Explore 3969 historical events from 1990–1999.
Hurricane Andrew was the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged or destroyed, and remained the costliest in financial terms until Hurricane I…
Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United States in the 20th century, made…
Mall of America (MOA) is a super-regional shopping mall and entertainment complex in Bloomington, Minnesota. Located within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the mall l…
The Mall of America (pictured) in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened as the largest shopping mall in the United States.
The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake occurred off the coast of Nicaragua at 6:16 p.m. on 1 September. Some damage was also reported in Costa Rica. At least 116 people were killed and seve…
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw off the coast of Nicaragua became the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on…
Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike Hawaii in recorded history, and the only hurricane to directly affect the state during the 1992 Pacific hurricane season. …
Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to strike the Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island…
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…
Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and quasi-state in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed on 18 November 1991 under the name Croat…
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be…
The 1991 Racha earthquake occurred in the province of Racha, Georgia, at 9:12 UTC on 29 April. Centered on the districts of Oni and Ambrolauri on the southern foothills of the Grea…
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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant …
A riot breaks out in the Mt
Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until …
Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister
Aeroflot Flight 8556 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Sukhumi to Leningrad. It crashed 13 meters short of the runway on approach killing 13 passengers.
Aeroflot Flight 8556 crashes at Pulkovo Airport, killing 13
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State Univ…
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era
Mount Unzen is an active stratovolcano of several overlapping small, volcanic cones, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island…
Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists
The Southern Group of Forces (YUGV) was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 195…
The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn
Radiolinja was a Finnish GSM operator founded on September 19, 1988. On March 27, 1991, the world's first GSM phone call was made on Radiolinja's network. The network was opened fo…
The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU…
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
Antonino Scopelliti was an Italian prosecuting magistrate, murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia.
The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia…
The World Wide Web is a global interconnected information system that enables content sharing over the Internet. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources accordin…
The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version co…
Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSUSSR) was the highest organ of state authority of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991. Based on the principle of uni…
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and focused along a dryline, these distinct …
Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operationa…
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of D
The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in recorded history, and one of the most powerful cyclones in the In…
A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h),
The Angolan Civil War was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portu…
Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding internatio…
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes…