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Months in Year 1990: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Results 751 - 900 of 957

Oct 2nd - Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
Oct 2nd - US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
Oct 2nd - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
Oct 3rd - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
Oct 3rd - George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
Oct 3rd - Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
Oct 3rd - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
Oct 4th - "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
Oct 4th - Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
Oct 5th - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
Oct 6th - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
Oct 6th - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
Oct 6th - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
Oct 7th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
Oct 7th - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
Oct 8th - 24th Country Music Assn Award: George Strait wins
Oct 8th - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
Oct 8th - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
Oct 9th - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Oct 9th - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
Oct 9th - Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
Oct 10th - Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
Oct 10th - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
Oct 11th - "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
Oct 11th - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
Oct 11th - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
Oct 11th - Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
Oct 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 13th - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
Oct 13th - Target Center in Minneapolis opens
Oct 14th - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
Oct 14th - Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce
Oct 14th - SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
Oct 15th - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 16th - "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs
Oct 16th - Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
Oct 16th - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
Oct 16th - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
Oct 17th - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs
Oct 17th - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
Oct 18th - "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
Oct 19th - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
Oct 20th - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
Oct 20th - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
Oct 20th - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series
Oct 21st - Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
Oct 21st - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
Oct 23rd - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
Oct 24th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 25th - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
Oct 25th - NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
Oct 27th - "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs
Oct 27th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
Oct 27th - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
Oct 29th - 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
Oct 30th - England-France complete "Chunnel"
Oct 31st - Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
Nov 1st - "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
Nov 1st - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original govt resigns, Deputy PM Howe
Nov 1st - Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
Nov 1st - Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
Nov 2nd - 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
Nov 3rd - Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
Nov 4th - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
Nov 4th - 20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
Nov 4th - 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
Nov 4th - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
Nov 4th - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
Nov 4th - Sec of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
Nov 6th - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Nov 6th - Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
Nov 6th - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
Nov 6th - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
Nov 7th - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
Nov 7th - "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
Nov 7th - Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
Nov 7th - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
Nov 8th - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
Nov 8th - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
Nov 8th - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
Nov 8th - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
Nov 8th - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
Nov 9th - Tanzania govt of Malecela forms
Nov 9th - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
Nov 10th - Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
Nov 11th - "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
Nov 11th - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
Nov 12th - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
Nov 12th - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Nov 13th - Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 13th - The World Wide Web first began.
Nov 13th - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known as the Aramoana Massacre.
Nov 14th - Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award
Nov 14th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Nov 14th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 14th - Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of party
Nov 14th - Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die
Nov 15th - Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
Nov 15th - Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
Nov 15th - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
Nov 16th - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
Nov 18th - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
Nov 18th - 1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
Nov 18th - NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
Nov 18th - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
Nov 19th - Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
Nov 19th - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
Nov 19th - Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
Nov 20th - Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
Nov 20th - Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
Nov 20th - Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
Nov 20th - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
Nov 21st - Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
Nov 22nd - George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
Nov 22nd - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
Nov 22nd - Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
Nov 23rd - Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
Nov 23rd - Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0
Nov 25th - 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
Nov 25th - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
Nov 25th - NFL's NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
Nov 25th - Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 & L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
Nov 26th - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins
Nov 26th - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
Nov 26th - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
Nov 26th - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
Nov 26th - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
Nov 27th - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
Nov 28th - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his reign as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister
Nov 28th - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
Nov 29th - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
Nov 29th - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
Nov 29th - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
Nov 30th - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
Nov 30th - Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
Dec 1st - 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
Dec 1st - British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
Dec 1st - Hissène Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
Dec 1st - Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
Dec 1st - Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
Dec 1st - NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
Dec 2nd - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
Dec 2nd - 1st time 12 people in space
Dec 2nd - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
Dec 2nd - Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
Dec 2nd - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
Dec 3rd - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
Dec 4th - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
Dec 4th - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
Dec 5th - Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter