Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1990-1999

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Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space

Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland

Nelson Mandela Freed

Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Operation Desert Storm

South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws

Official End of the Cold War

Riots in Los Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict

Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided

Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially

World Trade Center Bombed

Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France

Lorena Bobbit Takes Brutal Revenge

Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa

O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder

Rwandan Genocide Begins

Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire

Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway

Oklahoma City Bombing

Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated

Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain

Two Royal Divorces

Unabomber Arrested

British Au Pair on Trial for Murder

Hale-Bopp Comet Visible

Hong Kong Returned to China

Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars

Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash

Scientists Clone Sheep

Tallest Buildings in the World Built in Kuala Lumpur

Tiger Woods Wins Masters

India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons

Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever

U.S. President Clinton Impeached

Viagra on the Market

The Euro the New European Currency

Fear of Y2K Bug

JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Accident

Killing Spree at Columbine High School

NATO Attacks Serbia

Panama Canal Returns to Panama

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