- July 12
- Nintendo releases the Final Fantasy video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US. [9]
- July 13
- In the Hindu Kush region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs. At least 43 mountain climbers killed on Pik Lenina, USSR by an avalanche triggered by the earthquake. [53]
- Paramount releases the film Ghost to theaters. (Total world gross ticket sales: $506 million (1st for 1990).) [945]
- July 15
- Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [42]
- July 16
- In Luzon, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs. At least 1,621 people killed, more than 3,000 people injured. [1] [42] [53]
- July 17
- Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq. [1]
- July 19
- BASF plant in Cincinnatti, Ohio, explodes in flames, one dies. [1] [37]
- July 21
- Rock band Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood. [1] [37]
- July 25
- US Ambassador tells Iraq US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute. [1]
- The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia. [42]
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- George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. [42]
- July 26
- U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination. [42]
- July 27
- The last Citroën 2CV rolls off the production line at Mangualde, Portugal. [5]
- Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR. [42]
- The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts five days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including Prime Minister, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg). [42]
- July 28
- Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru. [42]
- July 29
- Death of Bruno Kreizky, chancellor (1970-83), in Vienna, Austria. [37]
- July 30
- A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist. [42]
- August 1
- Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait. [1]
- August 2
- Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait. [1] [42] [1215.813]
- August 3
- Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion. [1]
- US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions. [1]
- August 4
- European community proposes a boycott of Iraq. [1]
- August 6
- United Nations Security Council votes 13-0 (two abstentions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait. [1] [42] [1215.813]
- August 7
- Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia. [1]
- Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion. [1]
- At 12:34:56 (both a.m. and p.m.) the time and date by British reckoning is 12:34:56 7/8/90. [42]
- August 8
- Iraq annexes Kuwait. [1] [1215.813]
- August 9
- Twelve Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia. [1]
- August 11
- Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion. [1]
- August 12
- Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories. [1]
- The most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex ("Sue") is discovered near Faith, South Dakota. [5]
- August 16
- Iraq orders 4000 Britons and 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq. [1]
- August 19
- Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. [5] [42]
- August 20
- Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields). [1]
- August 23
- German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany announce they will unite on October 3. [42]
- August 24
- Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly five years. [42]
- Iraqi troops surround American and other embassies in Kuwait City. [1]
- August 25
- United Nations security council authorizes military action against Iraq. [1]
- August 27
- 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq. [1]
- August 28
- Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province. [1]
- August 29
- American C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13. [1] [37]
- Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq. [1]
- September 2
- Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government. [42]
- September 5
- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West. [1]
- September 9
- Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia, captured and killed by rebels in a filmed execution. [1] [42]
- September 10
- US President George Bush and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki, Finland. [1]
- Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq. [1]
- September 11
- US President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait. [42]
- September 12
- US, England, France, USSR, German Democratic Republic, and Federal Republic of Germanys sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, allowing the two Germanys to merge. [1] [37] [42]
- September 13
- Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait. [1]
- September 15
- France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf. [1]
- September 16
- Iraq televises an 8-minute uncensored speech from US President George Bush. [1]
- September 17
- Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties. [1]
- September 18
- A 500-pound 6-foot chocolate Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City. [1]
- September 19
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least nine bullets, he survives. [42]
- September 20
- German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany ratify reunification. [1] [37]
- September 22
- Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys. [1]
- September 24
- South African President F.W. de Klerk meets President George Bush in Washington, DC. [1]
- US Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market. [1]
- September 25
- Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience. [1]
- United Nations Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq. [1]
- September 27
- Deposed emir of Kuwait address the United Nations General Assembly. [1]
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