1990 Gonghe earthquake, Earthquake, Characteristics
The earthquake in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau according to seismologists, ruptured a blind fault structure due to the absence of a surface rupture. Elements of both sinistral strike-slip and reverse components were detected during the co-seismic rupture, with the latter having a greater sense. The estimated length and width of the rupture is 37 km and 6 km respectively, with a slip of around 2.7 meters.


1990 Goodwill Games
The 1990 Goodwill Games was the second edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held between July 20 and August 5, 1990. Following an inaugural edition in Moscow, the second games took place in Seattle, United States, highlighting the competition's role in fostering good Soviet–U.S. relations. The games were opened at the University of Washington's Husky Stadium with a speech by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, as well as an address by Arnold Schwarzenegger and performances by the Moody Blues and Gorky Park.


1990 Goodwill Games
The top three nations in the medal table remained the same as the previous edition: the Soviet Union won 66 gold medals and a total of 188 medals, the United States was a close runner-up with 60 gold medals and 161 medals overall, while East Germany was a distant third with 11 golds.


1990 Goodwill Games
The games' motto was "Uniting the World's Best", and a total of 2,312 athletes from 54 countries engaged in the 17-day program of 21 sports. Each countries' contingent of athletes did not parade separately at the opening ceremony, but instead all athletes entered the stadium as one large mass (emphasizing the theme of international unity). The size of the sporting program meant that some events were held in other Washington cities, including Tacoma, Spokane, and the Tri-Cities area.


1990 Goodwill Games
A number of venues in the region were built or renovated for the Games: Federal Way gained an aquatics venue (King County Aquatic Center) through the games, while Seattle itself gained a new track for Husky Stadium and new flooring for the Edmundson Pavilion. The Seattle Space Needle had a large purpose-built gold medal hung around the structure during the Games.


1990 Goodwill Games
The competition featured a significant cultural aspect compared to the previous edition. Around 1,400 Soviet athletes went to the US and stayed with host families in Seattle. Soviet cosmonauts also visited schools in the city and the Moscow State Circus gave a number of performances. A Goodwill Games Arts Festival was held in conjunction with the sporting event – 1,300 artists took part in the festival, which featured a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet, a museum exhibition of Soviet history, and a 2 million-dollar stage production of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Similarly to the 1986 Goodwill Games, the 1990 edition of the event was not financially successful and Ted Turner personally lost $44 million as a result.


1990 Goodwill Games
Two world records were broken during the Games: the 200-meter breaststroke mark was topped by all three medalists in the race, with American Mike Barrowman improving the record to two minutes and 11.53 seconds. Soviet athlete Nadezhda Ryashkina completed a world record of 41:56.21 in the 10 km race walk.


1990 Goodwill Games, Preparations
Seattle was awarded hosting rights for the 1990 games by Turner on June 6, 1986, ahead of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Atlanta.


1990 Goodwill Games, Venues
Although the games were billed as occurring in Seattle, events took place at venues throughout Washington state:


1990 Goodwill Games, Participation
A total of 54 nations were represented at the 1990 Games with a total of 2312 athletes attending the games. However, around 3500 athletes had received invitations to the games and the attendance was a marked decline from the inaugural edition.


1990 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10000 and a specially bound edition of his or her book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.


1990 Grampian Regional Council election
The 1990 Grampian Regional Council election, the fifth election to Grampian Regional Council, was held on 3 May 1990 as part of the wider 1990 Scottish regional elections. The election saw Labour take the most seats, with the Conservatives falling sharply to finish fourth in terms of councillors. The SNP had the highest vote share, and turnout was 41.0%, the lowest for any region in Scotland


1990 Grand National
The 1990 Grand National (officially known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 144th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 7 April 1990. The off time was 3.20pm.


1990 Grand National
Mr. Frisk won the race in a time of eight minutes and 47.80 seconds, breaking Red Rum's 1973 record by 14.10 seconds. He was ridden by amateur jockey Marcus Armytage. This record still stands, even though the race has been 342 yd (312.72 m) shorter since 2013.


1990 Grand National
Second was Durham Edition, and third Rinus. The 7/1 favourite Brown Windsor finished fourth. In fifth was Lastofthebrownies, ridden by Charlie Swan, and Richard Dunwoody rode Bigsun home in sixth place.


1990 Grand National
There were two equine fatalities during the race. Roll-A-Joint fell at the first Canal Turn, breaking his neck and dying almost instantly, while Hungary Hur incurred a leg fracture while running towards the 19th fence, pulled up and was euthanised.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Brown Windsor was made 7/1 favourite after a year which had seen him win the Whitbread Gold Cup and finish narrowly beaten in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury. Under the guidance of John White he had every chance jumping the Canal Turn second time in fourth place but was unable to make any further impression on the leader along the Canal side and by the time they turned for the penultimate fence he was beaten, maintaining his fourth place to the finish.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Brown Windsor did not race again until 1992 with a series of prep races before a second tilt at the National when he was againm among the leading contenders only to fall at Becher's first time. He never again attempted the National but did return three times for the Fox Hunters Chase, being beaten second in both 1994 and 1995 before being brought down in what proved his final race in 1996. Brown Windsor was retired to the hunting field and died at the age of twenty-four in 2006.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Durham Edition was backed down to 9/1 having won both the Charlie Hall Memorial Pattern Chase at Wetherby in November and the Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at the same course in December, having previously proven himself in the National, finishing second in 1988 and fifth in 1989. Once again partnered by Chris Grant, he tracked the first circuit in mid division, moving up to eighth jumping the Chair before creeping into closer contention on the second circuit.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
By the time the Canal Turn was reached he was fifth and crossing the Melling Road moved into second to issue a challenge to the eventual winner at the final fence. The horse gave his backers every chance on the run in but was unable to close down a length disadvantage and ended beaten second for the second time in three Nationals. Durham Edition returned for a fourth and final attempt at the National in 1991, finishing sixth.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Bigsun came into popular support and shared favouritism until minutes before the race, going off at 15/2. He arrived at Aintree as the winner of the Ritz Club Chase at the Cheltenham Festival three weeks earlier and in addition had been given the minimum 10 stone to carry by jockey Richard Dunwoody, albeit the Ulsterman weighed out 2 lbs overweight. In the race itself Bigsun turned for the second circuit in the main pack but was always trailing the leaders without ever getting into a challenging position. His finishing position of sixth was as close as he was at any point of the race.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Rinus came to Aintree having won the Greenall Whitley Gold Cup at Haydock Park in February under Richard Dunwoody but with the Ulsterman opting to ride Bigsun, the mount went to Neale Doughty who had previously won the race and never failed to complete the course. Sent off at 13/1 they moved into the leading half dozen as the runners came to the Canal Turn for the first time and stayed in touch with the leader throughout. Rinus moved up into a distant second place at the fourth fence from home but was never able to close a ten length advantage built up by the winner and was passed going to the second last flight by the eventual second before staying on, one paced to finish third.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Call Collect had won the previous years Topham Chase over one circuit of the course. Questions over his stamina were answered when he won the Cheltenham Foxhunter Chase three weeks before coming to Aintree. Public confidence in his chances began to fade in the hours before the race as it was thought the ground conditions might not be in his favour. In partnership with his amateur rider, Mr Ray Martin, the pair went off at 14/1 but were well to the rear throughout the race before making ground through the tiring field to finish seventh, getting their only mention from the television commentator as they passed the post.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Ghofar and Brendan Powell came to Aintree having won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury the previous year, having beaten Brown Windsor in the process. They set off at 14/1 but were another who never got into contention before finishing a remote fourteenth.


1990 Grand National, Leading contenders
Next in the market came three 16/1 shots, which included Mr Frisk, the winner of the Ascot Punch Bowl Amateur Chase the previous November. The firm ground on the day made him a very popular each-way chance on the day in company with his amateur rider, Racing Post correspondent, Marcus Armytage. They were up among the leaders throughout the race, being left fifteen lengths clear when co-leader, Uncle Merlin unseated at Becher's Brook on the second circuit. Although challenged on the run in by Durham Edition, they remained in front to win in a record time of 8 minutes 47.80 seconds, which still stands despite the race distance being reduced since 2013.


