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1990 in the United States

Events from the year 1990 in the United States.

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October

  • October 2 – The Senate confirms David Souter to the Supreme Court; he takes his seat on October 9.
  • October 3 – In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a jury convicts a record store owner of obscenity for selling an album by 2 Live Crew. On October 20, a second jury finds 2 Live Crew not guilty of obscenity on charges stemming from a June 1990 performance.
  • October 5 – In Cincinnati, a jury finds an art museum and its art director innocent of breaking obscenity laws for displaying sexually explicit photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
  • October 6 – STS-41: The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off and launches the Ulysses on a mission to study the sun.
  • October 6–8 – The federal government temporarily halts all non-essential services after Congress fails to enact a new budget and President Bush vetoes a stop-gap spending measure.
  • October 9 – Leonard Bernstein announces his retirement from conducting after 47 years. He dies five days later.
  • October 20 – The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 0, to win their 5th World Series Title.
  • October 22
  • President Bush vetoes a civil rights bill that would have strengthened federal protection against job discrimination, arguing that it would lead to race and gender-based quotas.
  • In Orange County, California, a judge denies a surrogate mother's request for parental rights to a child she bore for another couple.
  • October 24 – United States Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole announces her resignation.
  • October 25 – Evander Holyfield defeats James "Buster" Douglas to become the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • October 27 – Congress passes the Clean Air Act of 1990.

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January

February

March

  • March 4 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
  • March 5 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
  • March 6
  • William Raborn, American Navy officer (b. 1905)
  • Joe Sewell, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • March 12 – Gene Klein, American businessman (b. 1921)
  • March 13 – Bruno Bettelheim, American child psychologist (b. 1903)
  • March 14 – Harold Medina, American lawyer, teacher, and judge (b. 1888)
  • March 15 – Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
  • March 18 – Robin Harris, American actor, comedian and voice artist (b. 1953)
  • March 19
  • Neta Lohnes Frazier, American children's author (b. 1890)
  • Andrew Wood, American musician (b. 1966)
  • March 24 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
  • March 26 – Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)
  • March 30 – Harry Bridges, Australian-born union leader (b. 1901)

April

May

June

July

  • July 4 – Phil Boggs, American Olympic diver (b. 1949)
  • July 7 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
  • July 8 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
  • July 13 – Lois Moran, American actress (b. 1909)
  • July 15 – Trouble T Roy, American hip-hop dancer (b. 1967)
  • July 18 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1893)
  • July 19 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
  • July 21 – Joe Turner, American jazz pianist (b. 1907)
  • July 26 – Brent Mydland, American keyboard player (b. 1952)
  • July 27 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1928)

August

  • August 1 – Carl Ekern, American football player (b. 1954)
  • August 6 – Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., 4-star general of the American Marine Corps (b. 1896)
  • August 9 – Dorothy Appleby, American film actress (b. 1906)
  • August 12 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
  • August 17 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
  • August 18 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
  • August 23 – David Rose, British-born American songwriter, composer, and arranger (b. 1910)
  • August 25 – Willard L. Beaulac, American diplomat (b. 1899)
  • August 27
  • Raymond St. Jacques, American actor (b. 1930)
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
  • August 28 – Larry Jackson, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
  • August 30 – Lou Garland, American baseball player (b. 1905)

September

  • September 1 – Buster Adams, American baseball player (b. 1915)
  • September 4 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)
  • September 6 – Tom Fogerty, American musician (b. 1941)
  • September 8 – Joe Gleason, American baseball pitcher (b. 1895)
  • September 9 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • September 14 – Lotus Long, American actress (b. 1909)
  • September 19 – Hermes Pan, American choreographer (b. 1910)
  • September 22 – John A. Danaher, American politician (b. 1899)
  • September 23 – Betty Warfel, American professional baseball player (b. 1928)

October

November

  • November 3 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
  • November 4 – Robb White, American writer (b. 1909)
  • November 5 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and political figure (b. 1932)
  • November 7 – Vito Russo, American activist, historian, and author (b. 1946)
  • November 11 – Elliott Chaze, American journalist and novelist (b. 1915)
  • November 12 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
  • November 17 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  • November 18 – Harwell Hamilton Harris, American architect (b. 1903)
  • November 27 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)

December

  • December 2
  • Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
  • Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1910)
  • December 4 – Edward Binns, American actor (b. 1916)
  • December 7
  • Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Dee Clark, American soul singer (b. 1938)
  • December 8 – Martin Ritt, American film director (b. 1914)
  • December 9 – Mike Mazurki, American actor and wrestler (b. 1907)
  • December 10 – Armand Hammer, American business tycoon (b. 1898)
  • December 13 – Alice Marble, American tennis champion (b. 1913)
  • December 15
  • Jean Paige, American actress (b. 1895)
  • Edmund Parker, Kenpo founder (b. 1931)
  • December 16 – Douglas Campbell, World War I pilot (b. 1896)
  • December 18 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
  • December 20 – Elmo Tanner, American singer and whistler (b. 1910)
  • December 28
  • Kiel Martin, American actor (b. 1944)
  • Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1946)
  • December 31 – George Allen, American football coach (b. 1918)

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