Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. It is loca…
A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire, killing two police officers.
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…
Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam,…
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…
The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, was raided by Taliban leading to the death of 10 Iranian…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured…
The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Kafouri, Khartoum North, Sudan, was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported from Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, Switzerlan…
The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory (pictured) in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United…
Swissair Flight 111 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switze…
A fire in the cockpit on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States, responsible for coordinati…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment…
Europol, officially the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, is the law enforcement agency of the European Union (EU). Established in 1998, it is based in The Hag…
Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, was formed with the ratification of the Europol Convention by all member…
Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. He was transported by rescuers…
Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days…
Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of 724,290 in 2025, while the city'…
A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as…
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling …
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the…
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the oppo…
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport to Shenzhen Huangtian Airport. On 8 May 1997, the Boeing…
China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people
Laurent-Désiré Kabila usually known as Laurent Kabila or Kabila the Father, was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third president of the Democratic Republic of the…
Troops of Laurent-Désiré Kabila march into Kinshasa
Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who wa…
Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country
Progress M-34 was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attemp…
An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir
Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-vol…
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Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the …
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of…
Digital Equipment Corporation, using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was founded by Ken Olsen …
Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.
About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction…
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical wea
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government…
The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year his
Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to …
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first com
FedEx Express Flight 14 was a scheduled cargo flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, via Malaysia, Taiwan, and Alaska. On July 31, 1997, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying th…
FedEx Express Flight 14 crashes at Newark International Airport, injuring five.