1990 Grand National, Course changes
In the aftermath of two equine fatalities at Becher's Brook in the previous years National (Brown Trix and Seeandem), it was decided to make modifications to the fence. The ditch into which Captain Becher himself had fallen one hundred and fifty-one years earlier was filled in. The bend away from the fence was also softened.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
The BBC broadcast the race live on television for the thirty-first consecutive year as part of its regular Saturday afternoon Grandstand programme, in a Grand National special. Des Lynam was the anchor presenter, interviewing the connections of the competitors and celebrity race goers before handing over to Richard Pitman and Bill Smith who gave a guide to the runners as they prepared for the race. The television commentary team was unchanged for the nineteenth consecutive year in John Hanmer, Julian Wilson and lead commentator, Peter O'Sullevan who was calling his forty-fifth Grand National.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
Richard Pitman and Bill Smith took Television viewers through a detailed rerun of the race using camera angles not used during the running of the race itself, including a camera from a helicopter and cameras inside the first fence and the chair.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
There was criticism of Julian Wilson's commentary for the second consecutive year when he referred to the body of the horse Roll-A-Joint, which had suffered a fatal fall on the first circuit, as a "major obstruction" when the runners went to jump the Canal Turn second time. The horse's body had been moved a few feet away from the landing side of the fence and covered with a tarpaulin, made clearly visible to viewers in the slow-motion replay afterwards.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
The race was also broadcast live on BBC Radio for the fifty-ninth time as part of its Saturday Sport programme and for the final time on Radio Two. The BBC moved the programme to the newly launched BBC Radio Five the following year.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
All of the major National UK and Ireland daily newspapers carried extensive pre race coverage in their Saturday editions many included full colour race card style guides.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
Among the fifteen riders making their debut in the race were Norman Williamson, Charlie Swan, Lorcan Wyer and Jamie Osborne, all of whom would later finish second in future Grand Nationals.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
As a prominent racing journalist and author, Marcus Armytage has written extensively about the Grand National and his victory in it. In 2010 while writing for the Daily Telegraph he wrote "At Becher's second time everything changed. I was wondering if I'd ever be able to get past Uncle Merlin when he pecked. As I went past Hywel (Davies – jockey of Uncle Merlin) was half on, half off and I assumed he would rejoin me shortly. I was unaware gravity won the argument.


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
(Davies had been unseated)" Armytage also explained to Channel Four how he nearly completely underestimated the runner up. "I was well clear [at the second last fence] but then first heard the noise of other horses. If you look back at the footage, Chris [Grant], on Durham Edition and Neale Doughty, on Rinus have a chat and Neale was telling Chris 'You've got him'. I actually thought the horse behind was Team Challenge, which was one of the slowest finishers in the field so I wasn't worried. The blessing was that I didn't look back and see Chris."


1990 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
Davies himself told the press that he was convinced Uncle Merlin would have won but for the fall at Bechers. A further claim that they would be back next year to win went unfulfilled.


1990 Grand Prix (snooker)
The 1990 Rothmans Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament held at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading, England.


1990 Grand Prix (snooker)
Stephen Hendry won in the final 10–5 against Nigel Bond.


1990 Grand Prix International de Paris
The 1990 Grand Prix International de Paris was held in Paris. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1990 Grand Prix Passing Shot
The 1990 Grand Prix Passing Shot, also known as the Bordeaux Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France that was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was held from 10 September until 16 September 1990. Fourth-seeded Guy Forget won the singles title.


1990 Grand Prix Passing Shot, Finals, Doubles
Tomás Carbonell /  Libor Pimek defeated  Mansour Bahrami /  Yannick Noah 6–3, 6–7, 6–2


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon
The 1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France, and was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and took place from 15 October through 22 October 1990. Sixth-seeded Marc Rosset won the singles tite.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, Finals, Doubles
Patrick Galbraith /  Kelly Jones defeated  Jim Grabb /  David Pate 7–6, 6–4


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Doubles
Eric Jelen and Michael Mortensen were the defending champions, but Jelen did not participate this year. Mortensen partnered Gustavo Luza, losing in the first round.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Doubles
Patrick Galbraith and Kelly Jones won the title, defeating Jim Grabb and David Pate 7–6, 6–4 in the final.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Singles
John McEnroe was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Singles
Marc Rosset won the title, beating Mats Wilander 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse
The 1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 October until 7 October 1990. Eighth-seeded Jonas Svensson won the singles title.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse, Finals, Doubles
Neil Broad /  Gary Muller defeated  Michael Mortensen /  Michiel Schapers, 7–6, 6–4


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles
The 1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet in Toulouse, France that was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 October – 7 October.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles
The 1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 October – 7 October.


1990 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 42nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
1990 marked the beginning of the Rainey era with the Marlboro-Yamaha rider taking 7 wins and scoring points in every race but Hungary after he had already clinched the championship. Rainey's teammate was 1989 champion Eddie Lawson, but he was unable to defend his championship after breaking his left ankle in the first round and then severely shattering his right ankle the following round at Laguna Seca. Rainey on having Lawson as a teammate: “I just wanted to devastate Eddie. I don’t think he was ready for a team-mate like me. Maybe he thought he could control me, but at that stage I was past being controlled.” Rainey switched from Dunlop to Michelin tires this year.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Kevin Schwantz continued to win on his Suzuki but just as often he would crash. Australian Mick Doohan would win his first Grand Prix for Honda at the Hungaroring.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
The 1990 season continued the trend of crashes as riders tried to cope with the harsh power output of the V4 two-strokes. Honda put forth a proposition limiting the top class to 375cc and 3 cylinders, but that never caught on. Still, with 500cc lap times becoming stagnant, it was clear that something needed to be done.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Newcomer John Kocinski took the 250 title for Kenny Roberts' Marlboro-Yamaha squad after a tight points battle with Carlos Cardús that was not decided until the final race of the season. Despite five Grand Prix victories for Hans Spaan, seventeen-year-old Loris Capirossi became the youngest-ever world champion when he claimed the 125 crown for Honda.


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1990 Grand Prix season calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1990:


1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Results and standings, 500cc riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


1990 Granville state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Granville on 23 June 1990 because of the resignation of Laurie Ferguson (Labor) to successfully contest the 1990 federal election for Reid


1990 Granville state by-election
The Granville by-election was held the same day as the Heffron and Smithfield by-elections.


1990 Great American Bank Classic
The 1990 Great American Bank Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in San Diego, California, United States, that was part of the Tier III category of the 1991 WTA Tour. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was held from August 6 through August 12, 1990. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title.


1990 Great American Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles
Patty Fendick /  Zina Garrison defeated  Elise Burgin /  Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideffer 6–4, 7–6(7–5).


1990 Great Britain Lions tour
The 1990 Great Britain Lions tour was a rugby league tour by the Great Britain team which took place from May to July 1990.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, Touring squad
An initial 28-man squad was selected for the tour in April 1990. Warrington's Des Drummond and Widnes' David Hulme and Paul Hulme were all unavailable for selection for "private reasons".


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, Touring squad
Ellery Hanley, Steve Hampson, Les Holliday, Shaun Edwards, Andy Platt and Paul Loughlin all withdrew from the originally selected squad for various reasons. Mike Gregory was chosen as tour captain as a result of the absence of Hanley and Edwards.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, Touring squad
Devereux and Lyon were called up as replacements for injured players during the tour.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, Papua New Guinea, Second Test
This was Great Britain's second match in the 1989-1992 Rugby League World Cup


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Presidents XIII:  Morvin Edwards, Warren Mann, Mark Nixon, Paddy Tuimavave, Sam Panapa, Dean Clark, Stu Galbraith, Adrian Shelford, Peter Ropati, George Mann, Taime Tagaloa, Francis Leota, Mike Kuiti. Res - Kelly Shelford, Esene Faimalo


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Great Britain:  Chris Bibb, John Devereux, Daryl Powell, Jonathan Davies, Carl Gibson, Garry Schofield, Bobbie Goulding, Ian Lucas, Martin Dermott, Keith England, Denis Betts, Paul Dixon, Phil Clarke. Res - Roy Powell, David Bishop


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Canterbury:  Hall, Whetu Taewa, Michael Dorreen, Rodger, Kaisa, Mark Nixon, Aaron Whittaker, Ricky Cowan, Wayne Wallace, Simanu, Leck, Culley, Logan Edwards. Res - Angell, Seru.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Great Britain:  Alan Tait, Paul Eastwood, Shaun Irwin, Joe Lydon (c), Roger Simpson, Graham Steadman, Deryck Fox, Ian Lucas, Lee Jackson, Karl Fairbank, Ian Smales, Gary Price, David Bishop. Res - Roy Powell, Mike Gregory


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Auckland:  Paddy Tuimavave, Mike Patton, Sam Panapa, Iva Ropati, Warren Mann, Mike McClennan, Stu Galbraith, Peter Brown, Peter Ropati, Se'e Solomona, Tawera Nikau, Taime Tagaloa, Tony Tuimavave. Res - Francis Leota


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Great Britain:  Chris Bibb, Carl Gibson, Joe Lydon, Garry Schofield, Jonathan Davies, Graham Steadman, Bobbie Goulding, Kelvin Skerrett, Martin Dermott, Keith England, Denis Betts, Roy Powell, Mike Gregory (c). Res - Alan Tait, Paul Dixon


