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• 1974 CE1974 Nahariya attackThe 1974 Nahariya attack was a raid by three Fatah militants late at night on 24 June 1974. The militants…
• 1974 CE1974 White House helicopter incidentOn February 17, 1974, Robert Kenneth Preston, a private first class in the U.S. Army, took off in a stolen…
• 1974 CE1974 Zhaotong earthquakeThe 1974 Zhaotong earthquake occurred at 3:25 in the morning local time on 11 May 1974, with a Coordinated…
• 1975 CE1975 AIA building hostage crisisThe AIA Building hostage crisis took place at the AIA (American Insurance Associates) Building in Jalan…
• 1975 CE1975 Algiers AgreementThe 1975 Algiers Agreement, also known as the Algiers Accords and the Algiers Declaration, was signed between…
• 1975 CE1975 Banqiao Dam failureIn August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China, collapsed following the landfall of…
• 1975 CE1975 Beirut bus massacreThe 1975 Beirut bus massacre (Arabic: مجزرة بوسطة عين الرمانة,مجزرة عين الرمانة), also known as the Ain…
• 1975 CE1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expeditionThe 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by…
• 1975 CE1975 Dutch train hostage crisisOn 2 December 1975, seven South Moluccans seized a train with about 50 passengers on board in open…
• 1975 CE1975 Haicheng earthquakeOn February 4, 1975, at 19:36 CST, an earthquake of Ms 7.5 and intensity (MMI) IX hit the city of Haicheng…
• 1975 CE1975 Hawaii earthquakeThe 1975 Hawaii earthquake occurred on November 29 with a moment magnitude of 7.7 and a maximum Mercalli…
• 1976 CE1976 Argentine coup d'étatA coup d'état overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24 March 1976. A military junta was…
• 1976 CE1976 Bali earthquakeThe 1976 Bali earthquake occurred at 15:13 local time on 14 July with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.5. The…
• 1976 CE1976 Friuli earthquakeThe 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli (Friulian earthquake) and Orcolat…
• 1976 CE1976 Guatemala earthquakeThe 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck on February 4 at 03:01:43 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.5. The…
• 1976 CE1976 Moro Gulf ErdbebenThe 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake and tsunami occurred on August 17, 1976, at 00:11 local time near the islands…
• 1976 CE1976 Papua earthquakeThe 1976 Papua earthquake occurred on 26 June with a surface-wave magnitude of 7.1 in Yahukimo Regency near…
• 1976 CE1976 Sabah earthquakeThe 1976 Sabah earthquake occurred near Lahad Datu in the eastern portion of Sabah, Malaysia at 10:56:39…
• 1976 CE1976 Songpan-Pingwu earthquakeThe 1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake that struck Songpan and Pingwu counties in Sichuan, China consisted of…
• 1976 CE1976 Tangshan earthquakeA Mw 7.6 earthquake hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 03:42:55 on 28 July (19:42:55, 27 July…
• 1976 CE1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreakIn August–November 1976, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of…
• 1977 CE1977 Atocha massacreThe 1977 Atocha massacre was an attack by right-wing extremists in the center of Madrid on 24 January 1977…
• 1977 CE1977 Dutch school hostage crisisOn the morning of Monday 23 May 1977, four armed South-Moluccans took 105 children and their five teachers…
• 1977 CE1977 Dutch train hostage crisisOn 23 May 1977, a Nederlandse Spoorwegen passenger train was hijacked near the village of De Punt…
• 1977 CE1977 Moscow bombingsA series of three terrorist bombings in Moscow on 8 January 1977 killed seven people and seriously injured 37…
• 1977 CE1977 San Juan earthquakeThe 1977 San Juan earthquake, also known as Caucete earthquake, took place in the province of San Juan…
• 1977 CE1977 Seychelles coup d'étatThe 1977 Seychelles coup d'état was a coup that occurred in the East African and Indian Ocean country of…
• 1977 CE1977 Sumba earthquakeThe 1977 Sumba earthquake (also called the Sumbawa earthquake) occurred approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi)…
• 1977 CE1977 Vrancea earthquakeThe 1977 Vrancea earthquake occurred on 4 March 1977, at 21:22 local time, and was felt throughout the…
