1990 January 4
Traffic resumes on the Monongahela River, three days after sixty runaway barges drifted down stream and thousands of gallons of gasoline were spilled.

1990 January 8
Radio personality Ed Schaugheny (Uncle Ed) dies at 77.

1990 January 14
Pittsburgh City Council gives final approval to an ordinance for recycling newspapers, plastic, glass and aluminum cans.

1990 January 17
City Councilman President Ben Woods is sentenced to eight years for conspiracy, income tax evasion, extortion and racketeering.

1990 February 17
Dreamer, a giant schnauzer from Fox Chapel owned by Marcia Nanel, wins the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.

1990 March 12
A 78 degree temperature breaks the 114 year-old record.

1990 March 25
The Gulf Tower pyramid re-lit for the first time since the 1970's.

1990 March 31
A landslide ruptures a transmission line of Buckeye Pipe Line Company of Freeport, spilling an estimated 75,600 gallons of gasoline into the Allegheny River.

1990 April 4
University Trustees vote Robert Mehrabian from the University of California, Santa Barbara to be Carnegie Mellon's seventh president.

1990 April 5
The University of Pittsburgh announces the establishment of the University Heart Institute that will combine research with patient care and community outreach. Dr. Bruce Wilson will head the new institute.

1990 April 12
Pittsburgh native, August Wilson wins his second Pulitzer Prize for his play "The Piano Lesson."

1990 May 21
Mayer DeRoy, a 30-year veteran police officer, becomes the new police chief.

1990 June 7
Twenty-three fire companies are called for as fire rages in the Strip District.

1990 June 13
Dr. Solomon B. Freehof, Rabbi of Rodef Shalom Congregation for 32 years, dies at the age of 97.

1990 July 7
Edward M. Ryan, co-founder of Ryan Homes, donates the Bank Center Mall on Wood Street to Point Park College.