Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
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.
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
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.
The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a regional jet designed in Soviet Union by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981. It was introduced to…
A Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes into a river near Vanavara, Russia, killing 24.
Space Shuttle Endeavour is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1…
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.
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
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
Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country located in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approxi…
Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface of Venus by using synthe…
The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 was a Fokker F-28 flight of Iran Aseman Airlines operating on the Isfahan–Tehran route in Iran. The flight crashed near the town of Natanz on Octobe…
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.
Dmitry Yuryevich Kholodov was a Russian journalist who investigated corruption in the military and was assassinated on 17 October 1994 in Moscow. His assassination was the first of…
Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
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
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Gaza is…
Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern
Gliese 229 is a multiple system composed of a red dwarf and two brown dwarfs, located 18.8 light-years away. It is the nearest star system in the constellation Lepus. The primary c…
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
Alanna Goldie is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
Yang Hong-seok, better known by the mononym Hongseok, is a South Korean singer and actor. He debuted as a vocalist of the group boy band Pentagon in October 2016. Aside from group …
Yang Hongseok, South Korean singer and actor
Adam Aminé Daniel is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter, from Portland, Oregon. He first gained notability for his commercial debut single, "Caroline", which peaked at numb…
Aminé, American singer-songwriter
Hans Carl Ludwig Augustinsson is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Pro League club Anderlecht and the Sweden national team.
Ludwig Augustinsson, Swedish footballer