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Jan 3, 1990 - Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission. Jan 20, 1990 - Actress Barbara Stanwyck died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 82. She visited CAMP ATTERBURY in 1951. |
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Feb 11, 1990 - Nelson Mandela released from 27 years in prison. |
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March 14, 1990 - The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and West and East Germany held their first formal meeting on reunifying the German states. |
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April 11, 1990 - Funeral services were held in Indianapolis for AIDS patient Ryan White, who had died three days earlier at age 18. Among the 1,500 mourners were first lady Barbara Bush and singers Elton John and Michael Jackson. April 13, 1990 - The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, a massacre the Soviets had previously blamed on the Nazis. April 24, 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. It cost $2 billion. |
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July 5, 1990 - CAMP ATTERBURY proposed as site for three-county landfill. July 24, 1990 - Iraq, accusing Kuwait of conspiring to harm its economy through oil overproduction, massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. |
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Aug 2, 1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. The day came to be known in Kuwait as "Black Thursday." 330 Kuwaitis died during the occupation and war. Sadam Hussein, leader of Iraq, took over Kuwait. Aug 3, 1990 - A day after Iraq invaded Kuwait, thousands of Iraqi soldiers pushed to within a few miles of the border with Saudi Arabia, heightening world concerns that the invasion could spread. Aug 7, 1990 - President Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq. The US Persian Gulf War began. It ended Feb 28, 1991. It cost $8.1 billion and left 383 US casualties with 458 wounded. Aug 12, 1990 - Air Force Staff Sergeant John Campisi of West Covina, California, died after being hit by a military truck in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first US casualty of the Persian Gulf crisis. Aug 18, 1990 - A US frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman-apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis. Aug 22, 1990 - President Bush signed an order calling up reservists to bolster the US military buildup in the Persian Gulf. Aug 27, 1990 - Fifty-two Americans reached freedom in Turkey after they were allowed to leave Iraq; three young men originally in the group, however, were detained by the Iraqis. In Washington, the State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats. |
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Sept, 1990 - In Iraq biological weapons scientists took control of a foot-and-mouth vaccine plant in Daura and began producing anthrax and botulinum toxin. |
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Nov 5, 1990 - Seven WW2, six Korean War and five Post-Korean War military vehicles listed as being on display in the CAMP ATTERBURY Memorial Park Nov 29, 1990 - The UN Security Council, led by the United States, voted 12-to-two to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15th, 1991. |
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Dec 1, 1990 - Iraq accepted a US offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis. Dec 13, 1990 - A final evacuation flight from Iraq arrived in Germany, carrying the US ambassador to Kuwait and his staff, who had endured a 110-day Iraqi siege of their embassy.
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