April 24th: A telescope “Hubble” is
put in orbit by the United StatesSpace Shuttle Discovery.
August 02nd: Iraq invades Kuwait
leading to the Gulf War.
1991
January 17th: The operation Desert
Storm began with air attacks against Iraq. Iraq answer with eight missiles Scud
against Israel.
February 27th: The Gulf war had
finished (6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) and Iraqi
troops left from Kuwait.
March: The World Wide Web is published
and used as internet service.
December 25th: Cold War end and
the USSR dissolve.
1992
August 28th: Hurricane Andrew,
killed 65 people and causes $26 billion in damage to Florida and other
areas of the U.S.
November 03rd: Bill Clinton defeats
George Herbert Walker Bush in a presidential election.
1993
February 26th: The World Trade Center is
bombed by terrorist. 6 persons died and more of one thousand were injured.
1995
January 1st: WTO is established.
April 19th: Timothy Mcveigh and Terry
Nichols placed a truck-bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City. 168 persons died and wounded 800. The bombing was
the worst internal terrorism fact in the history of the United States.
1996
July 05th: In the institute Roslin,
Dolly (the sheep) becomes the first mammalian who was cloned.
November 05th: Bob Dole loses against
the president William J. Clinton.
1997
February 09th: The Simpsons become a TV
series with more duration in the history of the United States, beating the
Flintstones.
March 04th: The cloning is prohibited
by Bill Clinton.
1998
January 26th: President Clinton is accused of
having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
February 23th: Osama Bin Laden announces
a holy war against all Jews and Crusaders.
1999
January 1st: The Euro is known as a
strong tool to stem the power of the dollar and maximize the economic
power of the European Union nations.
February 12th: dismissal of Clinton later
by the House of Representatives.
May 03th: Storm shook Oklahoma
City, killing 38 persons. This storm had the fastest wind speed ever
recorded on earth with 318 mph.
November 05th: U.S. versus Microsoft. Preliminary ruling
stated that Microsoft had monopoly power.
Wednesday 8 May 2013
FADS
1990’s decade was an important time for the videogames. Some of the most famous video games consoles were launched in these years. The “SNES, Super Nintendo Entertainment System” was launched in 1990. Thanks to games like Mario Bros, Bomberman, Donkey Kong and too many more SNES became one of the greatest video games consoles of all time. Another video game console launched in this period was the PlayStation the first console prototype of Sony; it was the base of thenext projects of this Company. This console was the first which sent 100 millions of units .Game boy was the most important handheld video game device in the 1990’s powered by Nintendo®
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MUSIC
Finally in the 90's singer Mariah Carey revolutionized music in 1995 when I mix R & B with Rap making it one of the singers over the world and one of the most selling of albums a trend that is used to date
Disclosed Canadian singer Celine Dion, who will perform a song from the soundtrack of the movie Titanic (1997), "My heart will go on", considered the most successful song sung by a woman.
They arise singers like Robbie Williams, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Alizee and musical groups as Take That, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and N'Sync which enjoyed worldwide fame.
Michael Jackson remains one of the world's most famous men, Ghosts publishes the second most successful film in history after Thriller, Dangerous release, album dedicated to children with successful profits, History: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995), most successful double album history, tour Dangerous World Tour, and hIStory World Tour, the most successful in history.
SITCOMS
Seinfeld:
was one of the most important sitcoms in the 1990’s. This TV program shows the daily life of a guy and his friends in his apartment in Manhattan, New York. In 2002 this sitcom was named the greatest TV program of all time. This sitcom is also considered the number one reason the 90’s ruled by E! Entertainment.
Friends: is an American sitcom launched in 1994. The sitcom revolves around a group of friends who live in Manhattan. It has become one of the most important series of twentieth century and of all time. This had a great cultural impact and so many TV shows try to do imitations of this series
CARTOONS
The simpsons: is an American comedy series in animation format created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and aired in several countries. The series is a satire of American society about the life and day to day in a middle class family in that country (which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson) who lives in a fictional town called Springfield Pinky and the Brain: Pinky and the Brain are two fictional characters from the animated television series Animaniacs. Later they had their own television series called Pinky and the Brain, which was produced by Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation. Pinky and the Brain lasted 65 episodes broadcast between 1995 and 1998, then create another series called Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain of 13 episodes. They are two genetically altered laboratory mice living in the Acme labs. In each episode, Brain devises a plan to conquer the world with Pinky. The series won an Emmy in 1999. It was issued in Latin America by Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Warner Channel, and Toon Disney in Spain
Wednesday 1 May 2013
The 90's in the United States of America
The nineties began in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 and ending September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States on September 11. The United States experience a large-scale economic growth thanks to President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States in the periods 1993-1997 and 1997-2001, the third youngest president in the nation.