Timeline Sunday 9 September 1990

Events on Sunday 9 September 1990 2

• 1990 Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki summit Gulf crisis discussed President Bush and Soviet leader Gorbachev met in Helsinki on September 9, 1990 to discuss the Gulf crisis, with the Soviets backing the US position against Iraq.
• 1990 Liberian president Samuel Doe killed Captured and executed during civil war Liberian president Samuel Doe was captured and killed by rebel forces under Prince Johnson on 9 September 1990. His death, filmed and widely circulated, marked a brutal turn in the First Liberian Civil War. The country descended into years of factional fighting.