What happened in 1990

“Nothing Compares 2 U”

Sinead O'Connor · 4 weeks at #1 in 1990

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1. Jan 6Another Day In ParadisePhil Collins2 wks
2. Jan 20How Am I Supposed To Live Without YouMichael Bolton3 wks
3. Feb 10Opposites AttractPaula Abdul (Duet With The Wild Pair)3 wks
4. Mar 3EscapadeJanet Jackson3 wks
5. Mar 24Black VelvetAlannah Myles2 wks
6. Apr 7Love Will Lead You BackTaylor Dayne1 wk
7. Apr 14I'll Be Your EverythingTommy Page1 wk
8. Apr 21Nothing Compares 2 USinead O'Connor4 wks
9. May 19VogueMadonna3 wks
10. Jun 9Hold OnWilson Phillips1 wk
11. Jun 16It Must Have Been Love (From "Pretty Woman")Roxette2 wks
12. Jun 30Step By StepNew Kids On The Block3 wks
13. Jul 21She Ain't Worth ItGlenn Medeiros Featuring Bobby Brown2 wks
14. Aug 4Vision Of LoveMariah Carey4 wks
15. Sep 1If Wishes Came TrueSweet Sensation1 wk
16. Sep 8Blaze Of Glory (From "Young Guns II")Jon Bon Jovi1 wk
17. Sep 15Release MeWilson Phillips2 wks
18. Sep 29(Can't Live Without Your) Love And AffectionNelson1 wk
19. Oct 6Close To YouMaxi Priest1 wk
20. Oct 13Praying For TimeGeorge Michael1 wk
21. Oct 20I Don't Have The HeartJames Ingram1 wk
22. Oct 27Black CatJanet Jackson1 wk
23. Nov 3Ice Ice BabyVanilla Ice1 wk
24. Nov 10Love Takes TimeMariah Carey3 wks
25. Dec 1I'm Your Baby TonightWhitney Houston1 wk
26. Dec 8Because I Love You (The Postman Song)Stevie B4 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1990; weeks count only those in 1990.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 3United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, the deposed strongman of Panama, surrendered to American forces outside the apostolic nunciature in Panama City.
2. Jan 25Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
3. Feb 14The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
4. Mar 21Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
5. Mar 28United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
6. Aug 7First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
7. Aug 8Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
8. Aug 30Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.
9. Sep 2Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
10. Oct 3The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
11. Oct 15Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
12. Nov 5Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
13. Nov 12Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
14. Nov 28British 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.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George H. W. Bush

• UK Prime Minister

  Margaret Thatcher → John Major

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Brian Mulroney

• President of France

  François Mitterrand

• German Chancellor

  Helmut Kohl

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Toshiki Kaifu

• Soviet leader

  Mikhail Gorbachev

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1990, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Grant GustinAmerican actor and singer · Jan 14
• Zeeko ZakiEgyptian-American actor · Jan 18
• LogicAmerican rapper · Jan 22
• Sean KingstonAmerican-Jamaican singer-songwriter · Feb 3
• Klay ThompsonAmerican basketball player · Feb 8
• Q'orianka KilcherGerman-American actress · Feb 11
• Robert Griffin IIIAmerican football player · Feb 12
• Draymond GreenAmerican basketball player · Mar 4
• YGAmerican rapper · Mar 9
• Laura HarrierAmerican actress and model · Mar 28

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.