* 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

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

This came just over half a decade since the one millionth car, an EJ Premier sedan rolled off the Dandenong line on 25 October 1962.

The country partly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hit hard by Hurricane Mitch at the end of October 1998, almost exactly a decade after the similarly destructive Hurricane Joan and again in 2007 it was hit by Hurricane Felix a category 5 hurricane.

At the end of the decade, in October 1970, the Phillies played their final game in Connie Mack Stadium and prepared to move into newly built Veterans Stadium, wearing new maroon uniforms to accentuate the change.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

* August 30 – October 4 – the Battle of Lake Poyang is fought between the Dahan rebel forces of Chen Youliang and the Red Turban Rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang on Lake Poyang, during the final decade of Yuan Dynasty control over China.

Dismayed by his continued deterioration and reluctant to payroll Wilson as an active partner in the touring Beach Boys ( an arrangement that had persisted for a decade ), Marilyn and the Wilson family enlisted the services of radical therapist Eugene Landy in October 1975.

Since then Vans Skatepark in Orange County rebuilt a replica of the original Combi Pool, its been host to some of the greatest contest of the past decade. The Pipeline Skatepark also influenced the rebuild of a 20 foot full pipe in Upland's Memorial Park, It was designed by none other than Pipeline's local and most respected Steve Alba and constructed by California Skatepark and was dedicated on October 12 2002 by Mayor John Pomierski.

Aline Murray Kilmer, the widow of poet Joyce Kilmer, lived the last decade of her life at Whitehall, passing away there on October 1, 1941.

Growing slowly during its first decade, after the railroad ’ s completion in October 1882, the town had eleven general stores, two physicians, and a number of industries by 1884.

After a decade of planning and negotiation, Helotes became an incorporated city in October 1981.

After Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885, and particularly in the last decade of his life, this mystical component manifested in his art through a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color ( October, 1886, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ), a profound and dramatic juxtaposition of sky and earth ( Early Autumn, Montclair, 1888, Montclair Art Museum ), an emphasis on the intimate landscape view ( Sunset in the Woods, 1891, Corcoran Gallery of Art ), and an increasingly personal, spontaneous, and often violent handling of paint.

The panic of October 1929 has come to serve as a symbol of the economic contraction that gripped the world during the next decade.

At the Conservative Party conference in October 1970, he made a notable speech commending the government for attempting to curb trade union power, and called for state aid to strikers ' families to be reduced or stopped altogether, a policy which the Thatcher government pursued over a decade later.

The single peaked one step behind Debby Boone's mega-hit " You Light Up My Life " ( which became the biggest hit of the entire decade ) from 22 October to 5 November 1977 and received Grammy nominations for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance Female.

In this book, appearing not much more than a decade after the October Revolution, Douillet denounced the communist system for producing poverty, famine, and terror.

He wrote for The Sunday Telegraph for a decade and for The Guardian between 2005 and 19 October 2006.

For a decade, Öland has been organizing an annual harvest festival called Skördefesten that takes place every October.

On October 9, 2010, as part of the Canadian leg of the tour, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge joined Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid in the band's hometown of Winnipeg for the first performance by the original line-up in a decade.

He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of one of the primary opposition movements inside the Russian Communist Party during the decade of the 1920s.

He served in various staff positions for over a decade ( 1921 – 1933 ) and then briefly commanded a motorized battalion ( 1934 – 1935 ) before being named chief of staff for the Panzer headquarters in October 1935, a new formation under Lutz that directed the training and development of the army's three panzer divisions.

Barred Warblers are regular on autumn passage as far west as Great Britain ( typically 100-200 records annually ), where it occurs mainly on the east coast between late August and late October, and more rarely to Ireland ( around 10 – 20 records annually ); spring passage records in Britain are very rare ( 1 – 3 per decade ).

Just prior to his death, Hashimoto submitted a letter addressed to " The People of the World " for publication in the book Water Voices from Around The World ( October 2007 ), which is a book affiliated with the United Nations ' decade of water ( 2005 – 2015 ).

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem () ( 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012 ) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya ( prime minister ) from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi.