1990, the Year I consider the Worst Year of the entire 90's

I was only 4 Years Old for the majority of the year, but I seem to remember it very well.  It was a "Scary" year for me. My neighbor's house burned down, a Ghost picked me up at midnight and layed me back into my Bed (Still creeps me out to this day), and of course my Best Friend at the time was the 2nd coming of Damien (He was a very angry little boy)

This is just a little Review of the entire year of 1990, after some research and stuff that I remember off the top of my head from 1990

Notable Events

January 18th, 1990

Of course there was the big story about Washington DC Mayor "Marion Barry" who was arrested for Drug Possession in an FBI sting

January 25th, 1990

The Berlin Walls starts to come down

February 11th, 1990

"Buster" Douglas KO's Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship (Considered the Biggest Upset Ever)

March 18th, 1990

12 paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen by two thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history and the paintings (as of 2006) have not been recovered

August 27th, 1990

Blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash along with 4 others following a concert near East Troy, Wisconsin

November 13th, 1990

The first known Website is written

November 21st, 1990

The Debut of the Super Nintendo.  It is released in Japan (But wasn't released to the States until months later)


Sports

January 28th, 1990

NFL: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Denver Broncos 55-10 to win the Super Bowl

April 1990

NCAA: UNLV defeats Duke 103-73 to win the College Basketball National Championship

May 1990

NHL: Edmonton Oilers defeat the Boston Bruins (4 Games to 1) to win the Stanley Cup

June 1990

NBA: Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers (4 Games to 1) to win the NBA Finals

October 1990

MLB: Cincinnati Reds sweep the Oakland Athletics to win the World Series


Music

January 21st, 1990

MTV's "Unplugged" premieres

April 1990

MC Hammer has the First Big Music Hit of the 90's with "U Can't Touch This"

April 1990

We are also introduced to Sinead O'Connor who hits #1 with the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"

May 1990

Madonna's hit song "Vogue" reaches #1 and everyone surely was doing the "Vogue" around this time

June 1990

Mariah Carey makes her Debut into the Music World and her song "Vision of Love" hits #1 on the Billboard Charts in August 1990

October 1990

We are introduced the Vanilla Ice, who's hit song "Ice Ice Baby" reaches #1 on the Billboard Charts in November 1990

November 27th, 1990

"Vocal" group Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know It's True." They later have their Grammy award revoked

#1 Song of 1990

"Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey (4 Weeks at #1)


Movies & Television

Academy Awards: March 26th, 1990

Best Movie:  "Driving Miss Daisy"
Best Actor:  Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
Best Actress:  Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
Best Supporting Actor:  Denzel Washington (Glory)
Best Supporting Actress:  Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot)
Best Director:  Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)

Births in 1990

March 24th, 1990:  Keisha Castle-Hughes
April 15th, 1990:  Emma Watson
October 22nd, 1990:  Jonathan Lipnicki

Deaths in 1990

January 25th, 1990:  Ava Gardner
April 15th, 1990:  Greta Garbo
May 16th, 1990:  Sammy Davis Jr.
May 16th, 1990:  Jim Henson
June 2nd, 1990:  Rex Harrison
August 27th, 1990:  Stevie Ray Vaughan

Popular Movies Released in Theaters (or Made for TV)

January 19th, 1990:  "Tremors"
March 2nd, 1990:  "The Hunt for the Red October"
March 23rd, 1990:  "Pretty Woman"
March 30th, 1990:  "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
May 24th, 1990:  "Back To The Future Part III"
June 1st, 1990:  "Total Recall"
June 15th, 1990:  "Dick Tracy"
June 15th, 1990:  "Gremlins 2"
July 4th, 1990:  "Die Hard 2"
July 13th, 1990:  "Ghost"
July 18th, 1990:  "Arachnophobia"
September 19th, 1990:  "Goodfellas"
November 16th, 1990:  "Home Alone"
November 18th, 1990:  "Stephen King's IT" (Made for TV)
November 30th, 1990:  "Misery"
December 7th, 1990:  "Edward Scissorhands"
December 21st, 1990:  "Kindergarten Cop"
December 25th, 1990:  "The Godfather Part III"

Television Series Debuts (And other news)

April 8th, 1990:  "Twin Peaks" Premiered
April 15th, 1990:  "In Living Color" Premiered
September 10th, 1990:  "The Fresh Prince of Bell Air" Premiered
September 13th, 1990:  "Law & Order" Premiered
September 16th, 1990:  "America's Funniest Home Videos" Premiered

Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and Julia Sweeney join "Saturday Night Live"

Television Series Endings

March 12th, 1990:  "Mama's Family" ends
March 24th, 1990:  "ALF" ends
May 26th, 1990:  "The Tracey Ullman Show" ends
September 8th, 1990:  "Newhart" ends

"You Can't Do That On Television" ends
"The NBA on CBS" ends

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From a Pop-Culture point of view, I hated this year.  The music was horrible (With the exception of "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, which was the first song I remember ever hearing and loving)

Another thing that sticks out to me about 1990 was watching Barney, Mr. Rogers, Rescue 911 and Quatum Leap all the time.  Also I still remember when "Stephen King's IT" aired in November that year and there was a huge buzz about it and how it scared the crap out of alot of people's children and people were complaining about it.  I sure do remember it scaring the crap out of me as well.  I recently read that it was the "Most Watched Made for TV Movie" ever made

1990 I didn't like much, but it had it's moments.  I used to love going next door to my friends house and playing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the NES just about every day.  That was fun as hell

Anybody got any memories of 1990?  8)

You were playing video games at age 4?? I only got my first home console at age 9...

I remember playing with teenage mutant ninja turtles figurines - and that's about it. Other than that, 1990 was a completely blank for me, unfortunately. I only started remembering things lucidly from 1991 onwards. Pre-1990 my memories are blurry and fragmented.

You were playing video games at age 4?? I only got my first home console at age 9...

I remember playing with teenage mutant ninja turtles figurines - and that's about it. Other than that, 1990 was a completely blank for me, unfortunately. I only started remembering things lucidly from 1991 onwards. Pre-1990 my memories are blurry and fragmented.




I know what you mean.  I think back to it and wonder to myself just how I remember that, but I just seem to remember it so well.  I can't explain it really

I don't remember hardly anything from 1990 except the things I previously mentioned

To be honest with you, the entire year of 1991 is drawing a complete blank for me, I don't remember a single thing from it except for the day we moved into a new house on July 1st

My memory seems to wander a little.  I don't remember a single thing from the 80's, but then I do remember some things from 1990, don't remember anything from 1991 and then things get clearer in 1992 (I started playing for a Tee-Ball League that year in April)

There is only like one exact date from 1990 that I can remember, and that was like November 18th, because I remember very well watching the beginning of the movie "Stephen King's IT" on TV at my Uncle's house and then I just started running around the entire house screaming my head off

Either way, I think 1990 was a Boring Year overall

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, about the Video Game thing.  I actually got my very first Video Game Console on Christmas of 1990.  My Grandparents had gotten me an "NES"

Of course, all of my older siblings (Most of them teenagers) were jealous and went and plugged it in and played Super Mario all night long

Which reminds me, that's another Date I remember very well from 1990.  December 25th...Christmas!

I also remember just a couple of years ago during christmas, my family pulled out an old Home Video of Christmas 1990 and for some reason they recorded us eating dinner and there I was, sitting on a stool, sniffing a huge onion  ;D.  I guess I didn't know what one earth it was, and I was wondering why it smelled so bad

Bleh, sorry for the multiple replies, but I'm just curious Trimac20, what Month were you Born in in 1986?  You're 20, so it must have been recent

I was 11 in 1990.  I watched TMNT religiously everyday before school, along with Garfield & Friends.  I got my NES Chirstmas of '89 with 10 games to start.  By August of 1990, I had over 50 games for NES, and by the time I got my SNES in '91, I had around 120 NES games.  I STILL have 'em too.  I used to eat Nintendo cereal.;D  I got into my first and only fight in grade 6, in which I won because this kid thought he was tough, and I was a nerdy looking kid that took martial arts (without even telling anyone), so I fooled him. ;D  I was just coming back from New Jersey from visiting my dad (still finishing up his military services there) when Saddam invaded Kuwait on August 3rd.  Other than that, not too much else spectacular went on the rest of the year. :)

Yeah, I remember 1990. I was in 5th grade going into 6th. So far, 2006 reminds me a lot of 1990, with the slowing economy and boring pop-culture. K-Fed is like the 2006 version of Vanilla Ice.

1990 was a pretty cool year(I was 3 so I dont remember that much). As cheesy a year as it was there were alot of good t.v. shows and songs out there. My personal fav. song from '90 is High Enough by Damn Yankees. Also it's the first year I remember really well.

Admittedly, it was cheesy and crappy. But I was born in 1990. Maybe that has something to do with why me (and DD) have such a camp fetish...

Deborah Gibson released "Anything Is Possible", but flopped 

The title track became a minor hit, though quickly forgotten  :(


Don't understand Nelson and Vanilla Ice  ::)  :P

1990 did have a lot of good movies, like Total Recall, Home Alone, Kindergarden Cop, Ghost, and Goodfellas

It was also the numerical peak of the "echo boom", lasting from 1982 or 1984 to 1992, roughly.

Bleh, sorry for the multiple replies, but I'm just curious Trimac20, what Month were you Born in in 1986?  You're 20, so it must have been recent


I was born on January 24th, so I'm an Aquarius, if that means anything  ;). I knew three people in my year who were born on that same day, and I was also born on the very same day as Mischa Barton.

I was born on January 24th, so I'm an Aquarius, if that means anything  ;). I knew three people in my year who were born on that same day, and I was also born on the very same day as Mischa Barton.


Neil Diamond on the O.C? hmmm....

Haley Joel Osment and Mandy Moore share my birthday, among Gen Yers. I am also the birthday compatriot of V.I. Lenin, Omar Sharif, and Josef Pulitzer.

Neil Diamond on the O.C? hmmm....

Haley Joel Osment and Mandy Moore share my birthday, among Gen Yers. I am also the birthday compatriot of V.I. Lenin, Omar Sharif, and Josef Pulitzer.


I have a cousin who was born in May 1990...

I was born on January 24th, so I'm an Aquarius, if that means anything  ;). I knew three people in my year who were born on that same day, and I was also born on the very same day as Mischa Barton.


Ugh, that's Unfortunate for you  :-[

Ugh, that's Unfortunate for you  :-[


Why's that? I'm curious to know...

I also remember being privilaged enough to dance with my Life Science teacher in Grade 7....she was 23 then, and hot!...... ;D ;)

Why's that? I'm curious to know...


Well, personally, I hate Mischa Barton and "The O.C.", and any other Teenage Drama junk filling the airwaves today