Jon And Paul Interview Flip Magazine May 16, 1966

[thefreakatdornish]

John Lennon and Paul McCartney Interview, Flip Magazine (1966, May 15)
John Lennon and Paul McCartney spoke with Flip Magazine for an exclusive interview that was published in Flip's May 1966 issue. John discusses his opinions of other artists performing Lennon/McCartney songs, while Paul mentions his interest in writing a song about Penny Lane based on inspiration from a song by The Animals.



"If I thought I'd got to go through the rest of my life being pointed and stared at - I'd give up The Beatles now. It's only the thought that one day it will all come to an end and which keeps me going."

That was just one of the frank and controversial comments which came from John Lennon during an exclusive three and a half hour interview I had with him and Paul in the Beatles dressing room at the Birmingham studios prior to the screening of 'The Music Of Lennon and McCartney'.

An hour previously I had been just one of a horde of reporters milling around the press reception hall with a dozen assorted models attired in rubber suits, negligees and bunny outfits (They appear in Peter and Gordon's sequence in the show) before a scale model of the studio set.

Although Paul had not seen me for some months, he singled me out at the reception and courteously invited me back to a private luncheon with himself, Henry Mancini, John and producer Johnny Hamp. During the meal, John expressed some disappointment that certain artists were not able to appear on the show. "You can't expect people to come over at a moments notice but I would have liked big names like Ella, Peggy Lee and Keely Smith to have appeared on the show," said John. "I'm not knocked out with the way Keely Smith did our numbers on her LP but she would have been a great name for the show."

Later in the privacy of their dressing room with only road manager Malcolm Evans, John, Paul, and myself present there were some vigourous views revealed about just who can sing and play Beatle music and do it justice. "There are only about 100 people in the world who understand our music," said John. "George, Ringo, and a few friends around the world. Some of the artists who recorded our numbers have no idea how to interpret them. Keely Smith added nothing to our compositions but a couple trumpets. I loathed Matt Monro's version of 'Yesterday' and liked Marianne Faithfull's. I wanted Richard Anthony on this show but he was busy having car crashes in France or something. We dig the way Esther Phillips sang 'and I Love Him' and Henry's orchestration of 'If I Fell' and that's why they are here. When Paul and I write a song we try and take hold of something we believe in - a truth. We can never communicate 100 per cent of what we feel but if we can convey just a fraction we have achieved something. We try to give people a feeling--they don't have to understand the music if they can just feel the emotion. This is half the reason the fans don't understand but they experience what we are trying to tell them."

"Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music."

Just what kind of music do the music makers themselves dig? Paul was soon off on what kind of music he likes.

"Dylan is a fantastic composer," said Paul. "At first I didn't understand. I used to lose his songs in the middle but then I realized it didn't matter. You can get hung up on just two words of a Dylan lyric. 'Jealous Monk' or 'magic swirling ship' are examples of the fantastic word combinations he uses. I could never write like that and I envy him. He is a poet."

"I like some of the things the Animals try to do like the song Eric Burdon wrote about places in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up. Places like The Docker's Umbrella which is a long tunnel through which the dockers go to work on Merseyside, and Penny Lane near my old home."

"The one thing I can't understand is the protest songs like 'Eve of Destruction' that was absolute rubbish. Dylan's 'Masters of War' or 'God On Our Side' are OK because they say things in an original manner but P.F Sloan is too much."

John is very conscious of the Beatles musical progression and he explained to me how he would sit down in his house at Weybridge, put all their LPs in chronological order on his stereo gram and study the improving pattern of sound.

"I can hear that we've progressed from this," he used his hand to indicate a level, "To this" and raised it again. "But do y'know I never get to hear them all the way through. Someone always turns up and there I am sitting like an idiot in the front room listening to my own music. I'm too embarassed to leave it on."

At this stage of the interview, things become enlivened by the appearence of our top DJ Jimmy Savilla (who just happened to be around) who sat down on a chair opposite. Jim, who has blonde shoulder length hair, was wearing blue denims embossed with an enormous silver buckle and white leather boots. An imposing sight!

"Something's wrong with you," smiled John. "You're not smoking." Jimmy explained that George had recently complained about his self-made smog in the Beatles dressing room.

"That was George," declared John, and Jim promptly lit up an enormous cigar and disappeared behind his smoke screen. Recording manager George Martin entered upon the scene and for some reason that escapes me began in true life confessions manner to tell us about his Uncle who was a crook.

"I had an uncle who looked after sheep," said Paul. "He was a shepherd's crook." This pun was greeted with a short but reverent silence which was finally broken by Malcolm who declared piously, "Dat's very funny (significant pause)...boss!"

The inevitable subject of Elvis Presley was brought up by Jimmy who is his most ardent fan, and declared on a trip to Moscow recently the 10 by 8 glossies which he took with him of Elvis were like gold dust over there.

"We saw enough of him on our last trip to realize that he is anything but stupid," declared John. "I asked him if he had any new ideas for his films and he and Colonel Tom explained that the only time that they had departed from the 'kinda cowboy meets cowgirl theme' that they lost money. There's only one thing wrong with Elvis," said John. "He's a bit square that's all."

I tackled John about the subject of the Liverpool Cavern Club which was in danger of being closed down. It was this club where the Beatles blasted off from to International fame.

"Someone came up to me the other day and asked what I had done to save the club that made us," retorted John. "I replied that we made the club - the club did not make us." John later revealed that he is working on his next book. "I just sit down in the morning and work right through the day without a stop," said John. "Food just appears in front of me and I eat it - time means nothing to me while I'm working."

"Someone sent a copy of my book "Spainiard in the Works" back to me the other day. They complained I used bad language in the book. I returned the book to the agents with instructions to re-sell it.

We've often heard from reporters what they thought about The Beatles, but I'd never seen written what the Beatles thought about reporters. I asked John for his views.

"You can spot the good ones even in a crowded reception hall," said John. "You'll be saying something which no one else is writing down but just one or two reporters. I've seen enough journalists to recognize those who know what we're all about."

"Better tell him he's in' or you'll hurt his feelings," added Paul nodding at me.

