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
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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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.
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 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.
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 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.
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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".
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 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.
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 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.
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 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".
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 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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