The 1990s
1,339 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 20th century. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.
1990 CE190 entries
1991 CE137 entries
1992 CE120 entries
1993 CE138 entries
1994 CE122 entries
1995 CE116 entries
1996 CE139 entries
- July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
- August 14 – A rocket ignited during a fireworks display in Arequipa, Peru knocks down a high-tension power cable into a dense crowd, electrocuting 35 people.
- August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
1997 CE124 entries
- January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
- July 8 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
- September 5 – The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.