Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
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…
Atlantis became the first U
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of …
Sri Lankan civil war: After advising civilians to take shelter in places of worship, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a…
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer-songwriter, fashion designer and business owner. Known as the "Queen of Tejano Music", she is known for her contributions to popular…
Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.
The Rajneesh movement is a new religious movement inspired by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990), also known as Osho. They used to be known as Rajneeshees or "Ora…
Two followers of the Indian mystic Rajneesh were convicted of a 1985 plot to assassinate Charles Turner, the U.S.…
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Fe…
Yugoslav Wars: The Croatian Army initiated Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence…
China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board
The Bishkek Protocol was a provisional ceasefire agreement, signed by the representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, and Russia on May 12, 1994, in …
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Febr
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to…
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections
The Democratic Republic of Yemen, was a short-lived state that fought against the mainland Yemen in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the fo…
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner that was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It had a lasting effect on the airline industry from the 1930s through World …
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline tha…
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in South Africa in which citizens of all races could vote, bringing an end to…
South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vot
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through coll…
Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secre
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 Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing co…
Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel, single-seater formula racing cars run by Formula One Group and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale…
Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand
Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel, single-seater formula racing cars run by Formula One Group and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale…
Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix
A prime minister, also known as a chief of cabinet, chief minister, first minister, minister-president or premier, is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the…
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza St
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lif…
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunn
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black …
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president
Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011…
Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung.
Alanna Goldie is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer