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January
January 3 - The former leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega, surrenders to American forces.;
January 4 - Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in Ghotki, Pakistan.;
January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.;
January 9 - Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.;
January 10 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.;
January 11 - In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.;
January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.;
January 15 - Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.;
January 18 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.;
January 22 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.;
January 25 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials.;
January 25-January 26 - The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.;
January 27 - The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.;
January 28 - The San Francisco 49ers trounce the Denver Broncos, 55-10, in Super Bowl XXIV.;
January 29 - The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill to date.;
January 31 - The first McDonald's in Moscow, USSR opens.;
February
February 2 - Apartheid: In South Africa, President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to free Nelson Mandela.;
February 7 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.;
February 9 - Perrier issues a worldwide recall of its mineral water after traces of benzene are found in some bottles.;
February 10 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.;
February 11 - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.;
February 11 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 26 years behind bars.;
February 13 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.;
February 15 - The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory, in 1982.;
February 26 - The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections.;
February 26 - The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.;
February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.;
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