February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death February 21, 1990
The temperature on February 21, 1990 was between 6.3 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
March 15 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
March 28 » United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
April 16 » "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
September 16 » The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
November 2 » British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
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