January 1990

Wednesday 03:

Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.

Sunday 07:

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

Wednesday 10:

Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.

Thursday 11:

300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.

Saturday 13:

L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

Monday 15:

AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.

Thursday 18:

Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

Saturday 20:

bloody crackdown of Azeri protest demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.

Monday 22:

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

Thursday 25:

Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Sunday 28:

Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.

Monday 29:

The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.

Wednesday 31:

The first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia.