1990

Events

February 11 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win world heavyweight boxing crown.
February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster prison, near Cape Town, South Africa
August 2 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War
October 5 - The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald-Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper" with morning and afternoon editions is published on the 8th.
November 22 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending three decades of military rule
December 31 - Russian Gary Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

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