Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, known professionally as Central Cee, is a British rapper from Shepherd's Bush, London. Regarded as a leading figure in UK rap, he rose to prominence in 2020 …
Central Cee, British rapper and songwriter
Mazar-i-Sharif or Mazar-e-Sharif is a city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital and largest city of Balkh Province. It has 12 city districts (nahias) and an estimated po…
Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats…
Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni Hassanal Bolkiah is the eldest son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and his wife Queen Saleha. He is the crown prince of Brunei Darussalam, and is first in the li…
HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shar…
Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220…
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, and known for consumer electronics, software and online servic…
Apple introduces the iMac computer.
A sex scandal involving Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, erupted in 1998. Their sexual relationship began in 1995—w…
Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship"…
Kale Clague is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Winnipeg Jets of the National Ho…
Kale Clague, Canadian ice hockey player
Jaqueline Adina Cristian is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 28 in singles, achieved on 4 May 2026, and No. 93 in doubles, achieved Fe…
Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player
Ryan Papenhuyzen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a fullback for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League.
Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player
Charles Tahan is an American actor. Starting as a child actor, with appearances in the 2007 films American Loser and I Am Legend, he has progressed through teen and adult roles. Hi…
Charlie Tahan, American actor
The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. It comprises nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law, and gra…
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's…
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb e…
U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan…
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder …
First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Delta III was an expendable launch vehicle made by McDonnell Douglas. Development was canceled before the vehicle became operational. The vehicle is the third generation of the Del…
The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the…
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but…
Karman Kaur Thandi is an Indian professional tennis player. She is a former Indian number one in singles.
Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player
Atticus Shaffer is an American actor and YouTuber. He is known for playing Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009–2018), as well for voicing Edgar in the movie Frankenweenie…
Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber
Joshua Michael Da Silva is a Trinidadian cricketer. He made his domestic debut in 2018 for Trinidad and Tobago, and his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in Dece…
Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer
Isabel "Izzy" Atkin is a former British-American freestyle skier who competed internationally for Great Britain. She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in…
Isabel Atkin, British-American freestyle skier
The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War or the Great War of Africa, was a major conflict that began on 2 August 1998, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just o…
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on…
Isatou "Satou" Sabally is a German-American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Phantom of Unr…
Satou Sabally, German-American basketball player
Viktória Hrunčáková is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 43 in singles and No. 27 in doubles in the world by the WTA. Hrunčáková has won five …
Viktória Kužmová, Slovak tennis player
Mohamed Fakaba Bamba is an Ivorian-American professional basketball player who last played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketb…
Mo Bamba, American-Ivorian basketball player
Jamie Laura Chadwick is a British racing driver who competes for IDEC Sport in the European Le Mans Series, and previously raced for Andretti Global in Indy NXT. She won the inaugu…
Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver