 H&M's Training Services Department, founded in 1980, this year helps troubled teens with innovative summer programs where the youths learn to assemble TVs, AM-FM radios and other electronic items while acquiring basic academic skill sets… Training Services also offers Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) courses to inner-city kids as part of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare grant. H&M works in cooperation with Temple University's Center for Social Policy in helping the teens acquire marketable skills… Henkels & McCoy's Industrial Division rigs and sets a 150-ton turbine, a 155-ton electric generator, and a 45-ton auxiliary unit in a little over a day and a half for a Public Service Electric & Gas generating station in New Jersey… The Industrial Division's General Construction Department also completes a project for Atlantic oil refinery in Philadelphia, setting concrete foundations, piers for various tanks and storm and process sewer drains, plus fire and water lines, and 65,000 square feet of concrete paving as part of the refinery's new acid-alkylation unit… Henkels & McCoy's Florida Division sends crews to the US Virgin Islands to clean up after Hurricane Hugo downs telephone poles… H&M also comes to the rescue in a sulfur plant in Manistee, Michigan when possible defects turn up during routine tests of a tank containing poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas… H&M's Northwest Division installs 175 miles of telephone cable in Kendrick, Idaho, finally putting an end to up to16 people sharing a party line… H&M helps construct part of a movie set for an upcoming film, Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder… H&M installs an imaginative nearly wireless telephone system for 100 residential customers in a remote corner of northeastern Nevada, enabling the ranchers to communicate with each other -- and the outside world.
 January 3
General Manuel Noriega (left) surrenders in Panama when US troops arrive in force to arrest him on drug trafficking and corruption charges.
January 22
Yugoslavia ends 45-years of Communist monopoly of power.
January
In the Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers defeat Denver Broncos (55-10).
February 7
Communist Party relinquish sole power in Soviet government.
 February 1
South Africa frees Nelson Mandela (right), imprisoned for 27 years for his political activities. He will become South Africa's first black president.
April 25
The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
June 1
US-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments.
June 11
US Supreme Court upsets law banning flag burning.
July 6
Western Alliance ends Cold War and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
July 20
US Appeals Court overturns Oliver North's Iran-Contra conviction
August 2
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting the stage for the subsequent Persian Gulf War.
 August 31
East and West Germany are formally reunited after 45 years. Right: Crowds fill the square before the Reichstag (the German parliament) celebrating reunification.
October
In the 1990 World Series the Cincinnati Reds sweep the Oakland A's (4-0).
November 22
Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister. John Major becomes leader of the Conservative Party, and thus becomes the new British Prime Minister.
December 9
Gdansk shipyard labor activist (Solidarity) Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff presidential election.
ALSO IN 1990:
President Bush signs the Clean Air Act.
The FDA approves use of the surgically-implanted contraceptive Norplant.
In 1990 Ninety-nine percent of U.S. households have at least one radio, with the average owning five.
In Sports
NBA Championship Detroit beats Portland (4-1)
Stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers beat. Boston Bruins (4-1)
Kentucky Derby Champion is Unbridled
World Cup Final: West Germany defeats Argentina (1-0)
 What's on TV
The Simpsons debuts on Fox as a short segment on the Tracy Ulman Show and becomes an instant hit... Much ado about nothing: Seinfeld debuts on NBC. It will become the most successful TV sitcom of all time... Cheers, 60 Minutes, and Roseanne lead the top ten s hows. Murphy Brown, Designing Women,, Golden Girls, Major Dad, Murder She Wrote and Family Matters also share berths in the top 20.
That's Show Biz
The X rating for movies is replaced by NC-17 (no children under 17)... Movies this year include Dances with Wolves, Henry and June, and Reversal of Fortune. Making a big impact this year is Good Fellas, a mob bio-pic based on the real life confessions of former hood and witness protection program member Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta.
 Deaths
B.F. Skinner
Jim Henson, Muppeteer (left, with Kermit the Frog)
Greta Garbo, actress
Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, Rat Pack member
José Napoleón Duarte, Latin American politician, president of El Salvador
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