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Kiwi Colts:  Paul Nahu, Hall, Iva Ropati, Mike Patton, Whetu Taewa, Kelly Shelford, Stu Galbraith, John Lomax, Fisher, Simcott, Taime Tagaloa, Logan Edwards, Tony Tuimavave. Res - Rodger, Quentin Pongia


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand
Great Britain:  Roger Simpson, Paul Eastwood, Shaun Irwin, Daryl Powell, John Devereux, Jonathan Davies, Deryck Fox, Roy Powell, Lee Jackson, Karl Fairbank, Phil Clarke, Ian Smales, David Bishop. Res - Gary Price


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
Wellington:  Peter Edwards, Molemau, David Ewe, Morvin Edwards, Victor Aramoana, Gilbert, Geoffrey Tangira, John Lomax, Barry Harvey (c), Robert Piva, O'Sullivan, Esene Faimalo, Mike Kuiti.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
Great Britain:  David Lyon, Paul Eastwood, Shaun Irwin, Daryl Powell, John Devereux, Jonathan Davies, Deryck Fox, Ian Lucas, Lee Jackson, Karl Fairbank, Ian Smales, Gary Price, Phil Clarke Res - Paul Dixon, David Bishop


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
New Zealand Māori:  Morvin Edwards, Sean Hoppe, Nahu, Dave Watson, Victor Aramoana, Kelly Shelford, Geoffrey Tangira, John Lomax, Barry Harvey, Jason Lowrie, Tawera Nikau, Mike Kuiti, Ramsey.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
Great Britain:  Chris Bibb, Paul Eastwood, Carl Gibson, Daryl Powell, Martin Offiah, Garry Schofield, Deryck Fox, Roy Powell, Martin Dermott, Keith England, Denis Betts, Paul Dixon, Mike Gregory (c). Res - Bobbie Goulding, Joe Lydon


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
Taranaki:  Tumoana, W. Tangira, Gwiazdzinski, Dave Watson, R. Nixon, Smith, Geoffrey Tangira, Robert Piva, Mason, Katene, McAllister, Kitto, Barry Harvey. Res - Martin, Jackson.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, First Test
Great Britain:  Chris Bibb, Paul Eastwood, Shaun Irwin, David Lyon, John Devereux, Roger Simpson, Deryck Fox, Ian Lucas, Ian Smales, Karl Fairbank, Gary Price, Phil Clarke, David Bishop. Res - Roy Powell, Martin Dermott


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, Second Test
Former All Black fullback Matthew Ridge made his test debut for New Zealand in the second test. To this point in his career, Ridge had only played 6 games of rugby league for NSWRL club Manly-Warringah before becoming a dual international. His selection saw his Manly team mate Darrell Williams moved from fullback to the centres. Ridge, who would end his rugby league career in 1999 having scored over 1,600 points (with a goal kicking accuracy of around 80%), also took over the goal kicking from Peter Brown.


1990 Great Britain Lions tour, New Zealand, Third Test
This was part of the 1989-1992 Rugby League World Cup


1990 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season
The 1990 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season was the second season of the Greek Ice Hockey Championship. The Aris Saloniki Penguins won the league title for the second consecutive season.


1990 Greek legislative election
Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 8 April 1990. The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis, was elected, defeating the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Andreas Papandreou. In order to be able to command a majority of 151 in the 300-seat Parliament, New Democracy had to secure the support of Theodoros Katsikis, Democratic Renewal's sole MP. Shortly after Mitsotakis was given a confidence vote, the Supreme Special Court, after a mistake in seat calculation was detected, gave the coalition a 152nd seat.


1990 Green Bay Packers season
The 1990 Green Bay Packers season was their 72nd season overall and their 70th in the National Football League. The team finished with a 6–10 record under third-year coach Lindy Infante, earning them a fourth-place finish in the NFC Central division.


1990 Green Bay Packers season, Personnel, Roster
Notable additions included LeRoy Butler, John Jurkovic, Bryce Paup and Jackie Harris


1990 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
The 1990 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 20th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was won by Nuuk IL for the fifth time in its history.


1990 Greenwich London Borough Council election
The 1990 Greenwich Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1990 Grenadian general election
General elections were held in Grenada on 13 March 1990. The result was a victory for the National Democratic Congress, which won seven of the 15 seats. Voter turnout was 68.4%.


1990 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
The 1990 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 24th edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 23 September 1990. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Wilfried Peeters.


1990 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup 1989–90 is the 12th staging of this two-leg competition between Hong Kong and Guangdong.


1990 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
The first leg was played in Hong Kong Stadium on 6 January 1990 while the second leg was played in Guangzhou on 13 January 1990.


1990 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
Hong Kong gained the champion by winning an aggregate 2–1 against Guangdong.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions
On October 2, 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737, operating Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, collided with two other aircraft on the runways of the old Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, while attempting to land. The hijacked aircraft struck a parked China Southwest Airlines Flight 4305 first, inflicting only minor damage, but then collided with China Southern Airlines Flight 3523, a Boeing 757 waiting to take off, flipping onto its back. A total of 128 people were killed, including seven of nine crew members and 75 of 93 passengers on Flight 8301 and 46 of 110 passengers on Flight 3523.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Hijacking of Flight 8301
Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, Boeing 737-200, was hijacked by Jiang Xiaofeng (simplified Chinese: 蒋晓峰; traditional Chinese: 蔣曉峰; pinyin: Jiăng Xiăofēng), born 11 August 1969 in Linli County, Hunan Province on Tuesday, October 2, 1990. Jiang, a 21-year-old purchasing agent from Hunan, People's Republic of China (PRC), was seeking political asylum in Taiwan.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Hijacking of Flight 8301
Prior to the hijacking and shortly after the aircraft took off from Xiamen, Jiang approached the cockpit, holding flowers. The security guards let him in; a Time article stated that the guards probably let him through because they believed that Jiang was offering flowers to the pilots as a Moon Festival gift. The article stated that reportedly, once in the cockpit, he opened his jacket to reveal what appeared to be explosives strapped to his chest.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Hijacking of Flight 8301
The article added that Jiang ordered all crew members out of the cockpit, except for the pilot, Cen Longyu, whom he directed to fly to Taipei, Taiwan. The pilot did not comply, instead continuing toward the original destination of Guangzhou. Reports from the official Xinhua News Agency did not explain why the pilot did not accede to Jiang's demand.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Hijacking of Flight 8301
Communication with the flight was lost. It was finally re-established by the airport in Guangzhou, which authorized the pilot to land at any airport available, inside or outside the PRC. The pilot stated that the only other airport that the aircraft still had sufficient fuel to reach was Hong Kong. Guangzhou flight controllers agreed to allow the plane to land in Hong Kong, refuel, and proceed to Taipei. Jiang refused to allow this, and threatened to blow up the aircraft if it landed in Hong Kong. The pilot circled Guangzhou, attempting to reason with Jiang. He was eventually forced to land the plane when it ran dangerously low on fuel.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Landing and collisions
Moments before landing, Jiang managed to wrestle control of the aircraft from the pilot. The 737 landed at an excessive speed, and sideswiped a parked China Southwest Airlines Boeing 707-3J6B which had just arrived from Chengdu as China Southwest Airlines Flight 4305, slightly injuring the pilot, who was in the cockpit at the time. Still unable to stop, the out-of-control 737 collided with China Southern Airlines Flight 3523, a Boeing 757 waiting to depart to Shanghai, before flipping over onto its back and skidding to a halt.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, Landing and collisions
On the Xiamen Airlines 737, seven of the nine crew members and 75 (including 30 Taiwanese, three people from Hong Kong and one American) of the 93 passengers died. On the China Southern 757 aircraft all 12 crew members survived and 46 of 110 passengers died. Of the passengers who died in the 757, eight were from Taiwan. A total of 128 people died in the disaster, including Jiang, the hijacker of the Xiamen Airlines aircraft.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, The hijacker
Jiang was once arrested for theft in September 1988. While working as a purchasing agent in 1990, he fled on July 13 with RMB17000 which was given to him for purchasing goods for his company. He was wanted by the police at the time of the hijacking.


1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, The hijacker
Two months later, on September 29, Jiang checked-in at a hotel near the Xiamen borders. The next day, he booked a seat on the flight he would go on to hijack. Jiang checked out of the hotel around 6 a.m. on the morning of October 2 and headed to the airport. He was seen wearing a black suit and black dress shoes, carrying a black suitcase, and holding plastic roses. Jiang was the last to board the plane. He was sitting at seat 16D.


1990 Guinean constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Guinea on 23 December 1990. The new constitution was approved by 98.7% of voters, with a turnout of 97.4%.


