Editing 1990 (section)

===September===
* [[September 1]]–[[September 10|10]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] visits [[Tanzania]], [[Burundi]], [[Rwanda]] and [[Ivory Coast]].
* [[September 2]] – [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: [[Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic|Transnistria]] declares its independence from the [[Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic|Moldavian SSR]]; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
* [[September 4]] – [[Geoffrey Palmer (politician)|Geoffrey Palmer]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] and is replaced by [[Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)|Mike Moore]].<ref>{{cite book | last= Bassett | first= Michael | author-link=Michael Bassett | title=Working with David: Inside the Lange Cabinet | year=2008 | publisher=Hodder Moa | location=Auckland | isbn=978-1-86971-094-1 |page=536}}</ref>
* [[September 4]]–[[September 6|6]] – [[Premier of North Korea]] [[Yon Hyong-muk]] meets with [[President of South Korea]] [[Roh Tae-woo]], the highest level contact between leaders of the two Koreas since [[1945]].
* [[September 5]] – [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]: Sri Lankan Army soldiers [[Eastern University massacre|massacre]] 158 civilians.
* [[September 6]] – In [[Myanmar]], the [[State Peace and Development Council|State Law and Order Restoration Council]] orders the arrest of [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] and five other political dissidents.
* [[September 9]]
** U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in [[Helsinki]] to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
** [[First Liberian Civil War]]: [[Liberia]]n president [[Samuel Doe]] is captured by rebel leader [[Prince Johnson]] and killed in a filmed execution.
** [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]: Sri Lankan Army soldiers [[1990 Batticaloa massacre|massacre]] 184 civilians in [[Batticaloa]].
* [[September 10]] – The first [[Pizza Hut]] opens up in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="newsbank1">{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF83915FDC366B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Archive for PBP – www.palmbeachpost.com|work=newsbank.com|access-date=June 23, 2013|archive-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012174424/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF83915FDC366B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 11]]
** [[Gulf War]]: U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraqi]] soldiers from [[Kuwait]].
** First [[Pizza Hut]] opens in the People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first [[KFC]] opened there in [[1987]].<ref name="newsbank1"/>
* [[September 12]]
** [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: The two German states and the [[Allied Control Council|Four Powers]] sign the [[Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany]] in Moscow, paving the way for [[German reunification]].
** A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon [[Christopher Skase]], former owner of the [[Seven Network]], after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's [[Qintex]] Australia Ltd.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://articles.latimes.com/keyword/christopher-skase|title=Articles about Christopher Skase – Los Angeles Times|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 20, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024030400/http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/christopher-skase|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 18]]
** The [[International Olympic Committee]] awards the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] to [[Atlanta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/19/sports/atlanta-selected-over-athens-for-1996-olympics.html?mcubz=0|title=Atlanta selected over Athens for 1996 Olympics|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 18, 2017|date=September 19, 1990|first=Steven R.|last=Weisman|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918110644/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/19/sports/atlanta-selected-over-athens-for-1996-olympics.html?mcubz=0|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] assassination attempt on the life of Air Chief Marshal Sir [[Peter Terry]] at his home near [[Stafford]], England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former [[Governor of Gibraltar]] survives, as does his wife, Lady Betty Terry, who is also shot (most likely by accident).
* [[September 24]] – The [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union]] grants Gorbachev special powers for 18 months to secure the Soviet Union's transition to a [[market economy]].
* [[September 27]] – [[David Souter]] is confirmed to serve on the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]], replacing retiring Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]].
* [[September 29]]
** [[Washington National Cathedral]] is finished.
** The [[Tampere Hall]], the largest concert and congress center in the [[Nordic countries]], was inaugurated in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]].<ref>[https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/kulttuuri-ja-taide/kulttuurin-superviikko-tampere-talossa-tero-saarisen-uutuusteos-satuoopperoiden-maailmanensi-ilta-ja-talon-synttariesitys.html Kulttuurin superviikko Tampere-talossa: Tero Saarisen uutuusteos, satuoopperoiden maailmanensi-ilta ja talon synttäriesitys] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826085340/https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/kulttuuri-ja-taide/kulttuurin-superviikko-tampere-talossa-tero-saarisen-uutuusteos-satuoopperoiden-maailmanensi-ilta-ja-talon-synttariesitys.html |date=August 26, 2021 }} - ePressi (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[September 29]]–[[September 30|30]] – The [[United Nations]] [[World Summit for Children]] draws more than 70 world leaders to [[United Nations Headquarters]].
* [[September 30]] – The [[New Revised Standard Version]] of the Bible is officially introduced.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Ari L. |date=September 28, 1990 |title=New Bible: 'Thee' Goes Way of All Flesh |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/28/us/new-bible-thee-goes-way-of-all-flesh.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>