✦ History

Explore March 12, 1989 – August 6, 1991

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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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
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
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07

People

Carlos Andrés Pérez age 66
President - Venezuela
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 63
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 69
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 79
President - Laos
César Gaviria age 41
President - Colombia
Julio María Sanguinetti age 53
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 81
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 52
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 70
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 82
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 53
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 51
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 59
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 39
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 65
President - Ireland
Nicéphore Soglo age 54
President - Benin
Petar Mladenov age 52
President - Bulgaria
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 47
President - Uruguay
Isa II of Bahrain age 55
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 57
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 73
President - Singapore
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 59
President - Bangladesh
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 67
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 59
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 62
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 56
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 45
President - Cape Verde
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 47
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 32
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 52
President - Central African Republic
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 47
President - Mongolia
Ahmed Abdallah age 69
President - Comoros
Mátyás Szűrös age 55
President - Hungary
Jaime Paz Zamora age 49
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 53
President - Ecuador
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 50
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 63
President - El Salvador
Ċensu Tabone age 76
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 66
President - Nauru
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 64
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 41
President - El Salvador
Miguel Trovoada age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Saibou age 48
President - Niger
René Moawad age 63
President - Lebanon
Andrés Rodríguez age 65
President - Paraguay
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 45
President - Haiti
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 52
President - Sierra Leone
Qahhor Mahkamov age 56
President - Tajikistan
Guillermo Endara age 52
President - Panama
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 47
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 60
President - Guyana
Flavio Cotti age 49
President - Switzerland
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 40
President - Costa Rica
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 50
President - Somalia
Said Mohamed Djohar age 70
President - Comoros
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 45
President - Honduras
José Azcona del Hoyo age 62
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 43
President - Liberia
Paul Xuereb age 65
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 76
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 39
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 43
President - Nauru
Arnold Koller age 55
President - Switzerland
Bailey Olter age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ramsewak Shankar age 51
President - Suriname
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 52
President - Ethiopia
Penaia Ganilau age 70
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 79
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 47
Regent - Lesotho
Johan Kraag age 75
President - Suriname
Ieremia Tabai age 39
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 63
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 70
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 66
President - Vatican City
Prosper Avril age 51
President - Haiti
Teatao Teannaki age 53
President - Kiribati
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 52
President - Switzerland
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 53
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hérard Abraham age 48
President - Haiti
Sebastiano Baggio age 75
President - Vatican City
Kenos Aroi age 46
President - Nauru
Janez Stanovnik age 66
President - Slovenia
Cesare Gasperoni age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gloriana Ranocchini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
David Nimley age 44
President - Liberia
Mauro Fiorini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ottaviano Rossi age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Domenico Bernardini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Claudio Podeschi age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Bucci age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 63
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 35
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 65
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 42
Prime Minister - Brunei
Nawaz Sharif age 39
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Stjepan Mesić age 54
Prime Minister - Croatia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Milo Đukanović age 27
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Andreas Papandreou age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Hage Geingob age 47
Prime Minister - Namibia
René Préval age 46
Prime Minister - Haiti
Ruud Lubbers age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Goh Chok Tong age 47
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 64
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ingvar Carlsson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 53
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Fatos Nano age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Davíð Oddsson age 41
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 58
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 46
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Harri Holkeri age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mesut Yılmaz age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eugenia Charles age 69
Prime Minister - Dominica
Esko Aho age 34
Prime Minister - Finland
Kazimira Prunskienė age 46
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ivars Godmanis age 37
Prime Minister - Latvia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 45
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
József Antall age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Omar Karami age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jan P. Syse age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Petre Roman age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 64
Prime Minister - Nepal
David Lange age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
George Cadle Price age 70
Prime Minister - Belize
Miklós Németh age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yıldırım Akbulut age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 68
Prime Minister - Fiji
Lojze Peterle age 40
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Vitold Fokin age 56
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jim Bolger age 53
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Mike Moore age 40
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Anand Panyarachun age 56
Prime Minister - Thailand
Xenophon Zolotas age 85
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Dăscălescu age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 76
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Ioannis Grivas age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Salim al-Huss age 59
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 68
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 73
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 49
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lynden Pindling age 59
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Andrey Lukanov age 50
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
John Compton age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Vazgen Manukyan age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
Manuel Esquivel age 48
Prime Minister - Belize
Josip Manolić age 69
Prime Minister - Croatia
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 53
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 59
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 60
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Nikola Kljusev age 61
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Òscar Ribas Reig age 52
Prime Minister - Andorra
França Van-Dúnem age 54
Prime Minister - Angola
Vere Bird age 78
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 61
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Valeriu Muravschi age 39
Prime Minister - Moldova
Azzeddine Laraki age 59
Prime Minister - Morocco
Habib Thiam age 56
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 47
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Ylli Bufi age 40
Prime Minister - Albania
Moudud Ahmed age 48
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 46
Prime Minister - Gabon
Mudar Badran age 55
Prime Minister - Jordan
Albertas Šimėnas age 39
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mário da Graça Machungo age 48
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Ján Čarnogurský age 45
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Hédi Baccouche age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Franjo Gregurić age 49
Prime Minister - Croatia
Sa'dun Hammadi age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Zeid bin Shaker age 54
Prime Minister - Jordan
Geoffrey Palmer age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamed Karoui age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ali Bozer age 63
Prime Minister - Turkey
Chung Won-shik age 60
Prime Minister - South Korea
Hasan Hasanov age 48
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Zaid al-Rifai age 52
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 42
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 64
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 54
Prime Minister - Gabon
Nicholas Brathwaite age 63
Prime Minister - Grenada