The year 1990 is now 35 years ago!

January 1st 1990: David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.

January 3rd 1990 - United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to the American forces.

January 10th 1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

January 13th 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

January 15th 1990, Martin Luther King Jr.’s actual birthday was observed as a holiday for the first time. (It fell on a Monday that year.)

January 24th 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

2 February 1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.

February 7th 1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.

February 11th 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

February 11th 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.

February 13th 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

14 February 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).