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| 1990 |
| | | Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, is captured by US troops and taken to Miami on drug trafficking charges | |
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| 1990 |
| | | South African president F.W. de Klerk announces his radical intention to end apartheid | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Sandinistas lose the Nicaraguan presidential election, with Daniel Ortega beaten into second place by Violeta Chamorro | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is given an ecstatic reception on his release after twenty-six years in prison on Robben Island, near Cape Town | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Racing Demon launches a trilogy on the British establishment by English playwright David Hare | |
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| 1990 |
| | | British primatologist Jane Goodall publishes Through a Window, exposing violence and brutality in chimpanzees | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from a space shuttle and goes into orbit 370 miles (600 km) above the earth | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Danish choreographer Peter Martins becomes director of the New York City Ballet | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The aged president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, wins the Ivory Coast's first democratic elections | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins an overwhelming victory in Burma's general election but the military refuse to hand over power | |
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