• 1978 CE1978 Lima trans protestThe 1978 Lima trans protest took place on 5 December 1978 at the Legislative Palace in Lima, Peru, the…
• 1978 CE1978 Miyagi earthquakeThe 1978 Miyagi earthquake (1978年宮城県沖地震, 1978 nen Miyagi-ken-oki jishin) occurred at 17:14 local time (08:14…
• 1978 CE1978 Tabas earthquakeThe 1978 Tabas earthquake (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۵۷ طبس) occurred on September 16 at 19:05:55 local time in…
• 1978 CE1978 Thessaloniki earthquakeThe 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake (Greek: Μεγάλος Σεισμός της Θεσσαλονίκης) occurred on 20 June at 23:03 local…
• 1979 CE1979 Bali earthquakeThe 1979 Bali earthquake occurred at 03:58 local time on 18 December with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.3.…
• 1979 CE1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'étatOn 3 August 1979, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo staged a bloody coup d'état against his uncle, Francisco…
• 1979 CE1979 Imperial Valley earthquakeThe 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake occurred at 16:16 Pacific Daylight Time (23:16 UTC) on 15 October just…
• 1979 CE1979 Machchhu dam failureThe Machchhu dam failure or Morbi disaster is a dam-related flood disaster which occurred on 11 August, 1979.…
• 1979 CE1979 Madrid City Council electionA municipal election was held in Madrid on 3 April 1979 to elect the 1st City Council of the municipality.…
• 1979 CE1979 Montenegro earthquakeThe 1979 Montenegro earthquake occurred on 15 April at 06:19 UTC with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum…
• 1979 CE1979 Nahariya attackThe 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation) was a raid by four…
• 1979 CE1979 Nice eventsThe Nice tsunami of 1979 came on October 16. Two tsunamis struck the coast near Nice, accompanied by a…
• 1979 CE1979 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 3 April 1979 to elect all 67,505 councillors in the 7,870 Spanish…
• 1979 CE1979 Tumaco earthquakeAn earthquake occurred at 02:59 local time on 12 December 1979, with the epicenter just offshore from the…
• 1979 CE1979 Warsaw gas explosionThe 1979 explosion at PKO Bank Polski's Rotunda office in Warsaw took place on 15 February 1979, at 12:37…
• 1980 CE1980 Azores Islands earthquakeStriking the Autonomous Region of the Azores on 1 January, the 1980 Azores Island earthquake killed 73 people…
• 1980 CE1980 Dominican Embassy Siege in BogotáThe Dominican Republic Embassy siege was the 1980 siege of the embassy of the Dominican Republic by M-19…
• 1980 CE1980 El Asnam earthquakeThe 1980 El Asnam earthquake occurred on October 10 at 13:25:23 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and…
• 1980 CE1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'étatThe 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau on 14…
• 1980 CE1980 Hebron terrorist attackOn 2 May 1980, six Jews – three Israelis, two American Israelis, and one Canadian – were killed, and another…
• 1980 CE1980 Irpinia earthquakeThe 1980 Irpinia earthquake (Italian: Terremoto dell'Irpinia) took place in Italy on 23 November 1980, with a…
• 1980 CE1980 Paris synagogue bombingOn 3 October 1980, a bomb exploded outside the rue Copernic synagogue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris…
• 1980 CE1980 St Pauls riotThe St Pauls riot occurred in St Pauls, Bristol, England on 2 April 1980 when police raided the Black and…
• 1980 CE1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics was the official opening ceremony held in the afternoon at…
• 1980 CE1980 Surinamese coup d'étatThe 1980 Surinamese coup d'état, usually referred to as the Sergeants' Coup (Dutch: De Sergeantencoup), was a…
• 1980 CE1980 eruption of Mount St. HelensOn May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m., Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States, experienced a…
• 1981 CE1981 Antwerp bombingOn 20 October 1981, a truck bomb exploded outside a Portuguese Jewish synagogue in the centre of Antwerp…
• 1981 CE1981 Brixton riotThe 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a series of clashes between mainly black youths and the…
