Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". It reached US theaters on 22 November 1991.

Crayon Shin-chan begins its television run on TV Asahi, an irreverent slice-of-life comedy following five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin-chan" Nohara and his family in Kasukabe, Saitama.

The 27th Academy of Country Music Awards, broadcast by NBC on 29 April 1992 with Clint Black, Lorrie Morgan and Travis Tritt as hosts, gave Garth Brooks a second Entertainer of the Year, Alan Jackson Album and Single of the Year, and Brooks & Dunn their first two ACMs.

Munich Airport opened at its current site on 17 May 1992, replacing Munich-Riem, and is one of only two European airports to hold Skytrax's 5-Star rating.

Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki's tale of a pig-faced Italian First World War ace turned bounty hunter, opened in Japanese theaters on 18 July 1992 and was the year's top film in Japan.

The direct-to-video Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still begins release, a seven-episode OVA reviving Mitsuteru Yokoyama's 1960s manga/tokusatsu property with a retro-futurist mecha story about the secret organization Big Fire's plot for world domination.

Developer Triple Five Group opened the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, debuting 330 stores and an indoor amusement park inside the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy film based on the Middle Eastern folk tale "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 25 November 1992.

Shin-Ei Animation's feature-length Crayon Shin-chan TV specials, extended event episodes built around the mischievous five-year-old Shinnosuke Nohara, began airing at the end of 1992.

Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, a Japanese-Indian animated adaptation of the Hindu epic, releases in Japanese theaters, retelling the exile of Prince Rama and his quest to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.

The TV special Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks tells the tragedy of an alternate future where the androids have all but wiped out humanity, following a grown Trunks as he trains under a dying Gohan before traveling back in time.

Eric Clapton won six Grammys at the 35th ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium, taking Record and Song of the Year for "Tears in Heaven" and Album of the Year for Unplugged, while Arrested Development won Best New Artist and Michael Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award.

The direct-to-video Kyou kara Ore wa!! begins release, a delinquent-school comedy OVA adapting Hiroyuki Nishimori's manga about two transfer students, Itou and Takashi, who reinvent themselves as tough guys at a new school.

One of the longest-running anime in the medium’s history, Nintama Rantarou has aired on NHK continuously since April 10, 1993, adapting Sōbē Amako's manga about Rantarou, Shinbei, and Kirimaru — first-year students at a Sengoku-era ninja academy who are more interested in food, money, and mischief than in mastering ninjutsu. Produced by Ajia-do, it packages short comic vignettes into each half-hour episode and has grown into a multi-generational institution in Japan, with an episode count now well past 2,000.

At the 28th Academy of Country Music Awards on 11 May 1993, Garth Brooks won Entertainer of the Year for a third year, Brooks & Dunn took Album of the Year for Brand New Man and Single for "Boot Scootin' Boogie", and the film Pure Country won the Tex Ritter Award.

Slam Dunk begins its TV run, a basketball comedy-drama following delinquent freshman Hanamichi Sakuragi as he falls for a classmate and, through her, discovers the sport.

Tezuka Productions begins releasing the Black Jack OVA, adapting Osamu Tezuka's manga about an unlicensed surgeon of legendary skill who charges enormous fees to save lives others have given up on.

Cafe Batavia opened in 1993 in the second-oldest building on Jakarta's old town square, a Dutch colonial house restored as a restaurant, with teak floors, ceiling fans and walls papered in old portraits. It faces the former city hall across the cobbles of Fatahillah Square.

At the 36th Grammys at Radio City Music Hall, Whitney Houston opened the show with "I Will Always Love You" and won Record of the Year, Album of the Year for The Bodyguard and Best Female Pop Vocal, while Alan Menken's "A Whole New World" took Song of the Year and Toni Braxton Best New Artist.

Garth Brooks won Entertainer of the Year for the fourth consecutive time at the 29th Academy of Country Music Awards on 3 May 1994, hosted by Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire; Jackson took Album and Single of the Year, and Charley Pride received the Pioneer Award.

The $15BN Channel Tunnel opened, linking Britain to mainland Europe by rail for the first time since the last Ice Age, after six years of construction under the English Channel.

On 12 June 1994 the first Boeing 777 took off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, flown by chief test pilot John Cashman, starting an 11-month test program for the world's largest twinjet.

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff and written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. It reached US theaters on 24 June 1994.

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) moved into its purpose-built Vauxhall Cross headquarters, ending decades of hiding in increasingly compromised office buildings.

On 24 October 1994 A. Lange & Söhne presented its first collection in Dresden, the Lange 1, Arkade, Saxonia and Tourbillon Pour le Mérite, marking the rebirth of the Saxon brand dormant since 1948.

China held the grand commencement ceremony for the Three Gorges Project at Sandouping on the Yangtze on 14 December 1994, starting what became the world's largest hydropower plant.

The 1995 relaunch of Chibi Maruko-chan, Momoko Sakura's slice-of-life comedy about a scatterbrained third-grader navigating school, family and small everyday embarrassments in a quiet Japanese town. Produced by Nippon Animation, this version replaced the original 1990-1992 series and has stayed in weekly production ever since, making it one of the longest continuously running anime on air.

Reba McEntire won her first Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year on 10 May 1995, dedicating it to Oklahoma City after the federal-building bombing; newcomer Tim McGraw took Album of the Year and John Michael Montgomery's "I Swear" won Single and Song.

Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English settlers from the Virginia Company. It reached US theaters on 23 June 1995.

Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart releases in Japanese theaters, a coming-of-age story following bookish schoolgirl Shizuku as she chases a mysterious cat and discovers her own ambitions as a writer.

Amazon.com went live from a rented house in Bellevue, Washington, selling books out of a garage-scale operation with a catalogue it did not stock. Within a month it had shipped to all fifty states and forty-five countries.

Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion begins airing, a mecha series following teenage pilot Shinji Ikari as NERV's Evangelion units battle mysterious beings called Angels threatening Tokyo-3.

APPP's Golden Boy premieres on home video, a comedic OVA following Kintarou Oe, a law-school graduate who bikes from town to town taking odd jobs and chasing life lessons (and misadventures with women) instead of a career.

Production I.G's Ghost in the Shell opens in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk thriller adapting Masamune Shirow's manga, following cybernetic Section 9 agent Major Motoko Kusanagi as she hunts a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master.

Pixar's Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated feature film, opened in US theaters on 22 November 1995 after a Los Angeles premiere on 19 November. John Lasseter directed the story of cowboy doll Woody and space ranger Buzz Lightyear.

TMS Entertainment's Detective Conan begins its television broadcast, adapting Gosho Aoyama's manga about a teenage detective shrunk into a child's body who solves cases under a false identity while investigating the organization responsible.

Sunrise begins releasing Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, a One Year War-era OVA following Ensign Shiro Amada as he leads a Ground Type Gundam unit while falling for an enemy Zeon pilot.

The 31st Academy of Country Music Awards on 24 April 1996, hosted by Faith Hill and Brooks & Dunn, gave Brooks & Dunn Entertainer of the Year and Top Vocal Duo, Shania Twain Album of the Year and Top New Female Vocalist, and George Strait the Single Record of the Year.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical drama film loosely based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 21 June 1996.

Oshkosh Truck Corporation bought fire apparatus builder Pierce Manufacturing outright, a deal that kicked off Oshkosh's diversification and set up Pierce to become the world's largest fire truck maker.

In the year 2005, a race of alien monsters called Zonders emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo.

The Roslin Institute reveals that a Finn-Dorset lamb born the previous July was cloned from an adult mammary-gland cell by somatic cell nuclear transfer - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.

At the 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards on 23 April 1997, 14-year-old LeAnn Rimes won Single and Song of the Year for "Blue" and Top New Female Vocalist, Brooks & Dunn repeated as Entertainer of the Year, and George Strait took Album of the Year and Top Male Vocalist.

Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. It reached US theaters on 27 June 1997.