✦ History

Explore August 2, 1990 – August 4, 1990

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04

People

Patrick Hillery age 67
President - Ireland
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 49
President - Uruguay
Isa II of Bahrain age 57
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 59
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 74
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 68
President - Colombia
Elias Hrawi age 63
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 61
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 48
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 54
President - Central African Republic
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 48
President - Mongolia
Jaime Paz Zamora age 51
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 55
President - Ecuador
Ċensu Tabone age 77
President - Malta
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 66
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 42
President - El Salvador
Ali Saibou age 50
President - Niger
Andrés Rodríguez age 67
President - Paraguay
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 47
President - Haiti
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 53
President - Sierra Leone
Guillermo Endara age 54
President - Panama
Desmond Hoyte age 61
President - Guyana
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 41
President - Costa Rica
Said Mohamed Djohar age 71
President - Comoros
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 46
President - Honduras
John Haglelgam age 41
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 44
President - Nauru
Arnold Koller age 56
President - Switzerland
Ramsewak Shankar age 52
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 72
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 81
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 49
Regent - Lesotho
Ieremia Tabai age 40
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 65
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sebastiano Baggio age 77
President - Vatican City
Ottaviano Rossi age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 65
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 37
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 66
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 44
Prime Minister - Brunei
Stjepan Mesić age 55
Prime Minister - Croatia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 38
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Hage Geingob age 49
Prime Minister - Namibia
Ruud Lubbers age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 54
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Anerood Jugnauth age 60
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 48
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Harri Holkeri age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 71
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kazimira Prunskienė age 47
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Nicéphore Soglo age 55
Prime Minister - Benin
Ivars Godmanis age 38
Prime Minister - Latvia
József Antall age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jan P. Syse age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Petre Roman age 44
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 65
Prime Minister - Nepal
George Cadle Price age 71
Prime Minister - Belize
Yıldırım Akbulut age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 70
Prime Minister - Fiji
Lojze Peterle age 42
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 78
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Salim al-Huss age 60
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 70
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 74
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lynden Pindling age 60
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Andrey Lukanov age 51
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
John Compton age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Adil Çarçani age 68
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 60
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 61
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Òscar Ribas Reig age 53
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 79
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 61
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 48
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 48
Prime Minister - Gabon
Mudar Badran age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mário da Graça Machungo age 49
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Geoffrey Palmer age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamed Karoui age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Nicholas Brathwaite age 65
Prime Minister - Grenada
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 51
Prime Minister - Yemen
Mulud Hamroush age 47
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 50
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 34
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Solomon Mamaloni age 47
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 59
Prime Minister - Somalia
Obed Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 49
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tu'i Pelehake age 68
Prime Minister - Tonga
Aliou Mahamidou age 43
Prime Minister - Niger
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 66
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Radoje Kontić age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Malimba Masheke age 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Fazal khaliq age 56
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Mircea Druc age 49
Prime Minister - Moldova
Adrien Sibomana age 36
Prime Minister - Burundi
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 51
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hailu Yimenu age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Bill Hayden age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 59
Governor-General - Belize
Tupua Leupena age 68
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Nita Barrow age 73
Governor-General - Barbados
Florizel Glasspole age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Vincent Eri age 53
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 29
Donald Trump age 44
Michael Jackson age 31
Vladimir Putin age 37
Ronald Reagan age 79
Nelson Mandela age 72
George W. Bush age 44
Bill Gates age 34
Pope Francis age 53
Steve Jobs age 35
Angela Merkel age 36
Neil Armstrong age 60
François Hollande age 35
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 12
Gabriel García Márquez age 63
Elon Musk age 19
Stephen Hawking age 48
Jimmy Carter age 65
Emmanuel Macron age 12
Benedict XVI age 63
Mother Teresa age 79
Hillary Clinton age 42
Kamala Harris age 25
Nicolas Sarkozy age 35
Richard Nixon age 77
Xi Jinping age 37
Naruhito age 30
Hugo Chávez age 36
Muammar Gaddafi age 48
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 36
Muhammad Ali age 48
Kofi Annan age 52
Charles III age 41
Osama bin Laden age 33
Lech Wałęsa age 46
Gerald Ford age 77
Leo XIV age 34
Diego Maradona age 29
Narendra Modi age 39
Rafael Correa age 27
Aung San Suu Kyi age 45
Benjamin Netanyahu age 40
Dmitry Medvedev age 24
14th Dalai Lama age 55
Mark Zuckerberg age 6
Silvio Berlusconi age 53
Shinzo Abe age 35
Tim Berners-Lee age 35
Boris Yeltsin age 59
Jacques Chirac age 57
Guillermo Lasso age 34
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 71
Alexander Lukashenko age 35
Yasser Arafat age 60
David Cameron age 23
Linus Torvalds age 20
Ban Ki-moon age 46
Boris Johnson age 26
Diana, Princess of Wales age 29
Bashar al-Assad age 24
Jair Bolsonaro age 35
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 44
Theresa May age 33
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 33
Henry Kissinger age 67
Václav Havel age 53
Rishi Sunak age 10
Justin Trudeau age 18
Nicolás Maduro age 27
Dilma Rousseff age 42
Milton Friedman age 78
Valentina Tereshkova age 53
Pol Pot age 65
Ilham Aliyev age 28