1990 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
The 8th Gujarat Legislative Assembly election was held in 1990. No party won the majority. Janata Dal (JD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 70 and 67 seats respectively. Indian National Congress won only 33 seats, compared to 149 seats in previous legislative election. The alliance of BJP and JD formed the government under the chief ministership of Chimanbhai Patel of JD and deputy chief ministership of Keshubhai Patel of BJP.


1990 Hackney London Borough Council election
The 1990 Hackney Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went in no overall control.


1990 Hall of Fame Bowl
The 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl featured the ninth-ranked Auburn Tigers, and the 20th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. It was the fourth edition to the Hall of Fame Bowl.


1990 Hall of Fame Bowl
Ohio State scored first following a 1-yard touchdown run from Carlos Snow opening up a 7–0 lead. Auburn's Win Lyle kicked a 19-yard field goal, and Ohio State led 7–3 after one quarter. In the second quarter, Ohio State's Greg Frey connected with Brian Stablein from nine yards out to take a 14–3 lead. Reggie Slack threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Greg Taylor as Ohio State took a 14–10 lead to halftime.


1990 Hall of Fame Bowl
In the third quarter, Slack and Taylor connected on another 4-yard touchdown pass, as Auburn took a 17–14 lead. In the fourth quarter, Slack scored on a 5-yard touchdown run opening a 24–14 Auburn lead. A 2-yard touchdown pass from Slack to Herbert Casey made the final margin 31–14 in favor of Auburn.


1990 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 1990 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 33rd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 41st overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 4th place in the East Division with a 6–12 record and failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 1977.


1990 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election
The 1990 Hammersmith and Fulham Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1990 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
In five out of the six by-elections since the previous Council was elected, the previous party had retained the seat. In May 1989 Labour won the seat previously held by Simon Knott for the Liberal Democrats, following his resignation from the Council. He had held a seat on the Council since 1974, having also contested the previous three elections since the Council was originally formed in 1968.


1990 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Election result
The Labour Party won 28 seats - a loss of 12 seats from the 1986 election, but maintained control. The Conservative Party won 22 seats - a gain of 13 seats from their previous result. The Liberal Democrats lost their only seat on the council.


1990 Hardy Cup
The 1990 Hardy Cup was the 1990 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship. It was the last playing of the Hardy Cup.


1990 Hardy Cup, Final
Dartmouth Moosehead Mounties beat Paul Bland Hawks 4–3 on series.


1990 Haringey London Borough Council election
The 1990 Haringey Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Haringey London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1990 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, South Tottenham
Willmore was a sitting councillor for the Bruce Grove ward.


1990 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, West Green
Eddie Griffith was a sitting councillor for South Hornsey ward. Diane Harwood was a sitting councillor for White Hart Lane ward.


1990 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Woodside
Sharon Lawrence was a sitting councillor for the Harringay ward.


1990 Harlow District Council election
The 1990 Harlow District Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973.


1990 Harlow District Council election, Election result
All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1986 election.


1990 Harrow London Borough Council election
The 1990 Harrow Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1990 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1990 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Crimson tied for fourth in the Ivy League.


1990 Harvard Crimson football team
In their 20th year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 5–5 record and were outscored 206 to 199. Tom Callahan was the team captain.


1990 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard's 3–4 conference record tied for fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson were outscored 158 to 140 by Ivy opponents.


1990 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.


1990 Havering London Borough Council election
The 1990 Havering Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed in no overall control.


1990 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
The 1990 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth season under head coach Bob Wagner, the Rainbow Warriors compiled a 7–5 record.


1990 Hawaii gubernatorial election
The 1990 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's ninth gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 6, 1990, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, incumbent Governor John D. Waiheʻe III over the Republican candidate, State Representative Fred Hemmings. Waihee received more votes than Hemmings in every county in the state.


1990 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1990 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 66th season in the newly named Australian Football League and 89th overall. Hawthorn entered the season as the two-time defending Premiers, having won back-to-back premierships.


1990 Heffron state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Heffron on 23 June 1990 because of the resignation of Laurie Brereton (Labor) to successfully contest the 1990 federal election for  Kingsford Smith  The Labor candidate for the election was Deirdre Grusovin, the sister of Brereton.


1990 Heffron state by-election
The Heffron by-election was held the same day as the Granville and Smithfield by-elections.


1990 Heinz Southern 500
The 1990 Heinz Southern 500, the 41st running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 2, 1990 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Contested over 367 laps on the 1.366 mile (2.198 km) speedway, it was the 21st race of the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing won the race.


1990 Heinz Southern 500, Summary
The traditional Labor Day event saw Dale Earnhardt capture the Richard Childress Racing's fourth pole of the season before winning the race. Even with an ill-handling racecar, Earnhardt recovered, made up a lost lap and then having to battle a vibrating tire to outrun Ernie Irvan to the checkered flag. With the $200,000 payday, Dale became the first race car driver in history to pass the $11,000,000 mark in career winnings. During the race, Morgan Shepherd and Ken Schrader made contact, sending Schrader into the wall. An angry Schrader returned to the race, and rammed Shepherd into the wall, knocking both drivers out of the race.


1990 Heinz Southern 500, Summary
Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, and Geoff Bodine timed together in the top three and combined to lead 286 laps between them; Bodine faded to eighth while Elliott finished fourth and Ernie Irvan led 70 laps and grabbed second, but no one could catch Earnhardt en route to his third Southern 500 in his previous four starts.


1990 Heinz Southern 500, Summary
Phillip Duffie made his only NASCAR appearance at this race.


1990 Highland Regional Council election
The 1990 Highland Regional Council election to the Highland Regional Council was held on 3 May 1990 as part of the wider 1990 Scottish regional elections. Independents won control of 36 of the council's 52 seats.


1990 Highland Regional Council election
Turnout was 42.9% in the 27 of the region's 52 districts that were contested.


1990 Hillingdon London Borough Council election
The 1990 Hillingdon Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Hillingdon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council.


1990 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Himachal Pradesh in 1990.


1990 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1990 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 6th Tournament in the history of the conference. It was played between March 1 and March 11, 1990. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, the home venue of the Boston College Eagles. This was the final year the Hockey East championship was decided at a home venue to one of its member teams (as of 2014). By winning the tournament, Boston College received the Hockey East's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1990 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a best-of-three with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-elimination game, with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1990 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1990 Holden NSW Open
The 1990 Holden NSW Open (known as such in 1990 for sponsorship reasons) was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 98th edition (the 22nd edition in the Open Era) of the event known that year as the Holden New South Wales (NSW) Open, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour, and the WTA Tier III tournaments of the 1990 WTA Tour. It took place at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia, from 8 to 14 January 1990. Yannick Noah and Natasha Zvereva won the singles titles.


1990 Holden NSW Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Pat Cash /  Mark Kratzmann defeated  Pieter Aldrich /  Danie Visser, 6–4, 7–5


1990 Holden NSW Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Jana Novotná /  Helena Suková defeated  Larisa Savchenko /  Natasha Zvereva, 6–3, 7–5


1990 Holden NSW Open – Men's Doubles
Darren Cahill and Wally Masur were the defending champions. Cahill did not compete that year, while Masur partnered Brad Drewett, but lost in the first round. Pat Cash and Mark Kratzmann won the title, defeating Pieter Aldrich and Danie Visser 6–4, 7–5, in the final.


1990 Holden NSW Open – Men's Singles
Aaron Krickstein was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Yannick Noah.Noah won the title, defeating Carl-Uwe Steeb 5–7, 6–3, 6–4, in the final.


1990 Holiday Bowl
The 1990 SeaWorld Holiday Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas A&M Aggies and BYU Cougars on December 29, 1990, at Jack Murphy Stadium, now known as Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego. The game was part of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season and was the final game of the season for both teams. Texas A&M defeated BYU 65–14.


1990 Holiday Bowl
The game featured BYU's Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, and marked the last time for more than 20 years that the season's Heisman winner would appear in a bowl before New Year's Day. This would not happen again until the 2011 Alamo Bowl, featuring Baylor's Robert Griffin III.


1990 Holiday Bowl, Game summary
Texas A&M dominated the Cougars, rushing for 356 yards (while BYU had -12), passing for 324 (while BYU had 197), and forcing four turnovers (with the Aggies only having one), while only punting once and having the ball 38:28 of the game, with 72 return yards. BYU had 207 return yards (in part due to having 10 kickoffs and one punt to return), but they also had 10 penalties for 204 yards (while A&M had just 3 for 59 yards), with a paltry 21:31 possession time.


1990 Holiday Bowl, Game summary
Ty Detemer went 11-of-23 for 120 yards and one touchdown and interception while being sacked twice. He was later replaced by Joe Evans, who went 4-of-9 for 77 yards with one touchdown, while being sacked thrice. Bucky Richardson threw 9-of-11 for 203 yards with one touchdown, while also rushing for 129 yards on 12 carries and 2 touchdowns, along a catch for 22 yards that also was for a touchdown. His four touchdown performance gained him MVP honors. William Thomas had 6 tackles, 2 of them going for sacks while being named defensive MVP.