"He wouldn't be here if he wasn't," retorted John.

Other subjects covered during the course of the afternoon comprised of Marxism, Royality, Hairdressers, Eastern Philosophy, Cars, Clothes and why John was wearing a T-Shirt labelled 'Lord John'.

The question of the musical which J and P want to write arose as I was about to leave. Paul commented sadly upon the scheme.

"I think we are resigned to the fact that this can not come about until The Beatles are disbanded. Then and only then will we have time to work on compositions."

When will The Beatles retire as a group? It could be next week because with this group the unexpected is always to be expected.



Source: Original magazine issue

[thefreakatdornish]

"I had an uncle who looked after sheep," said Paul. "He was a shepherd's crook."

[seasaltcaramel]

Feb 25, 2013 8:04:33 GMT -5 thefreakatdornish said:

"I had an uncle who looked after sheep," said Paul. "He was a shepherd's crook."

Story

In the song, the story is told in the first-person by an insane dog owner who is raving he will be taken away to a mental institution, referring to it as the "funny farm" and "happy home". His dog has run away and he is having an imaginary discussion with it ("Well you just wait, they'll find you yet, and when they do they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt"). The cover art shows a spoof "Napoleon" holding an invisible dog on a leash, the collar being next to a fire hydrant (presumably so the dog can relieve itself). But the lyrics could also be construed as a relationship to a companion. Either way is correct.

Record structure

The recording is set primarily to a rhythm tapped on a snare drum and tambourine. The performer speaks rhythmically rather than singing the lyric, and the sparse, multi-tracked looped percussion track features a siren sounding in and out of the "chorus". According to Samuels, the vocal glissando was achieved by Samuels manipulating tape recording speeds, a variation on the technique used by Ross Bagdasarian in creating the original Chipmunks novelty songs.

Continuing the theme of insanity, the flip or B-side of the single was simply the A-side played in reverse, and given the title "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" (or "!AAAH-AH ،YAWA ƎM ƎʞAT OT ʚИIMOƆ ƎЯ'YƎHT") and the performer billed as "VIX ИOƎ⅃OꟼAИ". Most of the label affixed to the B-side was a mirror image of the front label (as opposed to simply being spelled backward), including the letters in the "WB" shield logo. Only the label name, disclaimer, and record and recording master numbers were kept frontward. The reverse version of the song is not included on the original Warner Bros. album (or Rhino Records Co. re-issue), although the title is shown on the front cover, whereas the title is actually spelled backward.

In his Book of Rock Lists, rock music critic Dave Marsh calls "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" the "most obnoxious song ever to appear in a jukebox", saying the recording once "cleared out a diner of forty patrons in three minutes flat."

[this reminds me of the son of sam]

[seasaltcaramel]

Kim Fowley: "They all think Manson is Jesus. They all think Brian Wilson is Santa Claus.

John Lennon: "Interplanetary Remix Stage 444!"


444 = Lucifer, Messiah, Aurora, Aurum, Solis, Proud, Martial, Beauty, Orgone, Energy, Severe, Ordeals, Weapon, Chariot, Tarot, Tantra, Occult, Element, Cross, Point, Quanta, Harlot, Accursed, Fruit, English, Gematria, Jewels, Jesus, IHShVH, He-Phren, Themis, Mukti.
davidcherubim.net/englishqabalah.htm

444 could also be thought of as Earth.

[seasaltcaramel]

Friedman: At what point did your schizoaffective disorder start to appear?
Wilson: Well, for the past 40 years I’ve had auditory hallucinations in my head, all day every day, and I can’t get them out. Every few minutes the voices say something derogatory to me, which discourages me a little bit, but I have to be strong enough to say to them, “Hey, would you quit stalking me? F*** off! Don’t talk to me—leave me alone!” I have to say these types of things all day long. It’s like a fight.

Friedman: Do you think the voices were part of what made it difficult for you to go on stage for many years?
Wilson: Yes, because when I was on stage I could hear voices telling me negative things about myself. Even today, when I sing I have to force myself not listen to them. But when the concert is over, the voices come back.

Cooper: How old were you when the voices started?
Wilson: About 25.

Friedman: So you were already a successful musician when they started.
Wilson: Right. I believe they started picking on me because they are jealous. The voices in my head are jealous of me.

Cooper: How long did it take after they started before you really understood what was going on?
Wilson: Oh, I knew right from the start something was wrong. I’d taken some psychedelic drugs, and then about a week after that I started hearing voices, and they’ve never stopped. For a long time I thought to myself, “Oh, I can’t deal with this.” But I learned to deal with it anyway.

Friedman: When did you start getting treatment?
Wilson: Not until I was about 40, believe it or not.
www.abilitymagazine.com/past/brianW/brianw.html

[seasaltcaramel]

They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go As lady and I look out tonight From desolation row
Cinderella, she seems so easy It takes one to know one, she smiles And puts her hands into her back pockets Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning "You belong to me I believe" And someone turns and says to him "My friend you'd better leave"
And the only sound that’s left After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On desolation row
Now the moon is almost hidden The stars they're just pretending to hide The fortunetelling lady Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everyone is makin' love Or else expecting rain
And the good Samaritan, he’s dressing He’s getting ready for the show He’s going to the carnival tonight On desolation row
Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid
Now to her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession is her religion Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah’s great rainbow She spends her time peeking Into desolation row
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, some jealous monk
Now he looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed his cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet
You would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On desolation row
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world Locked inside of his leather cup But all his sexless patients They’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser She’s in charge of the cyanide hole She also keeps the cards that read "Have mercy on his soul"
They all play on the penny whistle You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From desolation row
Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains They’re getting ready for the feast The phantom of the opera In a perfect image of a priest
They’re spoon feeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words
And the phantom shouts to skinny girls "Get outta here if you don’t know Casanova he's just being punished for going To desolation row"
Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that no one is escaping To desolation row
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting "Which side are you on?"
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliott Fighting in the captain’s tower While Calypso's singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About desolation row
Yes, I received your letter yesterday About the time the door knob broke When you asked me how I was doing Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name
Right now I cannot read too well Don’t send me no more letters, no Not unless you mail them From desolation row

[seasaltcaramel]

Caroline No - the girl loses a glove and she cuts off her hair.

[seasaltcaramel]

Phil Spector refutes Charlie Rose's claim that "Good Vibrations" was the most revolutionary record of all time by saying the song is just an edit record. Upon furthur inspection one realizes Phony Phil is correct. "Mean Streets"; "Street Fighting Man" - direct confrontation. Bullshit aethstetic either way. Cue the aliens from Mars with the surrealist mind game.

- Robert Anton Wilson And Robert Shea
- Iggy And The Stooges - Search And Destroy
- S.L.A. and Pattie Hearst*
- Hawkwind - Warriors On The Edge Of Time

The Peter Seller's movie "The Party" shows how a Hollywood executive or producer might end up associated with a Charles Manson like figure:

13th Floor Elevators, "Slip Inside This House":
Higher worlds that you uncover

"Light the path you want to roam
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam
Twice born gypsies care and keep
The nowhere of their former home
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by."

The Party ends with the French Singer/Prostitute dancing in a "cloud" of foam:


The subtle theme of "The Party" is it's double meaning. "The Party", like the Communist Party. Keep in mind Joe McCarthy's ghost. The Executive is portrayed as a kind of buffoon Mafioso. It's this Mafia quality that is important, because it was common conspiracy knowledge at the time that John Kennedy was killed by the Mob.

Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" and the revelation to the masses of La Cosa Nostra. J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of the mafia. The famous response to any and all questions concerning organized crime is "there is no mafia." The story is clear now. The FBI investigated the mob and infiltrated the organization. But J. Edgar Hoover liked to dress like a woman and the Mob had photographs of him so there was a kind of absurd relationship between the two organizations.

The death of Roberto Calve in London hanging upside down - as the Hanged Man - from Black Friar's Bridge at High Tide. The KGB developed the most complex methods of disorientating their enemies with acts such as this. The concept of misdirection, but sculpted misdirection based on an individual's - or nation's - preconceived paranoias. The conspiracy theories about China and World War Three are paranoiac. Conspiracy theories have their basis in this kind of thinking.

The Mob and Fascist Coups. That would be an interesting topic to research. I hope you are good with names and dates and things like that. Im not so good myself. Ive tried to find a transcript of the following interview but i was unsuccessful:


This is an interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney on their press tour to America for the "Launch" of Apple. It's from a specific date in 1968 with a man named Larry with a deep voice that John enjoys mimicking and it makes Larry Uptight. Around 4:01 Larry asks John about what he - John - thinks of the riots in America. John responds that they are happening all over, not just in America - "It makes you think, Larry."


This documentary "KGB in America: Cold War Russian Spies, Agents and Operations" is interesting. Around 5:50 there is mention of Cuban agents of the KGB were sent to Detroit to instigate riots in the mid-60s.

The way John says "It makes you think, Larry" tells you he suspects something like this. Paul says it these rioters that are "screwing everything up." Or to quote George, "scream you down." Something strange takes place in San Francisco. A young black man is beaten by a police officer some time in 1968. A group gather around this as it is happening, watching as the officers eat the young man. Then, suddenly, the crowd acts to rescue the teenager and over the next few hours a massive riot develops that engulf block after block and causes millions of dollars in property damage and some niggers get their heads crack and no cops get in trouble. Not only this, the mayor calls in the national guard.

I first heard of this from an oblivious Jerry Garcia that must have been tripping at the time because all he mentioned was : "i mean, we saw tanks coming down haight street and we thought that this is the most outrageous over reaction. we had to leave the haight as soon as we could. we had to get out of there."

He doesnt mention the riot, or the police brutality and from his perspective it was a crackdown on the people in the haight. the dead had just been busted the year before - but, unlike the 13th Floor Elevators whose careers were ruined when they went back to Texas in the summer of 1966 and were busted - yet the dead were all free, even Owsley who would be free until 1969. And it is likely that until the establishment of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love at Laguna Beach that the Dead and the Pranksters and Leary's League of Spiritual Discovery were moving like witches through a forest at midnight trying to remain unseen.

And yet, the Dope was being publicized. It was common knowledge that the drug busts made some people into Martyrs and just advertised and gave "hip credibility" to the Dope. While Jerry has a bum trip because he sees a tank rolling down the street in front of his home, there are people fighting for what their rights. Jerry wishes to be left alone. This is why the Haight-Ashbury was allowed to flourish in the way it did, while the Berkeley crowd was allowed to flourish the way it did.

P.K.D.
"When journalist Paul Williams interviewed him for a 1975 Rolling Stone profile, Dick recounted a key event that induced a strange loop that led to self-questioning his personal identity. Dick's house was broken into on 17 November 1971, his safe blown open and his personal papers stolen. The Californian police wondered if Dick had destroyed the safe in an act of crypto-amnesia. Williams recalls that Dick was living on the fringes of Marin County's drug trade and that a dealer code-named "Mr. Connection" may have used him as an intermediary. Dick took Benzedrine and phoned the FBI. He was also scared, says Ray Nelson, that his story The Penultimate Truth might have been close to the secret government research. Jay Kinney believes that the story's context was influenced by the Watergate incident and COINTELPRO against political dissidents. Soon afterwards, Dick travelled to Canada for drug rehabilitation and attempted suicide in Vancouver on 23 March 1972. This period became the basis for Dick's poignant anti-drug novel A Scanner Darkly. And it showed how one event could have multiple interpretations."
old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/review/id2188/pg1/index.html

"Sondra London: Kerry, if you know all of this stuff, why dont they just kill you?

Kerry Thornley: I dont know. I really dont. Some times i think they just want to fuck with my head."

I have no idea where this comes from but it is very clear in my memory.

"Operation Mindfuck or OM is an important practice in the Discordian religion. The concept was developed by Kerry Thornley and Robert Anton Wilson in 1968 and given its name by Wilson and Robert Shea in The Illuminatus! Trilogy. It is most often manifested as a decentralized campaign of civil disobedience, activism, art movements, especially performance art and guerrilla art, culture jamming, graffiti and other vandalism, practical jokes, hoaxes, reality hacking, chaos magic, words of power, trolling and anything else that is believed to bring about social change through disrupting paradigms and thus forcing the victim to question the parameters of one's reality tunnel."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck

Remember, Never Trust A Prankster. The fact there are modern groups seems trite. But that is just my tunnel vision. Forgive me for my sins, formerly.

[seasaltcaramel]

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
"Which side are you on?"

I actually read the song "which side are you on" in an american literature book in high school:

My father was a miner
And i'm a miner's son
And i'll stick with the union
'Til every battle won

There is one line, really the only other line i can remember and it is along the lines of this:
"are you going to be a slug for J.H. Blair?"

"In 1931, coal miners in Harlan County were on strike. Armed company deputies roamed the countryside, terrorizing the mining communities, looking for union leaders to beat, jail, or kill. But coal miners, brought up lean and hard in the Kentucky mountain country, knew how to fight back, and heads were bashed and bullets fired on both sides in Bloody Harlan.

It was this kind of class war -- the mine owners and their hired deputies on one side, and the independent, free-wheeling Kentucky coal-miners on the other -- that provided the climate for Florence Reece's "Which Side Are You On?" In it she captured the spirit of her times with blunt eloquence.

Mrs. Reece wrote from personal experience. Her husband, Sam, was one of the union leaders, and Sheriff J. H. Blair and his men came to her house in search of him when she was alone with her seven children. They ransacked the whole house and then kept watch outside, ready to shoot Sam down if he returned.

One day during this tense period Mrs. Reece tore a sheet from a wall calendar and wrote the words to "Which Side Are You On?" The simple form of the song made it easy to adapt for use in other strikes, and many different versions have circulated."

Charles manson (says he) was born on the same day as the united states marine corps in the blue moon of kentucky november 12, 1934. curiously enough:

"March 3 - John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol.
March 8 – Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage.
March 12 – Konstantin Päts and general Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
March 13 – John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and their gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa.
April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kill 2 young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 19 – Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly photographs the Loch Ness Monster.
April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin.
April 28 – FA Cup: Manchester City beat Portsmouth 2 – 1 at Wembley Stadium
June 6 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 12 – Political parties are banned in Bulgaria.
June 30 The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS
June 30 Night of the Long Knives: Nazis purge the SA.
July 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
July 25 – Austrian Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
August 2 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
December 5 – Abyssinia Crisis: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50.
December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Barrymore continues playing Scrooge on radio until shortly before his death in 1954. He will also make a 78-RPM record album of the classic story, which will later be released on LP.
December 27 – Persia becomes Iran."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934

Have yourself a merry little christmas. John Dillinger was used to distract people's attention from Europe crumbling. "i had to rearrange all their faces and give them another name." That is an interesting line and it reminds me of "you know my name look up the number."
www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/Datebook_10_66/Datebook10_66b.jpg

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/Dolly/Dolly2.jpg
This is what happens.

"Praise be to Nero’s Neptune" William Hearst was known for publishing the most sensational things, he probably would've asked John Dillinger to write weekly columns if it sold papers. Hearst's castle was a refuge for cokeheads and mafioso degenerates. And James Cagney. Probably Porky too. Anyway, Hearst was a yes man with enormous wealth and connection not just to print media and film but also to art. His castle had a hellenic pool, however Neptune is without his trident.
www.deadbuzzard.net/Hearst_castle_pool.jpg

[seasaltcaramel]

S.L.A. and Pattie Hearst.

Warning... I'm under the influence of Mae Brussell.

[thefreakatdornish]

Nat King Cole and Pat Boone - "Nature Boy" and "Poison Ivy"

[thefreakatdornish]

"The Earth is my altar,

The Sky is my dome,

The Mind is my garden,

And the Heart is my home!

And I'm always at Home!

I'm always at Home!"

EDEN ABHEZ


"We don't have to be afraid to let those stupid, old ideas go."

[seasaltcaramel]

In 1947, at the prompting of Johnny Mercer, ahbez approached Nat "King" Cole's manager backstage at the Lincoln Theatre in Los Angeles and handed him the music for his song, "Nature Boy." Cole began playing the song for live audiences to much acclaim, but needed to track down its author before releasing his recording of it.

Ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign and became the focus of a media frenzy when Cole's version of "Nature Boy" shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remained there for eight consecutive weeks during the summer of 1948. Ahbez was covered simultaneously in Life, Time, and Newsweek magazines. Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan later released versions of the song. Ahbez also faced legal action from Yiddish musical composer, Herman Yablokoff, who claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from one of his songs, "Shvayg mayn harts" ("Be Still My Heart"). Ahbez claimed to have “heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains.” However, legal proceedings resulted in a payment to Yablokoff of $25,000 in an out-of-court settlement. To that end it is worth noting that the first two measures of the song's melody also parallel the melody of the second movement in Antonín Dvoøák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887). It is unknown if ahbez and/or Yablokoff were familiar with Dvoøák's piece, or if they arrived at the same melodic idea independently.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_ahbez

[seasaltcaramel]

There was a boy
A very strange, enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far, over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day,
One magic day he passed my way
While we spoke of many things
Fools and Kings
This he said to me

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return

[thefreakatdornish]

This is a segment from the Rollins spoken word DVD Live at Luna Park (2004). In it Mr. Rollins, dressed like a mercenary assassin for some reason, describes his "feud" with Iggy Pop. He wants to out play Iggy - the whole Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop mythos. The story ends at a festival in Finland. At the end of his performance Iggy tells the secret.

You shouldn't overlook the timing of the rise of the Stooges - on their first album there is a song "We Will Fall". It is a very witchy song. The electric violin is played by their producer John Cale. It's a lattice, you see. I guess that's ah... the point. You see. David Bowie; The Spiders From Mars.

The connection back to Pepperland is through people, you see. There is a reason why we see them. "Paul Is Dead" is one thing, "Paul Was Replaced" is something entirely different. It's more pronounced. The Beatles aren't dead, because "The Beatles" never existed.

I made a cassette the other day, of two albums with an interview as filler. It is called "The Holy Grail Vortex" and this is the track listing:

Side B The Beatles Revolver
Side A Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited

Filler - Apple Interview

2:38:

Larry: "Paul, about a year an a half ago there were quotes on the wire about..."
John: "Go on."
Larry: "... your discussion of LSD, and some other things,
John puts his hand over his mouth and sucks in, like a person about to faint out of repulsion.
Larry: "... narcotics ...."
Paul: "Yes, Larry..."
Larry: "Ah... It seemed to me from what i read that you endorsed it and had condemned it..."
-John: "We were manufacturing it at the time..."
-Larry: "...What's the story?
-Paul looks at his finger nails.
-Paul: "No, ahhh...
John: "Business went bonkers."

It should be noted: "On 12 October 1969, a caller to Detroit radio station WKNR-FM told disc jockey Russ Gibb about the rumour and its clues. Gibb and other callers then discussed the rumour on the air for the next hour. Two days after the WKNR broadcast, The Michigan Daily published a satirical review of Abbey Road by University of Michigan student Fred LaBour under the headline "McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light". It identified various "clues" to McCartney's death on Beatles album covers, including new clues from the just-released Abbey Road LP."

I have been reading the book "Eye Mind" by Paul Drummond for close to three months. Reading it and rereading because there is so much information buried in most of these books. It is about the 13th Floor Elevators. One image that stuck out and will continue to stick out in my mind is of Stacy Sutherland in the mid 70s.


If this worked right you will see Stacy's mug glaring at you. [It didn't but the image i am referring to begins at 1:40] Stacy was not really a mean dude, so he is posing here and if you watch the video of their performance on American Bandstand, there is just the most absurdly mean looking Stacy.

Dick Clark: "Hey gentlemen, how are you?" [To Tommy Hall:] "Do you have to have a lot of lung power to do that?" [Dick is talking about the jug Tommy hoots into.]
Tommy: "Yeah, you have."
Dick: "So you can get different sounds out of it too, huh?"
Tommy: "Yeah, yeah, you kind of have to be vocally strong."
Dick: "Who is the head an of the group here, gentlemen?"
Tommy: "Well, we're all heads."

Thus ends the 13th Floor Elevators short commercial career. The primary connection i would like to share is the connection between John Lennon and John Sinclair. The song "10 For 2" by J.L. is worth investigation. The Elevators were busted for the first time in November of 1966, while Stacy, Tommy, and Roky Erickson were engaged in a peyote experiment. The only person that wasn't tripping was John Ike Walton, the incredible drummer. John can be seen on American Bandstand hiding in the palm tree playing invisible drums.

The bust at Redlands and the actions of Sgt. Pilchard are in "I Am The Walrus": "Semolina Pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower."

Sun Ra: "I don't have a french connection, but i do have celestial connections, you see."

"The French Connection is a 1971 American dramatic thriller film directed by William Friedkin, produced by Philip D'Antoni with music by Don Ellis. It starred Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. Egan and Grosso also appear in the film, as characters other than themselves."

"The film revolves around the smuggling of narcotics between Marseilles, France and New York City. In Marseilles a policeman is staking out Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), a French criminal who is smuggling heroin from France to the United States. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's henchman, Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi)."

Let's get very far out now. In the novel "the Illuminatus Trilogy" the name given to the country that "immanetizes the eschaton" is "Fernando Poo." Shit.

Anyway, when you see Stacy on American Bandstand he was heavily involved in Speed and just started taking Heroin. Heroin was popular in San Francisco and when the group moved up from Texas at the end of the year, 1966, they all began freaking out and had to return to Texas, where they were busted for the final time and the group dissolved. Roky's appointed lawyer suggests pleading insane and he begins his descent into clutches of the demonic psychiatric world.

Why did the police wait until George Harrison left Redlands to go in and break the butterflies on the wheel? In 1967, the Grateful Dead, whose patron was the foremost manufacturer of LSD, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, got off when they were busted. And later, in 1969 - the story is documented in "Truckin'" - they were busted again, this time Owsley was sent to prison. Yet, the other members were free to go.

Why? Well, the Warner Brother's lawyers are the only real answer to that question, and the same is true of all the "celebrity drug busts". Vince McNeil from Motely Crue got off on a charge of vehicular homicide, and the sole reason is because he had those lawyers and he was a "Star". It is a double standard.

"The Beatles" are an asset to someone. That is the meaning of "Selling out."


The flamenco guitar of "Desolation Row" was meant for Jerry Garcia. At least it seems that way to me.

[seasaltcaramel]

Andy Warhol - Mao Zedong (1973)


Andy Warhol - McGovern Campaign Poster (1972)

[maxwell]

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At this stage of the interview, things become enlivened by the appearence of our top DJ Jimmy Savilla (who just happened to be around) who sat down on a chair opposite. Jim, who has blonde shoulder length hair, was wearing blue denims embossed with an enormous silver buckle and white leather boots. An imposing sight!
[/quote]

Sir Jimmy Saville was one of Britain's worst paedophiles, rapists and necrophiliacs.
Many in the establishment turned a blind eye to his proclivities for many years.

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Mar 3, 2013 5:28:37 GMT -5 maxwell said:

At this stage of the interview, things become enlivened by the appearence of our top DJ Jimmy Savilla (who just happened to be around) who sat down on a chair opposite. Jim, who has blonde shoulder length hair, was wearing blue denims embossed with an enormous silver buckle and white leather boots. An imposing sight!



Sir Jimmy Saville was one of Britain's worst paedophiles, rapists and necrophiliacs.
Many in the establishment turned a blind eye to his proclivities for many years.

www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a462663/morrissey-sir-paul-mccartney-needs-to-give-up-knighthood.html

60if.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Essential&action=display&thread=2677&page=11#1362278120



Duck Dynasty
lol
;D

[maxwell]

Duck dynasty ... ABBA? You've lost me.

[seasaltcaramel]

Thread officially ruined.

[thefreakatdornish]

Not necessarily, my friend. You have been thinking the word DUCK an awful lot the past week. Its only natural it would turn up here. I even remember you telling me about it, "DUCK seems to be following me around." You didn't mention it, so i will.

But, i would agree with you, the stuff about Andy would probably be better in another thread. I don't think anyone really can or wants to follow the information when it's presented like this. We documented some good stuff though. Unfortunately, i think only we know how to go through it and see it for what it really is. "We" is whoever and nobody at the same time.

[seasaltcaramel]

2012

Births:
January 24 – Princess Athena of Denmark

January
January 23 – Iran–European Union relations: The European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of that nation's continued effort to enrich uranium.

February
February 1 – At least 79 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured after a football match in Port Said, Egypt.
February 6 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.
February 19 – Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January.
February 21 – Greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.
February 27 – Arab Spring: As a result of ongoing protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is succeeded by Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi.

March
March 4 – A series of explosions are reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, with at least 250 people dead.
March 13 – After 244 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition.
March 22 – The President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices.

April
April 6 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.
April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in the midst of a presidential election campaign.
April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation of United Nations Security Council demands. The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the republic.
April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

May
May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.
May 22 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to public.

June
June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
June 24 Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, first time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.
Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.


July
July 4 – CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.
July 30–31 – In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.

August
August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.
August 31 Researchers successfully perform the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes.
Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries.

September
September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.
September 11 – Garment factory fires in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore kill 315 and seriously injure more than 250.
September 11 – 27 – A series of terrorist attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims. In Libya, among the dead is US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

October
October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 24 miles (39 kilometers) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.

October 24 – 30 – Hurricane Sandy kills at least 209 people in the Caribbean, Bahamas, United States and Canada. Considerable storm surge damage causes major disruption to the eastern seaboard of the United States.

November
November 14 – 21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.

November 25 – December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people still missing. The typhoon caused considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.

November 29 – The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.

December
December 8 – In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012

2001

Births:
December 1 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

January
January 8 – Noah, a gaur, is born, the first animal of an endangered species to be cloned.
January 11 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
January 13 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits all of El Salvador, killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless.
January 15 – Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet.
January 17 – Impeachment proceedings against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, accused of playing Jueteng, end preeminently and trigger the second EDSA People Power Revolution or People Power II.
January 20 – George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States after prevailing over Al Gore in the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000.
January 23 – The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident occurs.
January 25 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, killing 24.
January 26 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, killing more than 12,000.

February
February 9 – The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii.
February 12 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
February 13 – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
February 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
February 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
February 20 – The 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins.
February 28 - Great Heck Rail Crash.

March
March 2 - The Taliban begins destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
March 23 The deorbit of Russian space station Mir was carried out near Nadi, Fiji, with Mir falling into the Pacific Ocean.
The World Wrestling Federation purchases rival organization World Championship Wrestling for an estimated $7 million.


April
April 1 Hainan Island incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft, which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.
Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
In the Netherlands, the Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. The Act allows same-sex couples to marry legally for the first time in the world since the reign of Nero.
April 11- Malik Deenar Islamic Academy was established
April 28 – Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito

May
May 6 – Space tourist Dennis Tito returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-31. (Soyuz TM-32 is left docked at the International Space Station as a new lifeboat.)
May 7 – In Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an attempt is made to reconstruct the Ferhadija mosque. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by Serb nationalists, who beat and stone 300 elderly Bosnian Muslims.
May 19 – The first Apple retail stores open in Glendale, CA and McLean, VA.
May 22 – A large trans-Neptunian object (28978 Ixion) is found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
May 22–May 23 – The Bahá'í Terraces officially open on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel (site of the Shrine of the Báb and the Bahá'í World Centre).
May 24 Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.
The Versailles wedding hall disaster kills 23 in Jerusalem, Israel.


June
June 1 Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the Nepalese royal massacre. Dipendra dies June 4, as King of Nepal. His uncle Gyanendra accedes to the throne.
A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel.
June 5–June 9 – Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain in Houston, Texas, killing 22, damaging the Texas Medical Center, and causing more than 5 billion American dollars of damage overall.
June 11 – In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
June 19 – A missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11. According to U.S. officials, it was an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned.
June 21 – The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km, or 170 miles) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km (4.569 mi) long.
June 23 – An earthquake (7.9 on the Richter scale) hits the south of Peru.

July
July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools.
July 3 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia, killing 145.
July 16 The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of the DMCA.
July 18 – In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.
July 19 – UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
July 20–July 22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters.
July 24 – Tamil Tigers attack Bandaranaika International Airport in Sri Lanka, causing an estimated $500 million of damages.

August
August 9 – Sbarro Restaurant in Jerusalem is attacked by a Palestinian Terrorist, killing 15 civilians and wounding 130
August 24 – Windows XP is launched by Microsoft
August 31-September 1 – The 2001 Vancouver TV realignment occurs in British Columbia, Canada.
August 31-September 8 – World Conference against Racism 2001

September
September 11 attacks September 3 – The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the UN Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized.
September 6 – United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software maker Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
September 9 – A suicide bomber kills Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance.
September 11 – 2,996 people are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane.
September 18 – The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. 22 in total are exposed; 5 of them die.
September 21 – In Toulouse, France, the AZote Fertilisant chemical factory explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2,500.
September 26 – The fifth and final Star Trek TV series Enterprise premieres on UPN.

October
October 2 - Swissair seeks for bankruptcy protection and grounds its entire fleet.
October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed.
October 7 – War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations.
October 8 – Flight SK686 of SAS collides first with a private plane and then a building in Milano Airport; 118 are killed.
October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
October 19 – SIEV-X sinks en route to Christmas Island, killing 353 people.
October 23 - The iPod was first introduced by Apple.
October 25 - Microsoft releases Windows XP.
October 26 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

November
Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter November – The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international intellectual property law.
November 2 – The Glocal Forum, leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador Uri Savir.
November 4 Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, replacing the controversial Royal Ulster Constabulary.
November 8 - Jim Wallace becomes, once again, Acting First Minister of Scotland.
November 10 The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
Heavy rains and mudslides in Algeria kill more than 900.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is elected to a third term.
November 12 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, headed to the Dominican Republic, crashes in Queens minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board.
November 13 – In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
November 22 - Jack McConnell becomes First Minister of Scotland.

December
December 2 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (to that point, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).
December 3 – Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan is John Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
December 11 The United States government indicts Zacarias Moussaoui for involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Law enforcement raid members of DrinkOrDie in Operation Buccaneer.
December 13 The Parliament of India is attacked; 12 are killed. This brings India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
December 22 – A Paris–Miami, Florida flight is diverted to Boston, Massachusetts after passenger Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
December 27 The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
Typhoon Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.

1990

Births:
February 13 – Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism according to some sources

January
January 7: The Pisa tower closed. January 1 Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.
Television debut of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean in a Thames Television special.
January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrenders to American forces.
January 4 – Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
January 7 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
January 10 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
January 11 – Cold War: In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
January 15 The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
Martin Luther King Day Crash - Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.
January 20 Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.
Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir.
The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.
January 22 The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.
Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
January 25 Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, New York after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.
Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.
January 25–26 – The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
January 28 – The Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
January 29 The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.
Trial relating to Exxon Valdez.
January 31 Globalization - The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens 10 months after construction began in March 1989. 8 months later the first McDonalds in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen.
President of the United States George H. W. Bush gives his first State of the Union address and proposes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their military forces in Europe.

February
February 2 – Apartheid: In South Africa, President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to free Nelson Mandela.
February 7 The Communist Party of the Soviet Union votes to end its monopoly of power, clearing the way for multiparty elections.
In the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, rioting breaks out against the settlement of Armenian refugees there.
February 10 – President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.
February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
February 12 – Represenatatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an "Open Skies" conference. The conference results in agreements about superpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.
February 13 German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
Drexel Burnham Lambert files for bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11.
February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 3.5 billion miles away.
February 15 The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory, in 1982.
In Cartagena, Colombia, a summit is held between President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García. The leaders pledge additional cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking.
February 24 – The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first democratic election in the history of the Soviet Union.
February 26 The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the new president of Nicaragua, replacing Daniel Ortega.
The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
February 28 – President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U.S.-backed contras.

March
March 1 A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues its daily rum ration.
March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorer for six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.
March 6 – An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
March 9 Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
March 10 – Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti.
March 11 – Cold War: Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
March 12 Cold War: Soviet soldiers begin leaving Hungary under terms of an agreement to withdraw all Soviet troops by June 1.
Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
March 13 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union on March 15.
March 15 Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
Cold War: The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
Fernando Collor de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected president since 1961. The next day he announces a currency freeze and freezes large bank accounts for 18 months.
March 18 Twelve paintings, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2011) have not been recovered.
Cold War: East Germany holds its first free elections.
March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
March 21 – After 75 years of South African rule, Namibia becomes independent.
March 24 – In the Australian federal election, the Australian Labor Party, led by Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke, clings to power with a reduced majority.
March 25 In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.
In the Hungarian parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election since 1948, the Hungarian Democratic Forum wins the most seats.
March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.
March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
March 30 – Cold War: After its first free elections during the Soviet era on March 18, Estonia declares Soviet rule to have been illegal since 1940.
March 31 – "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A massive anti-poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 arrested.

April
April 1 The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests
Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.
The Ultimate Warrior defeats Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Championship in a Title for Title, winner takes all match at WrestleMania VI in front of nearly 68,000 at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
April 7 Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
April 8 In Nepal, Gyanendra of Nepal lifts a ban on political parties following violent protests.
In the Greek legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament; its leader, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, becomes Prime Minister of Greece on April 11.
In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938. After the election, a center-right coalition led by Lojze Peterle forms Yugoslavia's first non-Communist government since 1945.
April 9 – Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975, makes its closest approach to the sun.
April 12 – Lothar de Maizière becomes prime minister of East Germany, heading a conservative coalition that favors German reunification.
April 13 – Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn Massacre.
April 15 – Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement party in Uttar Pradesh.
April 22 Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.
Earth Day 20 is celebrated by millions worldwide.
April 24 Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on opposition parties.
April 25 – Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua.
April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.

May
May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the states of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date).
May 2–4 – First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
May 4 – Cold War: Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
May 6–13 – Pope John Paul II visits Mexico.
May 8 Cold War: Estonia restores the formal name of the country, the Republic of Estonia, as well as the state emblems (the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem).
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier assumes office as President of Costa Rica.
May 9 – In South Korea, police battle antigovernment protestors in Seoul and two other cities.
May 13 – In the Philippines, gunmen kill two United States Air Force airmen near Clark Air Base on the eve of talks between the Philippines and the United States over the future of American military bases in the Philippines.
May 15 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
May 17 – The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
May 18 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany sign a treaty to emerge their economic and social systems, effective July 1.
May 19 – The US and the USSR agree to end production of chemical weapons and to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons.
May 20 Cold War: The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
An Israeli gunman kills 7 Palestinians, leading to bloody riots in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.
May 21 – In Kashmir, a Kashmiri Islamic leader is assassinated and Indian security forces open fire on mourners carrying his body, killing at least 47 people.
May 22 Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
May 27 In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.
In the Colombian presidential election, César Gaviria is elected President of Colombia; he takes office on August 7.
May 29 Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.
Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) founded.
May 30 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev begin a four-day summit meeting in Washington, D.C.

June
June 1 Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.
June 2 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
Namibia recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
June 4 – Violence breaks out in the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeks over the distribution of homestead land.
June 7 – Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'.
June 8 The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy.
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir ends 88 days with only an acting government by forming a coalition of right-wing and religious parties led by Shamir's Likud party.
June 8–9 – In the Czechoslovakian parliamentary election, Czechoslovakia's first free election since 1946, the Civic Forum wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority.
June 9 – Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas.
June 10 Alberto Fujimori is elected President of Peru; he takes office on July 28.
First round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees the Bulgarian Socialist Party win a majority. The second round of voting is held June 17.
June 12 Cold War: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
In the Algerian local election, Algeria's first multiparty election since 1962, the Islamic Salvation Front wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32 of Algeria's 48 provinces.
June 13 – June 1990 Mineriad: Fighting breaks out in Romania in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, between the supporters of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and those of the new regime.
June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.
June 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
June 21 – An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale kills thousands in the Iranian city of Manjil.
June 22 – Underwater volcano Mount Didicas erupts in the Philippines.
June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.
June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.

July
July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
July 2 A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.
July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
July 6 President of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over charges he order tanks to disperse antigovernment protests in December 1989.
Somali president Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre antigovernment demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed, more than 300 seriously injured.
July 7–8 – Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.
July 8 – West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
July 9–11 – The 16th G7 summit is held in Houston.
July 11 – Terrorist act in Azerbaijan. Armenian terrorists blow up passenger bus moving from Kelbecer to Tartar. 14 people are killed, 35 were wounded.
July 15 – Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
July 16 – An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills more than 1,600 in the Philippines.
July 22 – First round of the Mongolian legislative election, the first multiparty ever held in Mongolia; the Mongolian People's Party wins by a wide margin after the second round of voting on July 29.
July 25 George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
July 26 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
July 27 The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A. N. R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
Cold War: Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.
July 28 – Albert Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
July 30 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills former British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow outside his home in England.

August
Gulf War Begins August 1 – The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria in 40 years.
August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
August 6 Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, accusing her of corruption and abuse of power.
The South African government and ANC begin talks on ending Apartheid in South Africa.
August 7 U.S. President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to protect a possible attack by Iraq.
Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh announces plan to reserve 49% of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus. The plan triggers riots, leaving at least 70 dead by September.
August 8 Iraq announces that it has formally annexed Kuwait.
The government of Peru announces an austerity plan that results in huge increases in the price of food and gasoline. the plan sets off days of rioting and a national stricke on August 21.
August 10 Egypt, Syria, and 10 other Arab nations vote to send military forces to Saudi Arabia to discourage an invasion from Iraq.
A passenger bus, moving by the route "Tbilisi-Agdam" is blown up, 20 people died and 30 were injured. Organizers of the crime, Armenians A. Avanesian and M. Tatevosian, were brought to criminal trial.
August 12 In South Africa, fighting breaks out between the Xhosa people and the Zulu people; more than 500 people are killed by the end of August.
"Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
August 21 – Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.
August 22 – U.S. President Bush calls up U.S. military reservists for service in the Persian Gulf Crisis.
August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
August 24 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
August 26 – In Sofia, protestors set fire to the headquarters of the governing Bulgarian Socialist Party.
August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).
August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.

September
September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Côte d'Ivoire.
September 2 – Cold War: Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
September 4 – Geoffrey Palmer resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike Moore.
September 4–6 – Premier of North Korea Yon Hyong-muk meets with President of South Korea Roh Tae-woo, the highest level contact between leaders of the two Koreas since 1945.
September 6 – In Burma, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.
September 9 U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in Helsinki to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
September 12 Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.
September 18 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta, Georgia.
September 19 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives.
September 24 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union grants Gorbachev special powers for 18 months to secure the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy.
September 29 – Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.
September 29–30 – The United Nations World Summit for Children draws more than 70 world leaders to United Nations Headquarters.

October
October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.
October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
October 4 – In the Philippines, rebel forces seize two military posts on the island of Mindanao, before surrendering on October 6.
October 8 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
Globalization: First McDonald's restaurant is opened in Mainland China in Shenzhen. Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special Economic Zone. The opening of a large McDonald's in Beijing on 23 April 1992 heralds McDonald's entry into the heart of Mainland China and Chinese society.
October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
October 14 – Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City at 72.
October 15 Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.
South Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools, and other public facilities.
October 24 – In the Pakistani general election, Prime Minister Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party loses power to a center-right coalition government.
October 27 Cold War: The Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan chooses Askar Akayev as the republic's first president.
The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.
October 29 – In Norway, the government headed by Prime Minister of Norway Jan P. Syse collapses.

November
November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
November 3 – Gro Harlem Brundtland assumes office as Prime Minister of Norway.
November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
November 6 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
November 7 – Indian Prime Minister Singh resigns over losing a confidence vote in the Parliament of India, having lost the support of Hindus who want a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya torn down to build a Hindu temple.
November 9 A new constitution comes into effect in the Kingdom of Nepal, establishing multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy; this is the culmination of the 1990 People's Movement.
The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.
November 10 – Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India as head of a minority government.
November 12 Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan.
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
November 13 The first known web page is written.
In New Zealand, David Gray kills 13 people in what will become known as the Aramoana Massacre.
November 14 – Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder-Neisse line.
November 15 – STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission.
November 17 – Soviet President Gorbachev proposes a radical restructuring of the Soviet government, including the creation of a Federal Council to be made up of the heads of the 15 Soviet republics.
November 19–21 – Leaders of Canada, the United States, and 32 European nations meet in Paris to formally mark the end of the Cold War.
November 21 Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed.
Agreement for decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in Queensland.
The second Nintendo video game console Super Famicom is released in Japan.
November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party (UK).
November 25 – Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław Tymiński win the first round of the first Polish presidential election.
November 27 – Women's suffrage is introduced in the last Swiss half-canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
November 28 – Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew resigns and is replaced by Goh Chok Tong.
November 29 Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of former Communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests.


December
December 1 Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.
President of Chad Hissène Habré is deposed by the Patriotic Salvation Movement and replaced as president by its leader Idriss Déby.
December 2 – The German federal election, the first election held since German reunification is won by Helmut Kohl, who becomes Chancellor of Germany.
December 3 At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.
December 4 – President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad resigns; he is replaced by Shahabuddin Ahmed, who becomes interim president.
December 6 Saddam Hussein releases the Western hostages.
President Hossain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh is forced to resign following massive protests.
December 7 In Brussels, trade talks break fail because of a dispute between the U.S. and the European Union over farm export subsidies.
The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Dimitar Iliev Popov as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
December 9 Slobodan Milošević becomes President of Serbia.
Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
December 16 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.
December 20 – Eduard Shevardnadze announces his resignation as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
December 22 The first constitution of the Republic of Croatia is adopted.
The Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia become independent, after the termination of their trusteeship.
December 23 – In the Slovenian independence referendum, 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, supported independence of the country.
December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup.
December 25 – Tim Berners-Lee creates the first webpage on the first web server.
December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.