At A Glance
10 April 1990 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 10 April 1990 was a Tuesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Love Will Lead You Back” by Taylor Dayne.
- Top Film of 1990
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1990 was Ghost.
- Bestselling Novel of 1990
- “The Plains of Passage” by Jean M. Auel was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1990.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Cheers” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1990–91 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 10 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 10 April 1990 fell in the Year of the Horse.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 10 April 1990 was Full Moon.
On this day: 10 April
- 1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
- 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
- 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
- 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
Famous people born on April 10
- Charlie Hunnam, English actor (born 1980)
- Daisy Ridley, English actress (born 1992)
- Haley Joel Osment, American actor (born 1988)
- Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1984)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 1990 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1990 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 10 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot picture is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission; it was about 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) from Earth.
- March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy winning four awards out of nine nominations, including Best Picture.
Life in the US in 1990
President
George H. W. Bush
Gas (per gallon)
$1.16
Loaf of Bread
$0.78
Average House
$122,900
Weekly Wage
$409
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