1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Holy Cross finished first in the newly renamed Patriot League, for its fourth championship in five years of league play.


1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
In their fifth year under head coach Mark Duffner, the Crusaders compiled a 9–1–1 record. Willie Bradford, Craig Callahan, Joe Foy and Mark Gallagher were the team captains.


1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The Crusaders outscored opponents 339 to 106. Their undefeated (5–0) conference record placed first in the six-team Patriot League standings. This was the first year of competition under the Patriot League banner; the league had been known as the Colonial League since 1986.


1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The Crusaders were ranked No. 4 in the preseason national Division I-AA rankings, but a 0–1–1 start dropped them out of the top 20 in the first round of in-season rankings. They later returned to the top 20 during their nine-game win streak to finish the season, and were recognized as No. 8 in the final poll, released after their last game. The Crusaders did not participate in the Division I-AA playoffs, as Patriot League rules at the time forbade postseason play.


1990 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1990 Hopman Cup
The 1990 Hopman Cup was the second edition of the Hopman Cup, an international mixed teams tournament played at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, Western Australia. The event was held from 26 December 1989 through 1 January 1990.


1990 Hopman Cup
Twelve teams competed in the tournament with the top four seeded teams (United States, Spain, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union) each receiving a bye into the quarter-finals. The remaining eight teams played in the first round. In the final which was played on 1 January, Spanish pair, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Emilio Sánchez defeated the American pair, Pam Shriver and John McEnroe 2–1 to record Spain's first victory at the Hopman Cup.


1990 Hopman Cup, First round
The opening round of the 1990 Hopman Cup took place on Boxing Day (26 December) with the day match between eighth seed Italy and Sweden. In the opening match, Italian player Paolo Canè struggled in his first single match against Swedish player Mikael Pernfors as he went down in three sets. Italy though would come back in the remaining two rubbers with Cane and Laura Golarsa winning the mixed doubles in straight sets before Golarsa took out the tie. In the night session, fifth seed Australia defeated Yugoslavia 3–0 to book their spot in the quarter-finals with straight sets victories for Mark Woodforde and Hana Mandlíková.


1990 Hopman Cup, First round
The second day saw the remaining two matches of the opening round of competition. First was seventh seed, Austria who clean-sweep their tie against New Zealand with Thomas Muster and Barbara Paulus both winning their single matches in straight sets before being pushed to three in the mixed doubles. The final match of the opening round saw the tie between sixth seed, France and the Netherlands lasting seven hours.


1990 Hopman Cup, First round
After Isabelle Demongeot won the women's singles in three singles, the tie headed into a third deciding rubber after the Netherlands pair of Michiel Schapers and Brenda Schultz won the rubber, 6–3, 6–2. After the match, Yannick Noah stated, "I don't know whether I was playing tennis or being a clown." In the deciding rubber, Noah loss the first set, 6–3 and trailed Schapers 5–4 in the second before coming back and winning the remaining two sets in a tiebreaker to book France's spot into the quarters.


1990 Hopman Cup, Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals began on 28 December 1989, with Australia taking on fourth seed, the Soviet Union in the opening match of the quarters. In what would soon be an easy tie, the Australians only dropped seventeen games throughout the three matches to defeat the Soviets 3–0 with Mandlíková and Woodforde securing straight set victories in all of the matches. Before the match against France, Czeechoslovakia player Miloslav Mecir was replaced with 63rd ranked player Petr Korda due to torn ligaments in his ankles due to skiing accident, three weeks prior.


1990 Hopman Cup, Quarter-finals
In the women's singles, the use of the cross-court play put Demongeot on the wrong side of court as she led the French woman to ten double faults in the three set match. Czechoslovakia took out the title in the mixed doubles with Mecir and Helena Suková winning in three sets. Mecir went on to get the sweep for Czechoslovakia, defeating Noah in straight sets.


1990 Hopman Cup, Quarter-finals
The brother-sister combination of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Emilio Sánchez opened their campaigns with a 2–1 win over the Austrians in their quarter final with the women's match going to three sets while the men's match lasted until 1:30am with Thomas Muster coming out on top in three after conceding the first set in a tiebreaker. Top seeds, United States won their opening tie against Italy 3–0, but the match was notable for John McEnroe clashing with English umpire, Jane Tabor before forfeiting the game for sitting down. He would go on to win the match in three sets.


1990 Hopman Cup, Semi-finals
The first semi-final was Spain and Czechoslovakia on 30 December 1989. In the opening rubber, Emilio Sánchez got the break in the seventh game of the first set but conceded it in the next game with the set going to Sanchez in a tiebreaker. The second set saw only one break of serve with Korda serve being broken to give Spain the lead. After the Spanish conceded the mixed doubles in straight sets, Arantxa Sánchez had trouble with her strained leg muscle putting her one break down in the second set after losing the first 6–3. But words of encouragement from her brother, saw Arantxa win the next two sets in tiebreakers to book Spain a spot in the final.


1990 Hopman Cup, Semi-finals
The second semi-final was played the following day and saw the United States take on Australia. For Mark Woodforde, he was never in the match with two breaks off the Woodforde serve giving McEnroe the first set with the second set also going to the American as McEnroe gave the United States a lead. Australia got an early break in the mixed doubles with the McEnroe dropping his serve to give Australia a two-game lead. But two consecutive breaks off the Mandlíková serve gave the United States the first set, 6–4. The second set was a tiebreak which Australia came back from 4–0 to level it five-all before the United States took out the tie. The third match wasn't played due to the withdrawal of Mandlíková due to a back complaint.


1990 Hopman Cup, Final
The final of the 1990 Hopman Cup was played on 1 January 1990 between Spain and the United States. In the opening rubber, McEnroe got the jump over Emilio Sánchez in the first set winning 7–5. Emilio Sánchez came back to level the rubber, winning the second set with the same scoreline with McEnroe being penalized a point penalty which gave Sanchez the break. From there, the Spaniard went on to win the match in three sets, taking out the final set 7–5. After the Americans took out the mixed doubles in straight sets, the tie went to a deciding third with Arantxa Sánchez taking the match and the title with a straight set victory.


1990 Hotel Delfino siege
The Siege at Hotel Delfino (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Hotel Delfino, Ilocano: Sitio ti Hotel Delfino) in Tuguegarao, Cagayan in the Philippines, took place on March 4, 1990. A private army estimated at 300 men seized the hotel under the command of former Cagayan governor Rodolfo "Agi" Aguinaldo. He was suspended as Cagayan's governor in January based on a radio announcement he made at the start of a Dec. 1-9, 1989 coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino; it is said Aguinaldo pledged to send tanks and troops to support rebel forces in Manila led by Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan. A week before his attack on the hotel Aguinaldo was indicted on charges of rebellion and murder relating to the failed Dec. 1-9 coup effort.


1990 Hotel Delfino siege
Two years earlier, Col. Honasan led a coup attempt on August 28, 1987 that also failed. Soon after that Aguinaldo—then a lieutenant colonel in Cagayan's provincial military forces—bluntly stated another coup attempt would follow if the President "does not make reforms fast". Aguinaldo resigned from the military to run for Cagayan governor in 1988, he won that post in a landslide. Though harshly criticized for human rights abuses while serving in the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Aguinaldo gained renown and popularity beyond Cagayan for his ardent fight against communist insurgents during Marcos' rule.


1990 Hotel Delfino siege
Disputing both his suspension as Cagayan governor and the rebellion charges, Aguinaldo refused to surrender to authorities. Along with hundreds of loyal armed followers, he went into hiding in his hometown of Gattaran. On learning government troops were planning to attack his hideout, Aguinaldo proceeded with his troops in a convoy toward Tuguegarao. Brig. Gen. Oscar Florendo, armed forces chief of Civil Military Relations, was dispatched to Tuguegarao by President Aquino to serve Aguinaldo with an arrest warrant.


1990 Hotel Delfino siege
After Aguinaldo's men seized control of Hotel Delfino where the general was staying, Florendo was taken hostage along with more than 50 other hotel guests. Though he was thought to have been a long-time friend of Aguinaldo, Florendo was shot at close range in the hotel by one of Aguinaldo's men and later died of his wounds. Following hours of standoff between the two sides, nearly 1,000 government troops launched an attack to dislodge Aguinaldo's forces from the hotel; the government prevailed after more than 100 of Aguinaldo's men surrendered and about 90 were captured. In this siege at least a dozen others were killed in or around the hotel; scores of civilian supporters of Aguinaldo were arrested; and a truck with assault rifles, mortars, and crates of ammunition was captured. During this melee, Aguinaldo fled with about 90 fighters for mountains in the north.


1990 Hounslow London Borough Council election
The 1990 Hounslow Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Hounslow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1990 Houston Astros season
The Houston Astros' 1990 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Houston Astros attempting to win the National League West.


1990 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1990 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1990 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1990 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1990 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1990 Houston Cougars football team
The 1990 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by first-year head coach John Jenkins and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The team competed as members of the Southwest Conference, finishing in second. Due to NCAA sanctions, Houston was ineligible to be invited to a bowl game and was banned from being ranked in the Coaches Poll. The Cougars lost only once in the season, to eventual SWC champions Texas, and were ranked 10th in the final AP Poll of the year. Their last regular season game was played in Tokyo, Japan, in the Coca-Cola Classic.


1990 Houston Cougars football team
Quarterback David Klingler finished third in voting for the Heisman Trophy, leading the nation with 54 passing touchdowns and 374 completions. His 5,140 passing yards trailed only Heisman-winner Ty Detmer of BYU.


1990 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M
The Cougars drove 95 yards for the game-winning touchdown, a 1-yard run by Chuck Weatherspoon with 20 seconds remaining. Weatherspoon accounted for 218 yards from scrimmage (131 rushing) and 2 touchdowns. David Klingler passed for 352 yards and had 2 touchdowns (1 rushing).


1990 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, vs. Arizona State
In the 62–45 victory over the Sun Devils, David Klingler set the Division I-A single-game passing record with 716 yards.


1990 Houston Oilers season
The 1990 Houston Oilers season was the 31st season and their 21st in the National Football League (NFL). The Oilers scored 405 points which ranked second in the AFC and second overall in the NFL. Their defense gave up 307 points. During the season, the Oilers appeared once on Monday Night Football and defeated the Buffalo Bills. On December 16, 1990, Warren Moon threw for 527 yards in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Moon was part of the Oilers "Run and shoot" era.


1990 Houston Oilers season
The run and shoot offense also incorporated teammates Ernest Givens, Drew Hill, Haywood Jeffires and Curtis Duncan. The 1990 season saw the Oilers appear in the playoffs for the 4th consecutive season. They finished tied for first in the AFC Central with the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers, as all 3 teams finished with identical 9–7 records. The Bengals would be awarded the division title by having a better division record than Houston or Pittsburgh. The Oilers would win the tiebreaker over the Steelers by having a better division record than them. The Oilers finished the season 9–7, and clinched a wild card spot. In the wild card game, they were embarrassed by the Bengals 41–14, ending Houston's season in a flash. This remains the last playoff win by Cincinnati.


1990 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1990 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 1990 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference in 1990.


1990 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1990 Lumberjacks were led by head coach Mike Dolby, in his fifth and last year at the helm. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of two wins, eight losses and one tie (2–8–1, 1–4 NCAC). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 205–340 for the season.


1990 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
In five years under coach Dolby, the Lumberjacks compiled a record of 18–33–2 (.358). They had one winning season (1989) and four losing seasons.


1990 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
The following Humboldt State players were selected in the 1991 NFL Draft.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix
The 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hungaroring on 12 August 1990. It was the tenth race of the 1990 Formula One World Championship. The race was the sixth Hungarian Grand Prix and the fifth to be held at the Hungaroring. It was held over 77 laps of the 3.97-kilometre (2.47 mi) circuit for a race distance of 305.5 kilometres (189.8 mi).


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix
Belgian driver Thierry Boutsen, driving a Williams-Renault, took his third and final Grand Prix win after leading the entire race. Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda, finished less than 0.3 seconds behind Boutsen, having survived a collision with the Benetton-Ford of Alessandro Nannini. Nannini's teammate Nelson Piquet finished third. As of the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, this is the most recent victory in Formula One for a driver competing under the Belgian flag.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix
With rival Alain Prost failing to finish, Senna increased his lead in the Drivers' Championship over the Frenchman.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Pre-race
In the run-up to the race, Camel announced that it was ending its sponsorship of Lotus at the end of 1990 and would be sponsoring Williams and Benetton in 1991.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Pre-qualifying report
As at the previous event in Germany, the Ligier drivers were first and second in the Friday morning pre-qualifying session. The positions were reversed, however, with Nicola Larini outpacing team-mate Philippe Alliot. The other two pre-qualifiers were the AGS cars, driven by Yannick Dalmas in third, and Gabriele Tarquini in fourth, the pair nearly two seconds slower than the Ligiers. It was the first time since the French Grand Prix that both AGS cars had pre-qualified, and only the second time this season.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Pre-qualifying report
Also for only the second time this season, Olivier Grouillard failed to pre-qualify in the Osella, as he was fifth fastest, less than two tenths of a second slower than Tarquini. There was a big improvement from Bertrand Gachot in the Coloni, now seeing the benefits of the Cosworth DFR engine in place of the Subaru, as he was sixth fastest, just 0.264 seconds behind Tarquini. The EuroBruns were seventh and eighth, Roberto Moreno a couple of seconds faster than Claudio Langes, and bottom of the time sheets as usual was Bruno Giacomelli in the Life, missing the cut by a very wide margin. On this occasion the L190 managed five laps before the engine expired.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
On the tight and twisty Hungaroring, the two Williams filled the front row with Thierry Boutsen 0.036 seconds ahead of Riccardo Patrese. This was to be the only pole position of Boutsen's career. Gerhard Berger was third ahead of McLaren teammate Ayrton Senna, while Senna's Drivers' Championship rival Alain Prost could only manage eighth, behind Ferrari teammate Nigel Mansell, Jean Alesi in the Tyrrell and Alessandro Nannini in the Benetton. The top ten was completed by Nelson Piquet in the second Benetton and Andrea de Cesaris in the Dallara.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At the start, Boutsen led away while Berger moved ahead of Patrese. Mansell and Alesi both passed Senna at the first corner, while de Cesaris shot past both Benettons and Prost. The top four started to pull away, while Alesi held up the cars behind him.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Nannini soon re-passed de Cesaris, but the Dallara driver kept ahead of Piquet and Prost before retiring on lap 23 with an engine failure. Senna passed Alesi on lap 21, only to suffer a puncture which dropped him to tenth. Nannini passed the Tyrrell driver shortly afterwards and quickly caught up to the top four, followed by Prost. On lap 36, Alesi collided with the Minardi of Pierluigi Martini, putting them both out; Prost retired at around the same time with a gearbox failure.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At the halfway point of the race, the top five remained Boutsen, Berger, Patrese, Mansell and Nannini, with Senna back up to sixth and closing fast. He moved ahead of teammate Berger when the Austrian pitted for new tyres. On lap 52 Mansell made an attempt to pass Patrese, only to fall behind Nannini and Senna. Patrese pitted a few laps later, falling to seventh behind Berger and Piquet.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On lap 64, Senna attempted to pass Nannini at the chicane. The two collided, putting the Benetton driver out. Then on lap 72, Berger attempted a similar move on Mansell, taking both drivers out. This left Boutsen and Senna nearly half a minute clear of Piquet. Senna tried to find a way past Boutsen, but the Belgian held him off, crossing the line 0.288 seconds ahead. Boutsen would later claim that if the race had continued for any longer his brakes would likely have failed. Piquet finished four seconds ahead of Patrese, with Derek Warwick in the Lotus and Éric Bernard in the Larrousse-Lola completing the top six.


1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Senna increased his lead over Prost in the Drivers' Championship to ten points, 54 to 44, with Berger on 29 and Boutsen on 27. McLaren also increased their lead in the Constructors' Championship, with 83 points to Ferrari's 57, followed by Williams on 42 and Benetton on 35.


1990 Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1990 Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 31 August-2 September 1990 at the Hungaroring circuit.


1990 Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Wayne Rainey gets the start, then it’s Eddie Lawson, Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Gardner and Mick Doohan. Randy Mamola has a small highside and looks like he’s going to save it, but heads into the gravel and it falls as he bumps the tire barrier.


1990 Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Doohan is on the move as he passes Gardner and Schwantz and catches up to Lawson. It’s a small gap up to Rainey. As they brake at the end of the start-finish straight, Lawson makes a mistake and goes wide, losing contact with Doohan, who catches Rainey.


1990 Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Doohan passes Rainey on the straight as he did with Lawson, but Rainey can’t fight back as his bike breaks down. This is his first DNF, but the championship is sewn-up.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election
The 1990 Hungarian parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 25 March 1990, with a second round of voting taking place in all but five single member constituencies on 8 April. They were the first completely free and competitive elections to be held in the country since 1945, and only the second completely free elections with universal suffrage in the country's history. The conservative, nationalist Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) beat the liberal and more internationalist Alliance of Free Democrats, which had spearheaded opposition to Communist rule in 1989, to become the largest party in parliament. The Hungarian Socialist Party, the former Communist party, suffered a crushing defeat, winning only 33 seats for fourth place.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election
MDF leader József Antall became prime minister in coalition with the Christian Democratic People's Party and Independent Smallholders' Party. It was the first government since the end of World War II with no Communist participation.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
Hungary's transition to a Western-style democracy was one of the smoothest among the former Soviet bloc. By late 1988, activists within the party and bureaucracy and Budapest-based intellectuals were increasing pressure for change. Some of these became reformist social democrats, while others began movements which were to develop into parties. Young liberals formed the Federation of Young Democrats (Fidesz); a core from the so-called Democratic Opposition formed the Association of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), and the national opposition established the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF).


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
Among the organized opposition, Round Table Talks began in March 1989, a series of formalized, orderly and highly legalistic discussions, inspired by the Polish model. At that point, longtime leader János Kádár had been removed from power for almost a year, and the Communists' Central Committee that month admitted the necessity of a multiparty system, with various groups like Fidesz and the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) having emerged. Mass demonstrations on March 15, the National Day, persuaded the regime to begin negotiations with the emergent non-Communist political forces.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
A week later, these new movements, at the initiative of the Independent Lawyers’ Forum, formed the Opposition Round Table (Ellenzéki Kerekasztal, EKA), designed to prevent the Communists from trying to maintain power by dividing the opposition, and to establish some degree of unity in the face of the regime’s own reform agenda. The table was composed of a small number of elite organizations, whose grassroots links were poorly developed and whose very existence stemmed in part from the collaboration of key Communist reformers.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
Specifically, it involved the SZDSZ, Fidesz, the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), the Independent Smallholders’ Party (FKGP), the Hungarian People’s Party (MNP), the Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Society, and the Democratic Trade Union of Scientific Workers. At a later stage the Democratic Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KNDP) were invited.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
In July 1989, four by-elections took place in Gödöllő, Szeged, Kecskemét and Kiskunfélegyháza. In these elections SZDSZ, FKGP and Fidesz supported one single candidate from MDF in each constituency. In first three seats MDF candidates came first.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
In October 1989, the ruling Communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) convened its last congress and re-established itself as the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), which branded itself as a Western European-style social democratic party. In a historic session from 16 October to 20 October, the parliament adopted legislation providing for multi-party parliamentary elections and a direct presidential election. The legislation changed Hungary's official name from the People's Republic of Hungary to the Republic of Hungary, guaranteed human and civil rights, and created an institutional structure that ensured separation of powers among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
An agreement was reached involving six draft laws that covered an overhaul of the Constitution, establishment of a Constitutional Court, the functioning and management of political parties, multiparty elections for National Assembly deputies, the penal code and the law on penal procedures (the last two changes represented an additional separation of the Party from the state apparatus).


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
The electoral system was a compromise: initially it proposed that 222 deputies would be elected proportionally and 152 deputies by the majoritarian system. Overall, National Assembly would have had 374 deputies, but it was agreed to have 386 deputies (down by one).


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Background
A weak presidency was also agreed upon, but no consensus was attained on who should elect the president (parliament or the people) and when this election should occur (before or after parliamentary elections). Initially, the opposition was united in wanting the president elected by parliament after new elections to ensure parliamentary supremacy and minimise the MSZMP’s power. Then, faced with Communist concessions, the relatively weak opposition split, as at least three moderate groups (including KNDP and MDF) signed the Round Table agreement and implicitly accepted Pozsgay as president while the radicals (notably Fidesz and the SZDSZ) refused to do so. After a burst of negotiations, fully free elections were scheduled for March 1990, in contrast to the semi-free elections held in Poland in June 1989.


1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Of the 386 seats in the National Assembly, 176 were elected from single member constituencies, 120 from multi-member constituencies and a further 90 from "compensatory" national seats.


1990 Hungarian presidential election
The first indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 3 August 1990, following the transition to multi-party democracy. Árpád Göncz (SZDSZ), Speaker of the National Assembly and acting head of state, was elected President with an absolute majority.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
During the era of transition from communist one-party system into multi-party democracy, reburial of Imre Nagy proved to be a catalyst event; the hard-line Károly Grósz was outranked by a four-member collective presidency of the reformist wing within the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) on 26 June 1989. The ruling communist party began discussions with the opposition groups within the framework of the so-called Round Table Talks. The question of the post-communist presidential position was one of the most problematic disputes between the parties.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
The MSZMP suggested a directly elected semi-presidential system, however this proposal was strongly refused by the sharply anti-communist SZDSZ and Fidesz, because the reformer communist Imre Pozsgay was the most popular Hungarian politician in those months. The MSZMP leaders presumed Pozsgay, a leader of the Communists' radical reformer faction, would win. The smaller opposition parties wanted a parliamentary system, proportional representation, and a weak presidency. However, they too believed that Pozsgay would be elected president.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
In August 1989, József Antall, leader of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) presented a new proposal (ceremonial presidential system with indirect elections by the parliament, but the first election by the people). Excluding SZDSZ, Fidesz and LIGA, the remaining five opposition groups and the MSZMP accepted and signed the proposal. However, following collecting signatures by Fidesz and SZDSZ, a four-part referendum was held on 26 November 1989, where the voters chose "yes" for the question of "Should the president be elected after parliamentary elections?"


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
In the end, the implicit deal on the presidency (the only place where the Communists appeared to have gotten the upper hand) reached in the Round Table Talks was reversed: when the MSZMP dissolved itself in early October and became the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), a majority of members as well as MPs failed to join the new party, and Pozsgay was not elected its leader. The Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) won the first democratically free parliamentary election in March 1990, while SZDSZ came to the second place with 92 MPs.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
József Antall became Prime Minister and entered coalition with FKGP and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). As there were several two-thirds laws according to the Hungarian Constitution, Antall concluded pact with SZDSZ, under which the liberal opposition party could nominee a candidate for the position of President of Hungary, in exchange for contribution to the constitutional amendments. According to some opinions, the pact concluded specifically for the person of Árpád Göncz.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Background
The Socialist Party themselves used the initiative to force a vote on direct election of the president on 29 July 1990, but this failed due to a turnout of just 14%. Instead of a Communist candidate chosen in direct elections before the election of a new parliament, the parliamentary parties unanimously nominated SZDSZ politician and notable anti-communist Árpád Göncz to the position of President of Hungary.


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Aftermath
Parliamentary speaker and, consequently, acting head of state Árpád Göncz was elected for a full term as president by the National Assembly by 295 votes to 13. After taking the oath before the new legislative speaker György Szabad (MDF), Göncz stated in his inaugural speech that:


1990 Hungarian presidential election, Aftermath
I am not, I can not be a servant of parties, party interests. In my whole life, within and outside party, I served and I will serve for national independence, freedom of thought, freedom of faith in the idea of free homeland, and social justice with human rights without discrimination and exclusion." He also added, "I would like to serve the unprotected, the defenceless people, those, who lacked the means to protect themselves both in the «feudal crane feather world» [referring to Miklós Horthy's Hungary] and in the «world of more equals among equals» [i.e. the communist regime between 1945 and 1989]."


1990 Hungarian presidential election referendum
A referendum on introducing direct elections for the Presidency was held in Hungary on 29 July 1990. Although the proposal was supported by 85.9% of voters, turnout was just 14%, resulting in the referendum being declared invalid. As a result, the President continued to be elected by the National Assembly.


1990 Hyderabad riots
1990 Hyderabad riots were riots that occurred in Hyderabad of Telangana, the then Andhra Pradesh state of India in 1990. The riots left about 200–300 people dead and thousands injured.


1990 Hyderabad riots, Background
The last Hindu-Muslim violence in India had taken place in 1984. The roots of the 1990 riots lay in the Ayodhya dispute, which is centered on Uttar Pradesh, a different state. Hindu activists have long alleged that the Babri mosque in Ayodhya was constructed after Muslims demolished a temple at the site. In November 1990, when a crowd of Hindu activists tried to demolish the mosque, the police fired on them, resulting in several deaths. Since then, the tension between Hyderabadi Hindus and Muslims had been rising.


1990 Hyderabad riots, The trigger
The riots began with the killing of Sardar, a Muslim auto-rickshaw driver, by two Hindus. The death was actually the result of a land dispute unrelated to religious matters. But in light of the Babri mosque controversy, people saw it as a Hindu-Muslim conflict. In response to Sardar's killing, Muslims killed four Hindus in different parts of the walled city. Bharatiya Janata Party workers then attacked Majid Khan, an influential Muslim leader in the Sabzi Mandi area. As false rumours about his death spread, Muslim mobs came out in open, followed by the Hindu mobs, and the violence spread.


