Editing 1990 (section)

=== January ===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Poland]] becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its [[State socialism|state socialist]] colonies.
** [[Glasgow]] begins its year as [[European Capital of Culture]].
** The first Internet companies catering to commercial users, [[PSINet]] and [[EUnet]] begin selling Internet access to commercial customers in the United States and Netherlands respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA425|title=InfoWorld|date=January 15, 1990|publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.|page=425}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nlnet.nl/foundation/annuals/1990-jaarverslag.html|title=Stichting NLnet Jaarverslag 1990|first=Wytze van der|last=Raay|website=nlnet.nl|access-date=December 10, 2016|archive-date=May 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510140426/http://nlnet.nl/foundation/annuals/1990-jaarverslag.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The comedy television series of [[Rowan Atkinson]]'s ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' first aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in the United Kingdom.
*[[January 2]] – [[Ramiz Alia|Ramiz Ali]] declares that the rejection of Communism will not be repeated in [[Albania]], but that the changing European political climate will nevertheless require adjustments.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 2, 1990 |title=No Change in Albania, Party Leader Declares |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/02/world/upheaval-in-the-east-no-change-in-albania-party-leader-declares.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[United States invasion of Panama]]: General [[Manuel Noriega]] is deposed as leader of [[Panama]] and surrenders to the [[United States Armed Forces|American forces]].
* [[January 10]] – [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11]] takes its first flight.
* [[January 11]] – [[Singing Revolution]]: In the [[Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic|Lithuania SSR]], 300,000 demonstrate for [[independence]].
* [[January 12]]–[[January 19|19]] – Most of the remaining 50,000 [[Armenians]] are driven out of [[Baku]] in the [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]] during the [[Baku pogrom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nkrusa.org/nk_conflict/ethnic_cleansing_campaigns.shtml|title=NKR Office in Washington, DC|website=www.nkrusa.org|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=March 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319061743/http://www.nkrusa.org/nk_conflict/ethnic_cleansing_campaigns.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Douglas Wilder]] becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in [[Richmond, Virginia]].
* [[January 15]]
** The [[National Assembly (Bulgaria)|National Assembly of Bulgaria]] votes to end [[One-party state|one party rule]] by the [[Bulgarian Communist Party]].
** Thousands storm the [[Stasi]] headquarters in [[East Berlin]] in an attempt to view their government records.
** Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.
*[[January 18]] – [[McMartin preschool trial]]: Peggy McMartin Buckey and Raymond Buckey are acquitted of 52 charges related to alleged [[Satanic panic|ritual abuse]] taking place at their daycare in [[Manhattan Beach, California|Manhattan Beach]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |date=March 5, 1990 |title=Shortly After First Trial, Figures in McMartin Case Brace for the Second |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/05/us/shortly-after-first-trial-figures-in-mcmartin-case-brace-for-the-second.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[January 20]]
** [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: [[Black January]] – Soviet troops occupy [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]], under the state of emergency decree issued by [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], and [[Black January#Death toll|kill over 130 protesters]] who were demonstrating for independence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/pp021603.shtml|title=Notes from Baku: Black January|work=EurasiaNet.org|access-date=January 22, 2008|archive-date=August 27, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827072157/http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/pp021603.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] declares its independence from the [[Soviet Union|USSR]].
** Clashes break out between Indian troops and [[Muslims|Muslim]] separatists in [[Kashmir]].
** The government of [[Haiti]] declares a [[state of emergency]], under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.
* [[January 22]] – [[Robert Tappan Morris]] is convicted of releasing the [[Morris worm]].
* [[January 23]] – The 14th and final Extraordinary Congress of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav Communist Party]] concludes after 3 days. Although Serb hardliners block substantial reforms, the Party signals its openness to multiparty elections. [[Slovenia|Slovene]] delegates, protesting the slow pace of reforms, walk out of the assembly.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Simons |first=Marlise |date=January 23, 1990 |title=Yugoslav Communists Vote to End Party's Monopoly |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/world/upheaval-in-the-east-yugoslavia-yugoslav-communists-vote-to-end-party-s-monopoly.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[January 25]]
** [[Avianca Flight 052]] crashes into [[Cove Neck, New York]] after a miscommunication between the flight crew and [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK Airport]] officials, killing 73 people on board.
** [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] [[Benazir Bhutto]] gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.
** [[Pope John Paul II]] begins an eight-day tour of [[Cape Verde]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Mali]], [[Burkina Faso]], and [[Chad]].
* [[January 25]]–[[January 26|26]] – The [[Burns' Day Storm]] kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
* [[January 27]] – The city of [[Tiraspol]] in the [[Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic|Moldavian SSR]] briefly declares [[independence]].
* [[January 28]] – Four months after their exit from power, the [[Polish United Workers' Party]] votes to dissolve and reorganize as the [[Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fxM1AAAAIBAJ&pg=5762,4912828&dq=poland&hl=en|title=Internationale swansong for Poland's communists|newspaper=The Glasgow Herald|date=January 29, 1990|access-date=November 7, 2020|archive-date=October 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010143853/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fxM1AAAAIBAJ&pg=5762,4912828&dq=poland&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] – The trial of [[Joseph Hazelwood]], former skipper of the ''[[Exxon Valdez]]'', begins in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|second worst oil spill]] to date.
* [[January 31]]
** [[Globalization]] – The first [[McDonald's]] in Moscow, [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] opens 8 months after construction began on May 3, 1989. 8 months later the first McDonald's in [[Mainland China]] is opened in [[Shenzhen]].<ref name="McDonald's">{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbev.com/news/mcdonalds-announces-bond-to-support-growth-in-china#.UPciMCfBGSp|title=McDonald's announces bond to support growth in China|first=Shaun|last=Weston|date=2010-08-19|work=FoodBev|access-date=2013-01-17|archive-date=October 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015044844/http://www.foodbev.com/news/mcdonalds-announces-bond-to-support-growth-in-china#.UPciMCfBGSp|url-status=live}}</ref>
** President of the United States [[George H. W. Bush]] gives his first [[1990 State of the Union Address|State of the Union address]] and proposes that the U.S. and the [[Soviet Union]] make deep cuts to their military forces in [[Europe]].