* 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.

The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage was established in October 1990.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

Since German reunification on 3 October 1990, Berlin has been one of the three city states, together with Hamburg and Bremen, among the present 16 states of Germany.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

# Shave the Whale — October 22, 1989 to August 4, 1990

In October 1990, a decade after his divorce from Angela, Bowie and Somali-born supermodel Iman were introduced by a mutual friend.

Donald Allen Wollheim ( 1 October 1914 – 2 November 1990 ) was an American science fiction ( sf ) editor, publisher, writer, and fan.

But his first real gig was at the Rascals Comedy Club as part of the TV show The Rascals Comedy Hour on October 18, 1990.

On 3 October 1990, West and East Germany and West and East Berlin were reunited, thus formally ending the existence of East Berlin.

After the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany, German reunification took effect on 3 October 1990.

Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September – October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Georgia has been a democratic republic since the first multiparty, democratic parliamentary elections of October 28, 1990.

The Day of German Unity on October 3 has been a German national holiday since the reunification in 1990, when the German reunification was brought out in full force.

Therefore, 3 October 1990, the day of formal reunification, was chosen instead.

" The Volkskammer decides on the accession of the GDR to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany according to Article 23 of the Basic Laws effective as of October 3, 1990.

The SED-PDS Chairman Gregor Gysi made a sad declaration: " The Parliament has more or less decided on the downfall of the German Democratic Republic on 3 October 1990.

East Germany ceased to exist when its federal states were re-established and acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990 ( see German reunification ).

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

The second was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, when she resigned and retired from Norwegian politics, and was succeeded by Thorbjørn Jagland.

This led to the acceleration of the process of reforms in East Germany that ended with the German reunification that came into force on 3 October 1990.

A further fibre optic cable, known as BT-MT1 was laid in October 1990 between Millom in Cumbria and Douglas, a distance of.

As a result, in October 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed Julian Simon a check for $ 576. 07 to settle the wager in Simon's favor.

* VP Quayle Receives DePauw's McNaughton Medal for Public Service ; October 26, 1990

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

From a Memorandum of 20 October 1963 by Major Raúl Castro, it can be seen that great importance was attached to the decent behaviour of the troops, with strict instructions being given on their proper conduct during foreign interventions.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

Domitian was born in Rome on 24 October 51, the youngest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Flavia Domitilla Major.

Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

Major road repairs can be found taking place in nearly every neighborhood, including a major 6-lane highway connected Luanda to Viana, which is nearing partial completion in October.

Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference.

Pedro Jaime Martínez ( born October 25, 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic ) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher.

On October 26, 2005, Clemente was named a member of Major League Baseball's Latino Legends Team.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

Endeavours last Orbiter Major Modification period began in December 2003 and ended on October 6, 2005.

Eisenstein completed a script by the start of October 1930, but Paramount disliked it completely and, additionally, found themselves intimidated by Major Frank Pease, president of the Hollywood Technical Director's Institute.

* " Titanium: Our Next Major Metal ", Popular Science, October 1950 — one of first general public detailed articles on Titanium

* October 3 – " Shot Heard ' Round the World ": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

* October 7 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

* October 2 – After two days of siege, Major Buckrucker and his men surrender.

* October 28 – Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts ( b. 1727 )

* October 7 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Kings Mountain: Patriot militia forces annihilate a Loyalists under British Major Patrick Ferguson at Kings Mountain in South Carolina.

To counter the French military presence in Ohio, in October 1753 Dinwiddie ordered the 21-year-old Major George Washington ( whose brother was another Ohio Company investor ) of the Virginia Regiment to warn the French to leave Virginia territory.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.