✦ History

Explore January 1, 1985 – December 26, 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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
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
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
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
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08

People

Margrethe II of Denmark age 44
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 51
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 47
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 43
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 38
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 35
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 42
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 39
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 46
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 41
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 48
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 66
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 54
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 62
President - Tanzania
Saparmurat Niyazov age 44
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 40
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 48
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 56
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 51
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 37
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 46
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 42
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 32
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 57
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 16
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 51
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 49
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 81
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 42
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 40
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 95
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 54
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 43
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 49
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 45
President - Georgia
Hassan II age 55
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 60
President - Zambia
Alan García age 35
President - Peru
Carlos Menem age 54
President - Argentina
Kenan Evren age 67
President - Turkey
Michel Aoun age 51
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 21
King - Lesotho
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 60
President - Pakistan
Meles Zenawi age 29
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 47
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 54
President - Romania
Sandro Pertini age 88
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 72
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 61
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 59
President - Uganda
Blaise Compaoré age 33
President - Burkina Faso
Samora Moisés Machel age 51
President - Mozambique
Raúl Alfonsín age 57
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 53
President - South Korea
Mohammad Najibullah age 37
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 79
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 60
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 60
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 51
President - Benin
Amadou Toumani Touré age 36
President - Mali
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 55
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 74
President - India
Siad Barre age 65
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 45
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 55
President - Namibia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 47
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 66
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 69
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 37
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 68
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 66
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 40
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roh Tae-woo age 52
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 59
President - Albania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 40
President - Armenia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 47
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 61
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 49
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 33
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 77
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 50
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 67
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 49
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 43
President - Slovenia
Hissène Habré age 42
President - Chad
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 31
President - Haiti
Árpád Göncz age 62
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 41
President - Zambia
Samuel Doe age 33
President - Liberia
Ayaz Mutallibov age 46
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 59
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 64
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 48
President - Zimbabwe
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 69
President - Pakistan
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 69
President - Austria
Patricio Aylwin age 66
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 68
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 55
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 61
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 48
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 43
President - Nigeria
Ronald Venetiaan age 48
President - Suriname
Fernando Belaúnde age 72
President - Peru
Mircea Snegur age 44
President - Moldova
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 60
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 62
President - Venezuela
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 59
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 65
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 75
President - Laos
César Gaviria age 37
President - Colombia
Julio María Sanguinetti age 49
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 77
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 48
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 66
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 54
President - Sudan
Joaquín Balaguer age 78
President - Dominican Republic
António Ramalho Eanes age 49
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 49
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 47
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 54
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 35
President - Burundi
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 58
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 61
President - Ireland
Nicéphore Soglo age 50
President - Benin
Petar Mladenov age 48
President - Bulgaria
Belisario Betancur age 61
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 42
President - Lebanon
Devan Nair age 61
President - Singapore
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 43
President - Uruguay
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 51
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 38
President - Burundi
Giorgos Vasiliou age 53
President - Cyprus
León Febres-Cordero age 53
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 69
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 54
President - Tajikistan
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 54
President - Bangladesh
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 63
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 55
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 58
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 40
President - Cape Verde
Amata Kabua age 56
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 43
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 28
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 48
President - Central African Republic
Leslie Manigat age 54
President - Haiti
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 42
President - Mongolia
Siaka Stevens age 79
President - Sierra Leone
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 58
President - Bangladesh
Ahmed Abdallah age 65
President - Comoros
Mátyás Szűrös age 51
President - Hungary
Jaime Lusinchi age 60
President - Venezuela
Jaime Paz Zamora age 45
President - Bolivia
Spiros Cyprianou age 52
President - Cyprus
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 49
President - Ecuador
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 46
King - Lesotho
Tito Okello age 70
President - Uganda
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 59
President - Uruguay
Raif Dizdarević age 58
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 70
President - Bolivia
José Napoleón Duarte age 59
President - El Salvador
Forbes Burnham age 61
President - Guyana
Ċensu Tabone age 71
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 62
President - Nauru
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 60
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 37
President - El Salvador
Miguel Trovoada age 48
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Saibou age 44
President - Niger
René Moawad age 59
President - Lebanon
Haruo Remeliik age 51
President - Palau
Ivan Stambolić age 48
President - Serbia
Andrés Rodríguez age 61
President - Paraguay
Tosiwo Nakayama age 53
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 41
President - Haiti
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 47
President - Sierra Leone
Qahhor Mahkamov age 52
President - Tajikistan
Guillermo Endara age 48
President - Panama
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 43
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 55
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 52
President - Haiti
Flavio Cotti age 45
President - Switzerland
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 61
President - Uruguay
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 35
President - Costa Rica
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 46
President - Somalia
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 51
President - Sudan
Said Mohamed Djohar age 66
President - Comoros
Luis Alberto Monge age 59
President - Costa Rica
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 41
President - Honduras
José Azcona del Hoyo age 57
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 39
President - Liberia
Paul Xuereb age 61
President - Malta