1990
- Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
- Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland
- Nelson Mandela Freed
1991
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Copper Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier
- 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
- Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
- Lorena Bobbitt Takes Brutal Revenge
- Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially
- World Trade Center Bombed
1994
- Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France
- Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa
- O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder
- Rwandan Genocide
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
- 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
2000
- Elian Gonzalez Goes Home
- Mapping the Human Genome
- "ILOVEYOU" Virus Hits Thousands of Computers
- Microsoft Ordered to Split
- Russian Submarine Sunk in Barents Sea
- Unclear Winner in U.S. Presidential Election
- USS Cole Bombed
