Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the g…
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-50, the first shuttle mission to carry Extended Duration Orbiter hardware
Alina Rosenberg is a German Paralympic equestrian.
Alina Rosenberg, German paralympic equestrian
Marcel Karl Bernhard Bauer is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented Baden-Württemberg since 2025.
Marcel Bauer, German politician
Marc-André ter Stegen is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Girona, on loan from Barcelona, and the Germany national team. He is known for …
Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer
The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the Unified Court System of the State of New York. It consists of seven judges: the chief judge and six associate judges, who …
The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
Miami is a coastal city in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 censu…
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering…
Les Horribles Cernettes was an all-female parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy Rock Band", which was founded by employees of CERN and performed at CERN and…
A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of …
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ai…
A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes during takeoff from Tbilisi International Airport, killing all 24 aboard and four more people…
Madeline Kathryn Brewer is an American actress. She is known for recurring roles in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Hemlock Grove (2014–2015), and for her sta…
Madeline Brewer, American actress
Ahn Hee-yeon, known professionally as Hani (하니), is a South Korean singer and actress. She is known as a member of the South Korean girl group EXID and its subgroup, SoljiHani. She…
Hani, South Korean singer and actress
Bradley Roby is an American former professional football cornerback. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft. He played college football for …
Bradley Roby, American football player
Lee Sun-mi, known mononymously as Sunmi, is a South Korean singer, dancer, songwriter and record producer. She debuted in 2007 as a member of South Korean girl group Wonder Girls a…
Sunmi, South Korean singer
María Teresa Torró Flor is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
Medellín, officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín, is the second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department …
Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United…
The Catholic Church, also called the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with an estimated 1.28 to 1.41 billion baptized members worldwide as of 2026. It consis…
A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people…
Adam Peter Lanza was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the US. On December 14, 2012, he …
Adam Lanza, American mass murderer (died 2012)
Aaron James Judge is an American professional baseball right fielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is a seven-time MLB All-Star and three-time America…
Aaron Judge, American baseball player
Chen Neng-chuan, better known by his online alias Goodnight Chicken, is a Taiwanese YouTuber, live streamer, and criminal. He is known for his livestreams exploring abandoned areas…
Goodnight Chicken, Taiwanese YouTuber
Brendan Gallagher is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a right winger and alternate captain for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was se…
Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
Byun Baek-hyun, known mononymously as Baekhyun, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, its subgroup Exo-K and its subunit Exo-…
Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor
Jonas Valančiūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Toronto Raptors with th…
Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player
Alexander Richard Ludwig is a Canadian actor and country musician. He first began his career as a child, and then received recognition as a teenager for starring in the films The S…
Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician