Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Harry Reasoner was an American journalist for CBS and ABC News. He is known for his adroit use of language as a television commentator and as one of the original hosts of the news …
Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (born 1923)
James Benson Irwin was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth huma…
James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, eighth man to walk on the moon (born 1930)
Lưu Trọng Lư (1911–1991) was a Vietnamese poet, play writer, and novelist. He was born in 1911 at Cao Lao Hạ village, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast, V…
Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1912)
John Delphus McDuffie Jr. was an American racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from 1963 to 1991, collecting 106 Top 10 finishes during his career, despite n…
J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (born 1938)
James Roosevelt II was an American businessman, Marine officer, activist, and Democratic Party politician. The eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, …
James Roosevelt, American general and politician (born 1907)
Alberto Augusto Crespo was a racing driver from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, the 1952 Italian Grand Prix, with a Maserati ente…
Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (born 1920)
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film director.
Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1905)
Boris Karlovich Pugo was a Soviet communist politician of Latvian origin.
Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (born 1937)
Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career als…
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (born 1924)
Bernard Castro was the inventor of the modern convertible couch.
Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (born 1904)
Mildred Elizabeth Albert was an American fashion commentator, modeling agency director, fashion show producer, radio and television personality, and society columnist. Known as the…
Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (born 1905)
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.
Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1913)
The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in recorded history, and one of the most powerful cyclones in the In…
A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), …
In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his
The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant …
Riots broke out in Washington, D
George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush was the 43rd vice president of the United States serving under Ronald Reagan…
U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence…
The World Wide Web is a global interconnected information system that enables content sharing over the Internet. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources accordin…
The World Wide Web was opened to the public.
Time is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first pu…
Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Sc
The Bright Sparklers fireworks disaster occurred on 7 May 1991 at 3:45 pm MST in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. A massive explosion at the Bright Sparklers fireworks factory cau…
A fire and explosion at a fireworks factory in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killed 26 people
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved i…
Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independen
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was an Indian politician and pilot who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989 for two terms. He took office after the assassination of his mothe…
Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
The Israel Defense Forces, alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service bra…
The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (ev
On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began imm…
Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009
Sri Lankan Tamils, also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Pr…
More than 150 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were massacred by members of the military in the village of Kokkadichcholai