✦ 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
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
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
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
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
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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

Ronald Reagan age 77
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 41
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 61
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 63
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 50
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 57
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 48
President - Iran
Hirohito age 86
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 59
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 71
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 85
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 75
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 57
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 67
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 53
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Itamar Franco age 57
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 65
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 50
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 38
President - Brazil
José Sarney age 57
President - Brazil
Li Xiannian age 78
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 80
President - People's Republic of China
Le Duc Anh age 67
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 55
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Vo Chi Cong age 75
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 45
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 46
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 42
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 41
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 75
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 53
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 39
President - Mexico
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 68
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Silvio Berlusconi age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Chirac age 55
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 83
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 66
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 43
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 66
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 62
President - European Commission
Édith Cresson age 54
Prime Minister - France
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Peng age 59
Premier - People's Republic of China
Chandra Shekhar age 60
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 56
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 58
Prime Minister - France
Michel Rocard age 57
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Morihiro Hosokawa age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 58
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ciriaco De Mita age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Sōsuke Uno age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 50
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Hanna Suchocka age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Pierre Bérégovoy age 62
Prime Minister - France
Ante Marković age 63
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Waldemar Pawlak age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Do Muoi age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Mieczysław Rakowski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Vo Van Kiet age 65
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lien Chan age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Pham Hung age 75
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Halfdan T. Mahler age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 56
Premier - North Korea
Lee Huan age 70
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 65
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 61
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 74
Premier - Republic of China
William Rehnquist age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-il age 47
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Al Gore age 39
Vice President - United States
Dan Quayle age 41
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 79
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 71
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 64
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Shalikashvili age 51
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 63
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David E. Jeremiah age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Dick Cheney age 47
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 57
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Reno age 49
Attorney General - United States
Michael Howard age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 37
Attorney General - United States
William J. Perry age 60
Secretary of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 67
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nigel Lawson age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
Les Aspin age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 55
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 56
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Gordon R. Sullivan age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank G. Wisner age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Michael Armacost age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 44
Attorney General - United States
William S. Sessions age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 38
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 69
President - African National Congress
Hu Jintao age 45
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 39
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 79
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Smith age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Margaret Beckett age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 70
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 39
President - Sinn Féin
Stephen Breyer age 49
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 45
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 44
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 63
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 44
President - Poland
Václav Havel age 51
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 60
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 64
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 50
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 72
President - Chile
Suharto age 66
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 70
President - Romania
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 47
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 47
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 55
President - Philippines
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