* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Hanjour first came to the United States in 1990.

* 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

The first emissions trading market was established in the United States by enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia and Iraq ( 1990 – 2003 ), two of the country's most significant trading partners, took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

This was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1990 to 1992, the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark, and the first composite space frame high-rise building.

That also means it was the tallest outside the United States from its completion year, 1990.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Category: United States military transport aircraft 1990 – 1999

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

In Grady v. Corbin ( 1990 ), the Court held that a double jeopardy violation could lie even where the Blockburger test was not satisfied, but Grady was overruled in United States v. Dixon ( 1993 ).

* 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

* 1990 ONUCA United Nations Observer Group in Central America, Nicaragua.

Food prices rose 4 % in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008.

Luc Besson made Nikita in 1990, a movie that inspired remakes in both United States and in Hong Kong.

Trusteeship of the islands ended under United Nations Security Council Resolution 683, passed on December 22, 1990.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

In 1990, the Government decided to privatise its Telephone Department and therefore entered into a joint venture with Nynex of the United States.

The first FDA-approved gene therapy experiment in the United States occurred in 1990, when Ashanti DeSilva was treated for ADA-SCID.

The first approved gene therapy case in the United States took place on September 14, 1990, at the National Institute of Health.

House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Iraq ’ s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 resulted in its government-in-exile, the US, Saudi Arabia, and most Persian Gulf states to sever relations with Baghdad and joining the United Nations coalition that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War.

* 1990 – Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990, which increased legal immigration to the United States by 40 %.

* 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.

Jaynes later returned to the United States, and lectured in psychology at Princeton University from 1966 to 1990, teaching a popular class on consciousness for much of that time.

Established in 1990, the main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of Small Island Developing States ( SIDS ) to address global warming.

* 1990, United States, Tor Books ISBN 0-8125-0267-1, Pub date September 1990, paperback

In August 1990, the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), an organisation of West African states, created a military intervention force called Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) of 4, 000 troops, to restore order.

The April 1990 conference approved sweeping political reforms, including creation of a national Senate, decentralization of the budgetary process, freedom of assembly and press, and cancellation of the exit visa requirement.

He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 1984 and served there until elected governor in 1990.

A new constitution was promulgated in 1990, establishing Fiji as a republic, with the offices of President, Prime Minister, two-thirds of the Senate, and a clear majority of the House of Representatives reserved for ethnic Fijians, Ethnic Fijian ownership of the land was also entrenched in the constitution.

* The abolition of the Senate in 1990 and the creation of appointed seats in the House of Assembly.

Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (; born August 2, 1949 ) was the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his trial of impeachment by the Brazilian Senate.

Davis ran against San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in the 1992 special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Pete Wilson who was elected Governor of California in 1990.

Before being elected to the Senate in 1990, he was a professor of political science at Carleton College.

" Upon earning his Ph. D., Wellstone accepted a job as a Professor of Political Science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he taught until his election to the Senate in 1990.

In 1990, Wellstone ran for the U. S. Senate against incumbent Rudy Boschwitz, beginning the race as a serious underdog.

He was subsequently sworn-in during a ceremony in the Senate chamber on January 29, 1990.

In 1990, after 40 years as a Democrat, Faircloth switched his party registration and began preparations to seek the Republican Senate nomination in 1992.

Gramm won his second Senate term in 1990 with a victory over Democratic State Senator and former Fort Worth Mayor Hugh Parmer.

In 1990, Whitman ran for the U. S. Senate against incumbent Bill Bradley, and lost a close election.

" In a September 8, 1990 letter to Erwin Griswold, Moynihan wrote: " I have one purpose left in life ; or at least in the Senate.

Between 1949 and 1990, West Berlin was represented by four members, elected by its Senate, but owing to the city's ambiguous legal status, they did not have voting rights.

After a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1990, she won a 1992 special election to the U. S. Senate.

Durenberger was unanimously denounced by the Senate on July 25, 1990, for unethical conduct relating to outside income.

He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990, left the Senate in 1997, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination.

In 1990 he was appointed to the U. S. Senate to succeed the deceased Spark Matsunaga.

Akaka was appointed by Governor John Waihee to the U. S. Senate in April 1990 to serve temporarily after the death of Senator Spark Matsunaga, and sworn into office on May 16, 1990.

A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate.

Regular free-to-air television broadcasts of Question Time began in August 1990 from the Senate and February 1991 from the House of Representatives.