T/TAS 40th Anniversary  - History-Making Headlines from The 90's

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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

1995
Sarin 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
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

 

(Source: http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1990timeline.htm)

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