Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
Ryan Whitney is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Ginger Falcone in Disney XD's Zeke and Luther, Allison in The Thundermans, Cindy Collins in Zoom and Emily Hobbs …
Ryan Newman, American actress
Cristian Gabriel Romero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, which he captains, and the Argentina national …
Cristian Romero, Argentine footballer
Song Yu-bin, commonly referred to as Song Yuvin, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known as a contestant of Superstar K6 and Produce X 101, and for being one of the vo…
Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor
Kimberly Birrell is an Australian professional tennis player. Birrell reached a career-high WTA ranking of No. 60 on 5 May 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 144 on 8 September 2025…
Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the g…
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-90, the final Spacelab mission
Air France Flight 422 was a scheduled flight on 20 April 1998 by Air France from Bogotá, Colombia, to Quito, Ecuador, covering the final leg of a flight from Paris to Quito. The Bo…
Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Unio…
The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California. The county seat of Sacramento County, it is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the S…
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after
Mallory Diane Swanson is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Chicago Stars FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States w…
Mallory Pugh, American soccer player
Georgina Amorós Sagrera is a Spanish actress known for her television work on series including Elite, Welcome to the Family and Locked Up. She featured in the 2020 film Rifkin's Fe…
Georgina Amorós, Spanish actress
Alexander James O'Connor, known professionally as Rex Orange County, is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Grayshott, England. NPR Music's Zoë Jones has de…
Rex Orange County, English musician
Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is the current world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA and is a former No. 1 in doubles. Sabalenka ha…
Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
Kerry Lee Wood is an American former baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and New York Yankees. Wood first…
Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his earl…
Steve Jobs of Apple Inc
Mercedes-Benz, commonly referred to simply as Mercedes and occasionally as Benz, is a German automotive brand that was founded in 1926. Mercedes-Benz AG is based in Stuttgart, Bade…
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history
The May 1998 Indonesia riots, also known colloquially as the 1998 tragedy or simply the 98 event, were incidents of mass violence and civil unrest in Indonesia, many of which targe…
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women rap
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the secon…
India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11
Luigi Nicholas Mangione is an American man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, businessman, and philanthropist. The founder of Beast Industries, a conglomera…
MrBeast, American YouTuber
Daniel Olmo Carvajal is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
Jesse Puljujärvi is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL).
Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
Adrià Giner Pedrosa is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Elche, on loan from Sevilla.
Adrià Pedrosa, Spanish footballer
Luca Zinedine Zidane is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Segunda División club Granada. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team.
Luca Zidane, Algerian footballer
Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census. The Miami metropolitan…
In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker