Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
A sex scandal involving Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, erupted in 1998. Their sexual relationship began in 1995—w…
Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship"…
The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. It comprises nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law, and gra…
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's…
Jaqueline Adina Cristian is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 28 in singles, achieved on 4 May 2026, and No. 93 in doubles, achieved Fe…
Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player
Ryan Papenhuyzen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a fullback for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League.
Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player
Charles Tahan is an American actor. Starting as a child actor, with appearances in the 2007 films American Loser and I Am Legend, he has progressed through teen and adult roles. Hi…
Charlie Tahan, American actor
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb e…
U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan…
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder …
First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Delta III was an expendable launch vehicle made by McDonnell Douglas. Development was canceled before the vehicle became operational. The vehicle is the third generation of the Del…
The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the…
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but…
The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War or the Great War of Africa, was a major conflict that began on 2 August 1998, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just o…
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on…
Karman Kaur Thandi is an Indian professional tennis player. She is a former Indian number one in singles.
Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player
Atticus Shaffer is an American actor and YouTuber. He is known for playing Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle (2009–2018), as well for voicing Edgar in the movie Frankenweenie…
Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber
Joshua Michael Da Silva is a Trinidadian cricketer. He made his domestic debut in 2018 for Trinidad and Tobago, and his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in Dece…
Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer
Isabel "Izzy" Atkin is a former British-American freestyle skier who competed internationally for Great Britain. She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in…
Isabel Atkin, British-American freestyle skier
Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 (CU389/CUB389) was a scheduled international passenger flight, flying from the former Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito to Havana's José M…
Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal…
The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War or the Great War of Africa, was a major conflict that began on 2 August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), j…
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies…
Swissair Flight 111 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switze…
Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed.
The United Nations (UN) is an international intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 with the articulated miss…
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in…
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, qu…
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.
Kyle Chalmers, is an Australian competitive swimmer. He is a world record holder in the short course 100 metre freestyle, 4×100 metre medley relay, and long course 4×100 metre mixe…
Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
Michael Lamar Porter Jr., also known as "MPJ", is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college b…
Michael Porter Jr
Thomas Davies is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Tom Davies, English footballer
Susan Bandecchi is a Swiss professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 164 on 7 March 2022 and her best doubles ranking of No. 141 on 11 July 2…
Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, qu…
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.