The Year 1990

1990...Has It Really Been 20 Years?

Cost of Living 1990

Yearly Inflation Rate - 5.39%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average - 2633
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve - 10.00%
Average Cost of new house - $123,000.00
Average Income per year - $28,960.00
Average Monthly Rent - $465.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas - $1.34
Price for a new Isuzu Rodeo - $12,4900.00
IBM PS1 Computer - from $999.00 - $1,999.00

Random Facts for 1990

The Saturn car brand is launched by GM.

The most complete skeleton of a T-Rex is found in South Dakota ( Sue ).

An Earthquake in Iran kills 50,000.

Americas Favorite animated family "The Simpsons " is aired on Fox for the first time.

The US Enters a Major Recessio.

Operation Desert Shield begins as the United States and UK send troops to Kuwait.

John M. Poindexter (former national security adviser) is convicted on multiple felony counts.

Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British PM after John Major is chosen to lead the country and conservative party.

A fire at an unlicensed social club called "Happy Land" in New York City kills 87.

Opposition Parties in South Africa are legalized and Nelson Mandella is released from prison.  He soon becomes leader of the African National Congress ( ANC ).
 
West Germany Wins 1990 World Cup in Italy.

Boris N. Yeltsin becomes president of the Russian republic.

Namibia Gains Independence From South Africa.

Art thieves steal 12 works of art from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston in what is still the greatest unsolved art heist case ever.

Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe.

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.

A Philippine earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.

President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a historic agreement to

end production of chemical weapons.

East and West Germany reunite, including currency and economies

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

The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit revolutionizing astronomy.
 
A 16 megabit chip is shown for the first time.

The first known case of AIDS is traced back to 1959.

The Space Probe Voyager launched in 1977 photographed the Solar System at a distance of 3.7 miles from the sun.

18 years after its launch the US Space Probe Pioneer reaches a distance of 46.5 billion miles beyond all planetary orbits

Depletion of the Ozone Layer is discovered above the North Pole.

The first in-car Satellite Navigation System is sold by Pioneer.

 

Popular Culture 1990

  • The Sci/Fi Channel on Cable TV starts transmitting
  • Twin Peaks premieres on ABC
  • The Milli Vanilli duo's producer reveals that the Grammy winning pop duo were lip synching in the songs on the album which gained them the award

Popular Films

  • Home Alone
  • Ghost
  • Dances with Wolves
  • Pretty Woman
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Total Recall
  • Die Hard 2
  • Dick Tracy
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • The Godfather Part III

Popular Musicians

  • Tears For Fears
  • Kylie Minogue
  • Janet Jackson
  • Jon Bon Jovi
  • Erasure
  • Maxi Priest
  • Rod Stewart
  • Depeche Mode
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Garth Brooks
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Billy Joel
  • Phil Collins
  • Vanilla Ice
  • Whitney Houston
  • Aerosmith
  • Cher
  • Mariah Carey
  • The B-52's


 



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