* 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

The first major victory came on October 31, 1622 against the Syrian army of the Pasha of Damascus in the Battle of Majdel Anjar.

At the request of Lebanese President Hrawi, the Syrian military took joint action with the Lebanese Armed Forces on 13 October 1990, to oust rebel Gen. Michel Aoun who had defied efforts at reconciliation with the legitimate Government of Lebanon.

This friction has been due to disputes including the self annexation of the Hatay Province to Turkey in 1939, water disputes resulting from the Southeastern Anatolia Project, and Syria ’ s support for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party ( PKK ) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ( ASALA ), but relations have improved greatly since October 1998 ; when PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was expelled by Syrian authorities.

Following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which left Israel in occupation of additional Syrian territory, Syria accepted UN Security Council Resolution 338, which signaled an implicit acceptance of Resolution 242.

* October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government.

No fighting occurred along the 1967 Jordan River cease-fire line during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but Jordan sent a brigade to Syria to fight Israeli units on Syrian territory.

In late October 2005, the Lebanese Army surrounded camps of the PFLP-GC in a tense standoff, after Lebanese authorities claimed that the PFLP-GC was receiving Syrian arms across the border.

In addition to the encyclicals mentioned, he issued In Hac Tanta on St. Boniface ( 14 May 1919 ), Paterno Iam Diu on the Children of Central Europe ( 24 November 1919 ), Pacem, Dei Munus Pulcherrimum on Peace and Christian Reconciliation ( 23 May 1920 ), Spiritus Paraclitus on St. Jerome ( September 1920 ), Principi Apostolorum Petro on St. Ephram the Syrian ( 5 October 1920 ), Annus Iam Plenus also on Children in Central Europe ( 1 December 1920 ), Sacra Propediem on the Third Order of St. Francis ( 6 January 1921 ), In Praeclara Summorum on Dante ( 30 April 1921 ), and Fausto Appetente Die on St. Dominic ( 29 June 1921 ).

' He remained in Lebanon for two years, under French surveillance in the Christian village of Zouk, but, in October 1939, his deteriorating relationship with the French and Syrian authorities led him to withdraw to the Kingdom of Iraq.

The Syrian Slugger racked up a winning record in the late 1970s, defeated Wilford Scypion in 1979 and former world middleweight champion Alan Minter in 1981 to get a shot at then-champion Marvin Hagler in October of that year, but showed no respect for the champion during their matchup-or at least for the time it lasted.

Israel recaptured both the formerly Israeli occupied sector and the pre-Yom Kippur War Syrian controlled sector on October 21, during Operation Dessert.

After three weeks of fighting, though, and with U. S. air-lifted reinforcements of weapons and equipments ( first shipment arrived on 9 October 1973 ), the IDF pushed the Syrian forces beyond the original lines.

On 13 October 1990, with support from the Syrian army, he forced General Michel Aoun, who was heading a rival administration, to surrender in order to begin the reconstruction of Lebanon.

The UNGC National Advisory Council has been formulated and held its founders ’ meeting on October 15, 2008, with the participation of leaders from the Syrian private sector, international corporate representatives, local and international civil society organizations, UNDP, the Syrian Government, media and education sectors.

In October 1990, as part of the end of the war, the reorganized Lebanese government forced Prime Minister Aoun out of power under Syrian demands and commands.

After the dissolution of the Kingdom by the French, Atassi met with a group of notables in October 1927 and founded the National Bloc, which was to lead the Syrian nationalist movement in Syria for the next twenty years.

Ikram Antaki ( July 9, 1948 – October 31, 2000 ) was a noted Mexican writer of Syrian origin.

He appeared on Syrian pro-Gaddafi television on 22 October claiming " I am in Libya, I am alive and free and willing to fight to the end and take revenge ", but his whereabouts were unknown and subject to many rumours.

As a division commander, Brigadier General Eitan stopped the Syrian attack into the Golan Heights during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.

On October 11, 1978, Gemayel bitterly denounced the Syrian military presence, and the Lebanese Front joined the Lebanese regular army in a successful " Hundred Days War " against the Syrian army.

Basile Georges Casmoussa ( born 25 October 1938 ) is the Syrian Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq.