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On the political front, the decades-long Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating a new world order. And while the Persian Gulf War lasted less than a year, it had an enduring impact. The 1990s were also marked by a number of influential cultural events.
1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service.
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- 1990. The '90s began with the biggest art theft in history at the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Germany was reunited after 45 years of separation, South Africa's Nelson Mandela was freed, Lech Walesa became the first president of Poland, and the Hubble Telescope was launched into space.
- 1991. The year 1991 began with Operation Desert Storm, also called the first Gulf War. The year went on to see the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines that killed 800 and the airlift of 14,000 Jews from Ethiopia by Israel.
- 1992. The year 1992 marked the beginning of the genocide in Bosnia and devastating riots in Los Angeles after the verdict in the Rodney King trial, in which three Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of King.
- 1993. In 1993, New York's World Trade Center was bombed and the compound of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, was raided by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
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Mar 17, 2017 · 1990s: The Good Decade. The man who gave the world "Generation X" looks back at the oft-maligned 1990s. By: Douglas Coupland. Updated: September 21, 2023 | Original: March 17, 2017. copy page...
