1990s
decade of the Gregorian calendar (1990–1999)
The 1990s was the decade that started on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.
From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; The World Wide Web becomes more popular worldwide; Boris Yeltsin and followers stand on a tank against the August Coup, which leads to the end of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell; The funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, who dies in 1997 from a car crash in Paris, and is mourned by millions; Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people are killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s |
| Years: | 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
EventsEdit
- 1990 - 1991 – Gulf War
- 1990 – German reunification
- 1991 – The end of the Cold War.
- 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia.
- Yugoslav Wars
- 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 1992 – The European Union is founded.
- 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
- 1994 – Genocide in Rwanda
- 1994 – End of Apartheid in South Africa.
- 1997 – Handover of Hong Kong
PeopleEdit
- Pope John Paul II, Pope in the 1990s (the last full decade he would serve as Pope until his death in 2005)
- Andre Agassi, American tennis player
- Pete Sampras, American tennis player
- Michael Schumacher, German formula 1 driver
- Backstreet Boys, American boy band
- Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia from 1989 to 2000
- Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990
- John Major, British Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997
- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007
- George H. W. Bush, President of the United States until 1993
- Bill Clinton President of the United States from 1993–2001
- François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995
- Jacques Chirac, President of France from 1995 to 2007
- Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002
- Alberto Fujimori President of Peru 1990–2000
- Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
- Elizabeth II, British queen since 1952
- Madonna, singer-songwriter
- The Prodigy, electronic dance group
- Britney Spears, American singer
- Spice Girls, music group
- Mariah Carey, singer
- Celine Dion, singer
- Whitney Houston, singer
- Mel Gibson, actor
- Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR 1985–1991
- Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
- Michael Jordan, American basketball player
- Tom Hanks, American actor
- Nicole Kidman, actress
- Sandra Bullock, American actress
- Tom Cruise, American actor
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedian
- Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and comedian
- George Clooney, American actor
- Brad Pitt, American actor
- Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor
- Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host
- Ellen DeGeneres, American talk show host
- Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979–2003
- Helmut Kohl, German chancellor until 1998
- Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa 1994–1999
- Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa 1999–2008
- Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister
- Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
- Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan dictator from 1969 to 2011
- Nirvana, rock band
- Steven Seagal, American actor
- Julia Roberts, American actor/actress
- Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005
- Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
- Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
- Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
- Kim Jong-il, dictator of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
- Tupac Shakur, American rapper
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Gianni Versace, fashion designer
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
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