February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death January 6, 1990
The temperature on January 6, 1990 was between 3.0 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
March 2 » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
March 15 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
June 19 » The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
October 3 » The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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