Video: 'ABC News Update - Lithuania Declares Indpenedance - March 1990'
(Sunday, March 11, 1990, 10:44 p.m. Eastern European Time; during the Cold War) — Lithuania tonight proclaimed itself a sovereign state, legally free of the Soviet Union, and named the leaders of a non-Communist government to negotiate their future relations with Moscow. Continue reading Parliament in Lithuania, 124-0, declares nation independent 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 11 1990)