Unix Timestamp: 635817600
Saturday, February 24. 1990, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first democratic election in the history of the Soviet Union.

The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.

The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the new president of Nicaragua, replacing Daniel Ortega.