Timeline Friday 27 July 1990

Events on Friday 27 July 1990 2

• 1990 Belarus declares sovereignty Soviet republic asserts independence The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic declared state sovereignty from the USSR on July 27, 1990.
• 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen storms Trinidad's parliament Six-day armed siege and hostage crisis Members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen group stormed Trinidad and Tobago's parliament and a television station on 27 July 1990, taking Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson and others hostage. The uprising triggered widespread looting and a six-day siege before the militants surrendered on 1 August. It remains the only Islamist-led coup attempt in the Western Hemisphere.