Jan 9 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

Jan 13 British comedy sketch show series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" starringStephen Fry andHugh Laurie debuts on BBC1

Jan 28 46th Golden Globes: "Rain Man",Dustin Hoffman, &Jodie Foster win

Feb 10Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV

Feb 22 UK physicistStephen Hawking calls the proposed missile defense system known as Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

Feb 24 Stalker Margaret Ray found inDavid Letterman's home, claims to be his wife

Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 634 performances

Mar 12 15th People's Choice Awards:Dustin Hoffman &Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) andBill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)

Mar 24 NBC rebroadcastsMary Martin and Cyril Ritchard's 1960 version of "Peter Pan" for the first time since 1973

Apr 2 WrestleMania V, Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, NJ:Hulk Hogan beats Randy "Macho Man" Savage for WWF Heavyweight title

Apr 21 World premiere of sports fantasy film "Field of Dreams", in Dubuque, Iowa; based on W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe", and starringKevin Costner,James Earl Jones,Ray Liotta andBurt Lancaster

May 11 217th & final episode of TVsoap opera "Dynasty" is aired

May 19 "Do the Right Thing", directed bySpike Lee, starring Danny Aiello and Ossie Davis premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

May 19 Sue Ellen's (Linda Gray) last appearance on TV show "Dallas"

May 20 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on "Saturday Night Live"

May 23 42nd Cannes Film Festival: "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" directed bySteven Soderbergh wins the Palme d'Or

May 24 "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", directed bySteven Spielberg, starringHarrison Ford, and produced byGeorge Lucas' Lucasfilms premieres

May 24Weird Al Yankovic records three tracks for his UHF movie soundtrack

Jun 2 "Dead Poets Society" film starringRobin Williams premieres

Jun 13 Piano playing rock singerJerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Jun 14 "You've Got A Friend" singer-songwriterCarole King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

Jun 14Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman

Jun 16 "Ghostbusters II", American supernatural comedy film sequel, directed byIvan Reitman, starringBill Murray andDan Aykroyd premieres

Jun 21 Black comedy "Heathers" starringWinona Ryder,Christian Slater, andShannen Doherty premieres at the Sundance Film Festival

Jun 23 Movie "Batman" premieres directed byTim Burton, starringMichael Keaton andJack Nicholson

Jun 29 Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation -Susan Lucci loses for 10th time

Jul 4 14-year-old actressDrew Barrymore, attempts suicide

Jul 5 "Seinfield" (originally titled TheSeinfeld Chronicles" screens its pilot episode starringJerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander,Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC

Jul 14 Romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally" starringBilly Crystal andMeg Ryan, directed byRob Reiner, and written byNora Ephron, is released

Jul 23Ringo Starr's first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh,Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John,Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner

Sep 1 "Roger and Me", the first documentary directed byMichael Moore, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival

Sep 4Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219

Sep 5 Daytime talk show "TheJoan Rivers Show" hosted by Joan Rivers premieres on US TV

Sep 19 "Doogie Howser, M.D.", starringNeil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC

Sep 19 "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" 4th studio album by Janet Jackson is released (Grammy Award Best Long Form Music Video 1990, Billboard Album of the Year 1990)

Sep 20 Musical "Miss Saigon" premieres in London, created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil

Sep 22 TV drama "Baywatch" starringDavid Hasselhoff andPamela Anderson debuts on NBC

Oct 7Howard Stern's "US Open Sores" tennis match against his producer Gary Dell'Abate. at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Oct 15 American radio and television evangelistBilly Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Boulevard, the first clergyman to be granted a star

Nov 2 "Blackadder Goes Forth" final episode "Goodbyeee" airs on BBC-TV starringRowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Nov 28Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"

Dec 13 "Driving Miss Daisy" directed by Bruce Beresford and starringMorgan Freeman andJessica Tandy is released (Best Picture 1990)

Dec 17 "The Simpsons" created byMatt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"