Germany by the Numbers
By Unknown Author
LEAD: In some respects, the united Germany is less than the sum of its parts. The statistical tale is told in charts and a map on page A16.
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On this day
October 3, 1990
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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About New York; Summer's Game Comes to an End, But He Plays On
By Douglas Martin
LEAD: Tonight, the New York Yankees will end their shabby season in last place.
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Children Are Focus Of Diet-Pill Issue
By Marian Burros
LEAD: AMERICA'S obsession with dieting is having a severe impact on children, a House subcommittee was told last week in hearings addressing the safety of nonprescription diet pills.
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Senate Confirms Souter, 90 to 9, As Supreme Court's 105th Justice
By Richard L. Berke, Special To the New York Times
LEAD: Ten weeks after President Bush nominated David H. Souter for the Supreme Court, the Senate voted overwhelmingly today to confirm the little-known New Hampshire judge as the Court's 105th Justice.
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Trenton Panel Seeks Changes In Health Care
By Peter Kerr, Special To the New York Times
LEAD: A commission appointed by Gov. Jim Florio offered far-reaching proposals today to control medical costs and reshape the state's health care industry, including a plan for a new $450 million tax on employers to replace the current system of financing care for uninsured hospital patients.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 1990, covering October 3, 1990.
- 1
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
M.C. Hammer
- Last week
- 1
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 31
- 2
Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 2
- Weeks
- 26
- 3
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 15
- 4
Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II
Jon Bon Jovi
- Last week
- 4
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 7
- 5
Listen Without Prejudice; Vol. 1
George Michael
- Last week
- 22
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- 5
- Weeks
- 2
Notable Births
1990Johan Le Bon, French cyclist[†]
Johan Le Bon is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for French amateur team Dinan Sport Cycling.
Notable Deaths
1990Stefano Casiraghi, Italian-Monegasque businessman (born 1960)[†]
Stefano Casiraghi was an Italian offshore powerboat racer, socialite, and businessman. He was the second husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco; he died during a racing accident defending his 1990 Class 1 World Powerboat Championship title.
1990Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (born 1914)[†]
Eleanor Steber was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.
Historical Events
1990The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.[†]
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The economy of the country was centrally planned and state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc.
Historical Context for October 3, 1990
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]