Favorites From 1990

January 31, 1990 - The first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia

February 02, 1990 - South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.

February 10, 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.

March 18, 1990 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history

March 31, 1990 - Boxer Julio César Chávez defeats Meldrick Taylor to unify the boxing's world junior welterweight title in a very controversial fight known as "Thunder Meets Lightning".

May 22, 1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.

May 31, 1990 - The pilot episode of Seinfeld premires

July 8, 1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.

July 25, 1990 - Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the U.S. national anthem at a San Diego Padres game.

August 2, 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

November 12, 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

November 13, 1990 - The first known World Wide Web page is written.

November 15, 1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.