Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band members are Thom Yorke ; the brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien ;…
The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree conflict, five days of unrest began in nationalist districts of Northern…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained i…
Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Princess Mononoke is released, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan for a few…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year…
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.…
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after…
Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume. With more t…
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen…
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s, surrounding the Whitewater Development Corporation, a …
Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. I…
A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day
Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 was a scheduled international flight from Fukuoka, Japan, to Jakarta, Indonesia via Bali, Indonesia. On 13 June 1996, Flight 865 crashed on takeoff from…
Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170
The Belgian Air Force is the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces. Between January 2002 and July 2024 it was known as Belgian Air Component. It was founded in 1909 and is one of the…
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven…
The Saguenay flood was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-cen…
Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. Born in Miami, she grew up in Buenos Aires and London. She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small …
Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She is a former WTA world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on July 28, 2025. Townsend has won two major doubles titles, at the …
Taylor Townsend, American tennis player
The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations…
The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of
The Jokela rail accident occurred on 21 April 1996, at 07:08 local time in Tuusula, Finland, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) north of Helsinki. Four people were killed and 75 i…
Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub. L. 104–132 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 1214, enacted April 24, 1996, was introduced to the United States Congres…
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, kill…
Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, ki
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through coll…
The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after h
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald is a British actress from Northampton. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Since leaving EastEnders in Ja…
Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress
Caitlin Anne Parker is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker ha…
Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer
Helene Spilling Ødegaard is a Norwegian professional dancer. She is best known for her appearances on Skal vi danse, the Norwegian edition of Dancing with the Stars, and was the wi…
Helene Spilling, Norwegian dancer
ValuJet Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route cra…
After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and thunder. Relatively weak thunderstorms are sometim…
Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpor…
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77