Seattle
- The Goodwill Games came to Seattle from July to August, drawing roughly 2,300 athletes from 54 nations and putting the city on the international sports map.
- Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose on March 19; surviving members would soon form Pearl Jam.
- Soundgarden signed with A&M Records, the first of the Seattle "Deep Six" bands to land a major-label deal.
- Microsoft launched Windows 3.0 on May 22, the version that finally made Windows the dominant PC operating system.
The United States
- The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard Discovery on April 24. (Reference, NASA)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26. (Reference, ADA.gov)
- Twin Peaks, set in fictional small-town Washington and directed by David Lynch, premiered on ABC.
- Home Alone and Goodfellas were released; Seinfeld began its regular run on NBC.
- Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, prompting the U.S.-led Operation Desert Shield.
The World
- Nelson Mandela was released from prison on February 11 after 27 years in captivity. (Reference, Britannica)
- East and West Germany formally reunified on October 3.
- Tim Berners-Lee proposed and built the first web browser and server at CERN; the World Wide Web was born.
- Lech Wałęsa was elected President of Poland in the country's first fully free postwar election.
- The Channel Tunnel breakthrough between France and the U.K. occurred in October.
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