• 1981 CE1981 Golbaf earthquakeThe 1981 Golbaf earthquake struck the Iranian desert by the village of Golbaf on June 11 at 10:54:25 local…
• 1981 CE1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakesIn early 1981 the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth in Greece was struck by three earthquakes with a…
• 1981 CE1981 Iraqi embassy bombingOn December 15, 1981, the Iraqi Shi'a Islamist group al-Dawa carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the…
• 1981 CE1981 Moroccan riotsThe 1981 Moroccan riots (Arabic: احتجاجات 1981 بالمغرب, also referred to as شهداء كوميرة The Bread Martyrs)…
• 1981 CE1981 Playa Azul earthquakeThe 1981 Playa Azul earthquake occurred on October 24, 1981, at 21:22 local time (03:22 UTC on October 25).…
• 1981 CE1981 Seychelles coup d'état attemptThe 1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt, sometimes referred to as the Seychelles affair or Operation Angela…
• 1981 CE1981 Sirch earthquakeThe 1981 Sirch earthquake occurred at 20:52 local time (17:22 UTC) on July 28, just almost two months before…
• 1981 CE1981 Spanish coup d'état attemptA coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by right-wing, Francoist elements of the Civil Guard…
• 1981 CE1981 Vienna synagogue attackThe 1981 Vienna synagogue attack was a terror attack that occurred 29 August 1981. The incident took place in…
• 1982 CE1982 Commonwealth Games opening ceremonyThe Opening Ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 30 September 1982 at the QEII Stadium in…
• 1982 CE1982 Flores earthquakeThe 1982 Flores earthquake struck the island of Flores in Indonesia on December 25. Registering a moment…
• 1982 CE1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attackThe Great Synagogue of Rome attack, which was carried out by armed Palestinian terrorists at the entrance to…
• 1982 CE1982 North Yemen earthquakeThe 1982 North Yemen earthquake hit near the city of Dhamar, North Yemen (now part of Yemen) on December 13.…
• 1982 CE1982 Salang Tunnel fireThe 1982 Salang Tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's Salang Tunnel during the…
• 1982 CE1982 Urakawa earthquakeThe 1982 Urakawa earthquake (Japanese: 浦河沖地震) was a Mw 6.9 earthquake that struck off the coast of Urakawa…
• 1982 CE1982 World's FairThe 1982 World's Fair, officially known as the Knoxville International Energy Exposition (KIEE) and simply as…
• 1983 CE1983 Beirut barracks bombingOn October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and…
• 1983 CE1983 Popayán earthquakeThe 1983 Popayán earthquake (Spanish: El Terremoto de Popayán) occurred on 31 March in Popayán, Colombia. It…
• 1983 CE1983 Sea of Japan earthquakeThe 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake (Japanese: 日本海中部地震) occurred on May 26, 1983, at 11:59:57 local time…
• 1983 CE1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incidentOn 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the Soviet nuclear early warning system Oko reported the launch of…
• 1983 CE1983 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 8 May 1983 to elect all 67,505 councillors in the 7,781 Spanish…
• 1983 CE1983 Turkish embassy attack in LisbonThe 1983 Turkish embassy attack was an attack on the Turkish embassy in Lisbon on 27 July 1983, which…
• 1983 CE1983 United States embassy bombingThe April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States…
• 1984 CE1984 Guinean coup d'étatThe 1984 Guinean coup d'état was the bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea on 3 April 1984, led…
• 1984 CE1984 Mannar massacreThe 1984 Mannar massacre was the killing of 200+ minority Sri Lankan Tamils civilians by Sri Lankan Army…
• 1984 CE1984 Nagano earthquakeThe 1984 Nagano earthquake (Japanese: 長野県西部地震) hit the western part of Nagano Prefecture, Japan on September…
• 1984 CE1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attackIn 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, due to the deliberate…
• 1984 CE1984 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games took place on the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, in…
• 1984 CE1984 anti-Sikh riotsThe 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, were a series of organised pogroms against…
• 1985 CE1985 Beirut car bombingOn 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9 and 45 metres from the house of Shia cleric Sayyed Mohammad…
• 1985 CE1985 Copenhagen bombings by HezbollahOn 22 July 1985, two bombs exploded in a terrorist attack in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the bombs exploded…
• 1985 CE1985 El Descanso bombingOn 12 April 1985, the El Descanso restaurant in Torrejon de Ardoz outside Madrid, Spain, was bombed in a…
• 1985 CE1985 Gujarat riotsThe 1985 Gujarat riots began in February 1985 and lasted till August, in the Indian state of Gujarat. Most of…
• 1985 CE1985 Kayrakkum earthquakeThe 1985 Kayrakkum earthquake (Russian: Кайраккумское землетрясение) struck Soviet Tajikistan on October 13…
• 1985 CE1985 Luquan earthquakeThe 1985 Luquan earthquake occurred on April 18, 1985, at 13:52 local time (05:52 UTC). The epicenter was…
• 1985 CE1985 Mendoza earthquakeThe 1985 Mendoza earthquake occurred with medium intensity in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. It took…
• 1985 CE1985 Mexico City earthquakeThe 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment…
• 1985 CE1985 Nahanni earthquakesThe 1985 Nahanni earthquakes is the name for a continuous sequence of earthquakes that began in 1985 in the…
• 1985 CE1985 Pichilemu earthquakeThe 1985 Rapel Lake earthquake occurred on 8 April at 21:56:59 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and…
• 1985 CE1985 Rajneeshee assassination plotIn 1985, a group of high-ranking Rajneeshees, followers of the Indian mystic Rajneesh (later known as Osho)…
• 1985 CE1985 Santiago jiminA megathrust earthquake measuring 8.0 Mw struck just offshore the Greater Valparaíso area of Central Chile on…
• 1985 CE1985 Sudanese coup d'étatA coup d'état occurred in Sudan on 6 April 1985 when the high command of the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by…
• 1985 CE1985 Turkish embassy attack in OttawaThe 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa was the storming and attack that took place on 12 March 1985 by…
• 1985 CE1985 Valvettiturai massacreThe 1985 Valvettiturai massacre happened on May 12, 1985 after 2 landmine attacks killed 10 soldiers and an…
• 1985 CE1985 Wuqia earthquakeThe 1985 Wuqia earthquake occurred on August 23, 1985, at 20:42 local time (12:42 UTC) near the border of…
• 1986 CE1986 FBI Miami shootoutOn April 11, 1986, a shootout occurred between field agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and…
• 1986 CE1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacreThe 1986 Hoshiarpur Bus Massacre was a massacre of 24 Hindu bus-passengers by Khalistani militants. The bus…
• 1986 CE1986 Hualien earthquakeThe 1986 Hualien earthquake occurred on November 15, 1986, when a strong earthquake with a recorded magnitude…
• 1986 CE1986 João Câmara earthquakeThe 1986 João Câmara earthquake (Portuguese: Sismo de João Câmara de 1986) struck on 30 November 1986 at…
• 1986 CE1986 K2 disasterThe 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the…
• 1986 CE1986 Kalamata earthquakeThe 1986 Kalamata earthquake struck the southern Peloponnese Region of Greece on September 13 at 20:24 local…
• 1986 CE1986 Muktsar bus massacre1986 Muktsar bus massacre was a massacre of 14 Hindu and one Sikh bus-passenger by Khalistani militants. It…
• 1986 CE1986 Paris police station attackThe far-left Direct Action (AD) terror group detonated a bomb at the headquarters of the Brigade de…
• 1986 CE1986 San Salvador earthquakeThe 1986 San Salvador earthquake occurred at 11:49:26 local time on 10 October 1986 with a moment magnitude…
• 1986 CE1986 Togolese coup d'état attemptThe 1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt was a coup attempt that occurred in the West African country of Togo on…
• 1986 CE1986 Vrancea earthquakeStriking central Romania on August 30 at 21:28 UTC, the 1986 Vrancea earthquake killed more than 150 people…
• 1986 CE1986 West Berlin discotheque bombingOn 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the…
• 1987 CE1987 Burkinabé coup d'étatThe 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état was a violent military coup in Burkina Faso, which took place on 15 October…
• 1987 CE1987 Chiba earthquakeThe 1987 Chiba Prefecture offshore earthquake (Japanese: 千葉県東方沖地震) occurred off the east coast of the Boso…
• 1987 CE1987 Ecuador earthquakesThe 1987 Ecuador earthquakes occurred over a six-hour period on March 6, 1987. The sequence of shocks…
• 1987 CE1987 Edgecumbe earthquakeThe 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake measured 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale and struck the Bay of Plenty region…
• 1987 CE1987 Forsyth County protestsThe 1987 Forsyth County protests were a series of civil rights demonstrations held in Forsyth County…
• 1987 CE1987 Hipercor bombingA car bomb attack was carried out on 19 June 1987 at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, Spain, by the…
• 1987 CE1987 Lieyu massacreThe 1987 Lieyu massacre occurred on 7 March 1987 at Donggang Bay, Lieyu Island ("Lesser Kinmen" or "Little…
• 1987 CE1987 Madrid City Council electionA municipal election was held in Madrid on 10 June 1987 to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality.…
• 1987 CE1987 Santiago de Chuco earthquakeThe 1987 Santiago de Chuco earthquake struck Peru on October 2 with a moment magnitude of 5.6 and a maximum…
• 1987 CE1987 Sharjawi coup d'état attemptThe 1987 Sharjawi coup or the 1987 Emirati crisis was a political crisis in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)…
• 1987 CE1987 South Africa floodsFloods in September 1987 became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of South Africa, with 506…
• 1987 CE1987 Whittier Narrows earthquakeThe 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake occurred in the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities…
• 1987 CE1987 Zaragoza Guardia Civil Barracks bombingA car bomb attack was carried out by the Basque separatist organisation ETA on 11 December 1987. A vehicle…
• 1987 CE1987 anti-Sinhalese pogromThe 1987 Eastern Province massacres were a series of massacres of the Sinhalese population in the Eastern…
• 1988 CE1988 Chittagong MassacreChittagong massacre refers to a massacre of opposition activists in Chittagong on January 24 of 1988. The…
• 1988 CE1988 Lancang-Gengma earthquakesOn 6 November 1988, two earthquakes struck Lancang and Gengma counties, Yunnan, near the China–Myanmar…
• 1988 CE1988 Nepal earthquakeThe 1988 Nepal earthquake occurred near the Nepal–India border on 20 August 1988 at 23:09:09 UTC. The…
• 1988 CE1988 Saguenay earthquakeThe 1988 Saguenay earthquake struck Quebec, Canada with a moment magnitude of 5.9 on November 25. It is one…
• 1988 CE1988 Spitak earthquakeThe 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Armenian: Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ, romanized…
• 1988 CE1988 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at Seoul Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea…
• 1988 CE1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics was held on February 13, 1988, beginning at 1:30 p.m. MST…
• 1988 CE1988 attack on Saint-Michel cinema in ParisOn 22 October 1988, an integrist Catholic group set fire to the Saint Michel cinema in Paris while it was…
• 1988 CE1988-1989 North American droughtThe 1988–1990 North American drought ranks among the worst episodes of drought in the United States. This…
• 1989 CE1989 Ethiopian coup d'état attemptThe 1989 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt took place on 16 May 1989, when President of the People's Democratic…
• 1989 CE1989 Gissar earthquakeThe 1989 Gissar earthquake occurred at 23:02 UTC on 22 January near Gissar in Tajikistan. The shock had a…
• 1989 CE1989 Kandy massacreThe 1989 Kandy massacre was a series of retaliatory attacks on the villages of Menikhinna, Arangala…
• 1989 CE1989 Kedah Madrasah fireThe 1989 Taufiqiah Al-Khairiah madrasa fire, which occurred on 22 September 1989, was a fire that took place…
• 1989 CE1989 Loma Prieta earthquakeOn October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PDT, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on the Central Coast of…
