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In October 1990 The Staffordshire Regiment was deployed to Saudi Arabia as part of 7th Armoured Brigade, better known as the ' Desert Rats '.
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October and 1990
* 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.
In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.
* VP Quayle Receives DePauw's McNaughton Medal for Public Service ; October 26, 1990
October and Staffordshire
Nick Hancock ( born 25 October 1962, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English actor and television presenter.
The mainline Stoke-on-Trent railway station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR ) on 9 October 1848, replacing the temporary station sited at Whieldon road, which was constructed for the opening of the first NSR line on 17 April 1848.
The town also has a mainline railway station, Uttoxeter railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 2 October 1881, however, there were earlier stations opened by the North Staffordshire Railway.
After Francis died, the possessions of Arnold Machin in his house in rural Staffordshire were sold in auction on September and October 2008 by Cuttlestones.
Kidsgrove is served by Kidsgrove railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 9 October 1848 as Harecastle, later becoming Kidsgrove Central.
Following a first deployment in Iraq in 2005 at the end of October 2006 the Staffordshire Regiment commenced its final overseas deployment with a second deployment in Iraq.
* 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's ( North Staffordshire Regiment ) ( from October 1915 )
* October 2009: Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Colonel of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia and Colonel Commandant of the Lichfield Volunteer Yeomanry, who had been posted to India where he married Mary Rotton ( 1767 – 1830 ) of Duffield, Derbyshire in October 1784.
The company was founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in October 1945 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England.
Lord Stafford died at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, in October 1803, aged 82.
Etruria was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848, but it was closed on September 30, 2005.
The company, seeing that engaging in head to head competition with the railways, was doomed to failure, opened negotiations with the North Staffordshire Railway in October 1845.
Professor Brendan Neiland ( born 23 October 1941 in Lichfield, Staffordshire ) is an English artist best known for his paintings of reflections in modern city buildings.
While they were still engaged in fortifying Wem, Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham, with reinforcements from Staffordshire, marched on Nantwich, but was defeated outside Wem in two separate conflicts, on 17 and 18 October.
The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle and was during the early years of the North Staffordshire era variously called Harecastle Junction, Kidsgrove Junction.
A plate by Charlotte Rhead. Charlotte Rhead ( 19 October 1885, Burslem – 6 November 1947 ) was an English ceramics designer active in the 1920s and the 1930s in the Potteries area of Staffordshire.
Gary Herbert " The Choirboy " Jones ( born 29 October 1972 ) is a professional poker player from Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
Frank Neville Hosband Robinson ( 13 April 1925, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England – 19 October 1996, Colmar, France ) was an Englishphysicist.
William Paget, 5th Baron Paget ( 13 September 1609 – 19 October 1678 ) an English peer born at Beaudesert House Staffordshire, England to William Paget, 4th Baron Paget and Lettice Knollys.
The South Staffordshire Railway ( SSR ), which connected with, was formed on 6 October 1846 by amalgamation of two smaller railways, both of which had been formed on 3 August 1846.
The line from Stoke as far as Congleton was opened on 9 October 1848, with Congleton station opening on this day, being owned by the North Staffordshire Railway.
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