1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Campaign, Media coverage
Serbian media consequently equated the prospect of an HDZ electoral victory with a repeat of the Ustaše-led massacres, deportations and forced conversions of Serbs that had occurred in Croatia during World War II. Media had criticized the SKH-SDP since 1989 as ineffective in stopping the rise of Croatian nationalism; the SDS was promoted as the Croatian Serbs' only hope of preserving their national identity.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Campaign, Media coverage, Petrova Gora rally
A a rally held at Petrova Gora on 4 March had a significant impact upon ethnic homogenization. It was not formally associated with any party standing in the election; it was organized by the municipalities of Vojnić and Vrginmost, and the Yugoslav Independent Democratic Party. According to the then-mayor of Vrginmost, the two municipalities had organized the rally to show their support for brotherhood and unity—a Titoist concept whereby all of Yugoslavia's ethnic groups would live in harmony—instead of letting it become a Serb nationalist event.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Campaign, Media coverage, Petrova Gora rally
The rally was attended by tens of thousand Serbs who heard mainly pro-Yugoslav speeches about the threat posed by the HDZ and the unfavourable position of Serbs in Croatian society. The SKH-SDP condemned the rally in advance as being harmful to inter-ethnic relations and potentially capable of increasing Croatian nationalism. Croatian media linked the rally to the anti-bureaucratic revolution in neighbouring Serbia and depicted it as a protest demanding the overthrow of the Croatian government. Conversely, Serbian media equated the SKH-SDP with the HDZ, declared the entire Croatian political spectrum nationalist and said Serbs should not take part in Croatia's electoral process.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Campaign, Media coverage, Benkovac rally
A HDZ rally in Benkovac, held on 18 March, also led to substantial media coverage in Croatia and Serbia, and significantly influenced the general atmosphere surrounding the election campaign. The event drew several thousand HDZ supporters and several hundred Serbs who booed speakers and threw missiles at them. During Tuđman's address, a 62-year-old Serbian man, Boško Čubrilović, approached the podium. When he was stopped by security, Čubrilović drew a gas pistol. He was thrown to the ground; the gun was confiscated and shown to the crowd and described as the gun meant to kill Tuđman.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Campaign, Media coverage, Benkovac rally
The rally disintegrated into a mass brawl that was stopped by police. Croatian media described the incident as an assassination attempt. Čubrilović was charged with threatening the security staff, for which he was tried and convicted in late 1990. The incident increased ethnic tensions and firmly positioned ethnic issues as an important theme of the election campaign. Croatian media described the incident as an attempt to destabilize Croatia, while Serbian media said the events in Benkovac embodied the legitimate fears of Croatian Serbs brought on by the rise of Croatian nationalism embodied by Tuđman and the HDZ.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, First round
In the first round of voting on 22–23 April, the turnout in the election for members of the Socio-Political Council was 84.54% (2,875,061 total votes). HDZ won 41.76% of popular vote, followed by SKH-SDP and KNS at 23.59% and 10.99% respectively. Turnout in the election of members of the Council of Municipalities was 84.09% (3,433,548 total votes); HDZ led the poll, winning 43.91% of the votes cast, again followed by SKH-SDP and KNS at 25.28% and 9.37% of votes respectively. Turnout for the election of members of the Council of Associated Labour was 76.53% (1,455,365 total votes). HDZ received 32.69% of votes cast, followed by SKH-SDP at 25.06%. Independent candidates received 19.75% and KNS won 10.39% of the vote.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, First round
The first round of voting decided 137 of the 356 seats in the three chambers of the parliament. HDZ won 107 of them, while SKH-SDP received 14 seats outright and three more in coalition with the Socialist Alliance – Alliance of Socialists of Croatia (Croatian: Socijalistički savez – Savez socijalista Hrvatske—SS-SSH). The remaining 13 seats were distributed between independent candidates and four other parties. KNS received one seat. In response to KNS's poor result, HDS left the coalition and continued to campaign on its own.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, First round
After the results were announced, SKH-SDP realized it would lose the elections; Račan stated that SKH-SDP would be a strong opposition party. Tuđman declared that with the HDZ in power there would be no personal revenge against the SKH-SDP members who had dismissed HDZ supporters from their jobs, but that those who opposed HDZ's views would be removed from public office.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, Second round
The second round of voting was held on 6–7 May. The election for members of the Socio-Political Council was held in 51 previously undecided constituencies where the turnout was 74.82% (1,678,412 total votes). HDZ won 42.18% of popular vote, followed by SKH-SDP at 27.52% and KNS at 9.89%. Turnout in the election of members of the Council of Municipalities had been 74.58% (1,589,894 total votes). HDZ lead the poll with 41.50% of the votes cast, again followed by SKH-SDP and KNS at 33.28% and 8.19% of votes respectively. In the election of members of the Council of Associated Labour in 103 constituencies undecided in the first round of voting, turnout was 66.05% (847,288 total votes). SKH-SDP received 31.56% of votes cast, followed by HDZ at 28.32%. Independent candidates received 13.26% and KNS won 10.95% of the vote.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, Second round
The runoff decided 214 more seats in the parliament. In addition to the seats won in the first round, HDZ won 98, while SKH-SDP alone or in coalition with SS-SSH received 73 seats. Overall, in the two rounds of voting, 351 seats in the three chambers of the parliament were decided. HDZ won 205 seats on its own and four through candidates supported jointly with Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: Hrvatska seljačka stranka—HSS) (2) and HSLS (2), SKH-SDP won 73 seats alone, and 23 more were won by candidates supported by SKH-SDP and other political entities. Other parties winning seats in the parliament were KNS (11), HDS (10), SDS (5) SS-SSH (4), HSS (1) and SSOH (1). Association of independent entrepreneurs of Đurđevac won one seat and 13 were won by independent candidates.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Voting and results, Second round
Generally, HDZ fared the best in both rounds of voting in areas where Croats represented the absolute majority. SKH-SDP did well in ethnically mixed areas of Banovina, Kordun and Lika. It also fared well in Istria and major cities, especially in Split, Rijeka, and Osijek—a result interpreted as a consequence of specific socio-economic properties of the population there. SKH-SDP suffered a substantial defeat in Zagreb.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath
The elections were the first free and multiparty elections held in Croatia since 11 December 1938 elections for the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and were the first such elections for the Croatian parliament since 16 December 1913. SKH-SDP graciously accepted HDZ's electoral victory, but the defeat led to substantial losses of party members. Those who left SKH-SDP included traditionalist communists and Croatian Serb party members who followed the lead of Borislav Mikelić. 97,000 members of SKH-SDP switched their political allegiances and joined HDZ. By June, SKH-SDP membership dropped from 298,000 to 46,000.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following a plan designed to coincide with the change of regime in Croatia, and in neighbouring Slovenia, the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army (Croatian: Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija—JNA) moved in to confiscate Croatia's and Slovenia's Territorial Defence (Croatian: Teritorijalna obrana—TO) weapons to minimize the possibility of armed resistance from the two republics. The plan was executed on 14 May before the newly elected parliament convened. Unlike Slovene authorities—which salvaged nearly a third of the TO stockpile—Croatia was caught unprepared and the JNA seized all Croatian TO weapons, effectively disarming the republic's security forces. An exception was made in cases of Serb-populated areas, where local TO depots were left intact or even augmented by the JNA. The weapons would only be recaptured in late 1991 in the Battle of the Barracks, or returned in its aftermath by the JNA.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, New parliament
The newly elected Parliament convened on 30 May and elected Tuđman as  President of Presidency of Croatia by 281 votes to 50, in a secret ballot. Žarko Domljan was elected the speaker of the parliament and Stjepan Mesić was appointed the prime minister. SDS leader Jovan Rašković was offered a position in the government but he declined the offer. In line with Tuđman's announcement following the first round of elections, the new government soon started to purge Serbs from public office.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, New parliament
This was primarily concerned with the police, where ethnic Serbs comprised approximately 75% of personnel in disproportion to the 12% they comprised in the ethnic mix of Croatia. Tuđman sanctioned the dismissal of Serbs from the police and their replacement with Croats, reducing the proportion of Serbs in the police force to 28% by November 1992. Similar policies were applied in the judiciary, media and the education system, though this was expanded to encompass others who were not in agreement with HDZ.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, New parliament
In the aftermath of the elections, Tuđman was reluctant to proceed towards independence, realizing Croatia's vulnerability in any armed conflict. At the first session of the parliament, Tuđman addressed the members and announced the government's immediate tasks; the adoption of a new constitution, the resolving of the issue of Croatia's position in Yugoslavia, and integration into the European Community to ensure its independence and development.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, New parliament
On 29 June 1990, the parliament started work on amendments to the Constitution of Croatia designed to remove all references to communism and socialism. The amendments were prepared and adopted on 25 July. The official name of the republic was changed to the Republic of Croatia, the President of the Presidency became the President of Croatia, and a new coat of arms was adopted as a chequy of 25 red and white fields, which replaced the red star on the flag of Croatia.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, New parliament
Serbs interpreted the chequy used in the new arms and flag as provocative and reminiscent of NDH and Ustaše. While the chequy was used by the Nazi-puppet regime during the World War II, the symbol was also used in the arms of Croatia as a constituent part of Yugoslavia. Nonetheless, Serbs perceived the symbol as threatening.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Croatian Serb response
Serbian nationalism in Croatia was well developed long before HDZ took power, but legislation and especially nationalist rhetoric used by HDZ fed that nationalism. An association of Serb municipalities was already established in Knin ahead of the elections. Civilians armed by the authorities of Serbia patrolled the area as Croatian control waned in the region. The Serbian government responded to HDZ's electoral victory by stating that Croatian authorities intended only to harm Croatian Serbs, exacerbating the already tense situation and supporting extremists among the SDS ranks. Provocative actions of extremists among HDZ further served SDS hardliners' goals to instill fear among Serbs.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Croatian Serb response
On 25 July, hours after  the parliament adopted the amendments, Serb National Council (SNC) was set up at a political rally in Srb and the Declaration on sovereignty and autonomy of Serbian nation was adopted. On 1 August, the SNC met in Knin, elected Milan Babić as its president and announced a referendum on Serb autonomy in parts of Croatia with Serb-majority populations. It was scheduled for the period from 19 August to 2 September. Croatian authorities declared the plan illegal on 3 August.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Croatian Serb response
On 17 August, Croatian authorities planned to restore their control of Knin and deployed police via Benkovac and Obrovac towards the town. The Airborne Unit of the special police was ferried by helicopters from Zagreb as reinforcements. Knin police inspector Milan Martić deployed Knin police against the Croatian forces, and mobilized police reservists in the area to fell trees and block road access to the town, earning the event the moniker Log Revolution. The JNA deployed Yugoslav Air Force jets to intercept the helicopters and Croatian authorities backed down.


1990 Croatian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Croatian Serb response
The SNC referendum went ahead and produced support for an "independent status" of Croatian Serbs. Babić consolidated power over the region, which soon became the Serbian Autonomous Oblast Krajina (SAO Krajina). As SAO Krajina gradually consolidated and expanded areas under its control, armed clashes in Pakrac and Plitvice Lakes ensued by March and April 1991, sparking the Croatian War of Independence. By that time, 28 of the 37 ethnic Serb members of the Croatian parliament, including all five SDS representatives, had left the parliament.


1990 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season
The 1990 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 24th in the club's history. Coached by Allan Fitzgibbon and captained David Hatch, they competed in the NSWRL's 1990 Winfield Cup premiership. The Sharks finished the regular season in 10th place (out of 16), failing to reach the finals.


1990 Croydon London Borough Council election
The 1990 Croydon Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Croydon 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 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Cup 1990 was the 25th edition of the Ukrainian SSR football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The competition started on May 11, 1990, and its final took place on October 28, 1990. It was the first edition of the tournament since it was discontinued back in 1976. The last year cup holder SKA Kiev was knocked out of the competition by Mayak Kharkiv already in the second round.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
Polissya Zhytomyr entered the competition in the quarterfinals receiving bye past two rounds.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Tournament distribution
The competition was conducted by the clubs of 1991 Soviet Lower Second League, Zone 1 only.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Other professional teams
Many Ukrainian professional teams (18) in higher tiers of the Soviet football league pyramid did not take part in the competition.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, First round (1/16)
The first legs were played on 11 May, and the second legs were played on 22 May 1990.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, First round (1/16)
The following clubs received bye for the next round: Podillya Khmelnytskyi, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, Dynamo Bila Tserkva, Kolos Nikopol, Dnipro Cherkasy, Shakhtar Pavlohrad, SKA Kiev, Mayak Kharkiv, Zirka Kirovohrad, Desna Chernihiv.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Second round
The first legs were played on 11 June, and the second legs were played on 15 June 1990.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Quarterfinals
Polissya Zhytomyr entered the competition. The first legs were played on 6 July, and the second legs were played on 28 July 1990.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Semifinals
The first legs were played on 2 September, and the second legs were played on 26 September 1990.


1990 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Final
The first leg was played on 18 October, and the second leg was played on 28 October 1990.


1990 Cupa României Final
The 1990 Cupa României Final was the 52nd final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Dinamo București and Steaua București, and was won by Dinamo București after a game with ten goals. It was the seventh cup for Dinamo București.


1990 Currie Cup Division A
The 1990 Currie Cup Division A (known as the Santam Bank Currie Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the top division of the Currie Cup competition, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa. This was the 52nd season since the competition started in 1889.


1990 Currie Cup Division A, Competition
There were eight participating teams in the 1990 Currie Cup Division A. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away. Teams received two points for a win and one points for a draw. The top two teams qualified for the title play-offs. The final was then played at the home venue of the team that finished first during the season.


1990 Currie Cup Division B
The 1990 Currie Cup Division B (known as the Santam Bank Currie Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the second division of the Currie Cup competition, the 51st season in the since it started in 1889.


1990 Currie Cup Division B, Competition, Regular season and title play-offs
There were eight participating teams in the 1990 Currie Cup Division B. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away. Teams received two points for a win and one points for a draw. The top two teams qualified for the Division B finals, played at the home venue of the higher-placed team.


1990 Custance state by-election
A by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Custance on 23 June 1990. This was triggered by the resignation of former state Liberal leader and MHA John Olsen.


1990 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election
A leadership election was held within the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) on 25 March 1990. It was the first leadership election since the party's re-establishment and saw Jiří Horák defeat Rudolf Battěk. Battěk was supported by exiled politicians from the party, and wanted ČSSD to run in the 1990 parliamentary elections as part of the Civic Forum list, while Horák wanted it the party to run independently.


1990 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath
Although Horák won, Battěk's wing of the party participated in 1990 elections on the Civic Forum list and won some seats. The ČSSD received only 4% of the vote and failed to cross the electoral threshold. Horák blamed Battěk's wing for the failure and Battěk and his supporters were expelled from the party.


1990 Czech legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic on 8 and 9 June 1990 alongside federal elections. They were the first elections after the Velvet Revolution and voter turnout was 97%.


1990 Czech municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Czech Republic on 23 and 24 November 1990 as part of nationwide municipal elections in Czechoslovakia. Voter turnout was 73.55%. A total of 51 parties contested the elections, which were won by the Civic Forum. The elections also saw the introduction of independent candidates, who received over 10% of the vote.


1990 Czechoslovak Open
The 1990 Czechoslovak Open, also known as the Prague Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the I. Czech Lawn Tennis Club in Prague, Czechoslovakia that was part of the ATP World Series (Designated Week) of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 6 August until 12 August 1990. Eighth-seeded Jordi Arrese won the singles title.


1990 Czechoslovak Open, Finals, Doubles
Vojtěch Flégl /  Daniel Vacek defeated  George Cosac /  Florin Segărceanu 5–7, 6–4, 6–3


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1990 Czechoslovak Motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 August 1990 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czechoslovakia.


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race
Wayne Gardner crashes twice in the same qualifying session, without serious injury, and Eddie Lawson highsides.


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race
Wayne Rainey gets the start, followed closely by Gardner, then Lawson, Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz. Gardner through into first, Schwantz into third.


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race
As he closes the gap to the pair in front, Schwantz's front-end tucks in and he crashes out of third place. He runs to the bike to pick it up, but it is starting to burn.


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race
Rainey is only just managing to stay on Gardner's wheel, and eventually passes. By the last lap, Rainey is well ahead of Gardner, and he wins the race and the championship. Lawson takes third, but is absent from the podium celebrations. While it may have been a coincidence that Lawson disappeared on the day he lost his title to Rainey, Lawson had a big fight with crew chief Warren Willing about the bike and left the facilities before the podium ceremonies.


1990 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race
Rainey: "Then, when I crossed the finish line, and I was World Champion, I had a burst of emotion. I felt really great, for about two tenths of a second. Then it was gone, and it was like – wow, what happened to everything? Here I am, with the thing I've devoted everything to win, and there wasn’t anything there. It left me feeling really disappointed. It meant so much more to me emotionally losing the title in Sweden when I crashed out than it did winning it. It felt strange."


1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
Federal elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 8 and 9 June 1990, alongside elections for the Czech and Slovak Assemblies. They were the first elections held in the country since the Velvet Revolution seven months earlier. Voter turnout was 96.2%.


1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
The movement led by President Václav Havel emerged as the largest bloc, with majorities in both houses of parliament–something that no Czechoslovak party or alliance had previously achieved in a free election. The Czech wing, Civic Forum (OF), won 68 of the 150 seats in the House of the People and 50 of the 150 seats in the House of Nations, whilst its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence (VPN), won 19 seats in the House of the People and 33 in the House of Nations. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, running in its first election since giving up power, made a stronger showing than expected, receiving 13 percent of the vote in both chambers, finishing second behind Civic Forum.


1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
Although OF and VPN had more than enough seats between them to govern without the support of other parties, they sought a broader base. They let it be known that they were willing to go into coalition with any party except the Communists and the Slovak National Party.


1990 Czechoslovak presidential election
The 1990 Czechoslovak presidential election was held on 5 July 1990. Václav Havel was elected for his second term. Havel was the only candidate. Slovak National Party intended to nominate Štefan Kvietik who declined to run.


1990 DFB-Pokal Final
The 1990 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1989–90 DFB-Pokal, the 47th season of Germany's premier knockout football cup competition. It was played on 19 May 1990 at the Olympiastadion in West Berlin. 1. FC Kaiserslautern won the match 3–2 against Werder Bremen to claim their first cup title.


1990 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
The DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a replay would take place at the original away team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a drawing of lots would decide who would advance to the next round.


1990 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1990 DFB-Supercup
The 1990 DFB-Supercup was the fourth DFB-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions.


1990 DFB-Supercup
The match was played at the Wildparkstadion, Karlsruhe, and contested by league champions Bayern Munich and cup winners 1. FC Kaiserslautern.


1990 DHL Singapore Open
The 1990 DHL Singapore Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Kallang Tennis Centre in Singapore and was part of the Tier IV category of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and took place from 23 April through 29 April 1990. Unseeded Naoko Sawamatsu won the singles title.


1990 DHL Singapore Open, Finals, Doubles
Jo Durie /  Jill Hetherington defeated  Pascale Paradis /  Catherine Suire 6–4, 6–1


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Doubles
Belinda Cordwell and Elizabeth Smylie were the defending champions, but none competed this year.


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Doubles
Jo Durie and Jill Hetherington won the title by defeating Pascale Paradis and Catherine Suire 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Doubles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Singles
Belinda Cordwell was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Patricia Hy.


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Singles
Naoko Sawamatsu won the title by defeating Sarah Loosemore 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–4 in the final.


1990 DHL Singapore Open – Singles, Seeds
The first eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1990 DPR Korea Football League
Statistics of DPR Korea Football League in the 1990 season.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season
The 1990 Dallas Cowboys season was the franchise's 31st season in the National Football League and was the second year of the franchise under the ownership of Jerry Jones and head coach Jimmy Johnson. The Cowboys rebounded from a 1–15 season in 1989 to a 7–9 record, however, missed the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. Despite this, Jimmy Johnson won AP's NFL coach of the year honours.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The season began with a win over San Diego, breaking a 14-game home losing streak. The Cowboys showed some early season fight with two wins over Tampa Bay and a near-miss against Philadelphia, but still stood only 3–7 after ten weeks, and were seemingly out of playoff contention. However, the team improved significantly in late November, winning four games in a row (including impressive wins over the Redskins and Saints, and a blowout win over the Cardinals). The Cowboys entered the season's final two weeks needing only one win or Saints' loss to make the playoffs as a wildcard.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
However, in game 16, quarterback Troy Aikman separated his shoulder early against the Eagles and was replaced by Babe Laufenberg (The Cowboys had traded backup Steve Walsh early in the season and Laufenberg was elevated from third string to backup). With Aikman injured, the Cowboys mustered little offense against the Eagles and lost, 17–3. Meanwhile, the Saints upset the 49ers (handing the Niners only their second loss) to keep the Cowboys from clinching in game 16. The next week, with Laufenberg again leading the offense, the Cowboys were thoroughly beaten, 26–7, by the 4–11 Atlanta Falcons. When the Saints beat the Rams the next night, the Cowboys were eliminated from playoff contention.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
This season featured the debut of running back Emmitt Smith. Smith held out during training camp and was only a minimal contributor in the season's early games, but began to show his future greatness with a 100 yard-plus performance in a week 5 win against Tampa Bay and had a few other outstanding games during the season.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
Because of the dismal 1-15 record from the previous season, the home opener against the San Diego Chargers was threatened to be blacked out for the local television market, since Texas Stadium was not sold out. A local radio station ended up buying all of the unsold tickets so that the game could be broadcast to the local DFW market.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Porkchop Bowl
The Porkchop Bowl was the NFL matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys which followed the infamous Bounty Bowl II.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Porkchop Bowl
Even though almost a year had transpired since the notorious "Bounty Bowl" games, the vitriolic rivalry between the two teams was still firmly in Cowboys fans' memories. And this was the first encounter since Cowboys players and coaches were relentlessly pelted by snowballs during that last meeting at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Porkchop Bowl
The week before game day in Dallas, Philadelphia head coach Buddy Ryan and Ted Plumb, his offensive coordinator, were out for dinner. Coach Ryan was dining on pork chops and started to choke. Plumb quickly initiated the Heimlich maneuver and saved Ryan's life. Word of the incident spread in Dallas, and hatred by Dallas fans was so fevered towards Ryan that former Cowboys' president Tex Schramm dubbed the pending game on October 28 the "Porkchop Bowl." When the game began, Dallas fans tossed pork chops and similar simulated meat products from the stands toward the Eagles bench.


1990 Dallas Cowboys season, Porkchop Bowl
The final score was 21–20 in favor of the Eagles.


1990 Dallas Texans season
The 1990 Dallas Texans season was the first season for the Texans. They finished with a record of 6–2.


1990 Dallas Texans season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated March 15, 201323 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1990 Danish 1st Division
The 1990 Danish 1st Division season was the 45th season of the Danish 1st Division, and the last in which it was the country's top flight. At the end of the season the new Danish Superliga was formed as the country's new top division.


1990 Danish 1st Division
The champions qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup qualification, while the second and third placed teams qualified for the qualification round of the 1991–92 UEFA Cup. The four lowest placed teams of the tournament was directly relegated to the (now second-tier) Danish 1st Division, while the teams placed ninth and tenth played qualification games against the champions and runners-up in the 2nd Division.


1990 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 12 December 1990. Although the election resulted in a strong gain for the Social Democratic Party, Poul Schlüter's coalition government was able to continue despite the Danish Social Liberal Party leaving. Schlüter's coalition consisted of the Conservative People's Party and Venstre. Voter turnout was 82.8% in Denmark proper, 54.4% in the Faroe Islands and 50.8% in Greenland.


1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The 1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Big Green were co-champions of the Ivy League.


1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team
In its fourth under head coach Eugene "Buddy" Teevens, the team compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored opponents 211 to 121. Peter Chapman and Richard Joyce were the team captains.


1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The Big Green's 6–1 conference record tied for first in the Ivy League standings. Dartmouth outscored Ivy opponents 147 to 65. Dartmouth shared the championship despite having defeated its co-champion, Cornell, in their head-to-head matchup.


1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The Big Green were unranked for most of the year, but entered the national Division I-AA top 20 toward the end of their six-game win streak, and were ranked No. 17 at the end of the year.


1990 Dartmouth Big Green football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1990 Davis Cup
The 1990 Davis Cup (also known as the 1990 Davis Cup by NEC for sponsorship purposes) was the 79th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 85 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the World Group, 19 in the Americas Zone, 19 in the Asia/Oceania Zone, and 31 in the Europe/Africa Zone. Barbados, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago and Zambia made their first appearances in the tournament.


1990 Davis Cup
The United States defeated Australia in the final, held at the Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, on 30 November–2 December, to win their 29th title overall.


1990 Davis Cup, World Group Qualifying Round
The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group Qualifying Round for spots in the 1991 World Group.


1990 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group II
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group II
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. The winner in the Africa Zone Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Americas Zone
In the Americas Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier.


1990 Davis Cup Americas Zone, Group I
Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Qualifying Round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective first round ties competed in the relegation play-off, with the winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas the team who lost their play-off was relegated to the Americas Zone Group II in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Americas Zone, Group II
The winner in Group II advanced to the Americas Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
The Asia/Oceania Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
In the Asia/Oceania Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier.


1990 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group I
Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Qualifying Round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. The winner of the preliminary round joined the remaining teams in the main draw first round, while the losing team was relegated to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group II
The winner in Group II advanced to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group II
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group II
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams compete against each other to advance to the upper tier. The winner in the Europe Zone Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group I
Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Qualifying Round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost in the first round competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IIs in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group II Europe
The winner in the Europe Zone Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group II Africa
The winner in the Africa Zone Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.


1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Qualifying Round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost in the first round competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IIs in 1991.


1990 Davis Cup World Group
The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 1990. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round, and the winners progressed to the quarterfinals and were guaranteed a World Group spot for 1991.


1990 Davis Cup World Group
West Germany were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals.


1990 Davis Cup World Group
The United States won the title, defeating Australia in the final, 3–2. The final was held at the Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, from 30 November to 2 December. It was the US team's 29th Davis Cup title overall and their first since 1982.


1990 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round
The 1990 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round was held from 21 to 23 September. They were the main play-offs of the 1990 Davis Cup. The winners of the playoffs advanced to the 1991 Davis Cup World Group, and the losers were relegated to their respective Zonal Regions I.


1990 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round, Teams
Bold indicates team had qualified for the 1991 Davis Cup World Group.


1990 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round, Results summary
The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group Qualifying Round for spots in the 1991 World Group.


1990 Daytona 500
The 1990 Daytona 500, the 32nd running of the event, was held on February 18, 1990 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida over 200 laps on the 2.5 mile (4 km) asphalt tri-oval. The first race of the 1990 Winston Cup Series season, it was won by Bob Whitcomb's entrant Derrike Cope. Terry Labonte finished second, followed by Bill Elliott, Ricky Rudd, and Dale Earnhardt.


1990 Daytona 500
This race was the first Daytona 500 starts for Jimmy Spencer, Rich Bickle, Hut Stricklin, and Jimmy Horton. This was also the only Daytona 500 starts for Butch Miller, Jack Pennington, Jerry O'Neil, and Rob Moroso. And this was the final Daytona 500 starts for Larry Pearson and Mike Alexander. This was the second consecutive race that Dale Earnhardt’s car dominated. Earnhardt was able to win the 1989 Atlanta finale but unfortunately he had an issue on the last lap, and lost to Derrike Cope.


1990 Daytona 500
During the running of the race, Hollywood was filming the movie “Days of Thunder” starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. 2 of the Hollywood race cars had to actually qualify into the race, and competed for 100 of the 200 laps


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
Ken Schrader won his third straight Daytona 500 pole with a speed of 196.515 miles per hour (316.260 km/h). In the Thursday Gatorade 125-mile qualifier, he crashed on the last lap and had to use a backup car on Sunday. He quickly passed several cars at the start. By the first caution flag, Schrader had driven up to second place. Geoff Bodine led the first lap of the race and the season. Two cars used to create film footage for the upcoming movie Days of Thunder, driven by Bobby Hamilton and Tommy Ellis, started the race in the last row, completing 100 miles before parking. Those cars were not listed in the official race results.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
On Lap 27, Richard Petty (who started a promising 11th) spun ahead of Phil Parsons while running 13th. The spin left him with all four tires flat, meaning The King would need a wrecker to take him to the pits for new tires, and he would finish well down the order in 34th. During the yellow, Davey Allison (running 6th) pitted with the leaders and hit the pit wall. This was unnoticed by the television broadcast for several minutes; no injuries were reported but Mike Joy confirmed left front toe damage.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
On Lap 43, an accident occurred between the tri-oval and Turn 1 involving Mike Alexander, Alan Kulwicki (who would continue), Phil Parsons, and 1989 NASCAR Busch Series champion and Winston Cup rookie Rob Moroso. Moroso said he touched Phil Parsons' left rear with his own right front after Parsons came down on him, and Parsons explained that he was attempting a pass on A. J. Foyt. After 58 laps, Schrader's run to the front was halted by an engine failure. Shortly after halfway, 1972 winner A. J. Foyt quit after experiencing a bizarre problem: In a mid-race interview with CBS's David Hobbs, Foyt claimed he had become intoxicated by fumes produced by his new racing helmet.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
Dale Earnhardt dominated the race. He led nearly 3/4 of the laps, relinquishing the lead briefly to Bill Elliott, Mark Martin, Derrike Cope, Davey Allison, Geoff Bodine, Terry Labonte, and Bobby Hillin, Jr.. Daytona 500 rookies Jimmy Spencer and Jack Pennington led yellow flag laps early in the race.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
Dale Earnhardt had the race in his grasp with a lead of more than 40 seconds until lap 193 when Geoff Bodine spun in the first turn, causing the third and final caution of the race. Derrike Cope assumed the lead again by staying out, a call made by crew chief Buddy Parrott. The Top 5 on the restart were Cope, Bobby Hillin, Jr., Earnhardt, Terry Labonte, and Bill Elliott. Earnhardt dispatched Cope and Hillin simultaneously with help from Geoff Bodine, who was one lap down.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
With a few laps remaining, Rick Wilson in the RahMoc car lost an engine, and a piece of metal bell housing from that engine had tumbled to a stop on the backstretch. On the last lap, Earnhardt ran over it and shredded the right rear tire. He held the wheel straight, let off the throttle and let his car climb the banking of turn three. Spanaway, Washington's Derrike Cope drove by Earnhardt to his first ever Winston Cup victory. His previous best career finish was 6th the previous year at Charlotte.


1990 Daytona 500, Race review
Although Earnhardt would lose the race, his crew took the shredded tire and hung it on the wall of the race shop using the loss as motivation to win the 1990 Winston Cup championship. Meanwhile, Cope would become an overnight sensation appearing on The Late Show a week or so later to talk about his big win. Although it is considered one of the biggest upsets in NASCAR history, the ratings did not quite show it, as it drew a 7.3, the lowest in Daytona 500 history.


1990 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1990 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Yankee Conference.


1990 Denmark Open
The 1990 Denmark Open in badminton was a three-star tournament held in Aabenraa, from October 24 to October 28, 1990.


1990 Denmark Open darts
1990 Denmark Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Denmark in 1990.


1990 Denver Broncos season
The 1990 Denver Broncos season was the team's 31st year in professional football and its 21st with the National Football League (NFL). After reaching Super Bowl XXIV, the Broncos struggled and finished with their worst post-merger record in a 16-game season, 5-11. This mark would be eclipsed by the 2010 edition of the team, which finished 4-12.


1990 Denver Dynamite season
The 1990 Denver Dynamite season was the third season for the Arena Football League franchise. With the same coaching staff in place from 1989, the Dynamite got off to a hot 4–1 start during the 1990 season. The attendance had been steadily rising during the season, with the final home game's attendance listed at 10,587. This included approximately 3,000 people who were admitted for free. The Dynamite would finish the season with a record of 4–4, good enough to clinch the 3rd seed. The team lost 25–26 to the semi-finals to the Dallas Texans.


1990 Denver Dynamite season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated March 13, 201319 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1990 Derby City Council election
The 1990 Derby City Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1990. This was on the same day as other local elections. 16 of the council's 44 seats were up for election. The Conservative Party retained control of the council.


1990 Detroit Drive season
The 1990 Detroit Drive season was the third season for the Drive. They finished 6–2 and won ArenaBowl IV.


1990 Detroit Drive season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated March 13, 201323 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1990 Detroit Lions season
The 1990 Detroit Lions season was the 61st season in franchise history and their 57th in Detroit. Despite a stellar season from Barry Sanders who scored 16 touchdowns and led the league in rushing, the Lions took a step backward and finished in third place with a disappointing, seventh-consecutive losing record of 6–10, as they struggled to find a consistent quarterback.


1990 Detroit Tigers season
The 1990 Detroit Tigers season was the 90th season in franchise history. The Tigers finished in third place in the American League East, with a record of 79-83. They scored 750 runs and allowed 754. Notably, Cecil Fielder reached the 50 Home Run plateau, the first and last Detroit Tiger to hit at least 50 home runs since Hank Greenberg in 1938.


1990 Detroit Tigers 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 Detroit riot
The 1990 Detroit riot occurred on June 14, 1990 after the Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1990 NBA Finals. The rioting resulted in 8 deaths and is one of the worst sports-related riots in American history.


1990 Detroit riot, The riot
On June 14, 1990, the Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 92–90 in Game 5 of the 1990 NBA Finals. The game was played at the  Memorial Coliseum in Portland, but over 21,000 Pistons fans watched the game on big screen TVs at The Palace of Auburn Hills, the Pistons' home court. The event at The Palace remained peaceful, with only one arrest occurring.


1990 Detroit riot, The riot
The game ended at 11:30 EDT and rioting quickly began afterwards. Looting was reported throughout city and at least 124 people were hospitalized for injuries, including 26 who had been shot, two had been stabbed and over a dozen who were beaten in front of riot police. Eight people were killed as well - 10-year-old Keith Brown, 9-year-old Frederick Moore, 15-year-old Alisha Stanfield and 21-year-old Sonny Deon Hogan were struck and killed after being struck by a Ford Thunderbird in front of a convenience store where they were celebrating.


1990 Detroit riot, The riot
41-year-old Bruce Burdett Thomas of Warren was charged with four counts of second-degree murder in connection with the incident. Several witness described the crash as deliberate. 19-year-old Michael Wilkins was shot and killed after an argument occurred in a parking lot, a 21-year-old man fell off a roof to his death and two other, pedestrians, one of them a 4-year-old boy, were killed in other auto accidents. A total of 141 people were arrested in Detroit.


1990 Detroit riot, The riot
The rioting spread to suburb areas. In River Rouge, 28 youths were arrested after they smashed the windows of several stores and a police car. In Roseville, a police car was pelted with beer cans and bottles, though no one was arrested.


1990 Detroit riot, The riot
The Pistons had won the NBA championship the year prior and little violence occurred, though violence occurred after the Detroit Tigers won the World Series in 1984. The rioting was the worst the city had experienced since the uprising of 1967.


1990 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft
The 1990 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft was the seventh season of premier German touring car championship and also fifth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft. The season had twelve rounds with two races each. It was the first season that all Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft cars mandatory used the naturally-aspirated engines as turbocharged engines had been banned at the end of 1989, as the governing body felt them to be making the sport dangerous and expensive.


1990 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, Teams and drivers
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1990 Diet Pepsi Championships
The 1990 Diet Pepsi Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London, England. It was part of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the 15th and last edition of the tournament and was held from 5 November until 11 November 1990. Seventh-seeded Jakob Hlasek won the singles title.


1990 Diet Pepsi Championships, Finals, Doubles
Jim Grabb /  Patrick McEnroe defeated  Rick Leach /  Jim Pugh, 7–6, 4–6, 6–3


1990 Diet Pepsi Championships – Doubles
Jakob Hlasek and John McEnroe were the defending champions but this time Hlasek played in pair with Frenchman Guy Forget and lost in the second round to Australians Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge.


1990 Diet Pepsi Championships – Doubles
It was all-American final with Jim Grabb and Patrick McEnroe beating Rick Leach and Jim Pugh, 7–6, 4–6, 6–3.


