1990
  • Nelson Mandela freed
  • Germany one country again
  • Iraq invades Kuwait
  • Operation Desert Shield
  • Japan's Akihito emperor
  • Namibia independent
  • Walesa President of Poland
  • Gorbachev wins Nobel Prize
  • American Disabilities Act signed
  • Corn circles appear in fields
  • Home Schooling becomes popular
  • Killer Bees enter the US
  • Perrier recalls bottles
  • Greta Grabo dies
  • Detroit Pistons are NBA Champs
  • Bungee jumping the craze
  • Hyatt patents mircoprocessor
  • World Population passes 5 billion
  • Thatcher resigns
  • Navratilova wins Wimbledon
  • Germany wins Soccer World Cup
  • Mary Robinson President, Irland

    1991
  • Jan 16-US involved in Gulf War
  • 27 Feb-Gulf War ends
  • USSR dessolved
  • US Hostages released in Beirut
  • Thomas appt. to Supreme Court
  • Albanians flee to Italy
  • Rodney King is beaten
  • Glacier Man discovered in Alps
  • Beauty and the Beast debuts
  • Minnesota Twins win Series
  • Redskins win Super Bowl
  • Super Soakers the hot craze


    1992
  • Bill Clinton - President
  • Al Gore - Vice President
  • Bosnia at war
  • Somalia at war
  • Czechoslovakia divided
  • France opens EuroDisney
  • Race riots in LA
  • Charles & Diana separate
  • DNA ID system approved
  • Hurricane Andrew devastes
  • Comets found in Kuiper belt
  • Photo CDs introduced by Kodak
  • US & Mexico Free Trade Act
  • Mall of America Opens
  • Toronto Blue Jays win Series
  • Barney the Dinosaur a hit


    1993
  • Peace for Israel & PLO
  • World Trade Center bombed
  • Waco siege ends
  • Flooding in MidWest US
  • Hantavirus in Southwest
  • Hubble Space Telescope repaired
  • Human embryos cloned
  • Yeltsin desolves Parliament
  • The Internet soars
  • Jurassic Park debuts
  • Line dancing popular
  • Toronto Blue Jays win Series

    1994
  • GOP wins House & Senate
  • Mandela President S. Africa
  • IRA declares ceasefire
  • Earthquake rocks L.A.
  • Estonia capsized & sank
  • US Troops sent to Haiti
  • 14 Smoke Jumpers killed
  • A White Buffalo is born
  • World Series cancelled
  • Brazil wins World Cup
  • Chess champ defeated by Computer

    1995
  • Oklahoma Fed. Bldg. Bombed
  • US Peacekeepers go to Baltics
  • Senator Packwood resigns
  • Princess Diana tells all
  • Atlantis docks with Mir
  • Israel's Rabin assassinated
  • O.J. Simpson found Not Guilty
  • Selena murdered by fan
  • Million Man March occurs
  • Louis Farrakhan leads March
  • States set own speed limits
  • Windows 95 hits market
  • Smith Corona closes
  • Apollo 13 movie popular
  • 49er's win Super Bowl


    1996
  • Clinton President
  • Gore Vice President
  • Olympics held in Atlanta
  • Bomb goes off at Olympics
  • TWA Flt 800 explodes
  • Prince Charles & Diana divorce
  • Hubble send amazing pics


    1997
  • Mother Teresa dies
  • A Nation mourns for Diana
  • Candle in the Wind #1 seller
  • Assisi earthquake
  • IRA peace talks begin
  • Hale-Bopp comet visits Earth
  • Pathfinder sends pics from Mars
  • Blair Prime Minister of England
  • Hong Kong goes to China again
  • Spice Girls hit the scene
  • Tiger Woods wins US Masters


    1998
  • Hurricane hits Central America
  • Clinton caught in Scandal
  • John Glen returns to Space
  • Viagra is in demand
  • France wins World Cup
  • US Embassies bombed
  • Unibomber found guilty
  • Florence Griffith Joyner dies
  • Iraq bombed again
  • Titanic movie #1
  • McGwire hits 62 Home runs


    1999
  • King Hussein dies
  • Clinton impeached
  • Senate acquits Clinton
  • Massive Torando in Oklahoma
  • John Kennedy Jr and family die
  • Columbine High School shooting
  • Chinese embassy bombed
  • Euro currency is introduced
  • Albanians flee Kosovo
  • last total eclipse of millennium
  • Michael Jordon retires


  • Margaret Thatcher on on 22 November could not win enough votes to remain the Prime Minister of England after 11 years. Seeing that the numbers were not in her favor, she resigned from office. Taking her place will be 48 year old John Major.

    Lech Walesa, chief founder of the independent union Solidarity, was elected President of Poland on 9 Decmeber 1990. He was a shipyard worker in the 1980s and is the first freely elected president in over 50 years.

    On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi tanks, aircraft and troops took the tiny oil rich country of Kuwait. Allied Troops and U.S. warships sped to the Gulf, where heavy black smoke was rising from Iraqi troops set the oil wells on fire. On 16 January 1991, the Allied Forces bombed Iraq's capitol, Baghdad and Operation Desert Storm commenced. On January 31st, allied forces recaptured the Saudi border town of Khafji. The first serious land battle of the war started when the Iraqis crossed the border at several points. Desert Storm Commander General Schwarzkopf described the Iraqi attack as having as much effect as a mosquito on an elephant. On February 28th, the war was over, Iraq left Kuwait. The people of Kuwait City are celebrating their freedom.

    Mary Robinson is the first woman elected to be the President of the Republic of Ireland. She is a laywer and campaigned for civil and women's rights since 1985. She says that she will use the office of president, which brings prestige but little powers, to speak for the disadvantaged in society.

    Euro Disney, near Paris, France, opened their gate on 12 April 1992. Micky and Minnie went to help celebrate the parks opening, which has 6 hotels, a golf course and many rides. The park is on 1,482 acres and cost over 4 million dollars.

    President Clinton won the Presidential election on 3 November 1992 and on 3 Spetember 1993 a historical handshake took place at the White House. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and PLO Leader Yassir Arafat sealed the peace agreement between the two countries. Israel has recognized the PLO as a ligitimate representative of the Palestinian people. The PLO has also recognized that Israel has the right to exist.

    President Yeltsin on 4 October 1993, ordered that parliment disolve, they refused to obey and a siege began. Army comandos stormed Moscow and the rebellious ended in surrender with Vice President Rutskoi and Speaker Khasbulatov sent to prison.

    Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison as a political prisoner, became the first black President of South Africa on 10 May 1994. Mandela said, "let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. The time for the healing of the wounds has come".

    On 21 April 1995, the US was devastated by the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Over 100 people were killed and over 500 people still missing. This was an act of terrorizm and police arrested Timothy McVeigh, who is believed to be apart of the "paramilitary milita group" which are often anti-Semitic and white-supermacist. The devastation rocks a nation that such an act can happen in the middle of the heartland.

    The US space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked with the Mir Space Station on 28 June 1995. Atlantis delevered Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir. Atlantis took off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 27 June 1995 and was the 100th manned space flight. On 7 July the space shuttle landed with Norman Thagard, who spent time on the station.

    On 21 November 1995, Princess Diana, of England, interviewed with the BBC telling about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, her affair and her hopes for the future. Their divorce became final on 28 August 1996 where she will remain a member of the royal family to help raise the children. On the 31st of August 1997, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, France. The world mourned the loss of the Princess of Wales, and the "Queen of Hearts".

    In April of 1997 a comet named Hale-Bopp could be seen from earth without a telescope. Being made of rock, ice and dust, the sun's heat melted some of the ice, which left us to see a spectacular trail behind the comet.









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