✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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
Somali Civil War 1991-01-26
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
1991 Soviet coup attempt 1991-08-19 - 1991-08-21
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
Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26
Belovezha Accords 1991-12-08
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
Zapatista uprising 1994-01-01 - 1994-01-12
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10

People

Ronald Reagan age 77
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 62
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 42
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 62
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 64
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 51
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 57
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 49
President - Iran
Kim Il-sung age 76
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Jacques Chirac age 56
President - France
Hirohito age 87
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 60
President - Egypt
Kim Jong-il age 47
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
François Mitterrand age 72
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 86
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 45
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 62
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 76
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 58
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 68
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 54
President - Iran
Victor Chernomyrdin age 50
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 54
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Itamar Franco age 58
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 57
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 65
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 51
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 39
President - Brazil
Ernesto Zedillo age 36
President - Mexico
José Sarney age 58
President - Brazil
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 40
President - Mexico
Trần Đức Lương age 51
President - Vietnam
Yang Shangkun age 81
President - People's Republic of China
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 42
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 68
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 56
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Do Muoi age 71
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 76
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 45
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 46
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 43
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 42
President - Guatemala
Kofi Annan age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 66
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 68
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benjamin Netanyahu age 39
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 35
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 84
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 66
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 44
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 63
Prime Minister - India
Giulio Andreotti age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 73
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 51
Prime Minister - France
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 67
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 63
President - European Commission
Zhu Rongji age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Édith Cresson age 54
Prime Minister - France
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Tomiichi Murayama age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 43
Prime Minister - France
Chandra Shekhar age 61
Prime Minister - India
Jerzy Buzek age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 37
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 69
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 57
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 46
Secretary General - NATO
Toshiki Kaifu age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 59
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 58
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 51
President - European Commission
Morihiro Hosokawa age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
H. D. Deve Gowda age 55
Prime Minister - India
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 59
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ciriaco De Mita age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Sōsuke Uno age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 51
President - Soviet Union
Hanna Suchocka age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Pierre Bérégovoy age 62
Prime Minister - France
Ante Marković age 64
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
John Bruton age 41
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manfred Wörner age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Phan Văn Khải age 54
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Kamal Ganzouri age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mieczysław Rakowski age 62
Prime Minister - Poland
Willy Claes age 50
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 66
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
James Wolfensohn age 55
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Hau Pei-tsun age 69
Premier - Republic of China
Branko Mikulić age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Atef Sedki age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 60
Prime Minister - Laos
Hiroshi Nakajima age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Vincent Siew age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Yon Hyong-muk age 57
Premier - North Korea
Lee Huan age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 66
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 62
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 74
Premier - Republic of China
Aleksandar Mitrović age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Rehnquist age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 40
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 45
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle age 41
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 46
Vice President - Iraq
Wang Zhen (general) age 80
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 72
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 65
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 51
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Wen Jiabao age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wesley Clark age 43
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
John Shalikashvili age 52
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 88
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hugh Shelton age 46
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
John Galvin age 59
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
George Joulwan age 49
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Gordon Brown age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Dick Cheney age 47
Secretary of Defense - United States
Madeleine Albright age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Gates age 45
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
James Baker age 58
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Reno age 50
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 38
Attorney General - United States
William J. Perry age 61
Secretary of Defense - United States
William Cohen age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 67
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nigel Lawson age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 58
Secretary of Defense - United States
Les Aspin age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
William H. Webster age 64
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Robert Rubin age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Douglas Hurd age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 56
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Gordon R. Sullivan age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank G. Wisner age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dennis Reimer age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Michael Armacost age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 44
Attorney General - United States
James Woolsey age 47
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
John M. Deutch age 50
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
George Tenet age 35
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
William S. Sessions age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 38
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 70
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 46
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 40
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 40
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Oliver Tambo age 71
President - African National Congress
William Hague age 27
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Stephen Breyer age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 80
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Margaret Beckett age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Eric Holder age 37
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice