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Sports History
Oct 3 Oakland Raiders promote 42-year-old Art Shell as the first African-American to be an NFL head coach in modern times; takes over from Mike Shanahan
Coup d'état
Oct 3 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
- Oct 4 MLB San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs; Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings
- Oct 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Baseball Record
Oct 7 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a playoff series (5 games) against Toronto Blue Jays
- Oct 9 First NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
- Oct 9 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newsstands
Sports History
Oct 12 Dallas running back Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Minnesota Vikings for 5 players and 6 future draft picks including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson
Radio Premiere
Oct 15 American radio and television evangelist Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Boulevard, the first clergyman to be granted a star
Event of Interest
Oct 15 South African President F. W. de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu and four other political prisoners
Sports History
Oct 15 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe as NHL's all time top scorer
- Oct 16 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
- Oct 16 Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
Storm Front
Oct 17 Columbia Records releases "Storm Front", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's eleventh studio album
- Oct 18 East German communist leader Erich Honecker resigns
- Oct 18 Hungary revises its constitution after the fall of its Communist regime
- Oct 18 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
- Oct 19 Astor Piazzolla and William Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres at Nederlander Theater NYC
- Oct 19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Oct 20 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
- Oct 20 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
- Oct 21 Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe purchase the Denver Nuggets for $65m - 1st African American owners of a major sports team,
- Oct 21 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
- Oct 21 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
- Oct 22 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
F1 World Champion
Oct 22 Over-competitive McLaren teammates Alain Prost & Ayrton Senna famously collide and skid into an escape road during Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka; Prost retires from race and claims 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- Oct 22 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
- Oct 23 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
Best of Dark Horse 1976-89
Oct 23 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
- Oct 23 Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
- Oct 23 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
- Oct 23 William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" premieres in London
Event of Interest
Oct 24 American televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison for fraud but the sentence is later reduced to eight years on appeal
- Oct 24 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Oct 29 NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
- Oct 29 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
- Oct 30 August A. Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards
- Oct 30 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
- Oct 31 AR Gurney's play "Love Letters" premieres in NYC
- Oct 31 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Oct 31 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
- Oct 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 1 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
- Nov 1 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
Television Finale
Nov 2 "Blackadder Goes Forth" final episode "Goodbyeee" airs on BBC-TV starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
- Nov 3 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
- Nov 3 NBA expansion Minnesota Timberwolves make NBA debut; lose 106-94 against SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum; Tyrone Corbin T-Wolves top scorer with 20 points
- Nov 3 Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov become first Russians to play in a regular season NBA game; Marciulionis scores 19 as Golden State lose 136-106 to Phoenix; Volkov held scoreless in Atlanta's 126-103 defeat by Indiana
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Nov 4 First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
- Nov 4 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
- Nov 4 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
- Nov 5 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
- Nov 5 French McLaren driver Alain Prost withdraws early in wet Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from teammate Ayrton Senna
- Nov 5 US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- Nov 6 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
- Nov 7 Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
NYC Firsts
Nov 7 NYC elects it's 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)
- Nov 8 "Byker Grove" begins broadcasting on the BBC
- Nov 8 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 8 Douglas Wilder wins election for Governor of Virginia, 1st African-American elected to the office in any state
- Nov 8 Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service
- Nov 9 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie after thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces restrictions on travel to the West had lifted
- Nov 10 Bulgarian Communist party president Todor Zhikov (78) resigns
- Nov 10 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
- Nov 10 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
- Nov 11 Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting "we want reforms", in a sign of the revolution to come
- Nov 12 Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years
- Nov 12 George Forrest's musical "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 1018 performances and wins 5 Tony Awards
Figure of 8
Nov 13 Paul McCartney releases single "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil"
- Nov 14 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
- Nov 15 "Batman" film is released on video tape
- Nov 15 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
- Nov 15 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Younis and Tendulkar
Nov 15 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
- Nov 15 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
- Nov 16 Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacuría and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army - one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war
- Nov 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
- Nov 16 UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
