✦ History

Explore February 20, 1988 – May 12, 1994

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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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29

People

Harald V of Norway age 51
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 46
President - Serbia
Martti Ahtisaari age 50
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 41
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 50
Queen - Netherlands
Daniel Ortega age 42
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 50
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 44
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 64
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 65
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 51
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 69
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saparmurat Niyazov age 48
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 43
President - Uganda
Süleyman Demirel age 63
President - Turkey
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 64
President - Poland
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 51
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 59
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 54
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 40
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 49
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 45
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 35
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 60
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 19
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 55
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 52
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 45
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 43
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 98
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 57
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 46
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 52
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 48
President - Georgia
Hassan II age 58
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 63
President - Zambia
Alan García age 38
President - Peru
Carlos Menem age 57
President - Argentina
Kenan Evren age 70
President - Turkey
Sali Berisha age 43
President - Albania
Michel Aoun age 54
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 24
King - Lesotho
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 63
President - Pakistan
Isaias Afwerki age 42
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 32
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 50
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 58
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 60
President - South Korea
Olav V of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 75
President - Paraguay
Fidel Ramos age 59
President - Philippines
Mauno Koivisto age 64
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 37
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 69
President - Italy
Raúl Alfonsín age 60
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 57
President - South Korea
Mohammad Najibullah age 40
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 82
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 63
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 64
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 63
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 54
President - Benin
Amadou Toumani Touré age 39
President - Mali
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 47
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 58
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 77
President - India
Siad Barre age 68
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 48
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 58
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 44
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 50
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 69
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 72
State President - South Africa
Thomas Klestil age 55
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 40
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 48
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 69
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 69
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 43
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 55
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 55
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 62
President - Albania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 43
President - Armenia
Lennart Meri age 58
President - Estonia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 50
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 52
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 80
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 55
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 53
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 70
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 52
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 47
President - Slovenia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 49
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 53
President - Bulgaria
Hissène Habré age 45
President - Chad
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 34
President - Haiti
Árpád Göncz age 66
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 44
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 63
President - Israel
Samuel Doe age 36
President - Liberia
Ayaz Mutallibov age 49
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 62
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 67
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 42
President - Mali
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 73
President - Pakistan
Patricio Aylwin age 69
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 71
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 47
President - Pakistan
Chadli Bendjedid age 58
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 64
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 51
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 46
President - Nigeria
Ronald Venetiaan age 51
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 72
President - Venezuela
Sylvie Kinigi age 35
President - Burundi
Guntis Ulmanis age 48
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 48
President - Moldova
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 63
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 65
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 45
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 53
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 62
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 68
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 78
President - Laos
César Gaviria age 40
President - Colombia
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 66
President - Ecuador
Julio María Sanguinetti age 52
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 80
President - Bolivia
Melchior Ndadaye age 35
President - Burundi
Didier Ratsiraka age 51
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 56
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 57
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 69
King - Tonga
Mohamed Boudiaf age 68
President - Algeria
Ange-Félix Patassé age 51
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 68
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 81
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 52
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 50
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 58
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 38
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 64
President - Ireland
Nicéphore Soglo age 53
President - Benin
Petar Mladenov age 51
President - Bulgaria
Amine Gemayel age 46
President - Lebanon
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 46
President - Uruguay
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 81
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 54
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 56
President - Cyprus
León Febres-Cordero age 56
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 72
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 57
President - Tajikistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 62
President - Afghanistan
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 58
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 57
President - Bolivia
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 66
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 58
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 61
President - Lebanon
Mahamane Ousmane age 38
President - Niger
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 55
Emir - Qatar
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 32
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 44
President - Cape Verde
Albert Zafy age 60
President - Madagascar
Amata Kabua age 59
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 46
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 31
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 51
President - Central African Republic
Leslie Manigat age 57
President - Haiti
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 46
President - Mongolia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 61
President - Bangladesh
Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Mátyás Szűrös age 54
President - Hungary
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Jaime Paz Zamora age 48
President - Bolivia
Spiros Cyprianou age 55
President - Cyprus
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 52
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 67
President - Fiji
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 49
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 62
President - El Salvador
Ċensu Tabone age 74
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 65
President - Nauru
Ernest Shonekan age 51
President - Nigeria
Ong Teng Cheong age 52
President - Singapore
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 63
President - Sri Lanka
José María Figueres Olsen age 33
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Cristiani age 40
President - El Salvador
Wasim Sajjad age 46
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 51
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Saibou age 47
President - Niger
Ali Kafi age 59
President - Algeria
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 31
President - Burundi
René Moawad age 62
President - Lebanon
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 55
President - Malta
Ramón José Velásquez age 71
President - Venezuela