1990 in Michigan

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Events from the year 1990 in Michigan.

Top Michigan news stories[]

Broadcast and newspaper members of the Associated Press voted on the top news stories in Michigan for 1990 as follows:[1]

  1. On November 6, 1990, State Senator John Engler upset incumbent Governor James Blanchard in the closest gubernatorial election in Michigan history. Engler received 1,279,745 votes, and Blanchard received 1,260,611 votes.[2] A poll by The Detroit News, released two days before the election, showed Blanchard with 54% to 40% for Engler.[3]
  2. On June 3, 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist living in Royal Oak, assisted Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer's patient from Oregon, to end her life using his homemade suicide machine.[4] On December 3, 1990, Kevorkian was charged with murder for his role in Adkins' death.[5] The charges were dismissed 10 days later when an Oakland County judge ruled that the legal status of assisted suicide was unclear.[6]
  3. In November 1990, as part of the Keating Five investigation, the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee conducted hearings into ties between Senator Donald Riegle and former thrift operator Charles Keating, a central figure in the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s.[7] The committee ultimately concluded that Riegle and the other four senators "broke no laws or Senate ethics rules, but were aggressive in their actions on behalf of Charles Keating."
  4. In August 1990, Governor James Blanchard dropped 78-year-old Lieutenant Governor Martha Griffiths as his running mate.
  5. A new law took effect in Michigan requiring girls 17 and younger to obtain parental consent to abortions.
  6. In June 1990, Lawrence DeLisle was convicted by a jury of murder in connection with the deaths of his four children for driving the family's station wagon into the Detroit River in Wyandotte.
  7. On September 18, 1990, the M. V. Jupiter, a 393-foot tanker carrying a million gallons of gasoline, exploded and burned at a dock on the Saginaw River in Bay City. One crewman was killed.
  8. Former Detroit deputy police chief Kenneth Weiner was tried for fraud. He was convicted in January 1991.
  9. The search for a low-level radioactive waste dump.
  10. On December 3, 1990, in the 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision, two Northwest Airlines planes collided on the ground in dense fog. Eight persons were killed.[8]

Office holders[]

State office holders[]

Gov. Blanchard

Mayors of major cities[]

Federal office holders[]

Sen. Riegle
Sen. Levin

Population[]

In the 1990 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 9,295,29 persons, ranking as the eighth most populous state in the country. By 2000, the state's population had grown by 6.9% to 9,938,444 persons.

Cities[]

The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 50,000 based on 1990 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1980 and 2000 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.

1990
Rank
City County 1980 Pop. 1990 Pop. 2000 Pop. Change 1990-2000
1 Detroit Wayne 1,203,368 1,027,974 951,270 −7.5% Decrease
2 Grand Rapids Kent 181,843 189,126 197,800 4.6% Increase
3 Warren Macomb 161,134 144,864 138,247 −4.6% Decrease
4 Flint Genesee 159,611 140,761 124,943 −11.2% Decrease
5 Lansing Ingham 130,414 127,321 119,128 −6.4% Decrease
6 Sterling Heights Macomb 108,999 117,810 124,471 5.7% Increase
7 Ann Arbor Washtenaw 107,969 109,592 114,024 4.0% Increase
8 Livonia Wayne 104,814 100,850 100,545 −0.3% Decrease
9 Dearborn Wayne 90,660 89,286 97,775 9.5%Decrease
10 Westland Wayne 84,603 84,724 86,602 2.2% Increase
11 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo 79,722 80,277 76,145 −5.1% Decrease
12 Southfield Oakland 75,608 75,745 78,322 3.4% Increase
13 Farmington Hills Oakland 58,056 74,611 82,111 10.1% Increase
14 Troy Oakland 67,102 72,884 80,959 11.1% Increase
15 Pontiac Oakland 76,715 71,166 66,337 −6.8% Decrease
16 Taylor Wayne 77,568 70,811 65,868 −7.0% Decrease
17 Saginaw Saginaw 77,508 69,512 61,799 −11.1% Decrease
18 St. Clair Shores Macomb 76,210 68,107 63,096 −7.4% Decrease
19 Royal Oak Oakland 70,893 65,410 60,062 −8.2% Decrease
20 Wyoming Kent 59,616 63,891 69,368 8.6% Increase
21 Dearborn Heights Wayne 67,706 60,838 58,264 −4.2% Decrease
22 Roseville Wayne 54,311 51,412 48,129 −6.4% Decrease
23 East Lansing Ingham 51,392 50,677 46,525 −8.2% Decrease

Counties[]

The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 150,000 based on 1990 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1980 and 2000 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.

1990
Rank
County Largest city 1980 Pop. 1990 Pop. 2000 Pop. Change 1900-2000
1 Wayne Detroit 2,337,891 2,111,687 2,061,162 −2.4% Decrease
2 Oakland Pontiac 1,011,793 1,083,592 1,194,156 10.2% Increase
3 Macomb Warren 694,600 717,400 788,149 9.9% Increase
4 Kent Grand Rapids 444,506 500,631 574,335 14.7% Increase
5 Genesee Flint 450,449 430,459 436,141 1.3% Decrease
6 Washtenaw Ann Arbor 264,748 282,937 322,895 14.1% Increase
7 Ingham Lansing 275,520 281,912 279,320 −0.9% Decrease
8 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo 212,378 223,411 238,603 6.8% Increase
9 Saginaw Saginaw 228,059 211,946 210,039 −0.9% Decrease
10 Ottawa Holland 157,174 187,768 238,314 26.9% Increase
11 Berrien Benton Harbor 171,276 161,378 162,453 0.6% Increase
12 Muskegon Muskegon 157,589 158,983 170,200 7.1% Increase
13 Jackson Jackson 151,495 149,756 158,422 5.8% Decrease

