Explore 5067 historical events from 1990–1999.
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, activist, director, and author. He amassed many stage and screen credits in his 34-year career, including playing the title charact…
American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on beh
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonl…
Bosnian War: Forces of the Army of Republika Srpska captured a United Nations post at Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo; six so
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonl…
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An earthquake struck Western Greece near the coastal city of Aigio at 03:15:48 local time on 15 June 1995. The second destructive earthquake to strike Greece in a month, it measure…
Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufacture…
Atlantis became the first U
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of …
Sri Lankan civil war: After advising civilians to take shelter in places of worship, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a…
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer-songwriter, fashion designer and business owner. Known as the "Queen of Tejano Music", she is known for her contributions to popular…
Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.
The Rajneesh movement is a new religious movement inspired by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990), also known as Osho. They used to be known as Rajneeshees or "Ora…
Two followers of the Indian mystic Rajneesh were convicted of a 1985 plot to assassinate Charles Turner, the U.S.…
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Fe…
Yugoslav Wars: The Croatian Army initiated Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence…
Camp Hansen is a United States Marine Corps base located in Okinawa, Japan. The camp is situated in the town of Kin, near the northern shore of Kin Bay, and is the second-northernm…
Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after…
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr., nicknamed "the Iron Man", is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire 21-season career in Major League Ba…
Cal Ripken Jr. (pictured) played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record…
Mir EO-19 was the nineteenth crewed expedition to the space station Mir, lasting from June to September 1995. The crew, consisting of Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikola…
Mir EO-19, the first expedition to the Russian space station Mir launched on an American Space Shuttle, returned to…
Hurricane Ismael killed 116 people in Mexico during the 1995 Pacific hurricane season. It developed from a persistent area of deep convection on September 12, and steadily strength…
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
Industrial Society and Its Future, also known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 essay by Ted Kaczynski arguing that the Industrial Revolution began a harmful process of natural…
Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The…
Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple in Thailand. It was founded in 1970 by the maechi (nun) Chandra Khonnokyoong and Luang Por Dhammajayo. The temple's founding has roots in t…
Construction began on the Dhammakaya Cetiya, a giant stupa at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Pathum…
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active…
Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi (depicted) as the…
The Croatian Army is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of Croatia. It is the oldest and largest of its three service branches, followed by the Croatian Air Force and Croati…
The Croatian Army and Croatian Defence Council launched Operation Southern Move, their last offensive in the Bosnian…
Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier. Known for his unconventional designs, he was one of the most influential fashion designers in the world from the…
The runway show for Alexander McQueen's collection The Hunger was staged at London's Natural History Museum.
China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board
The Bishkek Protocol was a provisional ceasefire agreement, signed by the representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, and Russia on May 12, 1994, in …
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Febr
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to…
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections
The Democratic Republic of Yemen, was a short-lived state that fought against the mainland Yemen in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the fo…
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out