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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.
- Jennifer Rosenberg
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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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The 1990s (often referred to as the "'90s" or "Nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
This section of the timeline of United States history includes major events from 1990 to 2009.
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