1990 Diet Pepsi Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Text in italics indicates the round in which the seeded pairs were eliminated.


1990 Diet Pepsi Championships – Singles
The 1990 Diet Pepsi Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in Wembley, London, England. Michael Chang was the defending champion, but he lost the final to Jakob Hlasek, 7–6, 6–3.


1990 Dominican Republic general election
General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 1990. Following a long vote count, Joaquín Balaguer of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PSRC) was declared winner of the presidential election, whilst in the Congressional elections the PSRC received the most votes and won a majority in the Senate, although the Dominican Liberation Party won the most seats in the House of Representatives.


1990 Dominican Republic general election
Balaguer's victory prompted protests and accusations of fraud. This led the Central Elections Authority to introduce several reforms to the electoral law in 1992, including an increase in the number of members of the Authority and the production of a new electoral roll.


1990 Dominican general election
General elections were held in Dominica on 28 May 1990. The result was a victory for the Dominica Freedom Party, which won 11 of the 21 seats. Voter turnout was 66.6%, the lowest since universal suffrage was introduced in 1951.


1990 Dow Classic
The 1990 Dow Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts that was part of Tier IV of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the 9th edition of the event. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from 11 June until 17 June 1990. Zina Garrison won the singles title.


1990 Dow Classic, Finals, Doubles
Larisa Savchenko-Neiland /  Natalia Zvereva defeated  Lise Gregory /  Gretchen Magers 3–6, 6–3, 6–3


1990 Dow Classic – Doubles
Larisa Savchenko-Neiland and Natasha Zvereva were the two-time defending champions and successfully defended their title by defeating Lise Gregory and Gretchen Magers, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3.


1990 Dow Classic – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1990 Dow Classic – Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but did not compete at the Dow Classic in 1990.


1990 Dow Classic – Singles
Zina Garrison won in the final against Helena Suková, 6–4, 6–1.


1990 Dow Classic – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb
On 9 April 1990 the Provisional IRA (IRA) detonated a massive IED roadside bomb under an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) mobile patrol which killed four members of the UDR. It was the worst attack against the UDR since seven years previously when, in July 1983, four soldiers of the same regiment were killed in a similar attack near Ballygawley. It was also one of the worst attacks against the security forces in County Down since the Warrenpoint Ambush of August 1979 when 18 British soldiers were killed and six injured.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, Background
The Troubles broke out in 1969 with the Battle of the Bogside and the August 1969 riots. In 1971 the IRA began an offensive campaign against the Northern Ireland state.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, Background
In the late 1980s the IRA had begun to intensify their campaign against the British Army, Ulster Defence Regiment, Loyalist Paramilitaries like the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and civilian contractors who worked for the security forces.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, Background
On 1 May 1988 the IRA killed three Royal Air Force members in two attacks in the Netherlands. In the middle of 1988 the IRA killed 14 British soldiers in two separate devastating attacks. First, six were killed in the Lisburn van bombing in June and then another eight were killed and 28 injured in the Ballygawley bus bombing in August.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, Background
In 1989, an IRA flying column launched a major ground assault on Derryard checkpoint killing two British soldiers and injuring two others, also that same year, 11 British military personnel were killed in an IRA bombing of Deal barracks in Kent, England. In 1990 the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade during the attack which became known as the Derrygorry Gazelle shootdown, the IRA unit shot down a British army Gazelle injuring several crew members.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, Background
The British Army also had success against the IRA in the same time period like the Loughgall ambush when the SAS ambushed and killed eight members of one of the IRA's most experienced units from the Tyrone Brigade. The SAS also killed three IRA members during Operation Flavius in Gibraltar when the IRA Volunteers were planning a car bomb attack against a British military band.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, The Attack
Pte John Birch (28), LCpl John Bradley (25), LCpl Michael Adams (23) and Pte Steven Smart (23), all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment were killed in an attack on their patrol on the morning of 9 April 1990. The men were killed in a Provisional IRA land mine attack on their mobile patrol on the Ballydugan Road, Downpatrick.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, The Attack
They were travelling as part of a two Land Rover patrol from Ballykinlar to Downpatrick when the IRA used a command wire to detonate a 1000lb landmine bomb hidden in a culvert beneath the road which exploded under the men's Land Rover killing them instantly. Four UDR soldiers in the lead Land rover were treated for injuries along with two civilians passing by.


1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb, The Attack
The force of the explosion was so powerful that it launched the Land Rover over a hedge and 30 yards into a field and left a crater 50 feet long, 40 feet wide and 15 feet deep.


1990 Dubai Classic
The 1990 Dubai Duty Free Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in November 1990 at the Al Nasr Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


1990 Dubai Classic
Defending champion Stephen Hendry won the tournament, defeating Steve Davis 9–1 in the final.


1990 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1990 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1990 Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council election
The 1990 Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council election, the fifth election to Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council, was held on 3 May 1990 as part of the wider 1990 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Independents' majority cut to 1 councillor, but enough to keep control of the 35 seat council.


1990 Dunhill Cup
The 1990 Dunhill Cup was the sixth Dunhill Cup. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 11–14 October at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. The sponsor was the Alfred Dunhill company. The Irish team of David Feherty, Ronan Rafferty, Philip Walton beat the English team of Richard Boxall, Howard Clark, and Mark James in the final. It was the second win in the Dunhill Cup for Ireland. (As in the World Cup, Ireland was represented by a combined Ireland and Northern Ireland team.)


1990 Dunhill Cup, Format
The Cup was played as a single-elimination, match play event played over four days. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. In each match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at medal match play. Tied matches were extended to a sudden-death playoff only if they affected the outcome between the two teams.


1990 Dushanbe riots
The 1990 Dushanbe riots were an anti-government unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, from February 12–14, 1990.


1990 Dushanbe riots, History
In 1988, in the aftermath of the Sumgait pogrom and anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan, 39 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan were temporarily resettled in Dushanbe. In 1990, the Armenian influx became a subject of the rumour that triggered riots in Dushanbe. The rumour inflated the number of refugees to 2,500–5,000. According to rumour Armenians allegedly were being resettled in new housing in Dushanbe, which was experiencing an acute housing shortage at that time.


1990 Dushanbe riots, History
Despite the fact that Armenian refugees resettled not in public housing but with their relatives, and by 1990 had already left Tajikistan for Armenia, official denouncement of the rumours was not able to stop the protests. Assurances by First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan Qahhor Mahkamov that no resettlement of Armenians was taking place were rejected by the demonstrators.


1990 Dushanbe riots, History
Soon, demonstrations sponsored by the nationalist Rastokhez movement turned violent. Radical economical and political reforms were demanded by the protesters. Government buildings, shops and other businesses were attacked and looted. Armenians, Russians, and other ethnic minorities were targeted. Abuse of Tajik women wearing European clothes in public also took place. The riots were put down by Soviet troops called into Dushanbe by Mahkamov. However Mahkamov's over-reliance on military force was criticized by Buri Karimov, a deputy chair of Council of Ministers, who called for the resignation of the leadership of the Tajik Communist Party. On February 14, 1990 Mahkamov and Prime Minister of Tajikistan Izatullo Khayoyev submitted their resignations, but they were not accepted by the Central Committee of the Tajik Communist Party.


1990 Dushanbe riots, History
During the Dushanbe riots, a period lasting a couple of days, 26 people were killed and 565 were injured. Among the Tajik youth activists convicted for participation in the riots was a future minister of the interior of Tajikistan Yaqub Salimov. Smaller scale anti-Armenian incidents were also recorded in neighboring Turkmenistan.


1990 Dutch Open (tennis)
The 1990 Dutch Open was an ATP men's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. The tournament was held from 23 July until 29 July 1991. Spain's Francisco Clavet (a lucky loser) won his first individual title of the year, and first of his career. Unseeded Francisco Clavet won the singles title.


1990 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Paul Haarhuis /  Mark Koevermans, 7–5, 7–5


1990 Dutch Open – Doubles
There was no defending champions for this year, as the previous final between Tomás Carbonell and Diego Pérez against Paul Haarhuis and Mark Koevermans was cancelled due to rain.


1990 Dutch Open – Doubles
Pérez did not compete this year. Carbonell teamed up with Carlos Costa and lost in first round to tournament winners Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez.


1990 Dutch Open – Doubles
Haarhuis and Koevermans reached the final again, but lost to Casal and Sánchez 7–5, 7–5.


1990 Dutch Open – Singles
Karel Nováček was the defending champion, but lost in the first round this year.


1990 Dutch Open – Singles
Francisco Clavet won the tournament, beating Eduardo Masso in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2, 6–0.


1990 Dutch TT
The 1990 Dutch TT was the eighth round of the 1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 June 1989 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands. Kevin Schwantz won the race, with Wayne Rainey in close second and Eddie Lawson in third.


1990 Dwars door België
The 1990 Dwars door België was the 45th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 22 March 1990. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Edwig Van Hooydonck.


1990 Dynasty Cup
The 1990 Dynasty Cup was a football competition for the top four teams of East Asia. The first edition of the Dynasty Cup was held from 27 July 1990 to 3 August 1990 in China. The competition was won by South Korea.


