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HISTORICAL EVENTS IN THE 1990'S
1991
1993
1994
1992
1990
Truck Bomb explodes in the parking garage, under the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 6 people and injuring thousands.
27th Amendment, prohibiting changes to Congress members' salaries from taking effect until after an election of representatives.
Gulf War waged in middle east
Hubble Space Telescope Launches
North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect.
Branch Davidians standoff and fire in Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 76 people including their leader, David Koresh.
Cold War Ends
Iraq invades KuWait leading to the Gulf War
Bill Clinton president
Massive flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers kill 50 people and devastate the Midwest with $15 billion in damage
Hurricane Andrew
1994 Northridge earthquake kills 72 and injures 9,000 in the Los Angeles area and causes $20 billion in damage.
President Clinton signs 'Don't ask, don't tell' into law which prohibits openly gay or bisexual people from serving in the military.
1995
1997
1999
1998
1996
President Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
Following the 1994 elections, Republicans gain control of both the House and Senate for the first time since 1955.
Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment
1995-1996 - A budget crisis forces the federal government to shutdown for several weeks.
Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School. It is the deadliest mass murder at a high school in U.S. history, and sparks debates on gun control and bullying.
Lewinsky scandal: President Clinton is accused of having a sexual relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation resulted in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
A snowstorm along the East Coast kills 150 people and causes $3 billion in damage
A violent tornado outbreak in Oklahoma kills 50 people and becomes the first to produce a tornado that causes $1 billion in damage.
The first officer deliberately crashes Egypt Air Flight 990 south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing 217.
224 killed in 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya
Des Moines, Iowa resident Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy
TWA Flight 800 explodes off Long Island killing all 230 aboard
Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The trial, which lasts nine months, receives worldwide publicity.
Along with the rest of the world, the U.S. prepares for the possible effects of the Y2K bug in computers, which was feared to cause computers to become inoperable and wreak havoc.
Gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered near the University of Wyoming. He becomes a symbol of gay-bashing victims and sparking public reflection on homophobia in the U.S.
Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia
A heat wave kills 750 in Chicago, bringing to attention the plight of the urban poor and the elderly in extreme weather conditions.
By: Nikki Rossbach