When Liverpool won English league last, Maruti 800 was India's most selling car! 10 captivating facts to know as Merseyside celebrates

Maruti 800, the famous city car which stopped production in 2014, was India's best-seller with exports to various European countries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was yet to become a memeber of the BJP's National Election Committee. It was in the year 1990 that he rose within the party ranks and joined the body.

Motorola MicroTAC, which was introduced in April that year, was the world's smallest mobile phone.

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise starrer 'Rain Man' was declared the Best Movie at the 61st Academy Awards.

The Soviet Union was yet to be dissolved and hence Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) among other countries including Croatia, Macedonia Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine etc were yet to be formed.

George HW Bush was the President of the United States and will witness the fall of the Eastern Bloc from the White House.

India had only 23 states with Mizoram being the youngest. An UT earlier, it became a state on 20 February 1987.

The Tienanmen Student protest was still waging in China and the 'massacre' by the PLA was yet to happen.

Mohammad Azharuddin was the Indian cricket team captain.

'People's Front of Liberation Tigers', a political party to represent the LTTE rebels was formed in Sri Lanka.