - Jack O'Connell , British actor.
• August 2 - Elizabeth Debicki , Australian film and theater actress.
• August 3 - Jordan Dunn , British model.
• August 9th
  • Bill Skarsgård , Swedish film actor.
  • Adelaide Kane , Australian actress.
• August 10 - Lorenzo Melgarejo , Paraguayan footballer, midfielder.
• August 12 - Mario Balotelli , Italian footballer of Ghanaian origin, forward . Player of the English club Liverpool and the Italian national team .
• August 13 - Demarkus Cousins , American basketball player.
• August 15
  • Jennifer Lawrence , American actress.
  • Nyusha , Russian singer, songwriter , composer and actress.
• August 17 - Rachel Heard-Wood , British actress and model.
• August 28 - Katie Findlay , Canadian actress.

September

• September 4 - Olga Harlan , Ukrainian saber fencer, 2008 Olympic champion.
• September 19th
  • Romulo Borges Monteiro , Brazilian footballer .
  • Mario Fernandez , Brazilian and Russian footballer.

October

• October 16 - Johanna Gwudrun Jonesdottir , Icelandic singer .
• October 17 - Bianca Brie , American actress , screenwriter and producer .
• October 29 - Eric Saade , Swedish pop singer, songwriter and TV host.

November

• November 6 - Andre Schürrle , German footballer , midfielder of the German national team and the German club Borussia .
• November 24 - Sarah Hyland , American actress.
• November 26th
  • Rita Ora , a British singer and actress of Albanian descent.
  • Danny Welbeck , English footballer of Ghanaian origin, striker of the English club Arsenal and the national team of England .
• November 30 - Magnus Carlsen , Norwegian chess player, 16th world chess champion.

December

• December 1st
  • Stanislav Kritsyuk , Russian football goalkeeper.
  • Chanel Iman , an American supermodel.
• December 10 - Sakiko Matsui , Japanese singer and pianist .
• December 26th
  • Aaron Ramsey , Welsh footballer, midfielder of the English Arsenal and Wales .
  • Andy Birsack , frontman and vocalist of the American hard rock and glam metal band Black Veil Brides
  • Denis Cheryshev , Russian footballer.
• December 28 - Marcos Alonso Mendoza , Spanish footballer.
• December 31 - Patrick Chan , Canadian skater, Olympic champion in the team (2018), multiple world champion in singles.