The following are all events that took place in the year 1990, (30 years ago)
Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.
The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to dissolve itself.
The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
Four months after their exit from power, the Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
Prosper Avril is ousted in a coup in Haiti, eighteen months after seizing power.
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
Cold War: East Germany holds its first free elections.
Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
After 75 years of South African rule since World War I, Namibia becomes independent.
In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests
Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn massacre.
Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on opposition parties.
In South Korea, police battle anti-government protesters in Seoul and two other cities.
First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
Hajj stampede: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.
In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
U.S. President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent a possible attack by Iraq
Between 1887 and 1933, US government policy aimed to assimilate Indians into mainstream American society. ... Federal policy was enshrined in the General Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887 which decreed that Indian Reservation land was to be divided into plots and allocated to individual Native Americans.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.
This is a process of separating students by academic ability into groups for some subjects or all classes because students tends to fair better in classes that have students of same academic achievement.
The Yorubas originated from Ile-Ife, arose and became quite popular by their trading with the Portuguese, which gave them a large supply of guns. In the late 1800s, the Yorubas formed a treaty with the Fulani and in 1901 they were colonised by the British.
