1990

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Gregorian calendar 1990
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Ab urbe condita 2743
Armenian calendar 1439
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Assyrian calendar 6740
Bahá'í calendar 146–147
Bengali calendar 1397
Berber calendar 2940
British Regnal year 38 Eliz. 2 – 39 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2534
Burmese calendar 1352
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4686 or 4626
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(平成2年)
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Juche calendar 79
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4323
Minguo calendar ROC 79
民國79年
Nanakshahi calendar 522
Thai solar calendar 2533
Unix time 631152000 – 662687999

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen,[1] the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait resulting in a crisis in the Persian Gulf involving the issue of the sovereignty of Kuwait and fears by Saudi Arabia over Iraqi aggression against their oil fields near Kuwait, this resulted in Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years.

1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In the fall of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web. Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outside of CERN the following year.[2] 1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system and the introduction of the first content search engine, Archie on September 10.[3]

September 14, 1990 saw the first case of successful somatic gene therapy on a patient.[4]

Due to the early 1990s recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the collapse of the socialist governments in Eastern Europe, birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most western countries the Echo Boom peaked in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.[5]

Encyclopædia Britannica, which ceased printing in 2012, saw its highest all time sales in 1990; 120,000 volumes were sold that year.[6] The number of librarians in the United States also peaked around 1990.[7]

Events[edit]

January[edit]

January 7: The Pisa tower closed.
January 29: Trial relating to Exxon Valdez.

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April[edit]

April 1990 in Moscow, USSR

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July[edit]

August[edit]

Gulf War Begins

September[edit]

October[edit]

October 3: The former flag of West Germany becomes the flag of all Germany.

November[edit]

Margaret Thatcher, the UK's first female Prime Minister, resigns after 11 years.

December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

World population[edit]

World population
1990 1985 1995
World 5,263,593,000 4,830,979,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 432,614,000 +8.95 % 5,674,380,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 410,787,000 +7.80 %
Africa 622,443,000 541,718,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 80,629,000 +14.88 % 707,462,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 85,019,000 +13.66 %
Asia 3,167,807,000 2,887,552,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 280,255,000 +9.71 % 3,430,052,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 262,245,000 +8.28 %
Europe 721,582,000 706,009,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 15,573,000 +2.21 % 727,405,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 5,823,000 +0.81 %
Latin America 441,525,000 401,469,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 40,056,000 +9.98 % 481,099,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 39,574,000 +8.96 %
North America 283,549,000 269,456,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 14,093,000 +5.23 % 299,438,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 15,889,000 +5.60 %
Oceania 26,687,000 24,678,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 2,009,000 +8.14 % 28,924,000 Green Arrow Up.svg 2,237,000 +8.38 %

Births[edit]

Births
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Walter Bruch behind camera

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Nobel Prizes[edit]

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References[edit]

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  7. ^ "Librarians in the U.S. from 1880-2009 | OUPblog". Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-03. 
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