Unix Timestamp: 656726400
Wednesday, October 24. 1990, 12:00:00 AM UTC

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.

In the Pakistani general election, Prime Minister Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party loses power to a center-right coalition government.