Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
Robert Blackburn was an Irish educationalist. He was an early pioneer of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and was instrumental in establishing the first United Wo…
Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (born 1927)
Miguel Muñoz Mozún was a Spanish football player and manager. A midfielder, he spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid before going on to coach the club, where he is widely…
Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1922)
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Me…
Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (born 1896)
Yun Po-sun was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the second president of South Korea from 1960 to 1962. He was the only president of the short-lived Second Repub…
Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (born 1897)
Edward Quillan was an American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s…
Eddie Quillan, American actor (born 1907)
Herbert Turner Jenkins was an American law enforcement official and the longest-serving police chief of Atlanta.
Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police officer (born 1907)
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintada…
Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1932)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful att…
Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (born 1937)
Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television and video tape recorders. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he bui…
Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (born 1899)
Robert James Byrd, known by the stage name Bobby Day, was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and songwriter. He is best known for his hit record "Rockin' Ro…
Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1928)
René Toribio was a French politician and was a member of the French Senate representing Guadeloupe from 1959 to 1968.
René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (born 1912)
Jill Esmond was an English actress of stage and screen.
Jill Esmond, English actress (born 1908)
Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancell…
Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (born 1911)
Ian Reginald Edward Gow was a British politician and solicitor. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 1974, until his as…
Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (born 1937)
An explosion at the ARCO Chemical (ACC) Channelview, Texas petrochemical plant killed 17 people and injured five others on July 5, 1990. It was one of the deadliest industrial disa…
An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview, Texas, killed 17 people and injured five others.
The Jammat-al-Muslimeen is an Islamist fundamentalist group in Trinidad and Tobago.
Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group, began a coup attempt against the government of Trinidad and Tobago by…
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapoo…
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the …
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously,…
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created …
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr
Paperback Software International Ltd. was a software company founded in 1983 by Adam Osborne to manufacture discount software such as word processor Paperback Writer and related sp…
Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3'
The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Li…
Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament…
The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the…
The surface wave magnitude scale is one of the magnitude scales used in seismology to describe the size of an earthquake. It is based on measurements of Rayleigh surface waves that…
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.