✦ History

Explore January 1, 1995 – October 9, 2002

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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
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
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Hamad II of Bahrain age 44
Emir - Bahrain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 64
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 54
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 51
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 40
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 69
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 39
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan II age 65
King - Morocco
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 53
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 64
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 40
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 49
President - Ivory Coast
Sali Berisha age 50
President - Albania
Stjepan Mesić age 60
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 31
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 48
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 39
President - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 32
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 64
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 67
President - South Korea
Mohammed Omar age 35
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 57
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 29
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 66
President - Philippines
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 51
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 43
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 43
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 76
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 68
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 49
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 37
President - Bulgaria
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 55
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 56
President - Ghana
Ivan Gašparovič age 53
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 74
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 70
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 70
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 61
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 47
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 66
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 49
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 50
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 46
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 48
President - Timor-Leste
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 54
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 39
King - Bhutan
Ivo Sanader age 41
President - Croatia
Violeta Chamorro age 65
President - Nicaragua
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 42
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 57
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 55
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 65
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 51
President - Nigeria
Abdoulaye Wade age 68
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 76
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 62
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 47
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 55
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 76
President - India
Askar Akayev age 50
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 62
President - Lithuania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 50
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 55
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 65
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 46
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 57
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 59
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 57
President - Philippines
Alfred Moisiu age 65
President - Albania
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 87
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 61
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 70
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 60
President - Guinea
René Préval age 51
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 53
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 77
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 55
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 53
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 56
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 68
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 59
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 54
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 46
President - Zambia
Zhelyu Zhelev age 59
President - Bulgaria
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 41
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 63
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 72
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 51
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 49
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 63
President - Bangladesh
Ezer Weizman age 70
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 59
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 45
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 56
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 50
President - Albania
Quett Masire age 69
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 74
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 56
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 70
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 36
President - Comoros
Frank Bainimarama age 40
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 48
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 38
President - North Macedonia
Petar Stoyanov age 42
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 78
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 54
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 55
President - Romania
Pedro Pires age 60
President - Cape Verde
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 65
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 52
President - Slovakia
Ronald Venetiaan age 58
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 78
President - Venezuela
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 47
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 55
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 54
President - Moldova
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 38
President - Palau
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 47
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 52
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 60
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 68
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 61
President - Slovakia
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 69
President - Tanzania
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 73
President - Ecuador
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 39
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 67
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 59
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 48
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 30
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 58
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 63
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 64
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 76
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 68
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 57
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 75
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 88
President - Dominican Republic
Josefa Iloilo age 74
President - Fiji
Sam Hinds age 51
President - Guyana
Janet Jagan age 74
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 51
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 52
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 52
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 59
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 62
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 55
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre Buyoya age 45
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 40
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 63
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 48
President - Switzerland
Nicéphore Soglo age 60
President - Benin
Kumba Ialá age 41
President - Guinea-Bissau
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 53
President - Uruguay
Valentín Paniagua age 58
President - Peru
Liamine Zéroual age 53
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 61
Emir - Bahrain
Abel Pacheco age 61
President - Costa Rica
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 64
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 64
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 68
President - Lebanon
Enrique Bolaños age 66
President - Nicaragua
Mahamane Ousmane age 44
President - Niger
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 50
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 44
President - Colombia
Gustavo Noboa age 57
President - Ecuador
Albert Zafy age 67
President - Madagascar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 53
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 54
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 38
President - Montenegro
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 38
President - Ecuador
Robert Guéï age 53
President - Ivory Coast
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 52
President - Mongolia
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 60
President - Somalia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 68
President - Bangladesh
Ricardo Maduro age 48
President - Honduras
Ruth Perry age 55
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 53
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 68
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 74
President - Fiji
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 56
King - Lesotho
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 44
President - Mongolia
Jorge Quiroga age 34
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 45
President - Ecuador
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 42
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 51
President - Ethiopia
Daouda Malam Wanké age 48
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 45
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 58
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 40
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 48
President - Nicaragua
Wasim Sajjad age 53
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 58
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 40
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 47
President - Paraguay
Eduardo Camaño age 48
President - Argentina
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 38
President - Burundi