Sports[]

Baseball[]

American football[]

  • 1990 Detroit Lions season – Under head coach Wayne Fontes, the Lions compiled a 6–10 record and finished third in the NFC Central Division. The team's statistical leaders included Rodney Peete with 1,974 passing yards, Barry Sanders with 1,304 rushing yards and 96 points scored, and Robert Clark with 914 receiving yards.[10]
  • 1990 Michigan Wolverines football team – Under head coach Gary Moeller, the Wolverines compiled a 9–3 record, tied for the Big Ten Conferencechampionship, defeated Ole Miss in the 1991 Gator Bowl, and were ranked No. 7 in the final AP poll. The team's statistical leaders included Elvis Grbac with 1,911 passing yards, Jon Vaughn with 1,364 rushing yards, Desmond Howard with 1,025 receiving yards, and J. D. Carlson with 95 points scored.[11]
  • 1990 Michigan State Spartans football team – Under head coach George Perles, the Spartans compiled an 8–3–1 record, defeated USC in the John Hancock Bowl, and were ranked No. 16 in the final AP poll. The team's statistical leaders included Dan Enos with 1,677 passing yards, with 1,394 rushing yards, James Bradley with 517 receiving yards, and Hyland Hickson with 90 points scored.[12]

Basketball[]

Ice hockey[]

Other[]

Music and culture[]

Madonna performing with a Dick Tracy lookalike during the Blond Ambition World Tour, 1990
  • January 18 - Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was hired as the 11th music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.[15] He remained in that position until 2005.
  • March 27 - Madonna's single Vogue was released. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was No. 5 on the year-end chart.
  • April to August - Madonna conducted her Blond Ambition World Tour. Rolling Stone called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza" and proclaimed it "the best tour of 1990".[16] The tour generated strong negative reaction from religious groups for her performance of "Like a Virgin", during which two male dancers caressed her body before she simulated masturbation.[17] The tour was later the subject of the documentary film, Madonna: Truth or Dare.
  • June 15 - The film Dick Tracy was released featuring Madonna as Breathless Mahoney.
  • October 30 - Madonna's single Justify My Love was released. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chronology of events[]

January[]

February[]

March[]

April[]

May[]

June[]

  • June 3 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist living in Royal Oak, assisted Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer's patient from Oregon, to end her life using his homemade suicide machine. On December 3, 1990, Kevorkian was charged with murder for his role in Adkins' death. The charges were dismissed 10 days later when an Oakland County judge ruled that the legal status of assisted suicide was unclear.

July[]

August[]

September[]

  • September 18 - The M. V. Jupiter, a 393-foot tanker carrying a million gallons of gasoline, exploded and burned at a dock on the Saginaw River in Bay City. One crewman was killed.

October[]

November[]

  • November 6 - State Senator John Engler upset incumbent Governor James Blanchard in the closest gubernatorial election in Michigan history. Engler received 1,279,745 votes, and Blanchard received 1,260,611 votes. A poll by The Detroit News, released two days before the election, showed Blanchard with 54% to 40% for Engler.

December[]

Births[]

  • March 4 - Draymond Green, basketball forward, and NBA Defensive Player of the Year (2017), in Saginaw, Michigan
  • April 11 - Amanda Chidester, softball player and 2x Big Ten Conference Player of the Year, in Allen Park, Michigan
  • September 22 - Denard Robinson, Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year in 2010, in Deerfield Beach, Florida

Gallery of 1990 births[]

Deaths[]

  • February 9 - Del Shannon, Grand Rapids native and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit "Runaway", at age 55 in Santa Clarita, California
  • March 15 - Tom Harmon, 1940 Heisman Trophy winner at the University of Michigan, at age 70 in Los Angeles
  • April 7 - Dick Lundy, Sault Ste. Marie native and animator who co-created Donald Duck, at age 82 in San Diego
  • October 25 - Bennie Oosterbaan, multi-sport star and later coach at the University of Michigan, at age 84 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Gallery of 1990 deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Top Stories". Detroit Free Press. December 29, 1990. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Upset, but he's not bitter". Lansing State Journal. November 8, 1990. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Blanchard well ahead, 54% to 40%". The Detroit News and Free Press. November 4, 1990. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Death is another part of life, doctor says". Detroit Free Press. June 7, 1990. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Doctor who provided 'suicide machine' jailed". Detroit Free Press. December 4, 1990. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Suicide doctor cleared; judge calls for new laws". Detroit Free Press. December 14, 1990. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Crises don't rattle political veteran". Detroit Free Press. November 11, 1990. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Metro jets collide; 8 die". Detroit Free Press. December 4, 1990. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "1990 Detroit Tigers Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  10. ^ "1990 Detroit Lions Statistics & Players". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  11. ^ "1990 Michigan Wolverines Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  12. ^ "1990 Michigan State Spartans Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  13. ^ "1989–90 Detroit Pistons Roster and Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  14. ^ "1989–90 Detroit Red Wings Roster and Statistics". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  15. ^ "Jarvi arrives, signs and praises DSO, Orchestra Hall". Detroit Free Press. January 19, 1990. p. 1F – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Walters, Barry (June 1, 2006). "Crucifixes, Leather and Hits". Rolling Stone. 1067 (56). ISSN 0035-791X.
  17. ^ Smith, Neil (May 24, 2004). "Show Stealer Madonna on Tour". BBC. Retrieved February 12, 2008.
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