March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Day of death May 26, 1990
The temperature on May 26, 1990 was between 1.5 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
March 19 » The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
March 21 » Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
August 2 » Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
November 7 » Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
Day of burial June 1, 1990
The temperature on June 1, 1990 was between 8.9 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
January 10 » Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
January 12 » A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
April 7 » A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
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.
October 3 » The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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