- Nov 17 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
- Nov 17 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
- Nov 18 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
Graf Regains WTA
Nov 19 German tennis No. 1 Steffi Graf regains the WTA Tour Championship in NYC; beats Martina Navratilova 6–4, 7–5, 2–6, 6–2
- Nov 19 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
- Nov 20 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
Smoking Banned
Nov 21 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by US President George H. W. Bush
- Nov 21 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
- Nov 22 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and the Moon
- Nov 22 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
Puckett's $3M Contract
Nov 22 MLB center fielder Kirby Puckett signs record $3,000,000 per year contract with Minnesota Twins
- Nov 22 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
- Nov 23 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
The Bounty Bowl
Nov 23 The "Bounty Bowl": Philadelphia Eagles defeat Dallas Cowboys 27-0 at Thanksgiving in an ill-tempered game, after which Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players
- Nov 23 Xenophon Zolotas is sworn in as premier of Greece
- Nov 24 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
- Nov 24 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
- Nov 24 Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days, a record
David Boon
Nov 25 David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
- Nov 26 Comores coup under Bob Benard
V. P. Singh
Nov 26 India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh
- Nov 26 Luis Alberto Lacalle wins Uruguayan presidential election
- Nov 26 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
- Nov 27 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
- Nov 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Nov 27 George Harrison releases music singles "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"
- Nov 27 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
All Hail the Queen
Nov 28 Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"
- Nov 28 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 contract per year with baseball's Oakland Athletics
- Nov 29 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections
- Nov 30 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb
- Dec 1 "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS
- Dec 1 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
- Dec 1 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
Nadia Comăneci
Dec 1 Romanian 5-time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Nadia Comăneci arrives in NYC requesting political asylum to the United States; granted
Gorbachev meets John Paul II
Dec 1 USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
- Dec 2 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
- Dec 2 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
- Dec 2 V. P. Singh sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of India
Cold War Over
Dec 3 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
Stefan Edberg
Dec 3 Stefan Edberg of Sweden claims his first and only ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title with a 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, 6–1 win over defending champion Boris Becker at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Dec 4 NBC's premiere of "Howard Beach: Making A Case for Murder", based on December 1986 murders of black youths by white youths in New York City
- Dec 5 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
- Dec 6 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
- Dec 6 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
- Dec 7 C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC
- Dec 8 Great Britain performs nuclear test
- Dec 10 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
- Dec 11 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
Driving Miss Daisy
Dec 13 "Driving Miss Daisy" directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy is released (Best Picture 1990)
- Dec 13 The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden
- Dec 13 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
- Dec 16 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
- Dec 16 Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia
- Dec 16 Protest breaks out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor, László Tőkés.
The Simpsons
Dec 17 "The Simpsons" created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Bird Begins Free Throw Streak
Dec 19 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
- Dec 20 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
- Dec 20 US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
- Dec 21 New Zealand is the first country to set a formal inflation target (0-2%) for how much prices should rise each year. Similar targets are subsequently adopted by most developed countries.
- Dec 21 VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
Romanian Revolution
Dec 22 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
- Dec 22 Cold wave: -6°F in Tulsa, Oklahoma; -12°F in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; -18°F in Denver, Colorado; -23°F in Kansas City, Missouri; -42°F in Scottsbluff, Nebraska; -47°F in Hardin, Montana; and -60°F in Black Hills, South Dakota
- Dec 22 Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution
First Liberian Civil War
Dec 24 Charles Taylor starts First Liberian Civil War when he enters country at the head of guerilla group the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, to overthrow President Samuel Doe
Symphony Marks Fall of Berlin Wall
Dec 25 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in East Berlin's Schauspielhaus to celebrate fall of the Berlin Wall. Broadcast worldwide to audience of 100 million.
Ceaușescu's Trial and Execution
Dec 25 Trial of Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment; the couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.
Ballon d'Or
Dec 26 Ballon d'Or: Milan's second straight 1-2-3; Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 2nd best football player in Europe title ahead of Franco Baresi and Frank Rijkaard
Taylor and Jayasuriya Debut
Dec 26 ODI cricket debut for Australia's Mark Taylor and Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya at the MCG
- Dec 27 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
Dubček Elected
Dec 28 Alexander Dubček elected Chairman of the Federal Assembly (Parliament) of Czechslovakia
- Dec 28 Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
- Dec 29 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
- Dec 29 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
Havel Czechoslovakian President
Dec 29 Václav Havel is selected to be president of Czechoslovakia by the Federal Assembly shortly after the Velvet Revolution
- Dec 29 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by the Associated Press
- Dec 30 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
Desormeaux's Win Record
Dec 31 Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
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