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serial	18803
year	1990
month	1
day	1
event	David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
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1/2 - "Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)"

1/2 - "Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)"

1/3 - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities

1/5 - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL

1/6 - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)

1/7 - Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64

1/7 - Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

1/9 - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1/9 - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78

1/9 - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1/9 - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

1/10 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players

1/10 - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)

1/10 - "Les Miserables, opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore"

1/11 - "200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence"

1/11 - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84

1/11 - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)

1/11 - Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight

1/12 - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

1/13 - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)

1/14 - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf

1/14 - 11th ACE Cable Awards

1/14 - Simpsons premiered on Fox-TV

1/15 - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds

1/15 - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins

1/15 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch

1/15 - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent

1/15 - "NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106"

1/16 - 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering

1/17 - 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin

1/17 - "Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract"

1/17 - "Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &"

1/18 - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress

1/18 - "Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting"

1/19 - "Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide"

1/20 - Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.

1/20 - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space

1/20 - "47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win"

1/21 - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh

1/21 - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association exec director

1/21 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open

1/21 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1/22 - "Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm."

1/22 - "Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants"

1/22 - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide

1/22 - 17th American Music Award: Paula Abdul & Bobby Brown win

1/24 - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon

1/25 - "Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die"

1/25 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail

1/25 - West-Europe's strongest hurricane

1/25 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.

1/25 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1/26 - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)

1/26 - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic

1/27 - "64th Australian Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (6-3, 6-4)"

1/28 - Independent on Sunday begins publishing in London

1/28 - 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)

1/28 - "Super Bowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB"

1/29 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

1/31 - "1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds"

1/31 - "Jushin ""Thunder"" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ"

1/31 - "The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR."

1990-1-1

David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC