* 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

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Per a News article on Page # 9 of the October 1984 issue of Acorn User, the Acorn ' Plus 2 ' interface was due to provide Econet capability.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

Robert Hooke, in 1674, published his observations of γ Draconis, a star of magnitude 2 < sup > m </ sup > which passes practically overhead at the latitude of London, and whose observations are therefore free from the complex corrections due to astronomical refraction, and concluded that this star was 23 ″ more northerly in July than in October.

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines opened a route from London Stansted in October 2008 though it was rumoured that flights were being cancelled due to minimum take up though with effect from May 2008, TACV now fly direct from London Gatwick every Thursday to Sal and Praia.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was forced to close its refugee camp at Mboki in October 2002, due to the high prevalence of weapons.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

Charles has filmed a 10th series of Red Dwarf, which is due to be broadcast on Dave in October 2012.

Five days later on October 22, California-based ticket vendor Paciolan, Inc., the sole contractor authorized by the Colorado Rockies to distribute tickets, was forced to suspend sales after less than an hour due to an overwhelming number of attempts to purchase tickets.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

The structure was re-striped to accommodate six lanes on October 18, 1989 in response to the temporary closing of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the permanent widening of the approaches was completed by July 2003.

In October 2006, Dennett was hospitalized due to an aortic dissection.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

Originally due to finish in October 2004, it was subsequently extended until April 2005.

On October 15, 2005, Brazil called for more troops to be sent due to the worsening situation in the country.

In the Epirus front the Greek army was initially heavily outnumbered, but due to the passive attitude of the Ottomans succeeded in conquering Preveza ( 21 October 1912 ) and pushing north to the direction of Ioannina.

As of, there have been twenty two films in the Eon Productions series, with a twenty third, Skyfall, due for release on 26 October 2012.

He was wounded in combat during the Battle of Bryansk in October 1941, and got released for six months recuperation due to illness.

This had little effect, as Berkeley DB was not widely used, and was dropped ( due to lack of use ) in MySQL 5. 1. 12, a pre-GA release of MySQL 5. 1 released in October 2006.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

* 2005 – 2006 C Joel Hilgenberg ( 2005 induction ceremonies postponed to October 27, 2006, due to Hurricane Katrina )

* 2005 – 06: Bernard " Buddy " Diliberto ( 2005 induction ceremonies postponed to October 27, 2006 due to Hurricane Katrina )*

His term of office as a Commissioner was due to expire on 30 October 2004, but was delayed owing to the withdrawal of the new Commissioners.

Smith is also contributing a track to " AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered ", a U2 covers album due to be released through Q Magazine on October 25th.