August 1990 calendar

August 1990
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1990.
The US president was George H. W. Bush (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1990: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1990?

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
02 Aug 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.