Editing 1990 (section)

===June===
* [[June 1]]
** [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] and Soviet President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] sign a [[treaty]] to end [[chemical weapon]] production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
** Members of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the [[British Army]]. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in [[Dortmund]], Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in [[Lichfield]], England.
* [[June 2]] – The [[June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak|Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak]] spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the [[1974 Super Outbreak]].
* [[June 3]] – The [[Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988–1990)|Social Democratic Party (SDP)]] in the United Kingdom is dissolved after two years of poor results.<ref name=":0" />
* [[June 4]] – Violence breaks out in the [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic|Kirghiz SSR]] between the majority [[Kyrgyz people]] and minority [[Uzbeks]] over the distribution of homestead land.
* [[June 7]] – Metropolitan [[Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow|Alexy of Moscow]] is elected [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus']].
* [[June 8]]
** The [[1990 FIFA World Cup]] begins in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital [[High-definition television|HDTV]] in history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until [[2004]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.crit.rai.it/eletel/LeMiniSerie/MS3a.pdf |title=Italia '90 Il primo passo della HDTV digitale I Parte |access-date=April 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619125440/http://www.crit.rai.it/eletel/LeMiniSerie/MS3a.pdf |archive-date=June 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Prime Minister of Israel]] [[Yitzhak Shamir]] ends 88 days with only an acting government by forming a coalition of right-wing and religious parties led by Shamir's [[Likud]] party.
* [[June 8]]–[[June 9|9]] – In the [[1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election|Czechoslovakian parliamentary election]], [[Czechoslovakia]]'s first free election since 1946, the [[Civic Forum]] wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority.
* [[June 9]] – [[Mega Borg oil spill|''Mega Borg'' oil spill]] in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] near [[Galveston, Texas]].
* [[June 10]]
** [[Alberto Fujimori]] is elected [[President of Peru]]; he takes office on July 28.
** First round of the [[1990 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election|Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election]] sees the [[Bulgarian Socialist Party]] win a majority. The second round of voting is held June 17.
* [[June 11]] – [[Sri Lankan civil war#Eelam War II (1990–1995)|Sri Lankan Civil War]]: The [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] [[1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers|massacre]] over 600 unarmed police officers in the [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]].
* [[June 12]]
** [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: The [[Congress of People's Deputies of Russia]] formally [[Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|declares]] its sovereignty.
** In the [[1990 Algerian local elections|Algerian local elections]], [[Algeria]]'s first multiparty election since [[1962]], the [[Islamic Salvation Front]] wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32 of Algeria's 48 provinces.
* [[June 13]] – [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: The destruction of the [[Berlin Wall]] by [[East Germany]] officially starts, 7 months after it was opened the previous November.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/berlin-wall-anniversary-1762450-Nov2014/|title=In Photos: 25 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell|author=Ãrla Ryan|work=TheJournal.ie|date=November 9, 2014|access-date=November 10, 2014|archive-date=December 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212045458/https://www.thejournal.ie/berlin-wall-anniversary-1762450-Nov2014/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 13]]–[[June 15|15]] – [[June 1990 Mineriad]]: Clashes break out in [[Bucharest]] between supporters and opponents of the ruling [[National Salvation Front (Romania)|National Salvation Front]].
* [[June 14]] – [[1990 Panay earthquake]]: An earthquake measuring {{M|s|7.1|link=yes}} struck [[Panay]] in the [[Philippines]], killing 8 and injuring 41.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1990 June 14 Panay Earthquake|url=https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/17-earthquake/34-1990-june-14-panay-earthquake|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-17|website=phivolcs.dost.gov.ph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727072608/https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/17-earthquake/34-1990-june-14-panay-earthquake |archive-date=July 27, 2021 }}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – [[Dublin Regulation]] on treatment of applications for [[right of asylum]] under [[European Union law]] agreed (comes into force [[1997]]).
* [[June 17]]–[[June 30|30]] – [[Nelson Mandela]] tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/nelson-mandela-comes-to-america|title=Nelson Mandela comes to America|date=December 9, 2013|author=Jesse Greenspan|website=History.com|access-date=1 November 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031052842/https://www.history.com/news/nelson-mandela-comes-to-america|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] – The [[Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] holds its inaugural conference in Moscow.<ref>White, Stephen, Graeme J. Gill, and Darrell Slider. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=O9IGbITqT_EC&pg=PA132 The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future]''. Cambridge, ENG, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. p. 132</ref>
* [[June 21]] – The 7.4 {{M|w}} [[1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake|Manjil–Rudbar earthquake]] affects northern [[Iran]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
* [[June 22]] – [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: [[Checkpoint Charlie]] is dismantled.
* [[June 23]] – In Canada, the [[Meech Lake Accord]] of [[1987]] dies after the [[Manitoba]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.
* [[June 24]] – [[Kathleen Margaret Brown]] and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in [[Belfast]], becoming the first female [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] priests in the United Kingdom.