1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1987 1988 198919901991 1992 1993
1990 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1990
MCMXC
Ab urbe condita2743
Armenian calendar1439
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԹ
Assyrian calendar6740
Bahá'í calendar146–147
Balinese saka calendar1911–1912
Bengali calendar1397
Berber calendar2940
British Regnal year38 Eliz. 2 – 39 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2534
Burmese calendar1352
Byzantine calendar7498–7499
Chinese calendar己巳(Earth Snake)
4686 or 4626
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4687 or 4627
Coptic calendar1706–1707
Discordian calendar3156
Ethiopian calendar1982–1983
Hebrew calendar5750–5751
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2046–2047
 - Shaka Samvat1911–1912
 - Kali Yuga5090–5091
Holocene calendar11990
Igbo calendar990–991
Iranian calendar1368–1369
Islamic calendar1410–1411
Japanese calendarHeisei 2
(平成2年)
Javanese calendar1922–1923
Juche calendar79
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4323
Minguo calendarROC 79
民國79年
Nanakshahi calendar522
Thai solar calendar2533
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
2116 or 1735 or 963
    — to —
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
2117 or 1736 or 964
Unix time631152000 – 662687999

Events

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January

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa, closed on January 7

February

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Patricio Aylwin becomes President of Chile on March 11
 
Washington National Cathedral, completed on September 29
 
Germany is reunited on October 3
 
Margaret Thatcher leaves office on November 28

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Other Events

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  • Chris Farley and Adam Sandler join Saturday Night Live.
  • The poorly received Cop Rock preimieres on television, TV's first (and last) musical police drama.
  • Legislation is signed into United States law requiring close captioning decoders in all large color TVs manufactured after July 1, 1993.

Births

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January

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Toni Kroos

February

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Kristen Stewart
 
Emma Watson

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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January

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Alberto Lleras Camargo
 
Pavel Cherenkov
 
Barbara Stanwyck
 
Naruhiko Higashikuni
 
Mariano Rumor
 
Ava Gardner
 
Lewis Mumford

February

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Alessandro Pertini
 
Lev Yashin
 
Sarah Vaughan
 
Ryan White
 
Greta Garbo
 
Jim Henson
 
Rex Harrison
 
Robert Noyce
 
José Figueres Ferrer
 
Ilya Frank
 
Yun Posun
 
Manuel Puig
 
Bruno Kreisky

August

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Viktor Tsoi
 
Pearl Bailey
 
Stevie Ray Vaughan

September

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Ahti Karjalainen
 
Samuel Doe
 
Alberto Moravia
 
Patrick White

October

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Le Duc Tho
 
Leonard Bernstein

November

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Yiannis Ritsos
 
Robert Hofstadter
 
Roald Dahl

December

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Aaron Copland
 
Tunku Abdul Rahman
 
Joan Bennett
 
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
 
Vasili Lazarev

Nobel Prizes

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Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured with Ronald Reagan) won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.

New books

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Movies released

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Hit songs

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Other websites

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  Media related to 1990 at Wikimedia Commons