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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. [1] The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end ...

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    January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to the American forces.
    January 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Lithuania SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
    January 12–19 – Most of the remaining 50,000 Armenians are driven out of Baku in the Azerbaijan SSR during the Baku pogrom.
    February/March – 100,000 Kashmiri Pandits leave their homeland in Jammu and Kashmir's Valley after being targeted by Islamistextremists.
    February – Smokingis banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.
    February 2 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
    March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sledcrossing of Antarctica.
    March 8 – The Nintendo World Championships were held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building, kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American cities.
    April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for C...
    May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Angl...
    May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest muggingto date).
    May 2–4 – First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
    May 4 – Singing Revolution: The Latvian SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union.
    June 2 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 2...
    June 4 – Violence breaks out in the Kirghiz SSR between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeksover the distribution of homestead land.
    June 7 – Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.
    July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, the West German Deutsche Mark becoming the official currency of the East also. The Inner German border (construct...
    July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
    September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.
    September 2 – Cold War: Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
    September 4 – Geoffrey Palmer resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike Moore.
    September 4–6 – Premier of North Korea Yon Hyong-muk meets with President of South Korea Roh Tae-woo, the highest level contact between leaders of the two Koreas since 1945.
    October – Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989outline of what would become the Web concept.
    October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.
    October 2 – According to The Civil Aviation of China, two commercial planes collide on the runway at the Baiyun Airport of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. The total death toll is 128; 53 peop...
    October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
  5. The 1990s were also marked by a number of influential cultural events. The sitcom Friends debuted, while a landmark “ show about nothing ” ended. A little movie called Titanic packed theaters, becoming the first film to earn $1 billion at the box office. And when it came to music, grunge and hip-hop made a lot of noise.

  6. Presidency of George H. W. Bush. 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 ...

  7. 1990 – German reunification. 1991 – The end of the Cold War. 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Wars. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union. 1992 – The European Union is founded. 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. 1994 – Genocide in Rwanda. 1994 – End of Apartheid in South Africa.

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    90s. Ruins of the Forum of Nerva, completed in 97. The 90s was a decade that ran from January 1, AD 90, to December 31, AD 99. As the decade began, the Han–Xiongnu War was approaching its end, with the Xiongnu having been on the verge of collapse since the Battle of the Altai Mountains (89) the prior decade. In 90, Dou Xian dispatched General ...

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