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1989–90 European Cup
1989–90 European Cup: AC Milan retained the European Champion Clubs' Cup, beating SL Benfica 1-0 in Vienna (Rijkaard goal) under Arrigo Sacchi; first season all three UEFA trophies went to Italian clubs.
1989–90 Football League
1989–90 Football League: English league season won by Liverpool (79 points) in the First Division; Manchester United won the FA Cup via Mark Robins's third-round goal; Millwall and Charlton were relegated.
1989–90 in English football
The 1989–90 season was the 110th season of competitive football in England, when Liverpool won their 18th league title, Leeds United won the Second Division, and Crystal Palace reached their first FA Cup final.
1989–90 NBA season
1989-90 NBA season: Detroit Pistons won their second straight title, beating Portland 4-1; Magic Johnson MVP, David Robinson Rookie of the Year; league expanded to 27 teams with Minnesota and Orlando.
1989–90 United States network television schedule
Primetime lineup of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC for fall 1989: NBC won its fifth straight season, The Cosby Show tied Roseanne at #1, The Simpsons debuted January 14, 1990, and Fox expanded to Monday nights.
198P/ODAS
198P/ODAS is a numbered Jupiter-family periodic comet with a 6.8–6.9 year orbit, perihelion near 2.0 AU, Tisserand 2.926, first observed December 15, 1998, not a NEO or hazardous object.
1990
1990: the year of German reunification (3 October), Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and UN Resolution 678, the Hubble launch (24 April), and the first Web server and browser at CERN.
1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait
The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait evacuated about 170,000 Indians after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, mostly by road to Amman and home by Air India.
1990 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season produced 14 tropical storms, 8 hurricanes, and only one major hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, with no U.S. hurricane landfalls and the names Diana and Klaus retired.
1990 Commonwealth Games
1990 Commonwealth Games (XIV Games, Auckland 1990): multi-sport event, 24 January to 3 February 1990, Auckland, New Zealand; record 55 nations, 204 events in ten sports; Australia topped the medal table, no boycotts, unlike 1986 Edinburgh.
1990 Ecuadorian indigenous uprising
The 1990 Ecuadorian indigenous uprising (levantamiento indígena) was a June 1990 nationwide mobilization of Ecuador's Indigenous peoples, led by CONAIE, that paralyzed the country for a week.
1990 FIFA World Cup
Italia '90, the 14th FIFA World Cup held in Italy, 8 June to 8 July 1990. West Germany won its third title, beating Argentina 1–0; lowest-scoring World Cup at 2.21 goals per game; Schillaci top scorer.
1990 FIFA World Cup knockout stage
1990 FIFA World Cup knockout stage: single-elimination phase of Italia 90, ending with West Germany beating Argentina 1-0 in the Rome final on Brehme's 85th-minute penalty; England lost the Turin semi-final 4-3 on penalties.
1990 Formula One World Championship
1990 Formula One World Championship: 16-race F1 season won by Ayrton Senna (McLaren-Honda, 78 points) over Alain Prost (Ferrari, 71), decided when their first-corner collision at Suzuka eliminated both; Piquet won the race, Suzuki took a home podium.
1990 Haitian general election
The 1990 Haitian general election, held 16 December 1990 through January 1991, elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president with 67.5% of the vote, widely seen as Haiti's first free election.
1990 in film
1990 in film: Ghost led the US box office at $217.6M, Home Alone finished at $285.8M domestic; the 63rd Oscars honored Dances with Wolves, Misery, and GoodFellas; Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or; IMDb's precursor launched.
1990 in music
1990 in music: the transitional chart year between late-1980s dance-pop and the 1991 grunge and hip-hop breakthrough; US sales hit $7.5 billion, cassettes peaked, Janet Jackson and New Kids on the Block topped Billboard.
1990 Luzon earthquake
The 1990 Luzon earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck central and northern Luzon, Philippines, on 16 July 1990, killing 1,283 people and causing damage of more than P18.7 billion.
1990 Mongolian parliamentary election
The 1990 Mongolian parliamentary election, held on 29 July and 26 August 1990, was the first multiparty election in Mongolia's history, ending the MPRP's decades of one-party rule.
1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake
The 1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Peru's Alto Mayo valley on 29 May 1990, killing about 70 people and damaging thousands of adobe houses.
1990 NBA draft
1990 NBA draft, held June 27, 1990 in New York; first weighted-lottery draft. Derrick Coleman went first to New Jersey, Gary Payton second to Seattle; Toni Kukoc taken 29th; 54 picks, 52 reached the NBA.
1990 NBA Finals
1990 NBA Finals: Detroit Pistons beat Portland Trail Blazers 4-1 for a second straight title; Isiah Thomas unanimous Finals MVP (27.6 ppg); Vinnie Johnson's Game 5 game-winner won it 92-90.
1990 Nepalese revolution
The 1990 Nepalese revolution, also called Jana Andolan, was a popular movement in Nepal. It transformed the absolute monarchy into a constitutional one and restored multiparty democracy in 1990.
1990 Nigerien protests
The 1990 Nigerien protests were student and civil-servant mobilizations against Niger's military regime, climaxed when security forces killed three students on Niamey's Kennedy Bridge on 9 February 1990.
1990 Ontario general election
The 1990 Ontario general election, held on September 6, saw Bob Rae's NDP win a majority of 74 of 130 seats, defeating Premier David Peterson's Liberals in the NDP's only Ontario victory.
1990 Rasht earthquake
The 1990 Rasht earthquake, known as the Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 quake in northern Iran that killed an estimated 13,000 to 40,000 people.
1990 Târgu Mureș ethnic clashes
The 1990 Târgu Mureș ethnic clashes, known in Hungarian as Black March, were violence between Romanians and Hungarians in Târgu Mureș, Romania, in March 1990.
1990 Tiede cabin murders
1990 Tiede cabin murders: December 22, 1990 killings of Kaye Tiede and Beth Potts at Oakley, Utah, by halfway-house walkaways Von Lester Taylor (death sentence) and Edward Deli (life).
1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision
The 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision occurred at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on December 3, 1990, when a Boeing 727 struck a taxiing DC-9 in dense fog, killing 8.
1990 World Series
1990 World Series: Cincinnati Reds swept the defending-champion Oakland Athletics 4-0 (7-0, 5-4, 8-3, 2-1), October 16-20, 1990; Jose Rijo MVP, Reds' fifth title, first since 1975-76.