• 1989 CE1989 Malawi earthquakeThe 1989 Malawi earthquake occurred on 10 March in central Malawi, with a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a…
• 1989 CE1989 Newcastle earthquakeThe 1989 Newcastle earthquake was an intraplate earthquake that occurred in Newcastle, New South Wales, on…
• 1989 CE1989 Paraguayan coup d'etatThe 1989 Paraguayan coup d'état, also known as La Noche de la Candelaria, was a coup d'état that took place…
• 1989 CE1989 Santa Elmira massacreThe Santa Elmira massacre was a massacre on activists of the Brazilean Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in…
• 1989 CE1989 Sudanese coup d'étatA bloodless coup d'état in Sudan overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq…
• 1989 CE1989 Sukhumi riotsThe Sukhumi riot was a riot in Sukhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet…
• 1989 CE1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreProtests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen…
• 1989 CE1989 Ungava earthquakeThe 1989 Ungava earthquake occurred at 09:24 local time (14:24 UTC) on 25 December to the north of Lac Bécard…
• 1989 CE1989 Valvettiturai massacreThe 1989 Valvettiturai massacre occurred on 2 and 3 August 1989 in the small coastal town of Valvettiturai…
• 1989 CE1989 West Papua earthquakeThe 1989 Irian Jaya earthquake struck Kurima District, Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia – then…
• 1990 CE1990 Batticaloa massacreThe 1990 Batticaloa massacre, also known as the Sathurukondan massacre (Tamil: சத்துருக்கொண்டான் படுகொலை)…
• 1990 CE1990 Chadian coup d'étatThe 1990 Chadian coup d'état took place on 1 December 1990 when the forces of the Patriotic Salvation…
• 1990 CE1990 Dushanbe riotsThe 1990 Dushanbe riots marked a period of heightened civil disobedience and inter-ethnic violence in…
• 1990 CE1990 Gawkadal massacreThe Gawkadal massacre, named after the Gawkadal bridge in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, where, on 21…
• 1990 CE1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisionsOn 2 October 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737-200, operating Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, collided with two other…
• 1990 CE1990 Hotel Delfino SiegeThe siege at Hotel Delfino (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Hotel Delfino, Ilocano: Sitio ti Hotel Delfino) in…
• 1990 CE1990 Luzon earthquakeThe 1990 Luzon earthquake occurred on July 16 at 4:26 p.m. (PHDT) on the densely populated island of Luzon in…
• 1990 CE1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquakeThe 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۶۹ رودبار و منجیل; Gilaki: زلزله رودبار) occurred on…
• 1990 CE1990 Sudanese coup d'état attemptA failed coup d'état attempt took place in Sudan on 23 April 1990. Reportedly orchestrated by two retired…
• 1990 CE1990 Surinamese coup d'étatThe 1990 Surinamese coup d'état, usually referred to as the Telephone Coup (Dutch: De Telefooncoup), was a…
• 1990 CE1990 Tbilisi–Agdam bus bombingThe 1990 Tbilisi–Aghdam bus bombing, also known as 1990 Khanlar bus bombing occurred on 10 August 1990, in…
• 1990 CE1990 Temple Mount killingsThe 1990 Temple Mount killings, or the Al Aqsa Massacre, also known as Black Monday, took place in the…
• 1991 CE1991 Altun Köpru massacreThe Altun Kupri massacre (Turkish: Altınköprü Katliamı, Arabic: مذبحة التون کوبري) occurred on 28 March 1991…
• 1991 CE1991 Austin yogurt shop murdersThe 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders were a quadruple homicide that took place at an I Can't Believe It's…
• 1991 CE1991 Haitian coup d'étatThe 1991 Haitian coup d'état resulted in the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically-elected…
• 1991 CE1991 Hindu Kush earthquakeThe 1991 Hindu Kush earthquake severely affected Afghanistan, Pakistan and the USSR (present-day Tajikistan)…
• 1991 CE1991 Kalabahi earthquakesThe 1991 Kalabahi earthquakes struck the sea adjacent to Timor on July 4, leaving twenty three people dead…
• 1991 CE1991 Kokkadichcholai massacreOn June 12, 1991, 152 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were massacred by members of the Sri Lankan…