1990 Dynasty Cup squads
Men's team squads for the 1990 Dynasty Cup played in Beijing, China.


1990 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 1990 E3 Harelbeke was the 33rd edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 24 March 1990. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Søren Lilholt of the Histor–Sigma team.


1990 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1990 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 29th tournament in league history. It was played between February 27 and March 11, 1990. Preliminary and quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By winning the tournament, Colgate received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1990 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The Quarterfinal game between Colgate and Yale scheduled for March 3 was postponed until the following day due to a Zamboni malfunction.


1990 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds each play a single game to determine the final qualifying teams for the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the first seed and lower ranked qualifier, the second seed and higher ranked qualifier, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played a two-game series to determine the winner.


1990 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the two games no overtime was permitted and if the two teams remained tied after the two games then a 10-minute mini-game would be played where a sudden-death overtime was allowed if the scheduled time did not produce a victor. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1990 ECAC Hockey 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 EFDA Nations Cup
The EFDA Nations Cup, was a Country vs Country competition for Formula Opel cars between 1990 and 1998. It had always been Dan Partel's dream to stage a race that pitted drivers in equal cars racing for their country. The Formula Opel/Vauxhall one make racing series offered the best opportunity for such an event.


1990 EFDA Nations Cup
The 1990 EFDA Nations Cup (Nation Cup I) was held at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium (19–20 July 1990).


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


1990 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1990 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as an independent during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Lewis, the team compiled a 5–6 record.


1990 East Coast Conference (Division I) Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1990 East Coast Conference (Division I) Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 3–5, 1990. The champion gained and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.


1990 East German general election
General elections were held in East Germany on 18 March 1990. It was the only free and fair parliamentary election in the history of the country, the first democratic elections held in Eastern Germany since March 1933, and the first free and fair election held in that part of Germany since November 1932.


1990 East German general election
The Alliance for Germany, led by the East German branch of the Christian Democratic Union, won 192 seats and emerged as the largest bloc in the 400-seat Volkskammer, having run on a platform of speedy reunification with West Germany. The East German branch of the Social Democratic Party, which had been dissolved in 1946 and refounded only six months before the elections, finished second with 88 seats. The former Socialist Unity Party of Germany, renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism, running in a free election for the first time, finished third with 66 seats.


1990 East German general election
The Alliance was just short of the 201 seats needed to govern alone. Lothar de Maizière of the CDU invited the SPD to join his Alliance partners – the German Social Union (DSU) and Democratic Awakening (DA) – in a grand coalition. The SPD was initially cool to de Maizière's offer, in part because of the presence of the right-wing DSU in de Maizière's grouping; the SPD had originally been willing to govern alongside all parties other than the PDS and DSU. However, they ultimately agreed. The government, which was able to amend the constitution thanks to its two-thirds majority, subsequently organised and ratified the reunification of Germany, resulting in the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic on 3 October 1990.


1990 East German general election, Background
The Peaceful Revolution of 1989 resulted in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany giving up its monopoly on power, and permitting opposition parties to operate for the first time. They began to form in large numbers throughout November and December 1989. Opposition groups formed the East German Round Table, which was joined by representatives of the SED to negotiate reforms; at its first meeting on 7 December 1989, the Round Table agreed that free elections to the Volkskammer would be held on 6 May 1990.


1990 East German general election, Electoral system
On 20 February 1990, the Volkskammer passed a new electoral law, reducing it in size to 400 members elected via party-list proportional representation, with no electoral threshold. Joint lists between parties were allowed, and a number of parties formed alliances for the election, including the Association of Free Democrats, Alliance 90, and an alliance between the Green Party and Independent Women's Association. Seats were calculated nationally using the largest remainder method, and distributed in multi-member constituencies corresponding to the fifteen Bezirke.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
The election campaign was short and presented the parties with major organizational challenges. The election, originally scheduled for May, was brought forward to March 18 after negotiations between representatives of the Round Table and government of Hans Modrow on 28 January. This meant that the campaign was only seven weeks long.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
Only the PDS had party machinery immediately operational as well as the extensive financial resources required for a full-scale campaign. The newly founded parties and groups, by contrast, were often still entangled in debates about their platform and only had minimal operational infrastructure. Civil rights activists had managed to secure offices in many places; thus, both the new groups and old parties were often lacking less in physical infrastructure and more in political and campaign experience.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
This gap was closed through a massive commitment by the Western parties, which supported their partner parties in the GDR, and were thus able to compensate for the organizational advantage held by the PDS. The CDU, for example, formed "district partnerships": each Eastern CDU district association was supported by a Western CDU district association. Many Western party members took vacations to the East to aid their party in the campaign.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
Ahead of the election, the Bavarian Christian Social Union in West Germany allied itself with the Eastern German Social Union. The Free Democratic Party endorsed the hastily-assembled Association of Free Democrats, which included the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) and the minor Free Democratic Party of the GDR. The Alliance for Germany, which included the CDU, DSU, and Democratic Awakening (DA), was also created as an emergency solution. These two alliances, forged six weeks before the election, had to organize their election campaigns in an extremely short time.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
The SPD appeared to have favourable starting conditions. As a newly-founded party, it had no ties to the SED, but a high profile and ample resources thanks to its Western counterpart. Most of East Germany's territory had also been a stronghold of the SPD during the Weimar Republic. Meanwhile, the CDU was deprived of a natural base by the lack of any significant Catholic population in the country, with the sole exception of Eichsfeld on the Thuringian border. Additionally, several older parties, including the CDU, LDPD, and NDPD, were former "block parties" which were subordinate to the SED until 1989.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
This association created considerable doubt about their ability to credibly portray themselves as parties of change. Election forecasts predicted a clear victory for the Social Democrats: in a survey published at the beginning of February, the SPD was favoured by 54 percent of voters, followed by the PDS with 12 percent and the CDU with 11 percent.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
Oskar Lafontaine, who had been elected as the Western SPD's Chancellor candidate for the next federal election, was sceptical about reunification and pessimistic about the SPD's chances of victory in either country. At the SPD's party conference in Berlin in December 1989, he warned of "national drunkenness" reunification could inspire, and described membership of a united Germany in NATO as "historical nonsense". Meanwhile, West German CDU leader and Chancellor Helmut Kohl made unification the primary goal for his party in both the East and West.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
To promote this position, almost 400 events were held during the campaign featuring around 80 top politicians from the CDU and CSU; the Alliance for Germany held around 1,400 election events in total. At one such event on 20 February 1990 in Erfurt, 150,000 people gathered to see Kohl; 200,000 attended when he spoke in Chemnitz.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign
Three days before the election, the lead candidate of Democratic Awakening, Wolfgang Schnur, was exposed as a Stasi collaborator by Der Spiegel.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Party programs
The Alliance for Germany presented its election program under the title "Never again socialism" („Nie wieder Sozialismus“). Its key points included German reunification using the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany as an all-German constitution, the establishment of rights to private property and unrestricted freedom of trade, the abolition of all barriers to access for investors from the West, and the immediate introduction of the Deutsche Mark with an exchange rate of 1:1 to the East German mark.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Party programs
It also promised the establishment of a social security network, an environmental program, and secure energy supply, and the harmonisation of law with the Federal Republic; in particular the abolition of criminal offences related to political activity. Other points were the promotion of monument protection, education reform, the preservation of day nurseries, the re-establishment of the federal states (Länder) and freedom of the press.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Party programs
At the first party conference of the revived SPD, held in Leipzig from 22 to 25 February 1990, the basic party program was adopted, as was its election program. The core was the demand for an ecologically-oriented social market economy.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Party programs
The PDS election program was entitled "Democratic Freedom for All - Social Security for Everyone". The PDS described itself as a left-wing/socialist party campaigning for a humane working world, and striving for a socially and ecologically-oriented market economy that pursues social security for all, especially the socially disadvantaged, based on merit. In addition, it demanded radical disarmament in both the East and West, solidarity between people, and responsible management of nature.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Party programs
It stated that the GDR's social values and achievements should be preserved, stating these to include the right to work, the system of children's institutions, the involvement of cooperative and public property in the economy, and anti-fascism and internationalism. Central to its platform were demands to maintain the status quo with regard to the continued employment of the former SED members and land reform undertaken by the SED. Instead of unification with the West, the PDS advocated the creation of a confederal structure between the two countries while preserving statehood, and sought a gradual transition to a neutral and demilitarized German confederation within the framework of European unity.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Criticism
There was criticism of the preparations for the elections and the environment in which they took place. Writer Michael Schneider criticised what he saw as massive interference by Western politicians in the GDR election campaign, which he characterised as dominated by Western personalities and party volunteers, and funded partly by taxpayer money from the West.


1990 East German general election, Election campaign, Criticism
Civil rights activist and founding member of the New Forum, Jens Reich, raised similar concerns. In 2009, 20 years after the Peaceful Revolution, he commented on the development of democracy in the GDR: "The Bonn hippopotamus came in such a mass that you were simply helpless. The entire apparatus of the West was simply brought to the East in the election campaign. We had nothing to oppose. These were western elections exported to the GDR."


1990 East German general election, Opinion polling
In 2005, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen researcher Matthias Jung, who was involved in organising opinion polling for the election, spoke of the difficulties of the task. He attributed this to the unpredictable behaviour of the electorate as well as the total lack of infrastructure and methods for gauging public opinion, which forced the institute to build an entirely new polling model. Despite beginning work at the end of 1989, FW only released one poll before the election, which Jung claimed accurately predicted the CDU victory.


