Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
Jack Delano was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the United States, he worked for the Works Prog…
Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (born 1914)
Ida Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.
Ida Gerhardt, Dutch poet and educator (born 1905)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, also known as NFAK, was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music director, primarily associated with qawwali, a form of Suf…
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (born 1948)
Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, also known by his daak naam Badshah, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher and author. He established numerous madrasas in Bangladesh and was the f…
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (born 1914)
Norris Edwin Bradbury was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who pe…
Norris Bradbury, American soldier, physicist, and academic (born 1909)
Léon Dion was a Canadian political scientist.
Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (born 1922)
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy al…
Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (born 1922)
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work a…
John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Luigi "Gigi" Villoresi was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956.
Luigi Villoresi, Italian racing driver (born 1907)
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni V…
American spree killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Jeffrey Trail, a former friend and a Gulf War veteran, who became the firs
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 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in
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 defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champio
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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An earthquake struck northern Iran's Khorasan Province in the vicinity of Qaen on May 10, 1997, at 07:57 UTC. The largest in the area since 1990, the earthquake registered 7.3 on t…
An earthquake registering 7
The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking place…
The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also rena
The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the Mexican state of Querétaro and extending into the neighboring states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San L…
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a resul
In the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large, slow-moving and intense F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. Known most frequently as the J…
A destructive F5-rated tornado tracked through a subdivision of homes northwest of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people
Pascal Lissouba was a Congolese politician who was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo and served from 31 August 1992 until 25 October 1997. He …
Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival D
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band members are Thom Yorke ; the brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien ;…
The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom
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: In response to the Drumcree conflict, five days of unrest began in nationalist districts of Northern…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained i…
Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Princess Mononoke is released, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan for a few…
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: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year…
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.…
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after…
Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume. With more t…
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen…