October 1990 calendar

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

• Jonathan Lipnicki

  American actor.

• Carly Schroeder

  American actress.

• Manon Azem
• Kiko Mizuhara

  Model.

• Kirby Bliss Blanton
• Charlie McDonnell

  YouTube Star.

• Marcelina Sowa
• Sacha Page
• Ricky Rubio

  Spanish basketball player.

• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

  French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion.

• Lais Ribeiro
• Tati Cotliar
• Brittney Griner

  Basketball Player.

• Bristol Palin

  American daughter of Sarah Palin and Todd Palin.

• Jeon Ji-yoon

  South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer (4Minute and 2Yoon).

• Thunder (singer)
• Samantha Munro

  American Actress.

• Ana Izaguirre Iribarne
• Rhian Ramos

  Filipino actress.

• Anna Hausburg
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Famous Deaths

• Stefano Casiraghi

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

• Leonard Bernstein

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

• Jacques Demy

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

• Delphine Seyrig

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

• Louis Althusser

  French-Algerian philosopher and teacher at the ENS, a Marxist and an author.

• Ugo Tognazzi

  Italian actor, comedian and director whose best known and loved role was that of the gay cabaret owner in "La Cage Aux Follies," for which...

• Ralph Abernathy

  American Civil Rights Activist and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Joel McCrea

  American actor of over 100 films who started working as a horses-wrangler on westerns, entering films as a stuntman, wrangler and extra in...

• Art Blakey

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers).

• Curtis LeMay

  American general and politician (d. 1990).

• Robert Tessier

  Actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56.

• William French Smith

  US attorney general (1980), dies at age 73 from cancer.

• Graig Russel

  Canadian travel expert / transvestite.

• BJ Wilson

  English musician (Procol Harum) (Born 1947).

• Xavier Cugart

  bandlander, dies from heart failure at age 90.

• Dick Jorgensen

  NFL referee, dies at age 56.

• Rifaat Maghub

  President Egyptian MP, murdered.

• Juan Jose Arevalo

  President of Guatemala (1945-51).

• John "Cat" Thompson

  basketball hall of famer, dies at age 84.

• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Indian spiritual leader (Born 1921).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Maxi Priest - Close To You
2. George Michael - Praying For Time
3. James Ingram - I Don't Have The Heart
4. Janet Jackson - Black Cat
5. Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
2. The Beautiful South - A Little Time
3. Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
4. Status Quo - The Anniversary Waltz - Part One
5. Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You