1990 Hyderabad riots, The riots
During 8–10 December 1990, 64 people were killed, stabbed or shot within 3 days. By 10 December, the Indian Army had taken control of the old city of Hyderabad, and more than 350 people had been detained in connection with the riots.


1990 Hyderabad riots, The riots
The violence lasted for ten weeks, and resulted in 200 to 300 deaths; thousands were injured.


1990 Hyderabad riots, The riots
On 8 December, police constable M A Qadeer shot his superior N. Sattiah, the South Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police. Qadeer alleged that Sattiah was selectively targeting a particular community during police action against the rioters. He surrendered, and was sentenced for life. His subsequent petitions for release were refused, because of opposition by Sattaiah's family and police officials, but he was released on parole several times during periods of illness. He was finally released in 2016,and died a year later.


1990 Hyderabad riots, Aftermath
Not a single rioter was arrested. Chief Minister Marri Chenna Reddy, a member of the Indian National Congress, claimed that the riot had been engineered by his rivals in his own party, who wanted to oust him and an ally AIMIM.


1990 Hypo-Meeting
The 17th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on June 16 and June 17, 1990 in Götzis, Austria. The track and field competition featured a decathlon (men) and a heptathlon (women) event.


1990 IAAF Grand Prix Final
The 1990 IAAF Grand Prix Final was the sixth edition of the season-ending competition for the IAAF Grand Prix track and field circuit, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was held on 7 September at the Olympic Stadium (Athens) in Athens, Greece. Leroy Burrell (100 metres) and Merlene Ottey (200 metres) were the overall points winners of the tournament. This was Ottey's second series win (having previously won in 1987) and made her the second woman to win the honour twice, after Paula Ivan. The number of athletics events in the programme reached eighteen for the first time, with ten for men and eight for women.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Complete results for senior men, junior men, senior women, junior women, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 617 athletes from 59 countries, one athlete (senior men) less than the official number published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
The Junior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 127 athletes from 30 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
The Junior women's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 121 athletes from 27 countries in the Junior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
The Senior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 230 athletes from 43 countries in the Senior men's race, one athlete (senior men) less than the official number published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
The Senior women's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 139 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
The 1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the eighth, and penultimate, edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Ireland on 14 October 1990 in Dublin and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined finishing positions of a team's top three runners. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked.


1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
Romania's Iulia Olteanu won the race in a time of 50:11.8 – the slowest winning time recorded at the competition's history. Francie Larrieu Smith of the United States was the silver medallist and Chinese runner Zhong Huandi took bronze to feature on the podium for a second year running. Aurora Cunha led Portugal to the team title, as she had in 1987, with support from Conceição Ferreira and Lucilia Soares. The Soviet Union reached the team podium for a fifth time in as many years through the efforts of Nadezhda Stepanova, Valentina Yegorova and Lyudmila Matveyeva. A unified German team entered for the first time and former East German Katrin Dörre led the team to third place in the team rankings with former West Germans Kerstin Pressler and Christina Mai.


1990 ICC Trophy
The 1990 ICC Trophy was a limited-overs cricket tournament held in the Netherlands between 4 June and 23 June 1990. It was the fourth ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, and the first to be held outside England. It was also the first ICC Trophy competition to have a title sponsor, being known officially as the Unibind ICC Trophy. As in previous Trophies, matches were played over 60 overs a side and with white clothing and red balls.


1990 ICC Trophy
Zimbabwe won the competition for the third successive time, beating the Netherlands in the final for the second time, and also winning every game they played in the tournament. The tournament served as the Cricket World Cup qualification process – as winners, Zimbabwe qualified for the 1992 World Cup. Shortly after the Trophy had been staged, Zimbabwe were in any case promoted to Full Member status of the ICC.


1990 ICC Trophy, Teams and squads
Seventeen teams contested the tournament. All nineteen associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at the time were eligible to compete at the tournament, with Japan and West Africa the only ones not to send a team.


1990 ICC Trophy, Second round, Summary reports, Group A
Zimbabwe continued their winning ways with three victories to top the table. They started with a straightforward nine-wicket victory over Papua New Guinea: the Papuans, having won the toss and decided to bat, fell to 44/4 before recovering a little to post 133ao, but it was never likely to be enough and so it proved as the Zimbabweans reached 134/1 thanks to Andy Flower's 80*. In the next match, having put the USA in to bat, 5–22 from Eddo Brandes kept the Americans down to 131ao, with Zimbabwe then strolling to 132/3 (Grant Flower 52*) and a seven-wicket win. Finally Zimbabwe were inserted by Kenya but compiled 259/9 (AH Omarshah 69), tight bowling keeping their opponents down to 126/6, 133 runs adrift.


1990 ICC Trophy, Second round, Summary reports, Group A
Kenya were the other qualifiers for the semi-finals, on run rate. They restricted the USA to 162ao after the Americans had chosen to bat, then an unbeaten 79 from Maurice Odumbe guided them to 163/4 and victory by six wickets. Next, however, Papua New Guinea, winning the toss and batting, posted 230ao thanks to 55 by Amini and no less than 54 extras; this profligacy with the ball cost them the game as they fell to 193ao (MO Odumbe 64) and a 37-run defeat. Finally in Group A, the USA chose to bat first against the Papuans, and their choice was vindicated as their shaky-looking 190ao (KR Khan 52) turned out to be more than sufficient, E Daley claiming 4–35 as the United States recorded a 67-run triumph.


1990 ICC Trophy, Second round, Summary reports, Group B
The Netherlands won Group B on run rate from Bangladesh, despite losing their first match to Canada by 21 runs. Having put Canada in, Eric Dulfer's 5–38 was overshadowed by D Singh's 64 as the North Americans recovered from 79/6 to put up 199ao; the Dutch could manage only 178/8 from their 60 overs.


1990 ICC Trophy, Second round, Summary reports, Group B
The Netherlands made amends by annihilating Bangladesh by 161 runs in their next game, choosing to bat first and posting 309/7 (NE Clarke 83, RP Lefebvre 75) despite having been 27/2 at one stage, before running through the entire Bangladeshi order for 148; then winning an all-European affair with Denmark. Again winning the toss and batting, the Dutch team were restricted to a moderate 176ao (GJAF Aponso 54; SRM Sorensen 4–43) but ended up winning by 54 runs having bowled out the Danes for 122.


1990 ICC Trophy, Second round, Summary reports, Group B
Bangladesh were the final side through to the semis. Asked to field first by Denmark, A From-Hansen made 57 and JS Jensen 50 out of the Danes' 233/9, but Nurul Abedin (85) and Akram Khan (50) were the Asians' heroes as they reached 235/7 with just two balls to spare. The Bangladeshis enjoyed a far more comfortable 117-run win against Canada in their other game: inserted by the Canadians, Bangladesh produced a total of 265/6 (Nurul Abedin 105, Faruk Ahmed 56) before dismissing their opponents for 148, only opener Ingleton Liburd (60) showing fight for Canada. Finally, Denmark's decision to ask Canada to bat first proved correct as the Canadians were bowled out for 142, Denmark cruising to 143/4 for a six-wicket victory.


1990 ICC Trophy, Statistics, Most runs
The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table, ordered by runs, then by batting average, and then alphabetically.


1990 ICC Trophy, Statistics, Most wickets
The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.


1990 ICC Trophy squads
Seventeen teams participated in the 1990 ICC Trophy, the fourth edition of the tournament. No teams were making their debut, but Singapore returned to competition for the first time since the 1982 edition.


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Argentina
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Bangladesh
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Bermuda
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Canada
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Denmark
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, East and Central Africa
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Fiji
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Gibraltar
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Hong Kong
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Israel
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Kenya
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Malaysia
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Netherlands
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Papua New Guinea
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Singapore
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, United States
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICC Trophy squads, Zimbabwe
Only players who appeared in at least one match at the tournament are listed. The leading run-scorer is marked with a dagger (†) and the leading wicket-taker with a double dagger (‡).


1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Poznań, Poland on Lake Malta.


1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The men's competition consisted of eight Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Five events were held for the women, all in kayak.


1990 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship
The 1990 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship was the seventh edition of the IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship. It took place between 10 and 17 February 1990 in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament was won by Japan, who claimed their fifth title by finishing first in the standings. China and South Korea finished second and third respectively.


1990 IIHF European Cup
The 1990 European Cup was the 26th edition of the European Cup, IIHF's premier European club ice hockey tournament. The season started on October 19, 1990, and finished on December 30, 1990.


1990 IIHF European Cup
The tournament was won by Djurgårdens IF, who beat Dynamo Moscow in the final.


1990 IIHF European U18 Championship
The 1990 IIHF European U18 Championship was the twenty-third playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.