Explore 3969 historical events from 1990–1999.
Irene Dunne was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres…
Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (born 1898)
Turan Dursun was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of m…
Turan Dursun, Turkish scholar and author (born 1934)
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was an English colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last gov…
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907)
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produ…
Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903)
Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary O…
Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896)
Thomas Richard Fogerty was an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fa…
Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot.
Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (born 1900)
Alan John Percivale Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to milli…
A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (born 1906)
Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and…
Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.
Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (born 1905)
Nicola Abbagnano was an Italian existential philosopher.
Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (born 1901)
Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of …
Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (born 1951)
Alexander Vladimirovich Men was a Soviet Russian Orthodox Church priest, Soviet dissident, scholar of theology and the Bible, and author of works on theology, history of religion, …
Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (born 1930)
Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist. In 1990, she was stabbed to death by elements in the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the Guatemala government's treatm…
Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist and activist (born 1949)
Athene Seyler was an English actress.
Athene Seyler, English actress (born 1889)
Hermes Pan was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Gin…
Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (born 1910)
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
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…
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…