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A Revelation!Lyn Paul, now a working mum, takes to the ocean wave in 1990, performing on a short cruise aboard the QE II.
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| In the News - 1990 | |
| Jan | On 1st January Cuba rejoins the United Nations Security Council after a 30-year absence. On the same day Simon and Garfunkel are inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Paul McCartney begins his first concert tour for 13 years on 2nd January. General Manuel Noriega of Panama surrenders to US troops on 3rd January after ten days under siege in the Vatican Embassy. The next day he appears in a Florida court on drugs charges. On 7th January, for the first time in its history, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public on safety grounds. The Communist Party's monopoly on power comes to an end in Bulgaria (15th January) and in Yugoslavia (22nd January). Poland's Communist Party is dissolved on 29th January. The England cricket team defies an international boycott by visiting South Africa. On 19th January police use tear gas to break up a demonstration at Johannesburg Airport, where protesters were awaiting the team's arrival. Mel Appleby, one half of the duo Mel and Kim, dies of pneumonia on 19th January, aged 28. On 25th January Benazir Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becomes the first head of government to give birth. The first McDonalds restaurant in Russia is opened in Pushkin Square, Moscow on 31st January. |
| Feb | In a televised speech at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town on Friday, 2nd February, the South African President F.W. de Clerk announces that the 30-year ban on the African National Congress would be lifted. The jailed ANC leader,Nelson Mandela is released from Victor-Verster Prison on 11th February after 27 years behind bars. 6th February is declared a national holiday in Jamaica in commemoration of Bob Marley's birthday. Del Shannon, best known for his 1961 chart-topper Runaway, dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds on 8th February, aged 55. At a meeting in Madrid on 14th and 15th February Argentina and the UK agree to restore full diplomatic relations. In the UK ambulance workers end a six-month dispute on 23rd February, after the government and unions agree to a pay rise of 16.9%. |
| Mar | On 2nd March Glasgow succeeds Paris as the European Capital of Culture, having fought off bids from eight other UK cities, including Edinburgh. At the official launch at the King's Theatre the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Susan Baird, shakes hands with the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac. Lithuania proclaims its independence from the Soviet Union on 11th March and elects Vytautus Landsbergis as President. On 14th March, by a vote of 1,542 to 368 (with 76 abstentions), the Soviet parliament elects Mikhail Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union for a five-year term. A journalist working for The Observer newspaper, Farzad Bazoft, is executed in Baghdad on 15th March for "spying". On Sunday, 18th March East Germany holds the first free elections since 1932. On the same day thieves disguised as police officers steal 13 works of art worth about $200 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Namibia gains its independence from South Africa on 21st March. Driving Miss Daisy wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony on 26th March. Robert Mugabe is elected President of Zimbabwe on 29th March. On 30th March the Estonian Supreme Council declares the Soviet occupation of Estonia since World War II to be illegal and begins the process of re-establishing Estonia as an independent state. 400 people are arrested and scores injured in Poll Tax riots in central London on 31st March. |
| Apr | Violence breaks out at Strangeways Prison in Manchester on 1st April when inmates protest against overcrowding. Two people are killed. King Baudouin of Belgium steps down for 24 hours on 4th April to allow the passage of a bill legalizing abortion. In the UK the time limit for abortions is reduced from 28 to 24 weeks. 150 people are killed on 7th April by a fire aboard the Danish ferry Scandinavian Star. On the same day John Poindexter, the former National Security Adviser to the Reagan Administration, is convicted of five counts of lying to Congress and obstructing the Congressional committees investigating the Iran–Contra affair. On 8th April King Birendra agrees to end Nepal's feudal style monarchy and lifts a 30-year ban on political parties. On 11th April British customs officials in Middlesbrough announce that they have seized a 'supergun' destined for Iraq. The USSR cuts supplies of oil and gas to Lithuania on 17th April, following Lithuania's refusal to renounce its declaration of independence. On 19th April the UK relaxes its immigration policy for residents of Hong Kong. Lech Walesa is re-elected as chairman of Solidarity on 20th April. The space shuttle Discovery is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday, 24th April, on a mission to carry the Hubble space telescope into orbit 380 miles above the Earth. The musical A Chorus Line closes on 28th April after 6,137 performances on Broadway. The show won nine Tony Awards in 1976, including the Tony for Best Musical. |
| May | President F.W. de Clerk and Nelson Mandela begin negotiations to end apartheid on 2nd May. The Supreme Council of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic adopts a Declaration on the Restoration of Independence on 4th May, paving the way for the full independence of the Republic of Latvia on 21st August 1991. On 5th May Toto Cutugno wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Italy with the song Insieme: 1992. The UK entry, Give A Little Love Back To The World by Emma, finishes sixth. On 15th May Vincent van Gogh's Portrait du Dr. Gachet is sold at Christie's in New York for $75,000,000. Two days later Pierre Auguste Renoir's Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre is sold at Sotheby's in New York for $71,000,000. On 17th May the World Health Organization (WHO) removes homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. Former Seekers' star Judith Durham is badly injured in a car crash on 20th May. On 29th May Boris Yeltsin is elected Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. On Wednesday, 30th May, in response to mounting concern about BSE or "mad cow disease", the French government bans the import of British beef and live cattle. The British Agriculture Minister John Gummer tries to allay people's fears by feeding a hamburger to his four-year-old daughter. Germany and Italy impose their own bans a few days later. |
| June | On 7th June France, West Germany and Italy lift their ban on British beef-on-the-bone. Tim Lancaster, the captain of British Airways Flight 5390 from Birmingham to Malaga, is sucked through a cockpit window on 10th June when a faulty panel of the windscreen blows out at 17,300 feet. Flight attendant Nigel Ogden, who is on the flight deck at the time, grabs hold of Lancaster’s belt to prevent him from being completely sucked out of the cockpit. The aircraft makes an emergency landing at Southampton Airport, where the pilot is discovered to be alive and rushed to hospital. On Wednesday, 20th June the Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major, proposes a new European currency, the "hard ecu", to circulate alongside existing national currencies. Checkpoint Charlie, the best known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin, is removed on 22nd June. Representatives from the Canadian provinces fail to ratify the Meech Lake Accord by the deadline of 23rd June, which would have granted French-speaking Quebec special status amongst the provinces whilst guaranteeing its commitment to the Canadian federation. The Soviet Union re-opens the supply of oil and gas to Lithuania on 30th June in exchange for its agreement the previous day to suspend its declaration of independence. |
| July | East Germany adopts the Deutsche Mark as its currency on 1st July. On 2nd July 1,426 pilgrims are killed in Mecca in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites. On 12th July Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Soviet Communist Party. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 16th July. Tory MP Ian Gow is killed by an IRA car bomb outside his home in Sussex on 30th July. |
| Aug | At dawn on Thursday, 2nd August more than 100,000 Iraqi troops invade the Gulf state of Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council calls for their immediate withdrawal but this is ignored. Economic sanctions are imposed on Iraq three days later. On 3rd August, a weather station in Nailstone, Leicestershire records the highest temperature ever known in Britain - 37.1°C (98.8°F), 1 degree Fahrenheit higher than the previous record set in 1911. The President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, forces Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from office on 6th August and declares a state of emergency. The ANC agrees to end guerrilla warfare on 7th August. The NASA space-probe Magellan begins orbiting Venus on Friday, 10th August after a 15-month journey from Earth. Irish hostage Brian Keenan is released from captivity by the Islamic Jihad on 24th August. He returns to Dublin from Beirut on 30th August, having been held hostage for four years and four months. The BBC launches Radio 5 on Monday, 27th August - its first new radio network for 23 years. The new station takes to the air at 9.00am, broadcasting a mix of sport, news and children's programmes. |
| Sep | On 12th September East Germany, West Germany and the Second World War Allies (the United States, United Kingdom, France and the USSR) sign a Treaty restoring sovereignty to a united Germany. On the same day Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks announce that they are leaving Fleetwood Mac. On 24th September Winnie Mandela is charged with kidnapping and assault. The Nintendo Game Boy, a handheld video game console which had already taken Japan and the USA by storm, is launched in Europe on 28th September. |
| Oct | After 45 years of division, East and West Germany officially reunite at midnight on Wednesday, 3rd October. Flag-waving crowds gather outside the Reichstag in Berlin to celebrate. Britain applies to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). On 15th October the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Mikhail Gorbachev for his work in ending Cold War tensions. |
| Nov | The UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe, resigns on Thursday, 1st November, following disagreements over the government's policy on Europe. Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan on 6th November. Mary Robinson is the first woman to be elected President of Ireland in the Irish presidential election held on Wednesday, 7th November. On 12th November Tim Berners-Lee, a computer programmer working in Switzerland, publishes details of a new internet notice board for scientists, a 'World Wide Web' with more than 11.5 billion web pages. Record producer Frank Farian holds a press conference on 15th November to confirm that the two members of Milli Vanilli, Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, had not sung on their début album. The duo was subsequently stripped of the 1989 'Best New Artist' Grammy Award. On 22nd November Margaret Thatcher announces that she is to quit as British Prime Minister. On Tuesday, 27th November she is succeeded by John Major, who beats Michael Heseltine and Douglas Hurd in the second ballot of the Conservative Party leadership contest. Leaving Downing Street the next day a tearful Margaret Thatcher wishes her successor "all the luck in the world." Roald Dahl, author of the children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and The BFG, dies in hospital in Oxford on 23rd November, aged 74. Bill Wyman announces that his 17-month marriage to Mandy Smith is over. The couple's divorce is finalised on 24th November 1992. |
| Dec | On Saturday, 1st December the first stage of the Channel Tunnel is completed, three years to the day after construction work had begun. Lech Walesa is elected President of Poland on 9th December. Saddam Hussein releases the foreigners who had been seized when Iraq invaded Kuwait and held captive for more than four months. The first of the freed hostages arrive at Heathrow Airport on Monday, 10th December. Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA) marries a Swedish surgeon, Tomas Sommerfeld, on 15th December. |
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Darts: Phil Taylor beats Eric Bristow in the final of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Darts Championship. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: A. S. Byatt Possession Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate Of Angels John McGahern Amongst Women Brian Moore Lies Of Silence Mordecai Richler Solomon Gursky Was Here |
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