October 1990 calendar

October 1990
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 1990.
The US president was George H. W. Bush (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on October 1990: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1990?

Events

01 Oct 1990 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
02 Oct 1990 Michael Feinstein in Concert - opens at Golden NYC for 30 performances
03 Oct 1990 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany
04 Oct 1990 Stand Up Tragedy opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
05 Oct 1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos).
06 Oct 1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
07 Oct 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
08 Oct 1990 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
09 Oct 1990 David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
10 Oct 1990 Oakland Athletics sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
11 Oct 1990 Miser opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 93 performances
13 Oct 1990 Target Center in Minneapolis opens
14 Oct 1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
15 Oct 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
16 Oct 1990 Stand Up Tragedy closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 performances
17 Oct 1990 Jackie Mason - Brand New opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 performances
18 Oct 1990 Once on this Island opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
19 Oct 1990 HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
20 Oct 1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
21 Oct 1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland Athletics manager Tony La Russa a punk for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
23 Oct 1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages.
24 Oct 1990 Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian ''stay-behind'' clandestine paramilitary NATO army.
25 Oct 1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991).
26 Oct 1990 William Anthony Odom, North Carolina 15-year-old, accidentally hangs himself staging a gallows scene at a Halloween party.
27 Oct 1990 Michael Feinstein in Concert closes at Golden NYC after 30 performances
29 Oct 1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
30 Oct 1990 England-France complete Chunnel
31 Oct 1990 Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of New Zealand, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
03 Oct 1990 The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.