African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela at 10 Downing Street, London, 4th July 1990. Mandela is visiting British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (Photo by Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)
1990
- Gardner Heist: The Biggest Art Theft in History
- Germany Reunited
- Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
- Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland
- Milli Vanilli Lip-Synch Scandal
- Nelson Mandela Freed
- Stampede in Pedestrian Tunnel in Mecca
- United States Invades Nicaragua
- U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn’t Like Broccoli
1991
- Arsonist John Leonard Orr Is Finally Discovered
- Basketball Player Magic Johnson Announces He Has HIV
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Copper Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier
- Israel Airlifts 14,000 Jews From Ethiopia
- Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines Erupts, Killing 800
- Operation Desert Storm
- Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer Is Arrested
- South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws
- The Tallest Structure in the World, the Warsaw Radio Mast, Collapses
1992
- Bosnian Genocide Begins
- 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
- Rwandan Genocide
1995
- Auction Website eBay Is Founded
- Final Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip Published
- First Successful Air-Balloon Ride Over the Pacific Ocean
- Million Man March in Washington D.C.
- O.J. Simpson Found Not Guilty of Double Murder
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway
- World’s Deadliest Subway Disaster Occurs in the Baku Metro in Azerbaijan
- Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated
John Maeda, digital calendar, 1996
1996
- Centennial Olympic Park Bombing During the Olympic Games
- Dolly the Sheep, the First Cloned Mammal, Is Born
- Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain
- Mount Everest Disaster
- Six-Year-Old JonBenet Ramsey Murdered
- Two Royal Divorces
- Unabomber Arrested
David Carson, Ray Gun magazine, 1997
1997
- British Au Pair on Trial for Murder
- First Harry Potter Book Is Released
- 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 and Acquitted
- 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
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