On This Day: October 4, 1990 — Beverly Hills, 90210 Premieres on Fox
On October 4, 1990, Fox aired the pilot of Beverly Hills, 90210, the teen drama that turned a zip code into a 1990s cultural phenomenon.
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On This Day: August 23, 1990 — Saddam Hussein Put a 5-Year-Old on TV and Horrified the World
On August 23, 1990 — three weeks after Iraq invaded Kuwait — Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western hostages in a bid to show the world they were being treated well. The broadcast backfired. Five-year-old British boy Stuart Lockwood crossed his arms and edged away from the Iraqi president…
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On This Day: August 23, 1990 — Saddam Hussein Put a 5-Year-Old on TV and Horrified the World
On August 23, 1990 — three weeks after Iraq invaded Kuwait — Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western hostages in a bid to show the world they were being treated well. The broadcast backfired. Five-year-old British boy Stuart Lockwood crossed his arms and edged away from the Iraqi president…
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On This Day: August 2, 1990 — Iraq Invaded Kuwait and Changed the Middle East Forever
At 2 a.m. on August 2, 1990, 120,000 Iraqi troops and 700 tanks stormed into Kuwait. The country fell in hours. The world would never be the same.
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On This Day: July 26, 1990 — The ADA Changed America Forever
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn attended by 3,000 people. The first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities in any country, the ADA banned discrimination in employment, public spaces, transportation, and government services…
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On This Day: July 8, 1990 — West Germany Wins the World Cup
The 1990 World Cup Final was played on July 8, 1990, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, where West Germany beat Argentina 1–0. Andreas Brehme scored the only goal from an 85th-minute penalty, handing West Germany its third world title and settling the score from the 1986 final Argentina had won. Diego Maradona spent the…
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On This Day: June 10, 1990 — Pilot Sucked Out of Flight 5390
On June 10, 1990, BA Flight 5390 captain Tim Lancaster was sucked halfway out of a windscreen at 17,300 feet — and survived 20 minutes outside the aircraft.
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On This Day: June 7, 1990 — Universal Studios Florida Opens
June 7, 1990: Spielberg cut the ribbon, $631 million went online, and three of the headline rides immediately broke. Inside Universal Studios Florida’s legendary disaster of a grand opening.
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On This Day: May 26, 1990 — The Week Women Owned the Entire Billboard Top 5
On the morning of May 26, 1990, radio DJs across America were spinning a chart that had never existed before. Five songs sat at numbers one through five on the Billboard Hot 100. Five songs. All by women. It sounds like a footnote, but in the pop landscape of 1990 — an industry still largely…
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Van Gogh’s $82.5M Painting: 7 Wild Facts From May 15, 1990
The Van Gogh Portrait of Dr. Gachet auction on May 15, 1990 detonated the art market in under three minutes. Christie’s New York chairman Christopher Burge opened the bidding at $20 million and slammed his gavel down at a final hammer price of $75 million — $82.5 million with the buyer’s premium — making it…
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Twin Peaks Premiere 1990: The Night TV Changed Forever
Thirty-six years ago tonight, on April 8, 1990, a dead girl washed up on a rocky shore in the Pacific Northwest. She was wrapped in plastic. Her name was Laura Palmer, she was the prom queen of a town no one had ever heard of, and by the time ABC cut to the closing credits,…
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Ryan White, Elton John & Farm Aid 1990: The Night That Changed Everything
On April 7, 1990, while Ryan White lay dying in an Indianapolis hospital bed, his friend Elton John stepped onto the stage at the Hoosier Dome and did something nobody expected. He wasn’t on the bill. He wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near Farm Aid IV. But grief has a way of rewriting schedules, and…
