January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
Day of death February 26, 1990
The temperature on February 26, 1990 was between 4.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 13 » Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
June 19 » The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
November 14 » After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
November 20 » Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.
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