Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
Hazen Robert Argue was a Canadian politician who served in the House of Commons and the Senate. He was first elected as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) Member of Parli…
Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (born 1921)
Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972, until…
Demetrios I of Constantinople (born 1914)
Igor Vladimirovich Talkov, was a Russian rock singer-songwriter and film actor. His breakthrough came in 1987 with the David Tukhmanov-composed song Clean Ponds which was an instan…
Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1956)
Harry Winston Brown was an Army Air Corps second lieutenant assigned to the 47th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1…
Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (born 1921)
Darren Millane was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Darren Millane, Australian footballer (born 1965)
John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub act before and during the …
Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (born 1922)
Leo Ernest Durocher, nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager, and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an infielder…
Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (born 1905)
Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl was an Austrian Olympic-medal-winning wrestler. He was also a European heavyweight wrestling champion, and for 10 years he held the title of Austrian hea…
Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler, discus thrower, and shot putter (born 1906)
Sheila Mary Florance was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, television and film.
Sheila Florance, Australian actress (born 1916)
The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (born 1925)
John Francis Regis Toomey was an American film and television actor.
Regis Toomey, American actor (born 1898)
Ernest Jennings Ford, known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and western, pop, and gospel music…
Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (born 1919)
Lorenc Antoni was an Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
Lorenc Antoni, Albanian composer, conductor, and musicologist (born 1909)
Hachiro Kasuga , born Minoru Watabe, was a Japanese enka singer. He has been dubbed "the first enka singer".
Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (born 1924)
Bill Graham was an American concert promoter. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, he escaped Nazi persecution as a child and reached the United States as one of the One Thousand Chi…
Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (born 1931)
Sherry Louise Hawco was a Canadian gymnast.
Sherry Hawco, Canadian gymnast (born 1964)
George Granville Barker was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long l…
George Barker, English author and poet (born 1913)
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
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, …
Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (born 1921)
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality a…
Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (born 1915)
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
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
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…