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1990

  • Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
  • Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland
  • Nelson Mandela Freed

1991

  • Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws

1992

  • Official End of the Cold War
  • Riots in Los Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict

1993

1994

  • 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

1995

  • Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire
  • Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated

1996

  • Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain
  • Two Royal Divorces
  • Unabomber Arrested

1997

  • 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

1998

  • India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons
  • Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever
  • U.S. President Clinton Impeached
  • Viagra on the Market

1999

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