Years 1990-1999

1 June 1990

U.S.-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments

11 February 1990

South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 271/2 years

17 December 1990

Haiti elects leftist priest as president in first democratic election

17 November 1990

Gorbachev assumes emergency powers

2 August 1990 et seq.

Iraqi troops invade Kuwait and seize petroleum reserves, setting off Persian Gulf War

20 July 1990

US Appeals Court overturns Oliver North's Iran-Contra conviction

21 November 1990

Leaders of 34 nations in Europe and North America proclaim a united Europe

22 January 1990

Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power

22 November 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister

25 April 1990

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro inaugurated as Nicaraguan president. Hubble Space Telescope launched

28 November 1990

John Major succeeds her

3 January 1990

World Wide Web debuts, popularizes Internet

3 January 1990

Gen. Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama

3 October 1990

East and West Germany reunited

6 July 1990

Western Alliance ends cold war and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

7 February 1990

Soviet Communists relinquish sole power

8 November 1990

Republicans set back in midterm elections

9 December 1990

Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff presidential election

1990

Filippines, Luzon - 1.621 deads - magnitudo 7,7

20 June 1990

Iran, occidentale circa 40.000 deads nella provincia di Gilan

1990

Nobel Prizes Physics: Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, Richard Edward Taylor

1990

Nobel Prizes Peace: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

1990

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas

1990

Nobel Prizes Literature: Octavio Paz

1990

Nobel Prizes Economy: Harry M. Markowitz, Merton M. Miller, William F. Sharpe

1990

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Elias James Corey, per lo sviluppo della teoria e della metodologia della sintesi organica

1990

Academy Award Best Picture: Dances with Wolves

1990

Academy Award Best Director: Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves

1990

Academy Award Best Actor: Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune

1990

Academy Award Best Actress: Kathy Bates, Misery

1990

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci, Goodfellas

1990

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost

1990

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1990

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Stefan Edberg d. Boris Becker (6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4)

1990

Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds (NL) 4-0 Oakland Athletics (AL)

1990

Football XXIV Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers (NFC) d. Denver Broncos (AFC) 55-10

1990

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d.Zina Garrison (6-4, 6-1)

1990

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AC Milan (Italy)

1990

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons d. Portland Trail Blazers (4-1)

1990

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: West Germany d. Argentina (1-0) in Italy

1991 April 15

Europeans end sanctions on South Africa

1991 April 3

Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War; UN forces are victorious

1991 August 10

China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty

1991 August 25

Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence

1991 December 25

Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States

1991 February 25

Warsaw Pact dissolves military alliance

1991 January 15

U.S. and Allies at war with Iraq

1991 July 1

Warsaw Pact dissolved

1991 July 10

Boris N. Yeltsin inaugurated as first freely elected president of Russian Republic

1991 July 31

Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty

1991 June 3

France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons

1991 June 4

Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide

1991 June 5

South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws

1991 May 13

Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping

1991 November 15

U.S. indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland

1991 October 18

Israel and Soviet Union resume relations after 24 years

1991

India, Uttar Pradesh - 1.500 deads - magnitudo 6,2

1991

Russia, Georgia - 100 deads - magnitudo 7,2

1991

Costa Rica, Panama - 100 deads - magnitudo 7,4

1991

Pakistan, near Afghanistan - 1.500 deads - magnitudo 6,8

1991

Nobel Prizes Physics: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1991

Nobel Prizes Literature: Nadine Gordimer

1991

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Richard R. Ernst, per i suoi contributi allo sviluppo della risonanza magnetica nucleare

1991

Nobel Prizes Economy: Ronald H. Coase

1991

Nobel Prizes Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi

1991

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann

1991

Academy Award Best Actress: Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Academy Award Best Director: Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Academy Award Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Jack Palance, City Slickers

1991

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King

1991

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1991

Academy Award Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Michael Stich d. Boris Becker (6-4, 7-6(7-4), 6-4)

1991

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Gabriela Sabatini (6-4, 3-6, 8-6)

1991

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-1)

1991

Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins (AL) 4-3 Atlanta Braves (NL)

1991

Football XXV Super Bowl: New York Giants b. Buffalo Bills (20-19)

1991

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Red Star Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

1992 April 7

U.S. recognizes three former Yugoslav republics

1992 December 24

Bush pardons former Reagan administration officials involved in Iran-Contra affair

1992 December 9

Prince and Princess of Wales agree to separate

1992 February 1

Bush and Yeltsin proclaim formal end to cold war

1992 February 21

U.S. lifts trade sanctions against China

1992 January 15

Yugoslav Federation broken up

1992 November 25

Czechoslovak Parliament approves separation into two nations

1992 November 3

Bill Clinton elected president, Al Gore vice president; Democrats keep control of Congress

1992 October 1

Senate ratifies second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

1992 October 14

Top Japanese leader, Shin Kanemaru, resigns in scandal

12 December 1992

Indonesia, Isola di Flores, 2.500 deads, 7.5

13 March 1992

Turkey, Erzincan, 3.000 deads, 6.2

1992

Nicaragua, tsunami - 100 deads - magnitudo 7,5

1992

Nobel Prizes Literature: Derek Walcott

1992

Nobel Prizes Physics: Georges Charpak

1992

Nobel Prizes Peace: Rigoberta Menchu Tum

1992

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs

1992

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus, per i suoi contributi alla teoria della reazione di trasferimento di elettroni nei sistemi chimici

1992

Nobel Prizes Economy: Gary S. Becker

1992

Academy Award Best Picture: Unforgiven

1992

Academy Award Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven

1992

Academy Award Best Actor: Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman

1992

Academy Award Best Actress: Emma Thompson, Howards End

1992

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman, Unforgiven

1992

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny

1992

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1992

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Barcelona (Spain)

1992

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Monica Seles (6-2, 6-1)

1992

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Andre Agassi d. Goran Ivaniševic (6-7(8-10), 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4)

1992

Football XXVI Super Bowl: Washington Redskins b. Buffalo Bills (37-24)

1992

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XVI: Albertville, France

1992

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Portland Trail Blazers (4-2)

1992

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXV: Barcelona (Spain)

1992

Baseball World Series: Toronto Blue Jays (AL) 4-2 Atlanta Braves (NL)

1993 April 19

Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault

1993 August 28

Israeli-Palestinian accord reached

1993 February 28

U.S. begins airlift of supplies to besieged Bosnia towns

1993 January 26

Vaclav Havel elected as Czech president

1993 July 19

Iraq accepts UN weapons monitoring

1993 June 5

Twenty-two UN troops killed in Somalia

1993 May 1

President of Sri Lanka assassinated

1993 November 1

Europe's Maastricht Treaty takes effect, creating European Union

1993 November 18

South Africa adopts majority rule constitution

1993 October 4 et seguent

Yeltsin's forces crush revolt in Russian Parliament

1993 October 5

China breaks nuclear test moratorium

1989-1993

George Bush (June 12, 1924). 41° President, Repubblican

1993-2000

Bill Clinton (Aug 19, 1946). 42° President, Democratic

1993

India, Maharashtra - 19.748 deads - magnitudo 6,4

1993

Japan, Hokkaido (maremoto) - 250 deads - magnitudo 7,8

29 September 1993

India, over 20.000 deads nel sudovest (6,4 Richter)

1993

Nobel Prizes Physics: Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph H. Jr. Taylor

1993

Nobel Prizes Literature: Toni Morrison

1993

Nobel Prizes Economy: Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North

1993

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Michael Smith, per i suoi studi sulla mutagenesi a seguito della riorganizzazione degli oligonucleotidi e le sue implicazioni nello studio delle proteine

1993

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Kary B. Mullis, per l'invenzione della reazione a catena della polimerasi o PCR

1993

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp

1993

Nobel Prizes Peace: Fredrik Willem De Klerk, Nelson Mandela$

1993

Academy Award Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List

1993

Academy Award Best Actor: Tom Hanks, Philadelphia

1993

Academy Award Best Actress: Holly Hunter, The Piano

1993

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive

1993

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Anna Paquin, The Piano

1993

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1993

Academy Award Best Picture: Schindler's List

1993

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. Jim Courier(7-6(7-3), 7-6(8-6), 3-6, 6-3)

1993

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Jana Novotná (7-6(8-6), 1-6, 6-4)

1993

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Phoenix Suns (4-2)

1993

Baseball World Series: Toronto Blue Jays (AL) 4-2 Philadelphia Phillies (NL)

1993

Football XXVII Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys b. Buffalo Bills (52-17)

1993

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Marseille (France)

1994

Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27

1994 April 29

South Africa holds first interracial national election; Nelson Mandela elected President

1994 April 6

Rwanda genocide of Tutsis by Hutus begins; estimated 800,000 slaughtered in c. 100 days

1994 August 15

'Carlos the Jackal' international terrorist, captured

1994 August 31

IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland

1994 December 11

Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya

1994 January 17

Major earthquake jolts Los Angeles; 51 dead

1994 January 6

Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked

1994 June 18

O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman

1994 March 23

Mexican presidential candidate assassinated

1994 May 4

Israel signs accord with Palestinians , peace treaty with Jordan (October 17)

1994 November 6

Reagan, 83, reveals he has Alzheimer's disease

1994 October 13

Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire

1994 October 7

U.S. sends forces to Persian Gulf

1994 September 12

Small plane crashes into White House

1994 September 14

Baseball owners end season and cancel World Series

1994

USA, Northridge, California - 61 deads - magnitudo 6,8

1994

Colombia, valle del fiume Paez - 1.000 deads - magnitudo 6,8

1994

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: George A. Olah, per le sue ricerche sui carbocationi

1994

Nobel Prizes Physics: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull

1994

Nobel Prizes Literature: Kenzaburo Oe

1994

Nobel Prizes Economy: John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash, Reinhard Selten

1994

Nobel Prizes Peace: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

1994

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell

1994

Academy Award Best Director: Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump

1994

Academy Award Best Actor: Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

1994

Academy Award Best Picture: Forrest Gump

1994

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau, Ed Wood

1994

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest, Bullets over Broadway

1994

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1994

Academy Award Best Actress: Jessica Lange, Blue Sky

1994

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AC Milan (Italy)

1994

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XVII: Lillehammer, Norway

1994

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Conchita Martinez d. M. Navratilova (6-4 3-6 6-3)

1994

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. Goran Ivaniševic (7-6(7-2), 7-6(7-5), 6-0)

1994

Baseball World Series: No World Series

1994

Football XXXI Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys d. Buffalo Bills (30-13)

1994

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Houston Rockets d. New York Knicks (4-3)

1994

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Brazil d. Italy (3-2) (shootout) in United States

1 May 1995

Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia

19 April 1995

Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building

2 April 1995

Major League Baseball strike ends

22 April 1995

Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre

27 June 1995

U.S. shuttle docks with Russian space station

29 March 1995

Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo ('Supreme Truth') cult is to blame

4 November 1995

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally

4-8 October 1995

Pope John Paul II visits U.S. on whirlwind tour

5 September 1995

France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue

17 January 1995

Japan, 6.400 deads int the region of Kobe-Osaka (7,2 Richter)

1995

Russia, Sakhalin - 2.000 deads - magnitudo 7,6

1995

Nobel Prizes Economy: Robert Lucas

1995

Nobel Prizes Peace: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Joseph Rotblat

1995

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus

1995

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Paul Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, Frank Sherwood Rowland, per il loro lavoro sulla chimica dell'atmosfera, specificamente per la formazione e decomposizione dell'ozono

1995

Nobel Prizes Physics: Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

1995

Nobel Prizes Literature: Seamus Heaney

1995

Academy Award Best Director: Mel Gibson, Braveheart

1995

Academy Award Best Actor: Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Academy Award Best Actress: Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking

1995

Academy Award Best Picture: Braveheart

1995

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects

1995

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite

1995

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1995

Baseball World Series: Atlanta Braves (NL) 4-2 Cleveland Indians (AL)

1995

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AFC Ajax (Netherlands)

1995

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. Boris Becker (6-7(5-7), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2)

1995

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Houston Rockets d. Orlando Magic (4-0)

1995

Football XXVIII Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers b. San Diego Chargers (49-26)

1995

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (4-6, 6-1, 7-5)

1996 April 3

FBI arrests suspected Unabomber

1996 August 31

Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave

1996 December 13

Kofi Annan named UN secretary-general

1996 December 5

Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. secretary of state

1996 February 1

At least 73 dead in Sri Lankan suicide bombing

1996 Januany 29

France announces end to nuclear tests

1996 July 12

Prince Charles and Princess Diana agree on divorce

1996 July 17

747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish

1996 July 25

Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta

1996 July 3

Boris Yeltsin is reelected in Russian election

1996 June 25

Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia

1996 June 6

China agrees to world ban on atomic testing

1996 March 20 et seq.

Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease

1996 March 4

Suicide bombers kill 59 in Israel

1996 May 11

ValuJet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed

1996 May 31

Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister

1996 November 12

Mid-air collision in India kills 342

1996 September 13

Iraq halts attacks on U.S. planes enforcing flight exclusion zones in north and south

1996 September 2-3

after warning, U.S. attacks Iraq's southern air defenses

1996 September 27

Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Afghan capital

1996

Nobel Prizes Physics: David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson

1996

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel$

1996

Nobel Prizes Peace: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos Horta$

1996

Nobel Prizes Economy: James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey

1996

Nobel Prizes Literature: Wislawa Szymborska

1996

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Robert Curl, Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, per la scoperta del fullerene

1996

Academy Award Best Director: Anthony Minghella, The English Patient

1996

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1996

Academy Award Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush, Shine

1996

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire

1996

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche, The English Patient

1996

Academy Award Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Fargo

1996

Academy Award Best Picture: The English Patient

1996

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (6-3, 7-5)

1996

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Seattle Super Sonics (4-2)

1996

Football XXIX Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys b. Pittsburgh Steelers (27-17)

1996

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Richard Krajicek d. MaliVai Washington (6-3, 6-4, 6-3)

1996

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Juventus FC (Italy)

1996

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXVI: Atlanta (USA)

1996

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-2 Atlanta Braves (NL)

1997 April 13

Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in Masters golf tournament

1997 April 15

Fire kills 300 pilgrims outside Mecca

1997 August 31

Princess Diana, 36, killed with two others in Paris car crash

1997 August 8

U.S. spacecraft transmits thousands of pictures from Mars

1997 December 24

U.S. company launches first commercial spy satellite

1997 December 24

Paris court convicts 'Carlos the Jackal' of murder

1997 January 17

U.S. shuttle joins Russian space station

1997 January 20

President Clinton starts second term

1997 July 15

Andrew Cunanan murders fashion designer Gianni Versace

1997 July 4

U.S. spacecraft begins exploration of Mars

1997 June 30

Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule

1997 March 22

Hale-Bopp comet is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397

1997 March 27

Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California

1997 November 17

Egyptian Islamic militants kill 62 at Luxor tourist site

1997 September 17

Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust victims

1997

Iran, Khorassan - 1.000 deads - magnitudo 6,1

1997

Iran, 4.000 deads - magnitudo 7,5

1997

Nobel Prizes Physics: Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips

1997

Nobel Prizes Literature: Dario Fo (Italy)

1997

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Jens C. Skou, per la scoperta di un enzima ionico nello scambio sodio-potassio

1997

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, per la loro spiegazione dei meccanismi enzimatici sottesi nella sintesi dell'adenosintrifosfato, ATP

1997

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Stanley B. Prusiner

1997

Nobel Prizes Peace: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

1997

Nobel Prizes Economy: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes

1997

Academy Award Best Actor: Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets

1997

Academy Award Best Picture: Titanic

1997

Academy Award Best Actress: Helen Hunt, As Good as It Gets

1997

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

1997

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential

1997

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1997

Academy Award Best Director: James Cameron, Titanic

1997

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Hingis d. Jana Novotná (2-6, 6-3, 6-3)

1997

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Utah Jazz (4-2)

1997

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. Cédric Pioline (6-4, 6-2, 6-4)

1997

Baseball World Series: Florida Marlins (NL) 4-3 Cleveland Indians (AL)

1997

Football XXX Super Bowl: Green Bay Packers b. New England Patriots (35-21)

1997

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Borussia Dortmund (Germany)

1998 August 31

North Korea fires missile across Japan

1998 August 7

U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed

1998 December 16-19

Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq

1998 February 3

U.S. plane cuts ski cable in Italy and sends car plunging; 20 killed

1998 February 4 et seq.

Thousands dead in Afghanistan quake

1998 January 21 and sequent

President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky

1998 January 21-25

Pope John Paul II visits Cuba

1998 January 9

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life for 1993 World Trade Center bombing

1998 June 1

Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels

1998 March 19

Hindu nationalist Vajpayee becomes India's prime minister

1998 March 27

FDA approves Viagra, male impotence drug

1998 March 27

The FDA approves the male impotence drug Viagra

1998 March 5 et seq.

Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

1998 May 11, 13

India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval

1998 May 11, 13

India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval

1998 May 29, 30

Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response

1998 May 29, 30

Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response to India's

1998 May 3

Europeans agree on single currency, the euro

1998 May 3

Europeans agree on single currency, the euro

1998 May 4

Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, sentenced to four life terms

1998 November 1

More than 10,000 die in Central American hurricane, Mitch

1998 October 16

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London

1998 October 16

Former Chilean dictator Pinochet arrested in London

1998 October 29

77-year old Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, returns to orbit in the space shuttle Discovery

1998 October 5

Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime

1998 September 18

Senate sustains veto of bill to outlaw late-term abortions

1998 September 2

Swissair jet crashes; kills 229

1998 September 24

Iran lifts death threat against Salman Rushdie

1998 September 27

German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder

1998

Afghanistan, Takhar - 4.700 deads - magnitudo 6,9

1998

Papua Nuova Guinea, with Tsunami - 2100 deads - magnitudo 7

1998

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis Ignarro, Ferid Murad

1998

Nobel Prizes Physics: Robert B. Laughlin, $Horst St'rmer$, Daniel Tsui

1998

Nobel Prizes Economy: Amartya Sen

1998

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Walter Kohn, per lo sviluppo della teoria del funzionale di densitÓ

1998

Nobel Prizes Peace: John Hume, David Trimble

1998

Nobel Prizes Literature: Josè Saramago

1998

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: John A. Pople, per lo sviluppo del metodo computazionale di chimica quantistica noto come metodo Pariser-Parr-Pople

1998

Academy Award Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan

1998

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1998

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love

1998

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: James Coburn, Affliction

1998

Academy Award Best Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love

1998

Academy Award Best Actor: Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful

1998

Academy Award Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love

1998

Football XXXII Super Bowl: Denver Broncos d. Green Bay Packers(31-24)

1998

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Jana Novotna d. N. Tauziat (6-4 7-6)

1998

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2)

1998

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: France d. Brazil (3-0) in France

1998

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-0 San Diego Padres (NL)

1998

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XVIII: Nagano, Japan

1998

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls d. Utah Jazz (4-2)

1998

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid CF (Spain)

