Open the sesame: The door of information era
********** 1990/Syrian troops enter Beirut to intervene in Lebanon's civil war.-Operation Desert Shield begins in the Peersian Gulf, as the U.S. sends troops to Saudi Arabia after Iraq annexes Kuwait. -East and West Germany are united one couuntry. -Nelson Mandela is released after serving 27 years for his opposition to apartheid.-South Africa 1991/The Gulf War begins as the U.S and its allies begin bombing Iraq and Kuwait on January 17. -In South Africa, the remaining laws for< apartheid are repealed. -Slovenia and Croatia declare theiir independence from Yugoslavia. -The USSR offically ends. -The U.S. and the Soviet Union agree to ccut back long-range nuclear weapons by over 30% by 1999. 1992/Government officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City that ends El Salvador's civil war. 1993/Czechoslovakia splits into two new countires: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. -Twelve American soldiers are killed in -The Maastricht Treaty officially forms the European Union.-from "EEC" to "EU" 1994/The first miltiracial free elections-South Africa. -The Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) openns between Britain and france. Israeli leaders and PLO leaders are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Middle East Peace Accord of 1993. 1995/Mexican peso collapse -United Nations peace-keeping forces leave Somalia. -The first rendezvous of a NASA spacecrafft with the Russian space station Mir. 1996/After 15 years of marriage, Prince Charles and Princess Diana are divorced. 1997/In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge tries the former brutal dictator Pol Pot and sentenced him to lifetime arrest. -A clone sheep -Princess Diana is killed in an auutomobile accident. -Tony Blair meet with Sinn Fein leeader Gerry Adams. -In defiance of the agreement reached at< the end of the Gulf War. 1998/El Nino -Tension mounts in Kosovo. -Northern Ireland acquires a fragiile peace when the Good Friday. -India and Pakistan conducted indeependent underground nuclear tests. -The U.S. retaliates with air strikes agaainst Afghanistan and Sudan. Hurricane Mitch -The U.S. and Britain launce air strikes at Iraqi targets in retaliation for its failure to cooperate with the UN weapon inspections. 1999/NATO goes to war against Yugoslavia to protect the ethnic Albanian majority in the province of Kosovo. -Turkey:An earthquake kills some 17,000 ppeople and leaves thousands of others homeless devastates. -Y2k and "millennium bugs" ***In the U.S.*** The U.S. presidents1989-93/George Bush 1993-2001/William J. Clinton 
1990/Movie:
"Dance with Wolves" , "Ghost",
"Hamlet"
1991/Jeffrey Dahmer, who allegedly drugged, raped, and cannibalized his 17 victims, is arrested. 1992/The Internet Society-1,000,000 host computers are connected in a network. -Riots erupt in Los Angeles after local ppolicemen are acquitted of beating Rodney King the previous year in a videotaped incident.-brutal activity, racial discrimination by policemen 
1993/The bombing of the World Trade Center
in New York-Movie: "Schindler's List" by Steven Spielberg 
1994/Paula Jones files a sexual harassment suit
against President Clinton.-O.J.Simpson is arrested for the mmurders. -America Online (AOL) subscribers' numberr reached 1 million. -Movie: "Forrest Gump" 1995/The bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people. -The O.J. Simpson's trial triggers nationn-wide debates about race, wealth, and the American criminal justice system. 1996/The U.S population is estimated at 264.6 million. -During the 100th anniversary of the Olymmpics, a bomb explodes in Atlanta. -TWA flight 800 explodes off the ccoast of Long Island, killing 230 on board. -JonBenet Ramsey is found dead in Colorado. 
1997/Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate
cult commit suitcide in a mansion outside of San Diego.-Movie:"Titanic" by James Cameron--Music: "My Hart Will Go On" by Celine Dion -AOL's membership has reaches 10 million people. 
1998/The online population:between 30-60 million users-The Clinton sex scandal: Monica Lewinnsky -Movie: "Saving Private Ryan" by Steven Spielberg 1999/Dot-coms' IPO boom in the U.S.
-President Clinton is acquitted of impeacchment. -A high school shooting in Columbine HHigh School in Littleton, Colorado. -J.F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and her sistter die when Kennedy's private plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts. -Movie: Stanley Kubrick ( "2001:A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange") dies at age 70. <- 80s History| Home -> |
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