Explore 4231 historical events from 1990–1999.
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)
Takis Kanellopoulos was a Greek film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1960 and 1980.
Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933)
Prafulla Chandra Sen was an Indian politician and independence activist who was Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.
Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1897)
Hiram Abas was a Turkish intelligence official in the National Intelligence Organization (MIT). He retired after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, but returned in August 1986 as deput…
Hiram Abas, Turkish intelligence officer (born 1932)
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentia…
Alberto Moravia, Italian author and critic (born 1907)
Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was an American politician and commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1975 to 1984. He was one of the United States Democratic …
Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (born 1917)
Robert James Moroso was an American NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, and was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the…
Rob Moroso, American race car driver (born 1968)
Alice Parizeau was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.
Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (born 1930)
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individu…
Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
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.
The Republic of China Armed Forces are the national military forces of the Republic of China (ROC), which is now based primarily in the Taiwan Area but formerly governed mainland C…
The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat…
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly known as the Conservative Party and colloquially as the Tories, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-righ…
British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional…