Historical Events In 1990
Oct 25 NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
Oct 03 Germany officially reunified, with Berlin the capital city
Oct 08 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
Oct 08 US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
Oct 01 Curtis E LeMay USAF General, WWII dies at 83
Oct 04 Regional elections held, in what was East Germany
Oct 11 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
Oct 10 Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56
Oct 25 New Zealand's voters ousted the Labour Party of Mike Moore giving the National Party under James Bolger the biggest election victory in more than 50 years.
Oct 25 Evander Hollyfield KOs James "Buster" Douglas for HW boxing title
Oct 03 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany
Oct 11 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
Oct 23 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
Oct 16 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
Oct 15 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 01 USS Independence (CV-62) enters Persian Gulf (first carrier in Persian Gulf since 1974)
Oct 01 Pres Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
Oct 07 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
Oct 09 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
Oct 25 In the Hindu Kush Region a 6.0 earthquake killed 11 people and more then 250 injured and damage in the Chitral-Mardan-Malakand area, Pakistan. Felt throughout northern and central Pakistan.
Oct 05 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos)
Oct 29 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
Jul 26 US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games
Jul 10 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
Jul 07 Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90 43 20 avg 23.3 mph)
Jul 25 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
Jul 22 Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France
Jul 17 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
Jul 27 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
Jul 21 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
Jul 07 Bill Cullen game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
Jul 14 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premiers on WWOR-TV
Jul 06 In Java a 5.8 quake injured at least 103 people and about 10,300 houses, mosques and public buildings damaged or destroyed
Jul 11 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
Jul 31 Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
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