1990 East German general election, Opinion polling
This may refer to a FW poll showing that 35% of voters believed an Alliance for Germany-led government would be most capable of solving the country's problems, while only 27% believed an SPD-led government would; 29% believed a grand coalition would be most capable. This was in stark contrast to other polls, conducted without reliable methods, all of which forecast a landslide SPD victory.


1990 East German general election, Aftermath
The newly elected Volkskammer was constituted on 5 April 1990, and elected Sabine Bergmann-Pohl of the CDU as its president. As the State Council of the GDR was dissolved at the same time, she became East Germany's interim head of state. Four days later, after protracted negotiations, Lothar de Maizière announced the formation of a grand coalition between the Alliance for Germany, SPD, and BFD. On 12 April 1990, he was elected Prime Minister of the GDR by the Volkskammer with 265 votes in favour, 108 against, and 9 abstentions. The new cabinet was also confirmed. The partners in the coalition commanded a two-thirds supermajority in the Volkskammer, enough to pass amendments to the constitution.


1990 East German general election, Aftermath
The new parliament quickly passed several pieces of major legislation, including a new law regarding local government on 17 May, a law ratifying the monetary, economic, and social union with the Federal Republic of Germany on 18 May (which became effective on 1 July), and constitutional amendments on 17 June. On 21 June, the Volkskammer formed a special committee, chaired by Joachim Gauck, to control the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi).


1990 East German general election, Aftermath
On 20 September 1990, the Volkskammer voted 299–80 to accept the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, which had earlier been approved in a 442–47 vote by the West German Bundestag. The treaty stipulated that East Germany would unify its territory with Federal Republic of Germany via Article 23 of the Basic Law, meaning that East Germany, after 40 years of existence, would cease to exist, and the Volkskammer along with it. Its last legislative period therefore only lasted four and a half months. The treaty took effect on 3 October 1990.


1990 East German general election, Aftermath
On the same day, 144 of the 400 former Volkskammer deputies became members of the Bundestag: 63 from the CDU, 33 from the SPD, 24 from the PDS, 9 from the BFD, 8 from the DSU, and 7 from Alliance 90 and the Green Party. Their tenure came to an end two months later with the first all-German federal election on 2 December 1990.


1990 East Texas State Lions football team
The 1990 East Texas State Lions football team represented East Texas State University in the 1990 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Eddie Vowell, who was in his fifth season at East Texas State. The Lions played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Commerce, Texas and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Lions finished the season with a 10–3 record and won the Lone Star Conference Championship, their first since 1983. Receiver Gary Compton was a Harlon Hill Trophy nominee.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
The Eastbourne by-election, 1990 was a by-election held on 18 October 1990 for the British House of Commons constituency of Eastbourne in East Sussex.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
The by-election was caused by the death of the town's Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Ian Gow, who was killed on 30 July 1990 by a bomb placed under his car by the Provisional IRA.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
The result was a victory for the Liberal Democrat candidate David Bellotti, who defeated former Conservative MP Richard Hickmet by a majority of 4,550 votes and with more than half the votes cast. The loss came as a shock to many Conservatives who had expected (not least given the circumstances under which the by-election was held, as well as the fact that it had been retained by a majority of more than 16,000 votes in 1987) that they would retain the seat. Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe sent a message to voters saying that the IRA would be "toasting their success".


1990 Eastbourne by-election
It was a welcome success for the Liberal Democrats, formed in March 1988, after some disastrous early local and European election showings, as well as dismal showings in opinion polls. It came at a time when Conservative support was slumping and Labour was enjoying a comfortable lead in the opinion polls, largely due to the unpopular introduction of poll tax by the Conservative government.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
The Liberal Democrats, whose newly adopted party emblem was a 'bird of liberty', had been compared by Margaret Thatcher in a Conservative party conference speech on 12 October to a "dead parrot". The shock defeat contributed to the end of Thatcher's premiership in November 1990 as Conservative MPs worried if they could hold their seats at a general election if she remained prime minister.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
At the next general election just 18 months later, Bellotti was defeated by over 5,000 votes. The outcome of which was symbolic of how the fortunes of the main three political parties had altered in that short time.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
The Liberal Democrats, who at the time of the Eastbourne success were looking set for a big rise in votes and seats, were left with a reduced number of seats, while the Conservatives were re-elected under new leader John Major (who had succeeded Margaret Thatcher in November 1990), leaving Labour in opposition for a fourth successive term of parliament - meaning that Neil Kinnock never made it into government as the opinion polls throughout 1990 had all suggested would happen.


1990 Eastbourne by-election
This remains, as of 2016, the most recent by-election resulting from the assassination of a sitting MP that was contested by all of the major parties. Following the next such killing, which occurred in 2016 when Labour MP Jo Cox was attacked and murdered in her constituency, Labour's major political rivals announced they would not contest the ensuing Batley and Spen by-election.


1990 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 1990 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University during the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.


1990 Eastern League season
The 1990 Eastern League season began on approximately April 1 and the regular season ended on approximately September 1.


1990 Eastern League season
The London Tigers defeated the New Britain Red Sox three games to zero to win the Eastern League Championship Series.


1990 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team
The 1990 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth season under head coach Jim Harkema, the Hurons compiled a 2–9 record (2–6 against conference opponents), finished in a tie for seventh place in the Mid-American Conference, and were outscored by their opponents, 301 to 179. The team's statistical leaders included Shane Jackson with 1,454 passing yards, Ed Nwagbaraocha with 402 rushing yards, and Todd Bell with 400 receiving yards.


1990 Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor
The 1990 U.S. Pro Indoor (known as the Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor in 1990 for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 23rd edition of the event known that year as the Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor, and was part of the ATP Championship Series, double-week events of the 1990 ATP Tour, running concurrently with the 1990 Eurocard Classic. It took place at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, from February 19 to February 25, 1990. Pete Sampras, who was seeded 13th, won the singles title.


1990 Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Rick Leach /  Jim Pugh defeated  Grant Connell /  Glenn Michibata, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2


1990 Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor – Doubles
Paul Annacone and Christo van Rensburg were the defending champions. Annacone participated with John Fitzgerald, and lost in the quarterfinals to Scott Davis and David Pate, while Van Rensburg played with Kevin Curren, and lost in the semifinals to Grant Connell and Glenn Michibata. Rick Leach and Jim Pugh defeated Connell and Michibata 3–6, 6–4, 6–2, in the final.


1990 Ebel U.S. Pro Indoor – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion, but opted that week to play at the Eurocard Classic in Stuttgart, West Germany, where he won the title over Ivan Lendl. Pete Sampras clinched his first career singles title in the final, defeating Andrés Gómez 7–6(7–4), 7–5, 6–2.


1990 Eckerd Tennis Open
The 1990 Eckerd Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Bardmoor Country Club in Tampa, Florida in the United States that was part of the Tier III category of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the 18th and last edition of the tournament and was held from April 16 through April 22, 1990. First-seeded Monica Seles won the singles title and earned $45,000 first-prize money.


1990 Eckerd Tennis Open, Finals, Doubles
Mercedes Paz /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated  Sandra Cecchini /  Laura Gildemeister 6–2, 6–0


1990 Ecuadorian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ecuador on 17 June 1990. Only the 60 district members of the House of Representatives were elected. The Social Christian Party emerged as the largest party, winning 15 of the 60 seats.


1990 Egyptian parliamentary dissolution referendum
A referendum on an early dissolution of Parliament was held in Egypt on 11 October 1990. The referendum followed the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the 1987 elections were unconstitutional as the 1986 electoral law discriminated against independent candidates. The court ruled that any legislation passed after 2 June 1990 would not be valid. In September, President Hosni Mubarak announced that a referendum would take place to decide whether Parliament should be dissolved early.


1990 Egyptian parliamentary dissolution referendum
After its approval, early elections were held on 29 November. Voter turnout was 58.6%.


1990 Egyptian parliamentary election
Early parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 29 November 1990, with a second round for 261 seats on 6 December. They followed a referendum in October on the early dissolution of Parliament due to issues surrounding the legality of the 1987 elections. However, the elections were boycotted by the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), the Liberal Socialists Party (LSP) and the New Wafd Party, which claimed that the reformed Electoral Law would fail to ensure free elections.


1990 Egyptian parliamentary election
The result was a victory for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), which won 348 of the 444 elected seats. However, a further 56 of the 83 independent candidates were affiliated with the NDP, whilst 14 were affiliated with the New Wafd Party, 8 with the SLP and one with the LSP. Voter turnout was reported to be 44.2%, but was estimated to be only 20-30%.


1990 Eisenhower Trophy
The 1990 Eisenhower Trophy took place 25 to 28 October at the Christchurch Golf Club near Christchurch, New Zealand. It was the 17th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 33 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.


1990 Eisenhower Trophy
Sweden won the Eisenhower Trophy for the first time, finishing 13 strokes ahead of the joint silver medalists, New Zealand and United States with Canada, France and Japan tied for fourth place. Mathias Grönberg had the lowest individual score, 2-under-par 286, six strokes better than fellow-Swede Gabriel Hjertstedt.


