1st » Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2nd » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
6th » Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the Cross-America flight air speed record e.g transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
10th » In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
11th » Lithuania Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania called declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
11th » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
15th » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
18th » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the East German general election, 1990 or first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
18th » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
19th » The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
21st » Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
25th » The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in The Bronx, New York City.
27th » The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Fidel Castro called Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
28th » President of the United States e.g President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
29th » The Czechoslovakia known as Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
31st » Approximately Poll Tax Riots or 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.