• 1991 CE1991 Limon earthquakeThe 1991 Costa Rica earthquake, also known as the Limon earthquake or Bocas del Toro earthquake, occurred at…
• 1991 CE1991 Racha earthquakeThe 1991 Racha earthquake occurred in the province of Racha, Georgia, at 9:12 UTC on 29 April. Centered on…
• 1991 CE1991 Siege of KijevoThe 1991 siege of Kijevo was one of the earliest clashes of the Croatian War of Independence. The 9th Corps…
• 1991 CE1991 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 26 May 1991 to elect all 66,308 councillors in the 8,060 Spanish…
• 1991 CE1991 Uttarkashi earthquakeThe 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake (also known as the Garhwal earthquake) occurred at 02:53:16 Indian Standard…
• 1991 CE1991 Vic bombingA bombing attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA on 29 May 1991 when a car bomb carrying…
• 1991 CE1991 anti-Serb riot in ZadarThe 1991 riot in Zadar was an act of violence that took place in the Croatian city of Zadar on 2 May 1991.…
• 1991 CE1991 eruption of Mount PinatuboThe 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic…
• 1990 CE1991 eruption of Mount UnzenThe 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen (Japanese: 1991年の雲仙岳噴火) is the volcanic disaster caused by the eruption of…
• 1991 CE1991 uprising in BasraThe Battle of Basra was fought in the beginning of the 1991 Iraqi uprisings following the Gulf War. The…
• 1992 CE1992 Algiers bombingsOn 26 August 1992 in Algiers, Algeria, two bombs exploded and another was defused. The first exploded at…
• 1992 CE1992 Cairo earthquakeThe 1992 Cairo earthquake, also known as the Dahshur earthquake, occurred at 15:09 local time (13:09 UTC) on…
• 1992 CE1992 Coalisland riotsThe 1992 Coalisland riots were a series of clashes on 12 and 17 May 1992 between local Irish nationalist…
• 1992 CE1992 Flores earthquakeThe 1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami occurred on 12 December on the island of Flores in Indonesia. With a…
• 1992 CE1992 Guadalajara explosionsA series of ten explosions took place on April 22, 1992, in the downtown district of Analco Colonia Atlas in…
• 1992 CE1992 Landers earthquakeThe 1992 Landers earthquake occurred on Sunday, June 28 with an epicenter near the town of Landers…
• 1992 CE1992 Madrid bombingA car bombing was carried out by the armed Basque separatist group ETA in Madrid, Spain on 6 February 1992…
• 1992 CE1992 Nicaragua earthquakeThe 1992 Nicaragua earthquake occurred off the coast of Nicaragua at 6:16 p.m. on 1 September. Some damage…
• 1992 CE1992 Roermond earthquakeThe 1992 Roermond earthquake occurred on 13 April, around 3:20 AM (1:20 UTC) with a moment magnitude of 5.3…
• 1992 CE1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Saturday 25 July 1992 at Estadi…
• 1992 CE1992 Suusamyr earthquakeThe 1992 Suusamyr earthquake occurred at 08:04:37 KGT (02:04:37 UTC) on 19 August near Toluk in the border…
• 1992 CE1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics took place at Théâtre des Cérémonies in Albertville, France…
• 1992 CE1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in SarajevoThe 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo occurred on 3 May 1992 in Dobrovoljačka Street…
• 1992 CE1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in TuzlaThe 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Tuzla, also known as Tuzla column (Serbo-Croatian…
• 1992 CE1992 Zangon Kataf crisesThe genesis of the 1992 Zangon Kataf crises could at least be traced to the onset of the British imperial…
• 1992 CE1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos AiresThe attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli…
• 1993 CE1993 Bishopsgate bombingOn 24 April 1993, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb on Bishopsgate…
• 1993 CE1993 Chennai bombing1993 bombing of RSS office in Chennai refers to the bombing of a head office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
• 1993 CE1993 Hădăreni riotsThe 1993 Hădăreni riots (Romanian: Ciocnirile de la Hădăreni, Hungarian: 1993-as hadrévi pogrom) were a…
• 1993 CE1993 Kushiro-Oki earthquakeThe 1993 Kushiro–Oki earthquake (釧路沖地震, Kushiro-Oki Jishin) was one of two large earthquake to strike the…