After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.

The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.

In Nicaragua, pressure from the Contras led the Sandinstas to end the State of Emergency, and they subsequently lost the 1990 elections.

Expatriates of the previous Military and Liberal governments were allowed to return to Honduras, with no risk to their lives, and the irregular forces of the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries, the Contras, were required to leave Honduras in April 1990 after intense negotiations.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

Computing timelines: 2400 BC – 1949, 1950 – 1979, 1980 – 1989, 1990 – 1999, 2000-2009

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

The latest have been in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2005 and 2010.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

* Streaming of the original 1980 television series " Free to Choose " as well as an updated 1990 version.

This was an increase from 108, 905 in 1998, 87, 491 in 1990, 64, 092 in 1980, 43, 337 in 1970, 14, 937 in 1950, and 8, 755 in 1920.

By 1990, Chile had fulfilled Hayek's prediction by transitioning to a democratic state as established in the 1980 Constitution of Chile approved during the Pinochet regime.

Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.

The left panel is taken from a 1980 strip ; the right is from a 1990 strip.

Overall investment as a percentage of GDP declined dramatically during the 1980s, from about 25 percent in 1980 to a meager 15 percent in 1990.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous scientific wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.

Between 1980 and 1990, the world's population grew by more than 800 million, the largest increase in one decade in all of history.

Chromium, which had sold for $ 3. 90 a pound in 1980, was down to $ 3. 70 in 1990.

So per the terms of the wager, Ehrlich paid Simon the difference in price between the same quantity of metals in 1980 and 1990 ( which was $ 576. 07 ).

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

| 1964 *, 1965 *, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977 *, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986 *, 1988, 1989, 1990 *, 2001, 2006 (* shared )

Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets ( 1973 ), Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Raging Bull ( 1980 ), and Goodfellas ( 1990 ) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students ' Solidarity ; he was governor of the Gdańsk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm ( the lower house of the Polish parliament ) in September 1997.

* John Dinges John Dinges was a correspondent for the " Washington Post " in South America from 1975 to 1983, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents ( The New Press 2004 ) and with Saul Landau Assassination on Embassy Row ( Pantheon 1980 ), ( Asesinato en Washington, Lasser 1980, Planeta 1990 )

* Brett Austin ( 1959 – 1990 ), New Zealand swimmer

A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor

* 1990 – Natalya Milnichenko, Russian guitarist and singer ( Ranetki Girls )

* 1990 – Kyle Swann, American actor

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

* 1990 – Francesca Halsall, British swimmer

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer

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

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress

* 1990 – Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor

* 1906 – Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Shila, Malaysian singer-songwriter

* 1990 – Sae Miyazawa, Japanese singer and actress ( AKB48 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.