March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death January 22, 1990
The temperature on January 22, 1990 was between 7.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 11 » Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
June 19 » The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
July 1 » German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
August 12 » Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
September 18 » Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
November 16 » Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
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