1990

• Aerosmith – “Janie’s Got a Gun”
• Alannah Myles – “Black Velvet”
• B-52s – “Love Shack”
• Bell Biv DeVoe – “Poison”
• George Michael – “Praying for Time”
• INXS – “Suicide Blonde”
• Janet Jackson – “Escapade”
• Jon Bon Jovi – “Blaze of Glory”
• Madonna - “Vogue”
• Mariah Carey – “Vision of Love”
• Mariah Carey – “Love Takes Time”
• MC Hammer – “U Can’t Touch This”
• Michael Bolton – “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You”
• New Kids on the Block – “Step By Step”
• Paula Abdul – “Opposites Attract”
• Phil Collins - “Another Day in Paradise”
• Righteous Brothers – “Unchained Melody”
• Roxette – “It Must Have Been Love”
• Sinead O’Connor – “Nothing Compares 2 U”
• Snap! – “The Power”
• Stevie B – “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)”
• Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
• Wilson Phillips – “Hold On”
• Wilson Phillips – “Release Me”

• Ghost
• Home Alone
• Pretty Woman
• Dances with Wolves
• Total Recall
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Kindergarten Cop
• The Hunt for Red October
• Edward Scissorhands

• Twin Peaks
• In Living Color
• Wings
• Northern Exposure
• Tom & Jerry Kids
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Law & Order
• Beverly Hills, 90210 

• ALF
• Baywatch
• Newhart
• Mr. Belvedere
• The Smurfs
• DuckTales

• Cheers
• Roseanne
• A Different World
• The Cosby Show
• The Golden Girls
• Full House
• Family Matters
• Matlock
• Who's the Boss
• Major Dad
• LA Law
• Doogie Howser, MD
• Growing Pains
• The Wonder Years

• jacksepticeye - YouTube star
• Emma Watson - movie actress, "Beauty and the Beast", "Harry Potter" movies
• Jennifer Lawrence - movie actress, "Hunger Games" movies, "Passengers"
• The Weeknd - R&B singer, "Can't Feel My Face", "Starboy"
• Grant Gustin - TV actor, "Arrow" and "The Flash"
• Kristen Stewart - movie actress, "Twilight" movies
• Liam Hemsworth - Australian actor, in "Hunger Games" series
• Thomas Brodie-Sangster - TV actor, on "Game of Thrones", voice of Ferb in "Phineas and Ferb", in movie "Maze Runner"
• Margot Robbie - Australian actress, plays Harley Quinn in "Suicide Squad", also in "The Legend of Tarzan"
• Sarah Hyland - 
• Soulja Boy - rapper, "Crank That"
• SZA - R&B singer, "What Lovers Do" with Maroon 5
• Bethany Hamilton - surfer, continued to compete professionally after losing her left arm to a tiger shark when she was 13; movie made about her life "Soul Surfer"

• Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web
• The Channel Tunnel is completed and opens, connecting France and England
• Simpsons first airs on Fox
• Following the Berlin Wall falling, East and West Germany are reunited.
• First in-car GPS satellite navigation system goes on sale

• big-box
• black het
• clap back
• fam
• geek out
• hoodie
• Internet service provider
• left-click
• malware
• McMansion
• mixed martial arts
• props
• shout-out
• spam
• stick blender
• tighty-whities
• twentysomething
• World Wide Web

Following the legalization of formerly banned political parties in February by the new South African president, Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, was released from prison after 28 years. 

Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age

January 24: The Tories introduce legislation that would create the Goods and Services Tax (GST), a national sales tax of 7%. On December 17, the GST becomes law.

The Cold War was the struggle between two world super powers, the USA and the USSR, that started in 1947 at the end of the World War II and lasted until December 26, 1991, after Mikael Gorbachev officially recognized the bankruptcy and dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written. The first website at CERN - and in the world - was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. 

June 21: an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hit northwest of the city of Tehran, Iran, killing 50,000.

The Simpsons first season airs on FOX TV on December 17, beginning with the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". The show was controversial from the beginning because Bart frequently received no punishment for his misbehaviour, so he was seen as a poor role model for children.