1990 in Michigan

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Events from the year 1990 in Michigan.

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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 in the Murder of the DeLisle 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.

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Rank		 City County 1980 Pop. 1990 Pop. 2000 Pop. Change 1990-2000
1DetroitWayne1,203,3681,027,974951,270−7.5% Decrease
2Grand RapidsKent181,843189,126197,8004.6% Increase
3WarrenMacomb161,134144,864138,247−4.6% Decrease
4FlintGenesee159,611140,761124,943−11.2% Decrease
5LansingIngham130,414127,321119,128−6.4% Decrease
6Sterling HeightsMacomb108,999117,810124,4715.7% Increase
7Ann ArborWashtenaw107,969109,592114,0244.0% Increase
8LivoniaWayne104,814100,850100,545−0.3% Decrease
9DearbornWayne90,66089,28697,7759.5%Decrease
10WestlandWayne84,60384,72486,6022.2% Increase
11KalamazooKalamazoo79,72280,27776,145−5.1% Decrease
12SouthfieldOakland75,60875,74578,3223.4% Increase
13Farmington HillsOakland58,05674,61182,11110.1% Increase
14TroyOakland67,10272,88480,95911.1% Increase
15PontiacOakland76,71571,16666,337−6.8% Decrease
16TaylorWayne77,56870,81165,868−7.0% Decrease
17SaginawSaginaw77,50869,51261,799−11.1% Decrease
18St. Clair ShoresMacomb76,21068,10763,096−7.4% Decrease
19Royal OakOakland70,89365,41060,062−8.2% Decrease
20WyomingKent59,61663,89169,3688.6% Increase
21Dearborn HeightsWayne67,70660,83858,264−4.2% Decrease
22RosevilleWayne54,31151,41248,129−6.4% Decrease
23East LansingIngham51,39250,67746,525−8.2% Decrease
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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.

More information 1990 Rank, County ...
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Rank		 County Largest city 1980 Pop. 1990 Pop. 2000 Pop. Change 1900-2000
1WayneDetroit2,337,8912,111,6872,061,162−2.4% Decrease
2OaklandPontiac1,011,7931,083,5921,194,15610.2% Increase
3MacombWarren694,600717,400788,1499.9% Increase
4KentGrand Rapids444,506500,631574,33514.7% Increase
5GeneseeFlint450,449430,459436,1411.3% Decrease
6WashtenawAnn Arbor264,748282,937322,89514.1% Increase
7InghamLansing275,520281,912279,320−0.9% Decrease
8KalamazooKalamazoo212,378223,411238,6036.8% Increase
9SaginawSaginaw228,059211,946210,039−0.9% Decrease
10OttawaHolland157,174187,768238,31426.9% Increase
11BerrienBenton Harbor171,276161,378162,4530.6% Increase
12MuskegonMuskegon157,589158,983170,2007.1% Increase
13JacksonJackson151,495149,756158,4225.8% Decrease
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Sports

Baseball

American football

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

  • Draymond Green
    Draymond Green
  • Denard Robinson
    Denard Robinson

Deaths

  • Del Shannon
    Del Shannon
  • Tom Harmon
    Tom Harmon
  • Bennie Oosterbaan
    Bennie Oosterbaan

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References

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