1990
January
01 - David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
02 - World population passes five billion. In 1960 it was...
1991
January
08 - Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies from a cocktail of drugs and alcohol at his home in Chelsea, London, UK.
15 - The...
1992
January
13 - Japan apologises for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
21...
1993
January
01 - Czechoslovakia is peacefully divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
03 - George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction...
1994
January
01 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
06 - Champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by a 'mystery assailant'...
1995
January
01 - Fred West, the Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, commits suicide in his prison cell. Prison officers discover the 53-year-old's body hanging...
1996
January
05 - Yahya Ayyash - thought to be behind a wave of Islamic suicide bombings against Israel - is killed in Gaza by a...
1997
January
09 - Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive five days after his boat capsized in the freezing Southern Ocean, 2200 km off the coast...
1998
January
01 - A new law comes into effect in California, prohibiting people from smoking in bars.
05 - Sonny Bono (of Sonny & Cher fame)...
1999
January
01 - 11 European countries replace their national currencies with the newly created 'Euro', a single European currency. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium,...
The 1990s
The recession of 1990, after the boom of the 1980s, provided a rather inauspicious beginning to the new decade. By the end of the...
