To Remember

13th- President Bush made atemporary ban on importation offruitfrom Chile after two cyanide contaminated grapes were found.

24th- The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, struck Bligh Reef rightoutsideValdez, Alaska. The accident ripped holes in its hull causing millions of gallons of crude oil to gush into the Prince William Sound. It was thelargest oil spill in United States history.

-United States Congress and the White House agreed tocontinue humanitarian aid to the Contras inNicaragua.

7th- President Bush pleaded with Exxon Shipping Company crews to clean up the oil spill the best they could. Thousands of workers helped scrub the oil-soaked shorelines.

15th-InBeijing,China, students began a prodemocracy protest to increase social freedoms and end official corruption. Nearly one million protestors poured intothe streets ofBeijing. The students erected thegoddess of democracy, a 33-foothigh replica of theStatue ofLiberty which hadbecome a symbol of the movement fordemocratic reform.

19th- The battleship U.S.S. Iowa exploded when a detonator placed in one of the ship's gun turrets went off. Theexplosion killed 47 sailors and injured many others. Clayton Hatwig wassaid to have "most likely" caused theexplosion.

26th- The famous comedian Lucille Ball died.

20th-Martiallaw was declaredinBeijing, China, and troops attempted to move into Tiananmen

Square but were driven back by all the citizens sympathetic to the protestors.

-From May 1 to May 7, in just one week, 464 people were killed inthe UnitedStatesby gun shot. This was the worst week of deaths from shootings of the whole year. The deaths were caused by husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, andsuicides.

30th- Claude Pepper died.

3rd- Troopsin Beijing, China, opened fire onthe protestors, bursting through barricades with tanks to reachTiananmen Square. The massacre was said to have killed an estimated 3,600 peopleandinjured 60,000.

30th- The House of Representatives, with the support of President George Bush,proposed a constitutional amendment thatwould prohibit the burning of the American flag.

14th- Bicentennial of the French Revolution.

19th- The United Airlines DC-10 made a crash landing at the Sioux City Gateway Airport. Out of the 296 passengers on board,there were 185 survivors. Aviation experts have credited the pilot Captain Al Haynes forkeeping the aircraft aloft until he reached the airport.

-Leaders of the seven most influential Western nations gatheredinfrontofthe Louvre Pyramid for the Economic Summit in Paris, France. Those in the photo are (fromleft to right) EC PresidentJacques Delors, Italy's Ciciacode

Mita, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, President George Bush, hostFrench PresidentFrancois Mitterrand, Britain's Margaret

Thatcher,Canada's Brian Mulroney, Japan's Sousuke Uno. The problems of environmental matters that threaten the planet, terrorism, narcoticsandEastWest relations were all addressed. For the firsttime,the seven leaders agreed thatthebestway toeasethe debt burden of poorer nations is to ask banks toprovide some relief instead ofissuing new loans.

- President George Bush visited Poland where 50,000 people gave him ahero'swelcome. Bush told the cheering crowd that their struggle had produced "a time when dreams can liveagain." Before leaving, President Bush and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa together faced the Workers Monument in Gdansk and raised their arms and gave the "V" sign forvictory, a signused by Solidarity.

-Pete Rose was banned from baseballfor life because of gambling charges.

-From January to August more than 61,000 boat people fled Vietnam andmoved toHongKong. Cholera broke out among Vietnamese refugees living in primitive conditions. Communist Vietnam encouraged voluntary return of migrants who couldnot get refugee status, but only 260 have gone back.

- The Voyager topped off its historic 4.43-billionmile, 12-year tour of four planets when it skimmed 3,048miles over Neptune's north pole,then dove past Triton, the planet's largest moon. Voyager was nearly 4.5 billion miles along a curving path that took it fromEarthin1977,pastJupiterin1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, and now past Neptune in search of the edgeofthesolarsystem.

September

22nd- Hurricane Hugo crashed into the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. The 135-milean-hour winds destroyed trees, powerlines, and homes, causinghalf a million toevacuateandleaving thousandshomeless.

-Miss Missouri

Debbye Turner, a marimba-playing veterinary student from theUniversity of Missouri, was crowned Miss America 1990. When theycalledher name she hugged first runner-upMissMaryland and gave a thumbs-up sign to the audience beforetearfullywalkingthe runway. She isthethird Black woman to become Miss America inthepageant's68-year history.

October 13th-Thestockmarket had thesecondlargestloss inWall Street history.

17th- A catastrophic earthquake struck Northern California, killing at least 62 people and injuring hundreds. The quake caved in bridges,roads, freeways,ignitedfiresand caused much damage to buildings. The earthquake hitduring the evening rush hour and was registered 6.9 on theRichterscale.Itwas thesecond worst and most deadliest inthenation'shistory.

-The Oakland A'sbeat the San Francisco Giants intheWorld Serieswithan 8-1record.TheMostValuable Player of the game was Dave Stewart ofthe Oakland A's.

November

7th- Douglas Wilder became the first elected black Governor of Virginia.He is the first Black tobe elected governorin theUnited States.

9th- At twelve midnight theBerlinWallthat had divided East Germany and West Germany for 28 years finally came down. The 28-mile-long wallwas asymbol of the division of Europe. The sign of freedom was in- spired by Mikhail Gorbachev.

12th- A pro-choice rallyconcerning the abortion issue was held in Washington, D.C.

-Jim Bakkar was sentenced to 45 years in prison and charged a $500,000dollar fine.

-The Stalinist regimes inEuropeweredrivenout by protest and there was muchbloodshedinRomania.

-Milos Jakes, Czechoslovakian party leader, resigned from office and was replaced by Karel Urbanek.

December

-The United States sent troops into Panama. The target was to stop Manuel AntonioNoriega, accused drug trafficker. Noriega eventually turned himself in.

ALLPHOTOS BY A.P./WORLD WIDE PHOTO except for Berlin Wall - byDean Brewer.

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