Tag: 1990s
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The Gulf War: August 2, 1990
Image: A destroyed Iraqi tank rests near a series of oil-well fires during the Gulf War, on March 9, 1991, in northern Kuwait. August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. 168 days later, a U.S.-led international coalition will launch Operation Desert Storm, the massive military campaign to drive Saddam Hussein’s army out of the tiny…
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July 19, 1943 – Eastern Front
Stabsfeldwebel Paul Rätz pulls up after attacking a Soviet armoured train in the Leningrad sector. His stick shudders as his Focke-Wulf 190 takes hits from ground fire. Belly landing in swampy ground, he sets off but for his own lines, but is taken prisoner and repatriated to Germany in 1949. He passed away in 1989…
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Nelson Mandela, the leader of the campaign to end South African apartheid, is released from prison by South African President F.W. De Klerk after 27 years behind bars. February 11, 1990.
Image: Nelson Mandela walks to freedom. February 11, 1990. On this day in history, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the campaign to end South African apartheid, is released from prison by South African President F.W. De Klerk after 27 years behind bars. His very dramatic walk from the gates of the Victor Verster Prison in…
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Lech Walesa, Founder of the Solidarity Trade Union, is Sworn in as Poland’s 1st Popularly Elected President. December 22, 1990.
Image: Lech Walesa in 1996. (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 22, 1990, Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity trade union, is sworn in as Poland’s 1st popularly elected president. Walesa was a labor activist who helped form and lead (1980-1990) communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. He received the Nobel Prize…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 