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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

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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

Famous Birthday

Famous Deaths

  • Italian member of the royal jet set and enterprising venture capitalist, investing in a franchise of Monaco's two Dior boutiques in 1984 and...

  • American musician, a pianist, conductor and composer of symphonies, ballets, musical comedies, chamber music and film scores; a fabulous...

  • French director whose themes of chance and time illustrate his romantic nature.

  • French actress whose films include "L’année Dernière à Marienbad," 1964, "Peau D’âne," 1970 and "Chère Inconnue," 1979.

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in October 1990?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Close To You
  2. - Praying For Time
  3. - I Don't Have The Heart
  4. - Black Catyoutube
  5. - (Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - Show Me Heaven
  2. - A Little Time
  3. - Blue Velvet
  4. - The Anniversary Waltz - Part One
  5. - I've Been Thinking About Youyoutube

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Coasting

Coasting

Release year: 1990

Directed by: Michael P. Noens

Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

Release year: 1990

Directed by: Kevin Costner

Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Country: United States of America

My Mother's Castle

My Mother's Castle

Release year: 1990

Directed by: Yves Robert

Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

Release year: 1990

Directed by: Adrian Lyne

Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven

Country: United States of America

Avalon

Avalon

Release year: 1990

Directed by: Barry Levinson

Starring: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon

Books

Which were the most popular books released in October 1990?
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Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut

Hocus Pocus

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This "irresistible" novel by Timequake (Cleveland Plain Dealer), tells the story Eugene Debs Hartke Hartke-Vietnam veteran and jazz pianist, college professor and prognosticator for the apocalypse.

The Politics Of Rich And Poor by Kevin Phillips

The Politics Of Rich And Poor

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Phillips describes a watershed moment as a result of the huge concentration of wealth in America during the 1980s, most of which was in the hands the top 1% of Americans.

Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

Memories of Midnight

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They played the ultimate game: love, lust and death in THE OTHER SIDE of MIDNIGHT. Now, in MEMORIES Of MIDNIGHT, they meet up to play one final time...Shadowed

Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

Rabbit At Rest

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The Pulitzer Prize winner, the Howells Medal and the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in John Updike's fourth novel about Harry "Rabbit," Angstrom, the hero has been awarded the following:

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

Lady Boss

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DANGEROUSLY BEAUTIFUL, LUCKY -- RETURNS TO LADY BOSS. AND THIS TIME, THE SHAKINGLY SENSUAL, RUTHLESSLY CLEVER HOLLYWOOD LUCKY IS OUT TO CONQUER! She