January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
Day of death August 12, 1990
The temperature on August 12, 1990 was between 12.4 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
January 24 » 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.
March 11 » Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
April 4 » The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
October 2 » Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
November 28 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.
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