Explore 2474 historical events from 1990–1999.
Methane is a chemical compound that has the chemical formula CH4. It is a group-14 hydride, the simplest alkane, and the main constituent of natural gas. The abundance of methane o…
An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal min
Li Hongzhi is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a United States–based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of …
Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China
22-year-old Helena Andersson disappeared on 14 June 1992 in Mariestad, Sweden. Since then, several suspects in her disappearance have been arrested and later released without charg…
Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses"
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence f…
Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of the Miljevci Plateau ended after a failed counterattack by forces of the Rep
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence f…
Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army concluded Operation Tiger, advancing 17 kilometres (11 miles) into the…
Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, making it the most ex…
The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially…
The via D'Amelio bombing was a terrorist attack by the Sicilian Mafia, which took place in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on 19 July 1992. It killed Paolo Borsellino, the anti-Mafia Itali…
A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months…
The 1991 Racha earthquake occurred in the province of Racha, Georgia, at 9:12 UTC on 29 April. Centered on the districts of Oni and Ambrolauri on the southern foothills of the Grea…
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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant …
A riot breaks out in the Mt
Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until …
Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister
Aeroflot Flight 8556 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Sukhumi to Leningrad. It crashed 13 meters short of the runway on approach killing 13 passengers.
Aeroflot Flight 8556 crashes at Pulkovo Airport, killing 13
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State Univ…
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era
Mount Unzen is an active stratovolcano of several overlapping small, volcanic cones, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island…
Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists
The Southern Group of Forces (YUGV) was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 195…
The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn
Radiolinja was a Finnish GSM operator founded on September 19, 1988. On March 27, 1991, the world's first GSM phone call was made on Radiolinja's network. The network was opened fo…
The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU…
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and focused along a dryline, these distinct …
Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operationa…
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of D
The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in recorded history, and one of the most powerful cyclones in the In…
A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h),
Kim Kyung-Jung is a South Korean association football player who currently plays for Suwon Samsung Bluewings as a striker. He had represented the South Korea national under-20 foot…
Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
Luke August Kuechly is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Carolina Panthers. Kuechly pl…
Luke Kuechly, American football player
Danielle Nicole Wyatt-Hodge is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey, Southern Brave, England and Gujarat Giants. She plays as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling …
Danni Wyatt, English cricketer
The Angolan Civil War was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portu…
Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon
The Bright Sparklers fireworks disaster occurred on 7 May 1991 at 3:45 pm MST in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. A massive explosion at the Bright Sparklers fireworks factory cau…
A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26