✦ History

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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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
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
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
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
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
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

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
Kazimierz Sabbat age 71
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 35
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 38
President - Nauru
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 56
President - Uganda
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 57
President - Honduras
Otto Stich age 58
President - Switzerland
Arnold Koller age 51
President - Switzerland
Bailey Olter age 52
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Thomas Remengesau age 53
President - Palau
Ramsewak Shankar age 47
President - Suriname
Fred Ramdat Misier age 58
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 60
President - Switzerland
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 47
President - Panama
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 48
President - Ethiopia
Penaia Ganilau age 66
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 75
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 43
Regent - Lesotho
Johan Kraag age 71
President - Suriname
Alphons Egli age 60
President - Switzerland
Ieremia Tabai age 35
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 66
President - Myanmar
Ngiratkel Etpison age 59
President - Palau
Pierre Aubert age 57
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 67
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Noor Hassanali age 66
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 62
President - Vatican City
Prosper Avril age 47
President - Haiti
Teatao Teannaki age 49
President - Kiribati
Lazarus Salii age 48
President - Palau
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 48
President - Switzerland
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 49
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ati George Sokomanu age 49
President - Vanuatu
Hérard Abraham age 44
President - Haiti
Kennan Adeang age 42
President - Nauru
Alfonso Oiterong age 60
President - Palau
Marino Riccardi age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Sebastiano Baggio age 71
President - Vatican City
Kenos Aroi age 42
President - Nauru
Maung Maung age 60
President - Myanmar
Gianfranco Terenzi age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 49
President - Vanuatu
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 33
President - Tajikistan
Janez Stanovnik age 62
President - Slovenia
Qadriddin Aslonov age 37
President - Tajikistan
Cesare Gasperoni age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Edda Ceccoli age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 66
President - Singapore
Gloriana Ranocchini age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Arzilli age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enzo Colombini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Amici age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Branislav Šoškić age 62
President - Montenegro
Ubaldo Biordi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Venturini age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Carlo Franciosi age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Renzo Renzi age 29
Captain Regent - San Marino
Umberto Barulli age 64
Captain Regent - San Marino
David Nimley age 40
President - Liberia
France Popit age 63
President - Slovenia
Marino Bollini age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Severiano Tura age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Fiorini age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ottaviano Rossi age 33
Captain Regent - San Marino
Domenico Bernardini age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Claudio Podeschi age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Bucci age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 31
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 61
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 45
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 38
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Nawaz Sharif age 35
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Stjepan Mesić age 50
Prime Minister - Croatia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 45
Prime Minister - Portugal
Milo Đukanović age 22
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 42
Prime Minister - Spain
Carl Bildt age 35
Prime Minister - Sweden
Brian Mulroney age 45
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
Paul Keating age 40
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Hage Geingob age 43
Prime Minister - Namibia
René Préval age 41
Prime Minister - Haiti
Ruud Lubbers age 45
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Goh Chok Tong age 43
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 60
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ingvar Carlsson age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 49
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Fatos Nano age 32
Prime Minister - Albania
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Davíð Oddsson age 36
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 54
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 42
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Harri Holkeri age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Michael Somare age 48
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mesut Yılmaz age 37
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eugenia Charles age 65
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kåre Willoch age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Esko Aho age 30
Prime Minister - Finland
Kazimira Prunskienė age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Kalevi Sorsa age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Ivars Godmanis age 33
Prime Minister - Latvia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 41
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
József Antall age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Omar Karami age 50
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jan P. Syse age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Viačasław Kiebič age 48
Prime Minister - Belarus
Petre Roman age 38
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 60
Prime Minister - Nepal
David Lange age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
George Cadle Price age 66
Prime Minister - Belize
Edgar Savisaar age 34
Prime Minister - Estonia
Miklós Németh age 36
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yıldırım Akbulut age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 54
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Jules Wijdenbosch age 43
Prime Minister - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 58
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 64
Prime Minister - Fiji
Lojze Peterle age 36
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Vitold Fokin age 52
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jim Bolger age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Muhammad Junejo age 52
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 37
Prime Minister - Iceland
Theodor Stolojan age 41
Prime Minister - Romania
Edward Seaga age 54
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mike Moore age 35
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Anand Panyarachun age 52
Prime Minister - Thailand
Xenophon Zolotas age 80
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Dăscălescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 72
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Ioannis Grivas age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Károly Grósz age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Salim al-Huss age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 68
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Rashid Karami age 63
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lynden Pindling age 54
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Philip Dimitrov age 29
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Andrey Lukanov age 46
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
György Lázár age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Patrick Manning age 38
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Vazgen Manukyan age 38
Prime Minister - Armenia
Manuel Esquivel age 44
Prime Minister - Belize
Josip Manolić age 64
Prime Minister - Croatia
Martial Célestin age 71
Prime Minister - Haiti
Bujar Bukoshi age 37
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Amadou Cheiffou age 42
Prime Minister - Niger
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 49
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 55
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 56
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Nikola Kljusev age 57
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Òscar Ribas Reig age 48
Prime Minister - Andorra
França Van-Dúnem age 50
Prime Minister - Angola
Vere Bird age 74
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Valeriu Muravschi age 35
Prime Minister - Moldova