Editing 1990 (section)

=== December ===
* [[December 1]]
** [[Channel Tunnel]] workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the [[English Channel]] seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.
** [[List of heads of state of Chad|President of Chad]] [[Hissène Habré]] is deposed by the [[Patriotic Salvation Movement]] and replaced as president by its leader [[Idriss Déby]].
* [[December 2]] – The [[1990 German federal election|German federal election]] (the first election held since [[German reunification]]) is won by [[Helmut Kohl]], who remains [[Chancellor of Germany]].
** [[People's Republic of Benin]] is dissolved after a constitutional referendum.
* [[December 3]]
** [[1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision]]: At [[Detroit Metropolitan Airport]], Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9]]) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a [[Boeing 727]]) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members.
** [[Mary Robinson]] begins her term as [[President of Ireland]], becoming the first female to hold this office.
* [[December 6]] – President [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]] of [[Bangladesh]] is forced to resign following massive protests; he is replaced by [[Shahabuddin Ahmed]], who becomes interim president.
* [[December 7]] – The [[National Assembly (Bulgaria)|National Assembly of Bulgaria]] elects [[Dimitar Iliev Popov]] as [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]].
* [[December 9]]
** [[Slobodan Milošević]] elected President of [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|Serbia]] in first round, [[1990 Serbian general election|general elections]] won by his Socialist Party.
** [[Lech Wałęsa]] wins the 2nd round of Poland's [[1990 Polish presidential election|first presidential election]].
* [[December 11]] 
** [[Fall of communism in Albania]]: [[Ramiz Alia]], leader of the [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]], following massive demonstrations by students and workers, announces that a free national election will be held next spring of 1991 with political parties other than the [[Party of Labour of Albania|Party of Labour]] permitted; an opposition [[Democratic Party of Albania|Democratic Party]] is formed the following day.
** A multi-vehicle traffic collision known as the [[1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster]] occurs; 12 deaths and 42 were caused by this event<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newschannel9.com/news/local/stumbling-out-of-the-fog-memories-of-the-worst-traffic-accident-in-tennessee-history|title="Stumbling Out of the Fog:" Memories of the Worst Traffic Accident in Tennessee History|date=December 11, 2015|access-date=December 21, 2021|archive-date=December 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221175159/https://newschannel9.com/news/local/stumbling-out-of-the-fog-memories-of-the-worst-traffic-accident-in-tennessee-history|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – Murder charges against Dr. [[Jack Kevorkian]] are dismissed in Michigan, related to the April [[Assisted suicide|assisted-suicide]] death of an [[Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's]] patient, Janet Adkins. A state judge determined that Kevorkian only provided the [[Euthanasia device|means]] for Ms. Adkins to die. This is the first of numerous cases to be brought against Kevorkian over the next decade.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |date=December 14, 1990 |title=Doctor Cleared of Murdering Woman With Suicide Machine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/14/news/doctor-cleared-of-murdering-woman-with-suicide-machine.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] is [[1990–91 Haitian general election|elected]] [[president of Haiti]], ending 3 decades of military rule.
* [[December 18]] – President [[Kenneth Kaunda]] agrees to allow multiparty elections in [[Zambia]] after 17 years of single-party rule.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 18, 1990 |title=After 17 Years, Zambia Allows Opposition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/18/world/after-17-years-zambia-allows-opposition.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[December 20]]
** [[Eduard Shevardnadze]] announces his resignation as [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)|Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
** Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at [[CERN]].
* [[December 22]]
** The first [[Constitution of Croatia|constitution]] of the [[Croatia]] is adopted.
** The [[Marshall Islands]] and [[Federated States of Micronesia]] become independent, following the termination of their trusteeship.
** In Warsaw [[Lech Wałęsa]] takes the oath of office as [[President of Poland]], succeeding [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]. [[Ryszard Kaczorowski]], head of the [[Polish government-in-exile]], hands over the insignia of presidential power to Wałęsa as a sign of the dissolution of the exiled government that had had its seat in London since 1939. 
* [[December 23]] – In the [[1990 Slovenian independence referendum|Slovenian independence referendum]], 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, support independence of the country.
* [[December 24]] – [[Ramsewak Shankar]] is ousted as [[President of Suriname]] by a military coup.
* [[December 25]] – [[Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov|Russian aircraft carrier ''Admiral Kuznetsov'']] is commissioned.
** The inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[Tim Berners-Lee]], is [[British people|British]]. The First File Server successfully transferred data on this day. <ref>{{|url=https://lifeintheuktest.com/life-in-the-uk-test-book/ |work=UK Home Office}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – Russian [[Garry Kasparov]] holds his title by winning the [[World Chess Championship]] match against his countryman [[Anatoly Karpov]].