World Events of the 1990s
| 1990 |
Hubble Telescope launched into space. Lech Walesa becomes first president of Poland. Nelson Mandela freed from prison. |
| 1991 |
Bronze Age man found frozen in glacier. Soviet Union collapses. Operation Desert Storm |
| 1992 |
Official end of the Cold War. Riots occur in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. |
| 1993 |
Cult Compound in Waco, Texas, raided. Use of the Internet grows exponentially. World Trade Center bombed. |
| 1994 |
Channel Tunnel opens, connecting Britain and France. Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa. O.J. Simpson arrested in double homicide. He is later acquitted. |
| 1995 |
Oklahoma City federal buiding is bombed. Israeli Prime Minsiter Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. |
| 1996 |
Mad Cow Disease hits Britain. Two couples in Britain's Royal Family divorce. Unabomber arrested. |
| 1997 |
Pathfinder sends back images of Mars. Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris. Scientists clone sheep. |
| 1998 |
India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons. "Titanic" becomes most successful movie ever. President Bill Clinton is impeached. |
| 1999 |
Fear of Y2K bug. JFK Jr. dies in plane accident. Killing spree at Columbine High School. |















