Timeline Sunday 8 April 1990

Events on Sunday 8 April 1990 4

• 1990 Nepal's pro-democracy movement restores multi-party rule King Birendra accepts constitutional monarchy Weeks of pro-democracy protests known as the Jana Andolan pressured Nepal's King Birendra to lift the ban on political parties. On 8 April 1990 he agreed to a new constitution establishing a multi-party constitutional monarchy. The movement ended three decades of direct royal rule.
• 1990 Hungary holds first free elections since 1945 Democratic Forum wins governing mandate Hungary's first free parliamentary elections since World War II were held in two rounds on 25 March and 8 April 1990. The Hungarian Democratic Forum won the largest share of seats and formed a coalition government. The vote completed Hungary's transition from communist rule.
• 1990 Ryan White dies AIDS activist teenager, age 18 Ryan White, the teenager who became a symbol of the AIDS crisis after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion, died of pneumonia on April 8, 1990. His advocacy helped change public understanding of AIDS.
• 1990 – 1991 Twin Peaks -- 'Who killed Laura Palmer?' Co-created with Mark Frost, Twin Peaks debuted on ABC on 8 April 1990 and became a cultural phenomenon. The series -- a murder mystery set in a logging town in the Pacific Northwest -- introduced Lynch''s surrealist sensibility to a mainstream television audience of 35 million viewers. FBI Agent Dale Cooper, the Red Room, the Black Lodge, and the question 'Who killed Laura Palmer?' entered the cultural vocabulary. The show ran for two seasons before cancellation, but its influence on subsequent television drama was immeasurable.