Quick Answer: 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…
Quick Answer: 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…
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.
Quick Answer: 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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Arachnophobia 1990 is the movie that made an entire generation check their shoes before putting them on. Released July 18, 1990, Frank Marshall’s horror-comedy delivered exactly what the title promised — relentless, squirm-inducing, laugh-out-loud spider terror that hit different when you were ten years old in a dark movie theater. It wasn’t the first creature…
