Editing 1990 (section)

=== October ===
* [[October]] 
** [[Tim Berners-Lee]] begins his work on the [[World Wide Web]], 19 months after his seminal [[1989]] outline of what would become the Web concept.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html|title=Tim Berners-Lee bio|work=w3.org|access-date=June 7, 2018|archive-date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515224533/http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[Messeturm]] skyscraper in [[Frankfurt]] is completed, making it the [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|tallest building]] in Europe, a distinction it will carry until 1997, when it is surpassed by the [[Commerzbank Tower]], also in Frankfurt.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The 1991 World Book Year Book: A Review of the Events of 1990. |publisher=World Book, Inc. |year=1991 |isbn=0-7166-0491-4 |editor-last=Zeleny |editor-first=Robert O. |location=Chicago |pages=429}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] 
** The rebel [[Rwandan Patriotic Front]] invades [[Rwanda]] from [[Uganda]], marking the start of the [[Rwandan Civil War]].
** The [[Soviet Union]] enacts a law permitting [[Religion in the Soviet Union|religious freedom]], ending government interference in religious activity and permitting Soviet citizens to engage in private religious study in their homes.<ref>{{Cite news |first= |date=September 27, 1990 |title=Soviets Back Law on Religious Freedom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/27/world/soviets-back-law-on-religious-freedom.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] – According to The Civil Aviation of China, [[1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions|two commercial planes collide on the runway]] at the [[Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (former)|Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport]], [[Guangdong]], [[China]]. The total death toll is 128; 53 people were wounded, 97 were rescued.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
* [[October 3]] – [[Cold War]]: [[East Germany]] and [[West Germany]] [[German reunification#German Reunification Treaty|reunify]] into a single [[Germany]].
* [[October 4]] – [[Moro conflict]]: Rebel forces seize two military posts on the island of [[Mindanao]], [[Philippines]] before surrendering on October 6.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Yabes|first=Criselda|date=1990-10-04|title=PHILIPPINE TROOPS LAUNCH REBELLION ON MINDANAO ISLAND|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/10/04/philippine-troops-launch-rebellion-on-mindanao-island/198eb280-e0df-40b9-b9b9-fb02218469f7/|access-date=2021-11-18|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1990-10-06|title=Philippine Rebellion Ends in Surrender : Mindanao: A renegade colonel gives himself up, and government forces recover two military camps on southern island.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-06-mn-1418-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-18|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118004233/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-06-mn-1418-story.html |archive-date=November 18, 2021 }}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – White supremacist [[David Duke]] receives 44% of the vote in the Louisiana [[United States Senate|Senate race]], but ultimately loses the vote to [[J. Bennett Johnston|Bennett Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zeskind |first=Leonard |date=October 9, 1990 |title=For Duke, Just a Start? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/09/opinion/for-duke-just-a-start.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[October 8]]
** [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]: In [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]]i police kill 17 [[Palestinians]] and wound over 100 near the [[Dome of the Rock]] mosque on the [[Temple Mount]].
** [[Globalization]]: The first [[McDonald's]] restaurant is opened in [[Mainland China]] in [[Shenzhen]], near Hong Kong.<ref name="McDonald's"/> Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a [[Special economic zone]].
*[[October 12]] – A leader of the right-wing [[Pamyat]] organization is arrested in the [[Soviet Union]] for spreading [[History of the Jews in the Soviet Union|antisemitic]] hatred.<ref name=":0" />
* [[October 13]] – [[Lebanese Civil War]]: [[Syria]]n military forces invade and occupy [[Mount Lebanon]], ousting General [[Michel Aoun]]'s government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil and ends the civil war.
* [[October 14]] – Regional elections are held in the five East German states that replace the 14 districts of the GDR. The Christian Democrats become the strongest party in four of the five states while the Social Democrats lead in the state of Brandenburg. 
* [[October 15]] 
** South Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools, and other public facilities.
** [[United Airlines]] announces a purchase order of 128 wide-body aircraft from [[Boeing]], including several [[Boeing 777]]<nowiki/>s, in an order totaling $22 billion, the largest order in aviation history to that point.<ref name=":0" />
* [[October 17]]
** [[North Kalimantan Communist Party]] insurgents sign a peace agreement which formally ends 28 years of [[Communist insurgency in Sarawak]].
** A [[Financial services|major financial service]] of [[Russia]], [[VTB Bank]] is founded in [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia SSR]], former part of [[Soviet Union]], as predecessor name was Vneshtorg Bank.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[October 19]] – The [[Supreme Soviet]] approves a "middle course" of [[Perestroika|economic reform]]: gradual introduction of market controls.<ref name=":0" />
* [[October 21]] – The remains of the former [[Estonian head of state]], [[Konstantin Päts]], found in the [[Tver]] region in Russia, are brought to [[Tallinn]] and buried at state expense in the [[Metsakalmistu]] cemetery.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.videvik.ee/?id=1939 |title=Kuidas leiti K. Pätsi põrm |trans-title=How K. Päts' ashes were found |journal=[[Videvik]] |date=11 November 2010 |language=et |access-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720130426/http://www.videvik.ee/?id=1939 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Haav |first=Margus |url=http://www.sakala.ajaleht.ee/?id=373818 |title=Esimese presidendi viimne teekond kodumulda algas uskumatult |trans-title=The first president's last journey to the home soil began incredibly |journal=[[Sakala (newspaper)|Sakala]] |date=18 January 2011 |language=et |access-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309162246/http://www.sakala.ajaleht.ee/?id=373818 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 22]] – [[Nizhny Novgorod]] restores its official name from Gorky, [[Volga Federal District]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]].
* [[October 24]]
** In the [[1990 Pakistani general election|Pakistani general election]], Prime Minister Bhutto's [[Pakistan People's Party]] loses power to a center-right coalition government led by the [[Islami Jamhoori Ittehad]] party.
** Italian Prime Minister [[Giulio Andreotti]] reveals the existence of [[Operation Gladio]], a clandestine [[NATO]] "[[stay-behind]]" operation in [[Italy]] during the [[Cold War]].
* [[October 27]]
** [[Cold War (1985–1991)|Cold War]]: The [[Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic|Kirghiz SSR]] selects [[Askar Akayev]] as the republic's first [[President of Kyrgyzstan|president]].
** The [[New Zealand National Party]] wins the [[1990 New Zealand general election|New Zealand general election]], and its leader, [[Jim Bolger]], becomes prime minister.
* [[October 29]] – In Norway, the government headed by [[Prime Minister of Norway]] [[Jan P. Syse]] collapses.
* [[October 30]] – The first transatlantic [[Fiber-optic cable|fiber optic cable]] [[TAT-8]] fails, causing a slowdown of Internet traffic between the United States and Europe.<ref>{{cite book|author=IDG Enterprise|title=Computerworld|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_QZfeY52SPOgC|year=1990|publisher=IDG Enterprise|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_QZfeY52SPOgC/page/n103 14]}}</ref>