December 1990 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1990 New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte Hornets 113-96.
• 02 Dec 1990 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
• 03 Dec 1990 At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
• 04 Dec 1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City, New York.
• 05 Dec 1990 Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter
• 06 Dec 1990 Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages.
• 07 Dec 1990 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement
• 08 Dec 1990 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby.
• 09 Dec 1990 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
• 10 Dec 1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
• 11 Dec 1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
• 12 Dec 1990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell, leaves Kuwait.
• 13 Dec 1990 Peter Pan opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 14 Dec 1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
• 15 Dec 1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries supermodel Rachel Hunter.
• 16 Dec 1990 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
• 17 Dec 1990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
• 18 Dec 1990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
• 20 Dec 1990 Pentagon warns Saddam Hussein that US air power is ready to attack on January 15.
• 22 Dec 1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen.
• 23 Dec 1990 Lettice & Lovage closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 performances
• 24 Dec 1990 Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup .
• 25 Dec 1990 Godfather III premieres
• 26 Dec 1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
• 28 Dec 1990 Two die in a New York City subway accident.
• 29 Dec 1990 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley.
• 30 Dec 1990 Miser closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 93 performances
• 31 Dec 1990 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace.

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Baptiste Maunier

  French actor and singer famous for his role in the 2004 French film, Les Choristes.

• JoJo (singer)
• Andy Biersack

  Rock Singer.

• Teyana Taylor

  Rapper.

• Seungri

  Korean singer.

• Chanel Iman

  American model.

• Stéphanie Clerbois
• David Archuleta

  American Idol runner-up, American singer.

• David Goffin

  Belgian tennis player.

• Anna Maria Perez de Taglé
• Milos Raonic

  Tennis Player.

• Ronnia Fornstedt
• LaFee (singer)
• Arantxa Rus
• Skye Stracke
• Patrick Chan

  Canadian figure Skater.

• Tomáš Tatar

  Slovak ice hockey player.

• Ashleigh Brewer

  Soap Opera Actress.

• Viviane Orth
• Lilia Biktagirova
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Famous Deaths

• Joan Bennett

  American actress, she and sister Constance were on-screen from 1928 .

• Joan Bennett

  American actress, she and sister Constance were on-screen from 1928 .

• Paul Tortelier

  French musician, a cello virtuoso and composer of the "Israeli Symphony," 1955.

• Robert Cummings

  American actor, an eternal juvenile who was still youthful looking at 60.

• Alice Marble

  American tennis champion who won Wimbledon in 1938 and 1939 and the U.S.

• Martin Ritt

  United States -- Director / actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70.

• Mike Mazurski

  Wrestler / actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at 80.

• Pony Sherrell Metcalf

  NY, singer, dies of heart attack.

• Gavin Reed

  Actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59.

• Basil Henson

  Actor (Change Partners), dies of a stroke at 71.

• Cecil Effinger

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Marguerite N Wittenberg

  Entertainer, dies of cancer at 77.

• Don Draper

  Actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61.

• Mieke Verstraete

  Belgian / Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79.

• Betty Warren

  Actress (Passport to Pimlico).

• Horst Bienek

  Writer, dies at 60.

• Delecta "Dee" Clark

  US singer ("Raindrops"), dies at age 52.

• Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-70), dies.

• Fernand J Collin

  Belgian economist/banker, dies at age 92.

• Edward Binns

  US actor (Twelve Angry Men), dies of heart attack at age 74.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight
2. Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song)
3. Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time
4. Bette Midler - From A Distance
5. Madonna - Justify My Love

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
2. Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day
3. EMF - Unbelievable
4. Madonna - Justify My Love
5. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody