Caruso sang the male lead. It became one of the Duke's most famous standards. Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored. Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines. 150,000 French troops mass at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion.
Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world.
A stand-in for Mikhail Gorbachev accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. Armand Hammer died at age 92. The space shuttle Columbia returned from its 10th mission. Roman Catholic Bishop Filipe Ximenes Belo and exiled activist Jose Ramos Horta, opponents of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The Supreme Court narrowed double-jeopardy protections for people who face both civil fines and criminal prosecution for the same conduct, ruling that three Oklahoma men could be prosecuted in a bank failure case even though they'd already paid civil fines for their actions.