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1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico.

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1989 - After nine years, WHOT (Brooklyn pirate radio station) is busted by the US Federal Communications Commission.

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1989 - Death of János Kádár, Hungarian dictator (born 1912).

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1990 - Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at age 46.

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1990 - In Java, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. At least 103 people injured and about 10,300 houses, mosques and public buildings damaged or destroyed.

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1991 - Birth of Victoire Thivisol, French actress.

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1992 - (to July 29) Iraq refuses a United Nations inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.

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1994 - Birth of Camilla and Rebecca Rosso, English twin actresses.

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1994 - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.

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1995 - IBM completes its US$3.5 billion acquisition of Lotus Development, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary.

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