Explore 2478 historical events from 1990–1999.
Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North…
Kim Il Sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (born 1912)
Lars-Eric Lindblad was a Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer, who pioneered tourism to many remote and exotic parts of the world. He led the first tourist expedition to Anta…
Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (born 1927)
Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom Be…
Dick Sargent, American actor (born 1930)
William Mosienko was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a right winger for 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1942 to 19…
Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)
Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating systems and …
Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (born 1942)
Eila Muriel Joice Campbell was an English geographer and cartographer. She was best known for her work on Domesday Geography of England and her work on the international journal, I…
Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer (born 1915)
Julian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work …
Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Jean Laurent Robert Borotra was a French tennis champion. He was one of the "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was i…
Jean Borotra, French tennis player (born 1898)
Paul Tiulana was an Iñupiaq artist and dancer from Alaska. Originally from King Island, Tiulana was drafted in World War II and injured; his leg was broken and eventually amputated…
Paul Tiulana, Iñupiat artist and dancer (born 1921)
Victor Barbeau, was a Quebec writer and academic.
Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (born 1896)
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often con…
Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (born 1897)
Jacques Dumas, better known as Marijac, was a French comics writer, artist, and editor.
Marijac, French author and illustrator (born 1908)
Helen Cordero was a Cochiti Pueblo potter from Cochiti, New Mexico. She was renowned for her storyteller pottery figurines, a motif she invented, based upon the traditional "singin…
Helen Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo (Native American) Pueblo potter (born 1915)
James Luther Adams, an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister. …
James Luther Adams, American theologian and academic (born 1901)
John Bayard Britton was an American physician. He was assassinated in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. Britton's death was the second assassinatio…
John Britton, American physician (born 1925)
Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier.
Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (born 1920)
In 1994, the District Court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary s…
American teenager Michael P
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in …
Kevin Carter, South African photographer and journalist (born 1960)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for stru…
Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Nagoya Airfield , also known as Komaki Airport or Nagoya Airport, is an airport within the local government areas of Toyoyama, Komaki, Kasugai and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan…
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeo
Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval act during the Eurovis…
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Towns…
American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the wor…
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight
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: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rif