Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Jonathan Rafael Villar Roque is a Dominican professional baseball second baseman for the Caliente de Durango of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Basebal…
Jonathan Villar, Dominican baseball player
Samuel Seo is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer. Born in Seoul, he spent his youth living in his home country, as well as Japan, the United States, and …
Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
Brianne Alexandra Jenner is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain for the Ottawa Charge of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of Canada wome…
Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
Raúl Alonso Jiménez Rodríguez is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Fulham and the Mexico national team.
Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
Majlinda Kelmendi is a Kosovan-Albanian former judoka and judo coach.
Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
Nickelodeon is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Skydance.…
Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.
Indian Airlines Flight 257 was an Indian Airlines domestic passenger flight operating on the Calcutta–Imphal–Dimapur route. On 16 August 1991, the Boeing 737-200 registered VT-EFL …
Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage at Strathfield Plaza in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia, on 17 August 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself as polic…
Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots and kills seven people…
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's…
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house…
The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents attacked Orthodox…
Crown Heights riot in New York City begins.
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's…
Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament…
Jennifer Patricia Beattie is a Scottish former professional footballer who played for Arsenal FC of the WSL and the Scotland national team.
Jen Beattie, Scottish footballer
Francis Joseph Coquelin is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nantes. He has also featured for Valencia, Arsenal, Lorient, SC Fre…
Francis Coquelin, French footballer
Walter Messias Júnior is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Genoa. Capable of playing anywhere across the attacking front, he has also been…
Junior Messias, Brazilian footballer
Alan Patrick Lourenço is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Internacional.
Alan Patrick, Brazilian footballer
Johanna Konta is a British-Australian former professional tennis player. Konta won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, along with eleven titles in singles and four in doubles on t…
Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the we…
Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of…
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania…
Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
In August 1991, hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) attempted to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet president and…
Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
Iceland is a Nordic island country between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Europe and North America. It is culturally and p…
Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
Adil Omar is a Pakistani rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and filmmaker from Islamabad. In addition to being a solo artist, he is also involved in songwriting and produc…
Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
Abigail Raye is a British-born Belgian field hockey player. She has represented Canada and Belgium at international level.
Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgarian in hist…
Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
Jordan Pruitt Fuente is an American former singer-songwriter. She released two studio albums on Hollywood Records — No Ordinary Girl (2007) and Permission to Fly (2008) — and toure…
Jordan Pruitt, American singer-songwriter