In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

Margaret Thatcher famously used the sketch in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 1990, before ending the speech by commenting, " And now for something completely different.

Kahane was killed in a Manhattan hotel by an Arab gunman in November 1990 after Kahane concluded a speech warning American Jews to emigrate to Israel before it was " too late.

In November 1990, following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, as a crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel, Kahane was assassinated.

* 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

Wider use of domestic laws include the 1990 French Gayssot Act that prohibits any " racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic " speech., and the Czech Republic and the Ukraine have criminalised the denial and the minimisation of Communist-era crimes.

President George H. W. Bush, in a speech on September 11, 1990, spoke of a " rare opportunity " to move toward a " new world order " in which " the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony ", adding that " today the new world is struggling to be born ".

In January 1990, Irving gave a speech in Moers where he asserted that only 30, 000 people died at Auschwitz between 1940 – 45, all of natural causes, which was equal — so he claimed — to the typical death toll from one Bomber Command raid on German cities.

On 21 April 1990 Irving repeated the same speech in Munich, which led to his conviction for Holocaust denial in Munich on 11 July 1991.

In a speech delivered in Toronto in November 1990 Irving claimed that Holocaust survivors had manufactured memories of their suffering because " there's money involved and they can get a good compensation cash payment out of it ".

During the same 1990 speech in Toronto, Irving claimed that " more people died on the back seat of Senator Edward Kennedy's motor car in Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chamber of Auschwitz ".

In 1990, singer Paul Anka made the speech inducting Darin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 1990, making a resignation speech that is widely thought to have hastened Thatcher's downfall.

In January 1990, Vaughan gave a speech at an AA meeting ; a recording and transcript of the speech have been widely circulated on the internet.

* Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U. S. 1 ( 1990 ) — existing law sufficient to protect free speech without recognizing opinion privilege against libel claims.

The party received an endorsement in The Independent from writer A. N. Wilson, as well as support from Paul Howell, who was a speech writer for Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath and a Conservative MEP, and Anthony Meyer, the " stalking horse " candidate against Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

The Socialist Workers Party broke formally with the Fourth International in 1990 though it had been increasingly inactive in the Trotskyist movement since National Secretary Jack Barnes ' 1982 speech, " Their Trotsky and Ours ", which some view as signaling a break with Trotskyism.

Postman gave a well-known speech at the meeting of the German Society for Computer Science ( Gesellschaft für Informatik ) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart.

Although Howe said subsequently that his intention was only to constrain any shift in European policy by the Cabinet under the existing Prime Minister, his dramatic speech is widely seen as the key catalyst for the leadership challenge of Michael Heseltine a few days later, as well as Thatcher's subsequent resignation as Prime Minister and party leader on 22 November 1990, after failing to win an outright vote on the first ballot.

At midnight on 3 October 1990, during the official festivities held before the Reichstag building in Berlin to mark the moment of the reunification of Germany, President Weizsäcker delivered the only speech of the night, immediately after the raising of the flag, and before the playing of the National Anthem.

* Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U. S. 1 ( 1990 ): Existing law is sufficient to protect free speech without recognizing opinion privilege against libel claims.

United States v. Eichman, 496 U. S. 310 ( 1990 ) was a United States Supreme Court case that invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as violative of free speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

* March 19 – Irving Wallace, American novelist ( d. 1990 )

According to Walter Weidauer, mayor of Dresden from 1946 – 1958, Irving based his numbers on a falsified document promulgated by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as claims made after the war by a former Dresden Nazi functionary, Hanns Voigt, without verifying them against official sources available in Dresden ( Walter Weidauer, < em > Inferno Dresden </ em > Dietz Verlag, 1965 ; Abridged edition, 1990, ISBN 3-320-00818-8 ).

Echoing the criticism of the House of Commons, on 14 May 1990 a leader in The Times described Irving as a " man for whom Hitler is something of a hero and almost everything of an innocent and for whom Auschwitz is a Jewish deception ".

In June 1990, Irving went to the German provinces that had formerly been part of East Germany on a well-publicized tour entitled " An Englishman Fights for the Honour of the Germans ," on which he accused the Allies of having used " forged documents " to " humiliate " the German people.

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

* Allen, Irving Lewis: Unkind Words: Ethnic Labeling from Redskin to Wasp ( NY: Bergin & Garvey, 1990 ) online edition

Major citations have included the APA Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge Award ( Norman Frederiksen, 1984 ), the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ( Frederic Lord, 1988 ); the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award ( William Turnbull, 1981 ; Frederic Lord, 1988 ; Samuel Messick, 1994 ; Paul Holland, 2000 ; Wendy Yen, 2008 ); the NCME Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Award ( Frederic Lord, 1990 ; Paul Holland, 2004 ; Neil Dorans, 2010 ); and the Jean Piaget Society's Lifetime Achievement Award ( Irving Sigel, 2002 ); among many other awards.

Irving Lester Janis ( 26 May 1918-15 November 1990 ) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of " groupthink " which described the systematic errors made by groups when making collective decisions.

They were jointly awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990.

He and partner Zanuck were jointly awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990 for their achievements in producing films including the horror thriller Jaws ( 1975 ), directed by Steven Spielberg.

Residents in more recent times have included the hydrographer, Sir Edmund Irving ( 1910 – 1990 ), artists Spencer Gore ( 1878 – 1914 ) and Graham Sutherland ( 1903 – 1980 ), the author, Michael Gilbert ( 1912 – 2006 ), the psychic researcher, Harry Price ( 1881 – 1948 ), Hughie Green ( 1920 – 1997 ), the entertainer, Sir Roger de Grey ( 1918 – 1995 ), President of the Royal Academy, as well as Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun ; current residents include Sir Michael Gambon, as well as Donald Adamson, the author and historian, Dr John Physick CBE FSA and Major Sir Richard Gethin, Bt who lives at Sole Street.

In addition, she produced two magazine shows, Cowboys Special Edition in Irving, Texas ( 1990 – 91 ) and Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Florida ( 1988 – 90 ).

Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and Irving Azoff, who had sold his companies to MCA Records for $ 15. 7 million.

* The New York Times, May 1, 1990: " Irving L. Fiske, 82: Created Community for Workers in Arts "

* The Boston Sunday Globe, April 29, 1990: " Irving Fiske, noted for essays, modern version of Hamlet ; at 82.

* The Burlington ( Vt .) Free Press, April 30, 1990: " Communal Living Pioneer Irving Fiske dead at 82 "

* The Gainesville ( Florida ) Sun, April, 1990: " Author Irving Fiske, " Socrates of Ocala Forest ," dies at 82.

Irving Fiske ( March 5, 1908 – April 25, 1990 ) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker.

* The New York Times, May 1, 1990: “ Irving L. Fiske, 82: Created Community for Workers in Arts ”