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Thursday 9 May 2013

Important events of 1990's

1990

  • April 24th: A telescope “Hubble” is put in orbit by the United States Space 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 26thPresident 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 12thdismissal 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.

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