1990 Eisenhower Trophy, Teams
33 teams contested the event. Each team had four players with the exception of team Brazil who only had three.


1990 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.


1990 Eltham bombing
On 14 May 1990, a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Royal Army Educational Corps in Eltham, southeast London injured seven people. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed responsibility in a statement from Belfast, its first in a mainland bombing campaign targeting 'soft' military targets. Three men and three women, all civilians, were taken to a nearby hospital in Greenwich. A seventh person did not require hospital treatment. The bomb was plastic, up to 10 lb and hidden in a flowerbed at Eltham Palace - which could have easily killed many.


1990 Eltham bombing
Casualties were kept low by thin nylon film on the windows, which protected it from the flying glass. The attack caused extensive damage to the building and parked cars. The Corps left the centre in Eltham in 1992. Two days later, an IRA bomb in a military facility at Wembley killed a soldier.


1990 Emilia-Romagna regional election
The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 1990 took place on 6 and 7 May 1990.


1990 Emilia-Romagna regional election, Events
The Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party.


1990 Emilia-Romagna regional election, Events
After the election Enrico Boselli, regional leader of the Italian Socialist Party, formed a government comprising the Communists and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.


1990 Emilia-Romagna regional election, Events
In 1994 Boselli, who had been elected to the Parliament of Italy, was replaced by Pier Luigi Bersani of the Democratic Party of the Left, the successor party of the Communists.


1990 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 32 teams, and Matsushita Electric won the championship.


1990 Emperor's Cup Final
1990 Emperor's Cup Final was the 70th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1991. Matsushita Electric won the championship.


1990 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Matsushita Electric won their 1st title, by defeating defending champion Nissan Motors on a penalty shoot-out.


1990 Empress's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Nikko Securities Dream Ladies won the championship.


1990 Empress's Cup Final
1990 Empress's Cup Final was the 12th final of the Empress's Cup competition. The final was played at Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium in Tokyo on March 31, 1991. Nikko Securities Dream Ladies won the championship.


1990 Empress's Cup Final, Overview
Nikko Securities Dream Ladies won their 1st title, by defeating Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies on a penalty shoot-out.


1990 Enfield London Borough Council election
The 1990 Enfield Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Enfield 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 England rugby union tour of Argentina
The 1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina was a series of matches played in July and August 1990 in Argentina by the England national rugby union team. It was the second tour of Argentina by England and was apparently arranged without the tour manager Geoff Cooke's knowledge and at an inconvenient time of the year for the England players in July and August. For this reason, eight England players declined the invitation to make the trip, and the only seasoned internationals on the tour were Will Carling, Richard Hill, Wade Dooley, Brian Moore, Jeff Probyn and Peter Winterbottom.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
Legend: ALU= Alumni, ARU=Australia RU, BAC=Belgrano Athletic Club, BCR= Buenos Aires CRC, BN= Banco Nacón, CASI=C.A. San Isidro, CP=Club Pucará, CUBA=Club Universitario B.A., CUY=Unión de Rugby de Cuyo, HC=Hindú Club, LP= La Plata RC, NEW=Club Newman, PUY=Club Pueyrredón, SIC=San Isidro Club, UAR=Argentine Rugby Union, URT=Unión de Rugby de Tucumán


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
BANCO NACIÓN: P.Soto; G.Benedetto, R.Zanero, P.Pérez, C.Gentile; H.Porta (capt. ), F.Gómez; F.Rubio, P.Di Nisio, P.Franchi; R.Etchegoyen, E.Gallo; A.Marrón, O.Cando, G.Inganni. ENGLAND: J.Liley; N.Heslop, W.Carling (capt. ), J.Buckton, C.Oti; D.Pears, R.Hill; D.Egerton, A.Robinson, M. Skinner; M.Poole, R.Kimmins; M.Linnett, B.Moore, V.Ubogu .


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
TUCUMÁN: F.Williams; M.Terán, P.Gauna, J.Gianotti, G.Terán; J.Martínez Riera, P.Merlo; J.Santamarina, P.Bunader, P.Garretón; O.Fascioli, A.Macome; J.Coria, R.Le Fort, L.Molina. ENGLAND: S. Hodgkinson (J.Liley); T.Underwood, J.Buckton, G.Thompson, C.Oti; D.Pears, C.Morris; D.Winterbottom, T.Rodber, D.Ryan; W.Dooley, N.Redman; J.Probyn, John Olver, J.Leonard.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
BUENOS AIRES: G.Angaut (LP; G.Jorge (CP, E.Laborde (CP, H.García Simón (PUY), S.Ezcurra (CUBA); L.Arbizu (BAC), A.Zanoni (PUY); R.Villalonga (ALU), P.Di Nisio (BN), E.Ezcurra (NEW); E.Etchegoyen (BN), G.Llanes (LP; H.Ballatore (ALU), A.Cubelli (BAC) (capt. ), L.Lonardi (SIC). ENGLAND: D.Pears; N.Heslop, W.Carling (capt. ), G.Thompson, C.Oti; P.Hull, R.Hill; D.Winterbottom, D.Egerton, D.Ryan; W.Dooley, N.Redman; V.Ubogu, J.Olver, J.Leonard.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
CUYO: F.Lola; E.Saurina, C.Cipitelli (capt. ), Carbonell, M.Roby; G.Filizzola, A.Orrico; M.Bertranou, M.Baeck, A.Filizzola; Gómez, Pascual; J.Acevedo, A.Gutiérrez, F Méndez ENGLAND: J.Liley; T.Underwood, J.Buckton, G.Childs, P.Hull; S. Hodgkinson, R.Hill; A.Skinner, T.Rodber, A.Robinson; M.Poole, R.Kimmins; J.Probyn, B.Moore (capt. ), M.Linnet.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
ARGENTINA : A.Scolni (ALU); H.Vidou (BCR), M.Loffreda (SIC), (capt. ), D.Cuesta Silva(SIC), (S.Salvat (ALU); R.Madero (SIC), F.Gómez (BN); P.Bertranou (CUY), M.Baeck (CUY), P.Garretón(URT); A.Iachetti (HC), E.Branca (CASI); L.Molina (URT), J.J.Angelillo (SIC), A.Rocca (BCR). ENGLAND: S. Hodgkinson; N.Heslop; W.Carling (capt. ), J.Buckton, C.Oti; D.Pears, R.Hill; P.Winterbottom, D.Ryan, M. Skinner; W.Dooley, N.Redman; J.Probyn, B.Moore, J.Leonard.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
CÓRDOBA: J.Cosa; M.Ambroggio, P.Garzón (capt. ), M.Gil, N.Andreossi; H.Herrera, H.De Marco; L.Bedoya, S.Irazoqui, D.Tobal; J.Simes, C.Montenegro; G.Rivero, C.Hernández, A.Mammana. ENGLAND: J.Liley; C.Oti, G.Childs, G.Thompson, T.Underwood; P.Hull, S.Bates; A.Robinson, D.Egerton, J.Rodber; M.Poole, R.Kimmins; V.Ubogu, J.Olver, M.Linnet.


1990 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
ARGENTINA:  A.Scolni (ALU); (S.Salvat (ALU), M.Loffreda (SIC), (capt. ), D.Cuesta Silva(SIC), H.Vidou (BCR); R.Madero (SIC), F.Gómez (BN), M.Baeck (CUY), M.Bertranou (CUY), P.Garretón(URT); A.Iachetti (HC), E.Branca (CASI); D.Cash (SIC), J.J.Angelillo (SIC), M.Aguirre (ALU). ENGLAND: S. Hodgkinson; N.Helsop, W.Carling (capt. ), J.Buckton, C.Oti; D.Pears, R.Hill; D.Ryan, P.Winterbottom, M. Skinner; W.Dooley (49' D.Egerton), N.Redman; J.Probyn, B.Moore, J.Leonard.


1990 English Greyhound Derby
The 1990 Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Greyhound Derby took place in May and June with the final being held on 30 June 1990 at Wimbledon Stadium. The winner was Slippy Blue and the winning owner Mrs Eileen Fenn received £40,000. The competition was sponsored by the Sporting Life and Daily Mirror. Slippy Blue was bred by William McAllister from Scotland.


1990 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
3¼, head, ¾, 13½, neck (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.


1990 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The leading contender for the 1990 Derby was Druids Johno half owned by H.R.H. Prince Edward. The half share of the black dog had been given to the prince by Patsy Byrne during a charity meeting at Canterbury; all prize money would go to the Royal Marines Benevolent Fund.


1990 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
John McGee's main hope Aghadown Timmy set the fastest qualifying heat win in 28.56 sec whilst Ger McKenna had two first round winners in Itsallovernow and Beau Ami. Lyons Dean set the fastest first round time with a 28.70 and Druids Johno made it two from two.


1990 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
During the second round the ante-post favourite Aghadown Timmy went out after finishing lame whilst Westmead Lodge from the Savva kennels recorded a speedy 28.77. Fires of War trained by Tony Meek lit up the third round with a fast 28.67 only to be bettered one heat later by Druids Johno in 28.66. McGee's bad luck continued when his Irish Greyhound Derby and Laurels finalist Yes Speedy was eliminated after trouble.