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1990s
Events and Trends
* Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990
* Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and
other technology
* Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994.
* Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global
economic institutions
* Cloning (of Dolly, the sheep) achieved
* Break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 -- the end of the Cold War, United
States as sole world superpower
* Human Genome Project begun
* Global human impact on the environment widely accepted
* Peace process begins in Northern Ireland.
* Balkan war in former Yugoslavia
* Gulf War and embargo on Iraq
* After 1992 the booming of the stock market, which stretched into the
dot-com boom/dot-com bubble
* Impeachment of Bill Clinton
* Grunge music
* Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K)
* Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
* End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of
Nelson Mandela
* North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
* A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland
* Divorce and scandal rocks the British Royal House of Windsor
World Leaders
* Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada)
* Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Canada)
* Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
* President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China)
* President Lee Teng-hui (Republic of China on Taiwan)
* President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
* President Franois Mitterrand (France)
* President Jacques Chirac (France)
* Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany)
* Chancellor Gerhard Schrder (Germany)
* Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (India)
* President Mohammad Khatami (Iran)
* President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
* Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
* Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel)
* Emperor Akihito (Japan)
* President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority)
* Pope John Paul II
* President Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
* President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa)
* President Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
* Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
* Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister John Major (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom)
* President George H. W. Bush (United States)
* President Bill Clinton (United States)
* Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland)
* Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (Republic of Ireland)
* Taoiseach John Bruton (Republic of Ireland)
* Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Republic of Ireland)
Entertainers
* Sandra Bullock
* Tim Burton
* Bush
* Jim Carrey
* Phil Collins
* Kevin Costner
* Harrison Ford
* Mel Gibson
* Green Day
* Tom Hanks
* Helen Hunt
* Samuel L. Jackson
* Ashley Judd
* Nicole Kidman
* Demi Moore
* Shawn Mullins
* Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (Wayne's World)
* Jack Nicholson
* Nirvana
* The Offspring (Smash)
* Michelle Pfeiffer
* Red Hot Chili Peppers
* Julia Roberts
* Meg Ryan
* Adam Sandler
* M. Night Shyamalan
* Mira Sorvino
* Quentin Tarantino
* Billy Bob Thornton
* Uma Thurman
* Bruce Willis
Sports figures
* Cal Ripken Jr.
* Mark McGwire
* Roger Clemens
* Barry Sanders
* Emmitt Smith
* Brett Favre
* Michael Jordan
* Karl Malone
* David Robinson
* Wayne Gretzky
* Mario Lemieux
* Patrick Roy
* Pete Sampras
* Andre Agassi
* Dale Earnhardt
* Evander Holyfield
Music
* Ace of Base (The Sign)
* Aerosmith (Get a Grip)
* Alan Jackson (A Lot About Livin' (And a Little About Love))
* Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill)
* Alice in Chains (Dirt)
* Anthrax (Persistence of Time)
* Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92)
* Ash (1977)
* Backstreet Boys (Backstreet's Back)
* Beck (Mellow Gold)
* Beenie Man (Blessed)
* Billy Ray Cyrus (Some Gave All)
* blink-182 (Enema of the State)
* Blur (Parklife)
* Boyzone (Where We Belong)
* Buju Banton (Till Shiloh)
* Bush (Sixteen Stone)
* The Cardigans (First Band on the Moon)
* Celine Dion (Let's Talk About Love)
* Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera)
* Clint Black (The Hard Way)
* Cradle of Filth (Dusk & Her Embrace)
* D'Angelo (Brown Sugar)
* Da Brat (Funkdafied)
* Dixie Chicks (Wide Open Spaces)
* DMX (It's Dark and Hell Is Hot)
* Dr. Dre (The Chronic)
* Dr. Octagon (Dr. Octagonecologyst)
* Eminem (The Slim Shady LP)
* Emperor (In the Nightside Eclipse)
* Erykah Badu (Baduizm)
* Fugazi (Repeater)
* Garth Brooks (Ropin' the Wind)
* Get Up Kids (Something to Write Home About)
* Green Day (Dookie)
* Guru (Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1)
* GZA (Liquid Swords)
* Hootie and the Blowfish (Cracked Rear View)
* Kid Rock (Devil Without a Cause)
* Kris Kross (Totally Krossed Out)
* Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
* Limp Bizkit (Significant Other)
* Lush (Split)
* Madonna (Ray of Light)
* Marilyn Manson (Antichrist Superstar)
* Mary J. Blige (What's the 411?)
* MC Hammer (Too Legit to Quit)
* My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
* Nas (Illmatic)
* Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral)
* Nirvana (Nevermind)
* NOFX (Punk in Drublic)
* Notorious B.I.G. (Life After Death)
* Oasis (Definitely Maybe)
* The Offspring (Smash)
* OutKast (Aquemini)
* Pantera (A Vulgar Display of Power)
* Paul Oakenfold (Global Underground: Oslo)
* Pearl Jam (Ten)
* Pennywise (Pennywise)
* The Prodigy (The Fat of the Land)
* Radiohead (OK Computer)
* Raekwon (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx)
* Rancid (And Out Come the Wolves)
* Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
* Reverend Horton Heat (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em)
* Ricky Martin (A Medio Vivir)
* Ride (Nowhere)
* Sepultura (Chaos A.D.)
* Shania Twain (Come on Over)
* Spacemen 3 (Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to)
* The Spice Girls (Spice World)
* Sunny Day Real Estate (How It Feels to Be Something On)
* Tool (Žnima)
* A Tribe Called Quest (The Low End Theory)
* Tupac Shakur (2pacalaypse Now)
* Type O Negative (Bloody Kisses)
* The Vandals (Quickening)
* Weezer (The Blue Album)
* White Zombie (La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1)
* Wilco (Being There)
* Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))
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