Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
The Kurkse tragedy occurred on 11 September 1997, when 14 Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion drowned in the Kurkse Strait during a dangerous training maneuver. The Kurkse tr…
Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training…
The Scottish devolution referendum of 1997 was a pre-legislative referendum held in Scotland on 11 September 1997 over whether there was support for the creation of a Scottish Parl…
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
The German Air and Space Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany. The Luftwaffe was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the …
A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near…
Robert Edward Turner III was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, whi…
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufacture…
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
Cameron David Young is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, where he has won three titles.
Cameron Young, American golfer
Lana Therese Condor is an American actress and YouTuber. She made her acting debut starring as Jubilee in the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and gained international reco…
Lana Condor, American actress
Richarlison de Andrade, known simply as Richarlison, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Brazil national…
Richarlison, Brazilian footballer
Frenkie de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
Frenkie de Jong, Dutch footballer
Nicholas Mackie Hoerner is an American professional baseball middle infielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at Stanford University…
Nico Hoerner, American baseball player
Garuda Indonesia is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport near Jakarta. A successor of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, it is a member of S…
A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
The 1997 Umbria and Marche earthquakes occurred in the regions of Umbria and Marche, central Italy over a period of several months from September 1997 to April 1998. It consisted o…
An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at…
On the evening of October 4, 1997, $17.3 million in cash was stolen from the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis, Fargo & Co. The robbery was committed by Lo…
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 was an Argentine domestic scheduled passenger flight from Posadas to Buenos Aires. On October 10, 1997, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that was ope…
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a joint space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to s…
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
Rúben dos Santos Gato Alves Dias is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester City and the Portugal national team. He is re…
Rúben Dias, Portuguese footballer
Masour Ousmane Dembélé is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward or right winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. Considered one …
Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
Scott Drinkwater is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Scott Drinkwater, Australian rugby league player
Kaoru Mitoma is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Japan national team. He is best known for his …
Kaoru Mitoma, Japanese footballer
Ivan Francesco De Santis is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender. A centre-back, he made his professional debut on 2 November 2016, for Catania.
Ivan De Santis, Italian footballer
Steen Viktor Christensen is a Danish criminal, who was sentenced in Denmark in 1992 to twelve years in prison for numerous bank robberies, hostage taking, and rape. In autumn 1997,…
Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero…
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, also known as the Second Brazzaville-Congolese Civil War, was the second of two ethnopolitical civil conflicts in the Republic of the Co…
After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
A financial crisis gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. It began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect…
The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a career-high WTA do…
Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player