August 1990 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1990 Soyuz TM-10 launches
• 02 Aug 1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
• 03 Aug 1990 Little Night Music opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 performances
• 04 Aug 1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq.
• 05 Aug 1990 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
• 06 Aug 1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
• 07 Aug 1990 Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion.
• 08 Aug 1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
• 10 Aug 1990 American Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.
• 11 Aug 1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.
• 12 Aug 1990 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
• 14 Aug 1990 Denver votes for a 1 percent sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise.
• 15 Aug 1990 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
• 16 Aug 1990 Iraq orders 4000 Britons and 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq.
• 17 Aug 1990 Exorcist 3 premieres
• 18 Aug 1990 B.F. Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at age 86 (born 1904).
• 19 Aug 1990 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
• 20 Aug 1990 Gene Michael names New York Yankee VP / GM replacing Harding Peterson
• 21 Aug 1990 Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.
• 22 Aug 1990 US President George Bush calls up military reserves.
• 23 Aug 1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
• 24 Aug 1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
• 26 Aug 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
• 27 Aug 1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
• 28 Aug 1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
• 29 Aug 1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.
• 30 Aug 1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
• 31 Aug 1990 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season

Famous Birthday

• Jennifer Lawrence

  American actress, played leading role of Katniss Everdeen in the film The Hunger Games, 2011.

• JonBenet Ramsey

  American homicide victim, one of the most famous and frustrating cases of the '90s.

• Perth (Australia)
• Mario Balotelli

  Italian football player, who plays as a striker for Manchester City and the Italy national team.

• Bill Skarsgård

  Swedish actor.

• Bojan Krkic
• Jack O'Connell (actor)
• Jourdan Dunn

  Model.

• Bo Burnham

  American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and actor.

• Adelaide Kane

  TV Actress.

• Nicole Anderson

  American actress.

• Rachel Hurd-Wood

  British actress.

• Tania Bambaci
• Lucas Till

  American actor.

• Elizabeth Debicki
• DeMarcus Cousins

  Basketball Player.

• Holly Michaels
• Ranomi Kromowidjojo

  Dutch swimmer.

• Christina Cimorelli

  Pop Singer.

• Margaux Farrell

  Olympic swimmer, she won a Bronze medal for the Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay on 1 August 2012.

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Famous Deaths

• Stevie Ray Vaughan

  American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at age 35 (born 1954).

• B F Skinner

  Psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86.

• Jacques Soustelle

  French politician, ethnologist and anthropologist, Governor General of Algeria in 1955-56.

• Pearl Bailey

  American entertainer in vaudeville, night clubs, films and records.

• Richard Haines

  Director (Splatter University).

• Mario De Andrade

  Founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola).

• Robert Alex

  Shot to death by robber at 31.

• Eva Sully Block

  Actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88.

• Sara Seegar [Stone]

  Actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76.

• Jimmy Starr

  Actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86.

• Nina Bara

  Actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66.

• Roderick Cook

  Actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58.

• Merlin Marston

  Actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45.

• Raymond St Jacques

  Actor / director (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60.

• Dorothy Appleby

  Actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express).

• Willy Vandersteen

  Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske).

• Sandy

  Dog in the play Annie, dies at 16.

• Graham Young

  British serial killer (Born 1947).

• Norman Mclean

  American writer (Born 1902).

• Grethe Ingmann

  Danish singer (Born 1938).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love
2. Sweet Sensation - If Wishes Came True
3. Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love
4. Snap! - The Power
5. Janet Jackson - Come Back To Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power
2. The Steve Miller Band - The Joker
3. DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
4. Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
5. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart / What Is Love