1999 April 20

Two Colo. students go on shooting spree in Columbine High School, killing 15, including themselves

1999 August 17

More than 17,000 people die in 7.4 earthquake in Turkey

1999 December 2

New Northern Ireland government begins self-rule for first time in 25 years

1999 December 24

Muslim terrorists hijack Indian Airlines jet with 189 on board

1999 Feb. 7

King Hussein of Jordan dies

1999 Jan. 6

NBA ends 191-day labor dispute

1999 July 16

Col. Eileen Collins becomes first female to head a space shuttle mission

1999 June 16

Nelson Mandela retires as president of South Africa; succeeded by Thabo Mbeki

1999 June 9

Serbs sign agreement to pull troops out of Kosovo after 11 weeks of NATO air attacks

1999 March 12

Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary join NATO

1999 March 1-20

First nonstop balloon flight around world completed in 20 days by Bertrand Piccard (Switzerland) and Brian Jones (UK)

1999 March 24

NATO launches air strikes on Serbia to end attacks against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

1999 March 27

'Melissa' computer virus spreads through the Internet

1999 March 4

Marine pilot acquitted in killing of 20 in 1998 Italian ski gondola accident; Italians outraged

1999 March 5

U.S. accuses China of stealing nuclear secrets

1999 March 8

Joe DiMaggio dies at age 84

1999 May 16

Crime rate in U.S. falls for seventh consecutive year

1999 May 7

NATO bombs mistakenly hit Chinese embassy in Belgrade

1999 November 15

U.S. and China reach landmark trade agreement

1999 November 21

China launches first spacecraft

1999 November 25

Five-year-old Cuban refugee Elián González gets caught in politically charged custody battle

1999 November 29

et seq. World Trade Organization conference disrupted by violent protests in Seattle

1999 November 5

Judge finds Microsoft to be a monopoly

1999 October 11

World population reaches six billion milestone

1999 October 12

Military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf overthrows Pakistani government

1999 October 13

Tobacco companies admit to harm caused by cigarette smoking

1999 October 13

Senate rejects 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty; international leaders upset by U.S. stand

1999 October 20

Indonesia elects Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid president

1999 October 31

EgyptAir flight crashes over Atlantic, killing all 217 on board

1999 September 15

Larry Gene Ashbrook goes on rampage in Tex. church, killing seven and himself

1999 September 23

NASA accidentally loses $125 million spacecraft as it orbits Mars

1999 September 30

Dozens of people exposed to radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident

1999 September 4

Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasir Arafat announce peace accord

1999

Colombia, Colima e Quindio - 930 deads - magnitudo 6

1999

Taiwan, 2.474 deads - magnitudo 7,6

1999

Turkey, Karamursel,Golyaka 15.500 deads nella regione di Bursa (7,4 Richter)

1999

Nobel Prizes Peace: Médecins Sans Frontières

1999

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Ahmed Hassan Zewail, per i suoi studi sugli stati di transizione di una reazione chimica utilizzando uno spettroscopio al femtosecondo

1999

Nobel Prizes Economy: Robert A. Mundell

1999

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Gunter Blobel

1999

Nobel Prizes Physics: $Gerardus 't Hooft$, Martinus J. G. Veltman

1999

Nobel Prizes Literature: Gunter Grass

1999

Academy Award Best Picture: American Beauty

1999

Academy Award Best Director: Sam Mendes, American Beauty

1999

Academy Award Best Actor: Kevin Spacey, American Beauty

1999

Academy Award Best Actress: Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

1999

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules

1999

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted

1999

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1999

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Manchester United FC (England)

1999

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pete Sampras d. Andre Agassi (6-3, 6-4, 7-5)

1999

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs - New York Knicks (4-1)

1999

Football XXXIII Super Bowl: Denver Broncos b. Atlanta Falcons (34-19)

1999

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-0 Atlanta Braves (NL)

1999

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Lindsay Davenport d. Steffi Graf (6-4, 7-5)

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