Explore 1748 historical events from 1990–1999.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the Rebbe of the Lubavitch H…
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi and author (born 1902)
Philip Villamin Vera Cruz was a Filipino American labor leader and farmworker. He helped found the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), which later merged with the Nat…
Philip Vera Cruz, Filipino-American labor leader and farmworker (born 1904)
Nadia Gray was a Romanian film actress.
Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (born 1923)
Lionel Grigson was an English jazz pianist, cornettist, trumpeter, composer, writer and teacher, who in the 1980s started the jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music. As Simon…
Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (born 1942)
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist, best known as a composer of film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest compose…
Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (born 1924)
Marcel André Mouloudji was a French singer, actor, and writer who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert.
Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (born 1922)
Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time. He was one of the main proponents of the "ént…
Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (born 1925)
Kristen Marie Pfaff was an American musician and songwriter known as a bassist for the alternative rock bands Hole and Janitor Joe. She died in June 1994 of a heroin overdose at th…
Kristen Pfaff, American bass player and songwriter (born 1967)
William Wilson Morgan was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove …
William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1906)
Jean Vallerand, CQ was a composer, music critic, violinist, conductor, arts administrator, writer, and music educator from Quebec. As a composer he was active from 1935 to 1969. An…
Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1915)
Jahanara Imam was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is known for her efforts to bring war criminals to trial for war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. She…
Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (born 1929)
Kurt Peter Eichhorn, was a German conductor.
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor and educator (born 1908)
Nagoya Airfield , also known as Komaki Airport or Nagoya Airport, is an airport within the local government areas of Toyoyama, Komaki, Kasugai and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan…
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeo
Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval act during the Eurovis…
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest
In 1994, the District Court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary s…
American teenager Michael P
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Towns…
American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the wor…
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight
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: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rif
The Imam Reza shrine bombing refers to a bomb explosion that occurred on 20 June 1994 in a crowded prayer hall at the shrine of Ali al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Shia, located in Ma…
A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured
Aleph , better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo , is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo s…
Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring mo
The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by US federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult know…
The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the seat of government of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents as of 2024, it is the third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan…
The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for
SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a Boeing 727-46 that crashed on 19 May 1993, killing all 132 on board. The aircraft collided with a mountain while on approach to Medellín, Colombia.
SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 1
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo was an archbishop of the Catholic Church in Mexico who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic C…
Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo