Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
Fanny Smith is a Swiss freestyle skier. She represented Switzerland at the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics. As of January 2023, she has 29 victories and 67 podiums on th…
Fanny Smith, Swiss freestyle skier
Hutchings Royal Dano is an American actor and painter. He is known for playing co-lead character Zeke Falcone in the Disney XD comedy series Zeke and Luther.
Hutch Dano, American actor
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as researc…
NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is the youngest branch of the Nigerian military, established four years after the nation became inde…
A Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in Ejigbo, Lagos, killing 159.
The future of Palestinians detained by Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Cases o…
Palestinian prisoners went on a 15-day hunger strike.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300, registration AP-BCP, which crashed while approaching Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on 28 September 1992…
A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachmen…
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
Lisa Catherine Evans is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Scottish Women's Premier League club Glasgow City and the Scotland national team. Operating as a winger or …
Lisa Evans, Scottish footballer
Philipp Grüneberg is a German footballer who plays as a forward for SV Lichtenberg 47.
Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer
Olivia Olson is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and screenwriter, largely known for her voice roles as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Q…
Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
Anna Katerina Baryshnikova is an American actress. Following her film debut in Wiener-Dog (2016), Baryshnikov had supporting roles in films such as Manchester by the Sea (2016), Th…
Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
The Carandiru massacre occurred on 2 October 1992, in Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, when São Paulo's military police stormed the penitentiary following a prison riot…
Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre…
The Rome General Peace Accords, officially the General Peace Accords, was a peace treaty signed between the government of Mozambique and RENAMO, ending the Mozambican Civil War on …
The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbo…
El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
The Peekskill meteorite is the object resulting from a well-documented meteorite event that occurred in October, 1992, in Peekskill, New York, United States. Sixteen separate video…
The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
The 1992 Cairo earthquake, also known as the Dahshur earthquake, occurred at 15:09 local time on 12 October, with an epicenter in the Western Desert near Dahshur, Giza, 35 km (22 m…
A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
Laerte Leandro de Araújo Fernandes, better known as Laerte do Vando, is a Brazilian politician serving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia since 2019. He is the son of…
Laerte do Vando, Brazilian politician
Marcus Bettinelli is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City.
Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer
Aaron Brown is a Canadian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. As part of Canada's 4 × 100 m relay team, he is the 2024 Olympic gold medallist, 2020 Olympic silver m…
Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter
Jeison Fabián Murillo Cerón is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Qatari club Al-Shamal.
Jeison Murillo, Colombian footballer
Laurence Vincent Lapointe is a Canadian sprint canoer. She has won eleven gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, starting with the 2010 Poznań Championships, and …
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer
Yoshihiro Hattori was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his wa…
Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 (MNA5601/MZ5601) was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Semarang to Bandung, Indonesia. On 18 October 1992, the two-year-old CASA/IPT…
Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia,…
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the g…
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the LAGEOS-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.