Explore 3969 historical events from 1990–1999.
Reginald Shon Jackson, nicknamed Big Government and Mr. June, is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball As…
Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
Evangelos "Vangelis" Mantzaris is a Greek professional basketball player and the team captain for Mykonos of the Greek Basketball League. He is a 1.96 m tall point guard. He has al…
Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
Tony McQuay is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters. He is a member of the 2012 and 2016 United States Olympic teams, winning a silver medal in the…
Tony McQuay, American sprinter
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which mark…
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's…
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which mark…
First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. Located within the Middle East, it is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east…
Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
Min Ping Yu No. 5202 was a 50-foot (15 m) mainland Chinese fishing boat from Baiqing Township, Pingtan County, Fujian Province that sank on August 13, 1990, drowning 21 people, aft…
A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation…
Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Ir…
Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to…
Jonathan David Brown is a Welsh professional footballer and former Wales under-21 international who plays as a winger.
Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Barcelona.
Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
Jackie Bradley Jr., nicknamed "JBJ", is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Banana Ball Championship League and sports broadcaster. He p…
Jackie Bradley Jr
Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu is a Filipino actress, singer, performer, television host, and businesswoman. Known for her performances in a range of genres across film and television, she …
Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
Kyle Harris "Higgy" Higashioka is an American professional baseball catcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Y…
Kyle Higashioka, American baseball player
German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9…
West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that struck Plainfield, Illinois in the Chicago metropolitan area during the afternoon of August 28, 1990. The violent tornado…
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Mo…
Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the…
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: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
The 1990 Batticaloa massacre, also known as the Sathurukondan massacre, was a massacre of at least 184 minority Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, including infants, from three villages in…
Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
Jason Paul Behrendorff is an Australian cricketer who played One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for Australia and first-class and List A cricket for Western Austral…
Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
Colson Baker, known professionally as MGK and formerly Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and actor. His original stage name "Machine Gun Kelly"…
Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor
Kevin James Kiermaier is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2013 to 2024 for the Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, …
Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player
Eve Muirhead is a Scottish former curler from Perth and a former skip of the British Olympic curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olym…
Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
The Allied Control Council (ACC) or Allied Control Authority, also referred to as the Four Powers, was the governing body of the Allied occupation zones in Germany (1945–1949/1991)…
The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow,…
The Red Cross Society of China is the national Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China.
The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants…