The year I was born...

[Bambi]

We got My Little Pony, Pacman, E.T, The Smiths,
Falklands war
Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup - Aston Villa Win the european Cup
Prince William is born

And me, obviously

 

[Jacqui]

my birth year: 1985

The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.




Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."






New Coke, a marketing disaster is introduced.






In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces it's old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic"







The Super Mario Bros. video game is released by Nintendo.






At the cinema the big films were Back to the Future, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rocky IV, The Goonies and Out Of Africa, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.
In music the big singles were charity record We Are the World by USA For Africa, Take On Me by A-Ha, I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner and Shout by Tears For Fears.
On television long-running soaps EastEnders and Neighbours made their debut. And in August, after a series of high-profile football hooliganism incidents, live football was banned from British television. The ban was lifted early the next year.
Notable births included actress Keira Knightley, F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, singers Leona Lewis and Lily Allen, and Manchester United footballers Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Notable deaths included actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rock Hudson, film-maker Orson Welles and musician Ricky Nelson.

 

[Fusilli]

On the day I was born...

February 11

- An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.

How delightful.

And apparently I share a birthday with Sarah Palin.


And other stuff that happened in '92:

Bloodhound Gang, Blink-182, Jamiroquai, Savage Garden, Weezer form.
Happy Mondays, Talking Heads and Psychedelic Furs disband.
Smells Like Teen Spirit was a hit.
Aladdin was released.
Ugh, Miley Cyrus was born.
And me.


So... not a very interesting year. >_>

 

[SaShman]

I was born in '89 along with:
Back to the Future part II
Batman (the movie)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Simpsons

Oh and the Berlin Wall came down

 

[1EnjoiPanda7]

The year i was born the first final fantasy game was released in the United States. No wonder i love it so much it was meant to be!

More effort, plus try stay more on topic.

 

[M1ghty Mous3]

1990

Iraq invaded Kuwait

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

...yeah

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

Man landed on the moon.

lol xD

I don't really know what happened the year I was born, because I don't really care to be quite honest, however, Jane has pretty much summed up everything that happened in 1992.

 

[Misty]

Wiki has too much info, so I'll choose just one event from each month of 1986:

January 28 - STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).

February 25 - Egyptian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the pyramids, set fire to them and loot them.

March 9 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all 7 astronauts are still inside.

April 26 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus are rendered uninhabitable.

May 25 - Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

June 4 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

July 28 - Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London

August 31 - The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It wanders the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.

September 13 - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying 1/5 of the city.

October 27 - The International World Day of Prayer is held in Assisi, Italy

November 18 - Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.

December 23 - Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds

I know most seem glum...tbh, but, the other articles were seriously boring politics ones.


As for things happening on the day of my birth..

1986 South Africa 175 Gold Miners Die

16th September 1986 : During a fire at the gold mine in Kinross mine in the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa possibly as many miners are killed during a major underground fire when they are trapped as poisonous gas spread rapidly through the shafts and tunnels of the mine killing the men almost instantly where they stood.

Google isnt giving me the information I really need...I do have a photo thing in a frame though which tells me all about my birthdate etc, so I'll probably post some more stuff in the near future!

 

[Donald Trump]

More for 1989

Hillsborough
Solidarity legalised, which is the beginning to the velvet revolution.
Malta conference, "buries the cold war at the bottom of the malta sea".
Tianamen Square Massacre.

 

[Kim Taehyung]

I'm taking the same approach as Rulia and consulting Wikipedia for the year 1990.

January:
January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

February:
February 27 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

March:

• March 18 - Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007[update]) have not been recovered.

April:
April 2: I was born.
April 15 - Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement party in Uttar Pradesh.

May:
May 22 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.

June:
June 25 - The first television program in HDTV airs. (no clue as to what show it was, though)

July:
July 8 - West Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

August:

• August 28 - The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).

September:
September 29 - Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.

October:
October 3 - East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.

November:
November 28 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister of the UK; John Major succeeds her as Party Leader and is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.

December:
December 3 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members on Flight 1482.

Pretty much a boring year.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

No ones been a 1988 baby in here yet.

I'm looking at the Wikipedia at the moment and so I'm going to choose events that I've heard of at least, (or just pick one for each month that I don't know anything about) so I don't just copy and paste the entire thing.

* It is the year of the Dragon after February 16 of that year.

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* January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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* February 13–28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

* February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer is born.

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* March 17 -A ColombianBoeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.

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* April 29 - Younha, Korean born singer is born.

* April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.
I actually attended this expo a little after I was born in August '88. It was a very long expo .

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* May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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* June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer is born.

* June 26 - Air France Flight 296 crashes into the tops of trees beyond the runway on a demonstration flight at Habsheim, France; 3 passengers are killed.

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* July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.

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* August 24 - I was born. =D

* August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor is born.

* August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

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* September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

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* October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan.

* October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a six month spectacular.

Told you it went for ages. =D

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* November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).

What a sick old lady. =0

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* December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.

* December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.

* December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer is born.

 

[Takaiki]

No ones been a 1988 baby in here yet.

I'm looking at the Wikipedia at the moment and so I'm going to choose events that I've heard of at least, (or just pick one for each month that I don't know anything about) so I don't just copy and paste the entire thing.

* It is the year of the Dragon after February 16 of that year.

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* January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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* February 13–28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

* February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer is born.

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* March 17 - A ColombianBoeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.

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* April 29 - Younha, Korean born singer is born.

* April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in BrisbaneQueensland, Australia.
I actually attended this expo a little after I was born in August '88. It was a very long expo .

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* May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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* June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer is born.

* June 26 - Air France Flight 296 crashes into the tops of trees beyond the runway on a demonstration flight at Habsheim, France; 3 passengers are killed.

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* July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.

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* August 24 - I was born. =D

* August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor is born.

* August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worstairshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

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* September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challengerdisaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

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* October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan.

* October 30 - Expo '88 in BrisbaneAustralia draws to a close after a six month spectacular.

Told you it went for ages. =D

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* November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landladyDorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).

What a sick old lady. =0

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* December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.

* December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.

* December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer is born.

July 29, 1988
Umm Yea I really don't care what happened then, simply because I look to the future not the past. Too many bad memories. Now Kandy posted the stuff that happened in the year.

 

[Morrigan]

Final Fantasy VI came out for super Nes that year.

Mod Edit: Just a reminder, this is not spam.

 

[SOLDIERis1337]

The year I was born:

"Punky Brewster" was canceled.
Supertramp broke up.
Alice Cooper announced his intent to run for governor of Arizona.

 

[Stella]

I will continue the Wikipedia trend with the year I was born, 1991.

January 27 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

March 3 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.

April 4 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress is born

April 26 - 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.

May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.

June 5 - STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.

July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.

August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases an article describing his idea for the "World Wide Web" on the alt.hypertext network.

September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

October 7- I was born!!

November 7 - Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.

December 4 - Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).

I used to have one of those books that tells you all the interesting things that happened in the year you were born, but I don't know where I put it, so this will have to do >_>

 

[joeyfinalfantasygod]

The year i was born the Final antasy game was released in the USA .

Mod Edit: Can you put more effort in your post please? Thank you.

 

[Franice]

1990.

Twin Peaks begins airing, and Lynch's Wild at Heart is released.

Intel releases its 80386SL processor, the first processor to have 32-bit data and address buses, and could address up to 4GB of memory, though 16MB was the maximum for most IBM PCs then.

Ellen DeGeneres films One Night Stand.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar release their only album, Gling-glo.

 

[Marshy]

Some findings on good ol' Wikipedia, i found 2 interesting things happen on the day of my birth;
July 22nd, 1991

July 22 - Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
July 22 - The most epic kid that has ever walked this planet was born and if he wasn't born then this planet would have failed.

Ok that last one i added in

 

[Davey Gaga]

1991




January

• January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
• January 11 - Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• January 12 - Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
• January 13 - Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; about 160 more are injured.
• January 13 - A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.
• January 15 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
• January 16 - U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
• January 16 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
• January 17 - Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.
• January 17 - Harald V of Norway becomes king on the death of his father, Olav V.
• January 18 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems.
• January 19 - A SCUD attack on Tel Aviv injures 29.
• January 19 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
• January 22 - Three SCUDs and 1e Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people; 3 elderly people die of heart attacks.
• January 24 - 8 British SAS troopers are deployed in Iraq during the First Gulf War, as part of Operation Granby. Several men are captured, and others die, but 8 SAS troopers kill 200 Iraqi soldiers.[citation needed] Chris Ryan and Andy McNab also write books on their experience.
• January 26 - Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
• January 27 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
• January 29 - Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

[edit] February

• February 1 - A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
• February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
• February 7 - Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
• February 7 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
• February 7 - The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
• February 7 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
• February 9 - Voters in Lithuania support independence.
• February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
• February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. United States military intelligence claims it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.
• February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
• February 18 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
• February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
• February 23 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.
• February 25 - Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
• February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

[edit] March

• March–April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
• March 1 - The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated.
• March 1 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• March 3 - An investigative journalism piece airs on 60 Minutes about Werner Erhard, in which family members alleged physical and sexual abuse. Erhard had left the United States prior to the broadcast.
• March 3 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.
• March 3 - Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
• March 3 - United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing all 25 people on board.
• March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
• March 10 - Gulf War - Operation Phase Echo: 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa, after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
• March 13 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
• March 15 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
• March 15 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
• March 26 - In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traore and suspend the constitution.
• March 30 - Northern Michigan University wins the NCAA Division I title in hockey, 8-7 in the third overtime against Boston University.
• March 31 - Albania has its first multi-party elections.
• March 31 - Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Georgia votes for independence from the Soviet Union.

[edit] April

• April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
• April 4 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and 6 others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
• April 4 - William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.
• April 5 - Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.
• April 9 - The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence.
• April 10 - A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites).
• April 10 - The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
• April 14 - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
• April 17 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
• April 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
• April 22 - The Social Democratic Party of Albania is founded.
• April 22 - A 7.6 earthquake kills 82 in Costa Rica and Panama.
• April 26 - 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.
• April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.

[edit] May

• May 15 - Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
• May 21 - In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.
• May 21 - Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
• May 24 - Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences.
• May 26 - In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board.
• May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
• May 29 - In Bari, Red Star Belgrade wins the European Cup in football.

[edit] June

• June 3 - Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
• June 5 - STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.
• June 9 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
• June 12 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics.
• June 12 - The Chicago Bulls win their 1st NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 1.
• June 13 - A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
• June 15 - In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 300.
• June 15 - Nagano, Japan is chose as host city of 1998 Winter Olympics.
• June 17 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• June 17 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
• June 23–28 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
• June 25 - Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• June 30 - Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup, defeating Brazil on the final by 4-2, after a penalty shootout, in Lisbon, Portugal.

[edit] July

• July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
• July 7 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia.
• July 10 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
• July 11 - A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs.
• July 22 - Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
• July 24 - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
• July 26 - Actor Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for publicly masturbating.

[edit] August

• August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases an article describing his idea for the "World Wide Web" on the alt.hypertext network.
• August 7 - On reading the Tim Berners-Lee article, Martin Nolan writes a short paper describing his plans for the WWW.
• August 7 - Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
• August 8 - The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• August 13 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
• August 17 - Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
• August 19 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
• August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 24 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
• August 25 - Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix.
• August 25 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 27 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
• August 30 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 31 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

[edit] September

• September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• September 3 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
• September 5–7 - At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
• September 6 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
• September 6 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• September 8 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• September 9 - Tajikistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• September 17 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• September 19 - Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
• September 20–21 - In Sandy, Utah, several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
• September 21 - Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• September 21–30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
• September 21 - The Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of German tongue (Orden der Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz deutscher Zunge, "O.S.P.I.") is founded in Heidelberg by Erzmutter (Archmother) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O.S.P.I.
• September 22 - The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
• September 30 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power.
• September 30 - A twister destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

[edit] October

• October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
• October 8 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia.
• October 11 - In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
• October 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful".
• October 11–13 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
• October 12 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
• October 14 - The Bulgarian right wing opposition celebrates the end of the rule of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
• October 15 - United States Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• October 16 - George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen, Texas before killing himself.
• October 20 - The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
• October 20 - The Harare Declaration lays down the membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations.
• October 27 - The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland.
• October 27 - Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• October 27 - The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
• October 29 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

[edit] November

• November 2 - Australia beats England 12-6 at Twickenham Stadium to win the Rugby World Cup.
• November 5 - The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
• November 5 - David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin.
• November 6 - The KGB officially stops operations.
• November 7 - Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
• November 7 - The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished.
• November 7 - The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
• November 9 - The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.
• November 14 - American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
• November 14 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.
• November 14 - Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
• November 18 - Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.
• November 27 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• November 28 - South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

[edit] December

• December 1 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
• December 4 - Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
• December 4 - Pan American World Airways ends operations.
• December 8 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus.
• December 8 - A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid.
• December 12 - The Russian SFSR ceases to be a part of the Soviet Union.
• December 15 - The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450.
• December 19 - Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia.
• December 20 - A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
• December 22 - One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version.
• December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely.
• December 26 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
• December 31 - The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist.

[edit] Undated

• The University of South Australia is founded.
• Impostor James Hogue is exposed at Princeton University.
• The Ely Petrol Riots occur.

[edit] Ongoing

• Cold War.
• Soviet Union.
• Balver Märchenwochen.

 

[Davey Gaga]

1991




January

• January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
• January 11 - Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• January 12 - Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
• January 13 - Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; about 160 more are injured.
• January 13 - A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.
• January 15 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
• January 16 - U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
• January 16 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
• January 17 - Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.
• January 17 - Harald V of Norway becomes king on the death of his father, Olav V.
• January 18 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems.
• January 19 - A SCUD attack on Tel Aviv injures 29.
• January 19 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
• January 22 - Three SCUDs and 1e Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people; 3 elderly people die of heart attacks.
• January 24 - 8 British SAS troopers are deployed in Iraq during the First Gulf War, as part of Operation Granby. Several men are captured, and others die, but 8 SAS troopers kill 200 Iraqi soldiers.[citation needed] Chris Ryan and Andy McNab also write books on their experience.
• January 26 - Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
• January 27 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
• January 29 - Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

[edit] February

• February 1 - A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
• February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
• February 7 - Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
• February 7 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
• February 7 - The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
• February 7 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
• February 9 - Voters in Lithuania support independence.
• February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
• February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. United States military intelligence claims it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.
• February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
• February 18 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
• February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
• February 23 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.
• February 25 - Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
• February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

[edit] March

• March–April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
• March 1 - The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated.
• March 1 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• March 3 - An investigative journalism piece airs on 60 Minutes about Werner Erhard, in which family members alleged physical and sexual abuse. Erhard had left the United States prior to the broadcast.
• March 3 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.
• March 3 - Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
• March 3 - United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing all 25 people on board.
• March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
• March 10 - Gulf War - Operation Phase Echo: 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa, after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
• March 13 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
• March 15 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
• March 15 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
• March 26 - In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traore and suspend the constitution.
• March 30 - Northern Michigan University wins the NCAA Division I title in hockey, 8-7 in the third overtime against Boston University.
• March 31 - Albania has its first multi-party elections.
• March 31 - Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Georgia votes for independence from the Soviet Union.

[edit] April

• April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
• April 4 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and 6 others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
• April 4 - William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.
• April 5 - Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.
• April 9 - The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence.
• April 10 - A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites).
• April 10 - The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
• April 14 - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
• April 17 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
• April 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
• April 22 - The Social Democratic Party of Albania is founded.
• April 22 - A 7.6 earthquake kills 82 in Costa Rica and Panama.
• April 26 - 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.
• April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.

[edit] May

• May 15 - Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
• May 21 - In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.
• May 21 - Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
• May 24 - Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences.
• May 26 - In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board.
• May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
• May 29 - In Bari, Red Star Belgrade wins the European Cup in football.

[edit] June

• June 3 - Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
• June 5 - STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.
• June 9 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
• June 12 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics.
• June 12 - The Chicago Bulls win their 1st NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 1.
• June 13 - A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
• June 15 - In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 300.
• June 15 - Nagano, Japan is chose as host city of 1998 Winter Olympics.
• June 17 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• June 17 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
• June 23–28 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
• June 25 - Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• June 30 - Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup, defeating Brazil on the final by 4-2, after a penalty shootout, in Lisbon, Portugal.

[edit] July

• July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
• July 7 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia.
• July 10 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
• July 11 - A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs.
• July 22 - Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
• July 24 - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
• July 26 - Actor Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for publicly masturbating.

[edit] August

• August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases an article describing his idea for the "World Wide Web" on the alt.hypertext network.
• August 7 - On reading the Tim Berners-Lee article, Martin Nolan writes a short paper describing his plans for the WWW.
• August 7 - Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
• August 8 - The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• August 13 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
• August 17 - Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
• August 19 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
• August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 24 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
• August 25 - Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix.
• August 25 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 27 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
• August 30 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 31 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

[edit] September

• September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• September 3 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
• September 5–7 - At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
• September 6 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
• September 6 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• September 8 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• September 9 - Tajikistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• September 17 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• September 19 - Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
• September 20–21 - In Sandy, Utah, several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
• September 21 - Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• September 21–30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
• September 21 - The Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of German tongue (Orden der Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz deutscher Zunge, "O.S.P.I.") is founded in Heidelberg by Erzmutter (Archmother) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O.S.P.I.
• September 22 - The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
• September 30 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power.
• September 30 - A twister destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

[edit] October

• October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
• October 8 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia.
• October 11 - In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
• October 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful".
• October 11–13 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
• October 12 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
• October 14 - The Bulgarian right wing opposition celebrates the end of the rule of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
• October 15 - United States Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• October 16 - George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen, Texas before killing himself.
• October 20 - The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
• October 20 - The Harare Declaration lays down the membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations.
• October 27 - The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland.
• October 27 - Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• October 27 - The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
• October 29 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

[edit] November

• November 2 - Australia beats England 12-6 at Twickenham Stadium to win the Rugby World Cup.
• November 5 - The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
• November 5 - David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin.
• November 6 - The KGB officially stops operations.
• November 7 - Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
• November 7 - The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished.
• November 7 - The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
• November 9 - The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.
• November 14 - American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
• November 14 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.
• November 14 - Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
• November 18 - Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.
• November 27 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• November 28 - South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

[edit] December

• December 1 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
• December 4 - Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
• December 4 - Pan American World Airways ends operations.
• December 8 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus.
• December 8 - A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid.
• December 12 - The Russian SFSR ceases to be a part of the Soviet Union.
• December 15 - The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450.
• December 19 - Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia.
• December 20 - A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
• December 22 - One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version.
• December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely.
• December 26 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
• December 31 - The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist.

[edit] Undated

• The University of South Australia is founded.
• Impostor James Hogue is exposed at Princeton University.
• The Ely Petrol Riots occur.

[edit] Ongoing

• Cold War.
• Soviet Union.
• Balver Märchenwochen.