At A Glance

7 November 1990 at a glance

Day of the week
7 November 1990 was a Wednesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers.
Top Film of 1990
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1990 was Ghost.
Star sign
The star sign for 7 November is Scorpio.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 7 November 1990 fell in the Year of the Horse.
Birthstone
The birthstone for November is Topaz.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 7 November 1990 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 7 November

  • 1989 Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
  • 1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
  • 1989 East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
  • 1990 Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
  • 1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.

Famous people born on 7 November

  • Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1867–1934)
  • Gervonta Davis, American boxer (born 1994)
  • Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (1879–1940)
  • Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 1990 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1990 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 1 January – Television debut of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean in a Thames Television special.
  • 4 January – Premiere of the BBC One television comedy One Foot in the Grave, which stars Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie.
  • 1 August – British Airways Flight 149 is seized by the Iraqi Army at Kuwait International Airport following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Life in 1990

Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£1.10

Loaf of Bread

55p

Average House

£59,785

Weekly Wage

£271.00

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Famous Faces Born in the 1990s

Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.

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