Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pete Sampras, age 19, wins the 1990 US Open, becoming the youngest person to ever win the event. September 10 – The comedy television sitcom series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premieres on NBC . September 11 – Gulf War : President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi ...
Hubble Space Telescope 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service.
December 1990 events in North America (3 C) C. 1990 events in Canada by month (9 C) 1990 crimes in North America by month (5 C) M. 1990 events in Mexico by month (4 C)
February 1 – President Bush announces the transmitting of the Savings and Economic Growth Act of 1990 to Congress during a morning appearance in the Roosevelt Room. . President Bush says the legislation is "an important initiative" that he had outlined during the most recent State of the Union address and has the three central components of a "family savings account, capital gains tax rate ...
January 1990 events in the United States (1 C, 6 P) February 1990 events in the United States (2 C, 3 P) March 1990 events in the United States (1 C, 10 P)
An American helicopter flies over the Somalian coast during the Battle of Mogadishu, part of U.S. involvement in Somalia in the early 1990s. In December 1992, President Bush sent troops to join the UN Operation Restore Hope , a multi-national effort to restore order and provide humanitarian aid in Somalia, which was torn by civil war, famine ...
California 14: Won by Anna Eshoo; California 29: Won by Maxine Waters; District of Columbia at-large: Won by Eleanor Holmes Norton; Connecticut 3: Won by Rosa DeLauro; Florida 11: Won by Jim Bacchus; Hawaii 2: Won by Patsy Mink who also won the district's special election, see below; Louisiana 2: Won by William Jefferson; Maine 1: Won by Thomas ...
The 1990 United States elections were held on November 6 and elected the members of the 102nd United States Congress. The elections occurred in the middle of Republican President George H. W. Bush's term and during the Gulf War. The Democratic Party slightly built on their control of Congress.