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This article covers breaking news and events in October 1990.

Daily events

Monday October 1, 1990

• Hamburg / Germany : The party conference of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) begins. On the first day, the CDU in the Federal Republic and the CDU in the GDR are brought together to form a common party.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The TV channel RTL 4 , which is geared towards the Dutch market, starts broadcasting the soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden . The scripts are from the 1981 Australian soap opera The Restless Years and have only been changed minimally.
• New York / United States : US President George Bush calls in the General Assembly of the United Nations to hold Iraq accountable for the destruction that has occurred in Kuwait since August . In addition, his country will not accept the annexation of Kuwait by Iraq in the long term.
• Musanze / Rwanda , Ntungamo / Uganda : 7,000 rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) invade Rwanda from Uganda and attack members of the Hutu population group, who play the leading role in the Rwandan social structure.

Tuesday October 2, 1990

Guard of Honor of the National People's Army

• Berlin / Germany : The members of the People's Chamber established in 1949 , the parliament of the GDR, meet for the last time. The President of the House of Sabine Bergmann-Pohl ( CDU ) sums up: "We have fulfilled our mission."
• Berlin / Germany : The National People's Army is dissolved. Many of their soldiers switch to the Bundeswehr , which increases to 600,000 men. On the other hand, the former spaceman Sigmund Jähn , the most famous soldier in the GDR, was not taken on.
• Tokyo / Japan : The Nikkei 225 share index posted its largest daily gain of 13.24% since its inception 40 years ago .

Wednesday 3rd October 1990

Accession of the GDR to the "scope of the Basic Law"

Flag in Berlin with great resemblance to the Reich War flag

Joachim Gauck

Expansion of the EC through inclusion of the dissolved GDR

• Berlin / Germany : The German Democratic Republic joins the scope of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany at midnight .
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1949 as the second German nation-state after the Reich of 1871 , forms the sole state of the German nation. There are certain concerns about an unleashed German nationalism in the ČSFR , in Poland and in parts of the USSR , since these areas served the German eastward settlement from the 13th century , during which German perpetrators used violence against people of other ethnicities until 1945 . In the evening there is a demonstration of the alliance “ Never Again Germany ” in Berlin .
• Berlin / Germany : Several 100,000 people attend the official celebration of German unity around the Brandenburg Gate . a. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and former German Chancellor Willy Brandt . Imitations of the imperial war flag appear in the crowd .
• Berlin / Germany : West and East Berlin form a political unit again. In order to find a government for the united city, which for the first time receives the status of a partially sovereign member state of the FRG , the election for the House of Representatives on December 2nd will be extended to all of Berlin. Legally, neither West Berlin was a Land of the Federal Republic nor East Berlin a district of the GDR , but they were de facto treated that way.
• Berlin / Germany : The city of Berlin replaces Bonn as the federal capital . The seat of government remains in Bonn.
• Bonn / Germany : As a result of the agreement, the federal government is expanded to include three politicians from the CDU , one politician from the FDP and one politician from the DSU . They each become Federal Minister for special tasks .
• Bonn / Germany : The maturity of government bonds which the advance payment of reparations from the period after the First World War were taken, continues. The 1953 London Debt Accord postponed Germany's obligations under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles until the day Germany would be reunited.
• Bonn / Germany : The federal government appoints the Protestant theologian Joachim Gauck as special commissioner for the personal documents of the liquidated Ministry for State Security of the GDR .
• Brussels / Belgium : As a result of German reunification , the expansion of the European Communities (EC) to include the accession area in eastern Germany .
• Dresden , Erfurt , Magdeburg , Potsdam , Schwerin / Germany : The districts of the GDR are merged into the re-introduced states of Brandenburg , Free State of Saxony , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .

Thursday 4th October 1990

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag gathers for symbolic reasons in the Reichstag building , which was on fire on February 28, 1933 and has not been used since then. 144 members of the last people 's chamber of the GDR also take part in the meeting.
• Kigali / Rwanda : The first soldiers of the French armed forces arrive in the civil war in Central Africa with a mission to protect French citizens .

Friday 5th October 1990

• Bonn / Germany : The electoral law for the Bundestag election in December will be brought into line with the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 29, and two separate electoral areas will be created. A party that either in the territory of the West or in the territory of eastern countries over 5% of votes obtained, moves to faction strength in the Bundestag one.
• Eisenach / Germany : The Eisenach automobile plant starts production of the Opel Vectra car model on a new assembly line . According to current plans, the Wartburg 1.3 model is to be manufactured in parallel to the Vectra for a few more years.

Saturday 6th October 1990

• Kailua-Kona / United States : The Ironman Hawaii ends with Erin Baker from New Zealand wins in the women and Mark Allen from the United States in the men.

Sunday 7th October 1990

Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker, Karl Dedecius

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German writer and translator Karl Dedecius receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• Vienna / Austria : The right-wing populist FPÖ is the only one of the parties represented in parliament to have a higher share of the vote in the election for the National Council than in 1986 and increases to 16%. Most of the votes with around 43% go to the SPÖ , followed by the ÖVP with around 32%. The green alternative stagnates at just under 5%. There are two missing mandates for a red-green government coalition.

Thursday October 11, 1990

Rockwell MBB X-31

• London / United Kingdom , Tripoli / Libya : Two months after the invasion of Iraq in Kuwait , British Foreign Secretary announces Douglas Hurd to military action against Iraq if it does not depart its forces from Kuwait. Libya's head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi comments on the same conflict that Israel must be "eliminated" as a country closely linked to the United Kingdom and the United States .
• Palmdale / United States : The Rockwell-MBB X-31 experimental aircraft completes its maiden flight. The manufacturer Rockwell International and Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm built it with the participation of air and space agency NASA for the practical testing of the thrust vector control .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Mexican Octavio Paz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature this year . One of his most famous works is The philanthropic ogre .

Friday October 12, 1990

• Oppenau / Germany : Less than six months after the knife attack on SPD - Chancellor candidate Oskar Lafontaine in Cologne , a mentally ill man aims a revolver 50 cm away at the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble ( CDU ) after an election campaign for the Bundestag election on December 2 and shoots him in the spinal cord and jaw . Immediately after the fact, Schäuble says that he can no longer feel his legs.

Saturday October 13, 1990

• Baabda / Lebanon : In the greater Beirut area , the armed forces of Lebanon, with the support of the armed forces of Syria, overwhelm the Maronite Christian Michel Aoun , whom parts of the country's Christian population accept as their legitimate ruler. If, after this turn, the Christian units of the Lebanese armed forces give up their efforts to separate, an end to the civil war is within reach.
• Darmstadt / Germany : The German Academy for Language and Poetry awards the Georg Büchner Prize to the German Tankred Dorst .

Sunday October 14, 1990

The formation of the state government in Saxony is easy

Polling station in Cottbus

• Dresden / Germany : The successor to the East German districts established countries lead the first regional elections by. The turnout is consistently around 70% and thus below the values ​​of the state elections in western German states. In Saxony opt for the choice of 53.8% of voters for the CDU . The SPD accounts for 19.1% and the PDS 10.2%.
• Erfurt / Germany : In Thuringia , which is almost congruent with the state of Thuringia from 1920 to 1952 , 45.4% opt for the CDU and 22.8% for the SPD in the first election . The PDS (9.7%) and the FDP (9.3%) are also very popular .
• Magdeburg / Germany : In Saxony-Anhalt , the layout of which is slightly smaller than when it was founded in 1947 , the CDU received the best party result in the election with 39% and is in favor of a coalition with the FDP , which achieved 13.5% . The largest opposition party is the SPD with 26%. The PDS reaches 12%.
• Munich / Germany : Two years after the death of Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss ( CSU ), the Union Party received 54.9% of the vote in the state elections in Bavaria under the new Prime Minister Max Streibl . For the CSU this is the fourth percentage decrease in a state election in a row. The SPD achieved 26.0% of the vote and the Republicans landed just below the threshold of 5%.
• Potsdam / Germany : In the election in Brandenburg , the SPD can unite 38.2% of the votes and supports a social-liberal coalition , the FDP receives 6.6% of the votes. The Alliance 90 (6.4%) is to support the government. The parliamentary opposition would then consist of the CDU (29.4%) and PDS (13.4%).
• Schwerin / Germany : The election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , formed in 1945, results in the order CDU (38.3%), SPD (27.0%), PDS (15.7%). With the 5.5% of the FDP there is a stalemate between black-yellow and red-red . The formation of a government is open, if necessary new elections must be called.

Monday October 15, 1990

• Oslo / Norway : For his role in the peaceful settlement of the East-West conflict between the military alliances , NATO and the Warsaw Pact is Mikhail Gorbachev , head of state of the Soviet Union , this year's Nobel Peace Prize received.

Tuesday October 16, 1990

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Americans Harry Markowitz , Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe are honored this year for their theories on financial phenomena, e.g. B. received the award , the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics .

Wednesday 17th October 1990

• Stockholm / Sweden : The American Elias James Corey will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year . The foundation honors his work in the field of organic chemistry . The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded this year to the Americans Jerome Isaac Friedman and Henry Way Kendall and the Canadian Richard Edward Taylor for their research in the field of particle physics . This year the Americans Joseph Edward Murray and Edward Donnall Thomas will receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the introduction of the transfer of tissues and organs into human medicine .

Friday October 19, 1990

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR approves the introduction of the market economy

• Moscow / Soviet Union : The Supreme Soviet 's true overwhelmingly in favor of the "Guidelines for the stabilization of the economy and the transition to a market economy ", by de facto - head of state Mikhail Gorbachev ( CPSU have been proposed). A return of the Soviet Union to the ideas of communism in any form now appears to be definitely ruled out.
• Münchberg / Germany : In the Münchberger Senke in Upper Franconia , fog leads to a serial accident involving 121 vehicles on federal highway 9 . During the rescue work running a 38- travels tons - truck in the accident. Ten people are killed and 38 people are seriously injured.

Sunday October 21, 1990

Basking mouth shark

• Dana Point / United States : A basking mouth shark caught in a driftnet in the Pacific is immediately brought into a water basin. The animal is the first of its kind to survive this procedure. The shark is said to be fitted with a transmitter for scientific purposes and then returned to the ocean.
• Suzuka / Japan : In the penultimate race of the Formula 1 season , the Frenchman Alain Prost in the Ferrari 641 steers half a car length ahead of the Brazilian Ayrton Senna in the McLaren MP4 / 5 into the first corner, Senna does not brake and a collision occurs. Both drivers are eliminated. The crash makes Senna, ahead of Prost, premature driver world champion 1990.

Monday October 22, 1990

• Ashgabad / Soviet Union : The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declares its independence from the Soviet Union. There was no agreement with the central government in Moscow about this step. In a few days there will be a popular election in which Saparmyrat Nyýazow , the chairman of the Turkmen section of the Communist Party , wants to be elected president.

Wednesday October 24, 1990

Max Streibl

• Munich / Germany : The incumbent Bavarian Prime Minister Max Streibl ( CSU ) is confirmed in his office by the state parliament . On October 14th, he led the CSU for the first time as a top candidate in the state election .

Thursday October 25, 1990

Right: Alexius II, Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia

• Alma-Ata / Soviet Union : The Supreme Council of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic proclaims Kazakhstan's independence from the Soviet Union. The declaration guarantees all citizens the right to be citizens of the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan at the same time. Since the step was not coordinated with the central government in Moscow , the declaration of independence has no relevance under international law .
• Germany , Yugoslavia : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.
• Las Vegas / United States : The American boxer Evander Holyfield defeats his compatriot James Douglas by knockout in the third round and receives the heavyweight world title of the three leading associations WBA , WBC and IBF .
• Moscow / Soviet Union : The ruling CPSU enacts a law that protects freedom of belief , thereby abandoning the atheistic political guideline of communism . The granting of religious freedom was u. a. a demand of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow .

Saturday October 27, 1990

• Ashgabad / Soviet Union : In the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic , whose state independence is not yet internationally recognized, only the CPSU chief of Turkmenistan Saparmyrat Nyýazow stands as a candidate in a popular election . After the vote, he declares himself president of the de jure still Soviet territory.
• Dresden / Germany : The state parliament elects Kurt Biedenkopf ( CDU ) as Saxon Prime Minister .
• Schwerin / Germany : The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament elects Alfred Gomolka ( CDU ) as prime minister . He leads a coalition of the CDU and FDP .

Sunday October 28, 1990

• Berlin / Germany : The airline company Lufthansa operates the airport Berlin-Tegel in the former French sector of the city back in regular service . The first plane to land is an Airbus , which flies first to Schönefeld and then to New York . Since 1945, only airlines from the countries of the Allies have been allowed to use the airports within the Berlin city limits in regular operation.
• Magdeburg / Germany : The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt elects Gerd Gies ( CDU ) as Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and sets the city of Magdeburg as the state capital.

Wednesday October 31, 1990

• New York , Washington, DC / United States : In an interview with The New York Times newspaper , an undisclosed White House official complains that US President George Bush is "zigging" about Iraq , which has occupied Kuwait since August this year -Zack course ”. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, however, said that with this course Bush was preparing his own people “for all eventualities”, including a war in the Gulf .

See also

• Nekrolog October 1990 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October

Web links

Berlin in October 1990

Commons : October 1990  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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