Unix Timestamp: 632016000
Thursday, January 11. 1990, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.

The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.

Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.

Cold War: In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.

Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.

Prime Minister of PakistanBenazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.

Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.//www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/pp021603.shtml EurasiaNet Human Rights – Notes from Baku: Black January

The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir.

Martin Luther King Day Crash - Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an ATT software bug.

The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.