• in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?
• the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$100 million, on the September 14, 1990 drawing?
• in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
• Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
• Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
• Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?

Facts on topics related to 1990

1991

• "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
• Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practiced, ending in 1991?
• Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991?
• Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?
• Zentropa is the name of both Lars von Trier's production company and his third theatrical feature film, released in 1991?
  
• despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?
• the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
• the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
• when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?

1996

• Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
• Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
• construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?
• during a 90-minute period on January 30, 1996, three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
• in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
• on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
• since the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published in 1996, the complete genome sequences of over 50 other eukaryotes have been completed?
• the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004?
• the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996?
• the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?

1995

• French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995?
• Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
• Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
• Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
• fourteen people died in the Cave Creek disaster when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand in 1995?
• in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?
• on September 21, 1995, statues of the Hindu pantheon (Ganesha pictured) in countries around the world were reported to be drinking spoonfuls of milk offered to them by worshippers?
• the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist?

1989

• 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion (pictured) onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
• American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
• Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?
• Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
• Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
• Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989?
• a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
• despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?

1993

• Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
• Japan and Poland are the world's largest krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993?
• land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
• the leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century?
• the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
• the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?

1992

• the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's Demonstration Squadron, selected Brigadier General Ricardo Aponte (pictured) as their Spanish language narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992?
• Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer made their sitcom debut with their 1992 Channel 4 pilot The Weekenders?
• Alberta Vaughn was an American film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in 1992?
• Chicago Freight Subway was abandoned in 1959 and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in 1992?
• City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?
• F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
• Les Horribles Cernettes, a humorous rock band based in the CERN, supplied the first image on the web, posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee?
• a lost Roman villa was discovered in 1992 when a bulldozer remodeled the sand on a beach at the Rio Alto tourist area (pictured) in Portugal?
• the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?
• the Battle of Shusha in May 1992 was the first significant Armenian military victory during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and marked a turning point during the conflict?

1988

• 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?
• Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
• Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
• Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?
• Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988?
• a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
• in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros, was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
• in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
• the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
• the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988?

1985

• Rembrandt's painting Danaë (pictured) was severely damaged when a visitor threw sulfuric acid onto it on June 15, 1985?
• the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?
• the 1985 Nairobi Agreement called for a ceasefire between the Ugandan government and rebels, the demilitarization of the capital (Kampala) and the absorption of the rebel leadership into the government?

1970

• Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
• Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
• Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
• despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
• former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
• former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
• openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
• the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?

1966

• Phil Spector considered the song "River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States?
• Wite-Out correction fluid was invented in 1966?
• the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?

2003

• advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003?
• mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003?
• Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
• James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
• Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937?
• Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
• Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
• as the result of a deal before the 2000 general election, Paul Bérenger became the first non-Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius in 2003?
• in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
• the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003?

2002

• California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002?
• Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19, 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
• Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002?
• Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
• J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V?
• Dutch bus-building firm Den Oudsten was founded in 1926 and went out of business in 2002?
• a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
• in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $1?
• on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight?
• the 7.9 M_w Denali Fault earthquake on November 3, 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska?

2005

• "truthiness," a word made by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society?
• professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
• Bangalore Gayana Samaja, which celebrated its centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore?
• Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, the national library of Québec, and the public library of the city of Montréal, will share a facility beginning in 2005?
• Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
• Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?
• Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
• That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7, 2005?
• director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
• in 2005, Ghatam player Ghatam Udupa became the first Indian to perform at the Krakow International Percussion Festival?

2004

• 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
• Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
• Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
• Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004?
• Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
• Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
• a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix?
  
• an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
• at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
• in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?