Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson was a British architect, also active as an interior designer, an artist, and a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of ar…
Hugh Casson, English architect and interior designer (born 1910)
Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay for Joe (1970) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Serpico (1973).
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (born 1926)
James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the cl…
James White, Irish author (born 1928)
Mary Jane Croft was an American actress best known for roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Miss Daisy Enright on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks, Mary Jane L…
Mary Jane Croft, American actress (born 1916)
Alexandre Lagoya was a French classical guitarist and composer. His early career included boxing and guitar, and as he cites on the sleeve of a 1981 Columbia album, his parents hop…
Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian guitarist and composer (born 1929)
Rob Fisher was an English keyboardist and songwriter from Cheltenham, England, who achieved chart success as a member of the new wave band Naked Eyes and, later, Climie Fisher. He …
Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1956)
Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Olinda and Recife from 1964 to 1985 during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a …
Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop and theologian (born 1909)
Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were American high school seniors and a mass murderer duo who perpetrated the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, in Col…
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out a massacre at Columbine High School, killing 13 people before committ
CIH, also known as the Chernobyl virus, is a computer virus that targets computers running the Windows 9x family of operating systems. There are several variants, with different tr…
The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars
Taber is a town in southern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the Municipal District of Taber. It is approximately 51 km (32 mi) east of the City of Lethbridge at the intersect…
A 14-year-old former student in Taber, Alberta, opened fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, also known as Adams Field, is a joint civil-military airport on the east side of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is operated by …
On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administere…
The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil,
Doppler on Wheels (DOW) is a fleet of quickly deployable truck-mounted weather radars managed by FARM, an American research company affiliated with the University of Alabama in Hun…
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 143
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), w…
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (W…
Professional wrestler Owen Hart died immediately before a World Wrestling Federation match after dropping 70 feet (21 m)
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. They compe…
Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become the first English football club to win three major champ
Kenneth M. Levine is an American video game developer. He is the creative director and co-founder of Ghost Story Games. He led the creation of the BioShock series and is also known…
Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced…
Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo is a Nigerian politician, statesman, agriculturalist, and former army general who served as Nigeria's Military Head of State…
President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli, known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the Melodifestivalen 1999 and subsequent…
Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Fe…
Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 2…
In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandat
In the United Kingdom, devolution is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's statutory granting of a greater level of self-government to parts of the United Kingdom, such as to Scot…
Legislative powers in Scotland were first devolved from the Scottish Office in London to the Scottish Parliament in…
The United States women's national soccer team represents the United States in international women's soccer. The team is governed by the United States Soccer Federation and compete…
The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both…