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1990
 
    
Boris Yeltsin, impatient with the pace of reform under Gorbachev, resigns from the Communist party       
1990
 
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UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, by now at odds with many in her cabinet, is challenged in a leadership contest and loses      
1990
 
   
Iraqi troops cross the border into Kuwait and are soon in control of the whole country and its oil wells      
1990
 
   
Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed on corruption charges and her party loses the resulting elections      
1990
 
    
Saddam Hussein announces the annexation of Kuwait, claiming it to have been historically part of Iraq       
1990
 
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Mary Robinson is elected president of the republic of Ireland, the first woman to hold the post      
1990
 
 
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall    
1990
 
   
East and West Germany are united in a new Federal Republic of Germany      
1990
 
     
Irish author Brian Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa has its premiere at the Abbey Theatre        
1990
 
    
The Sadler's Wells ballet company moves to Birmingham, to become the Birmingham Royal Ballet