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Hubble Space Telescope 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.
Events from the year 1990 in the United ... at the time the second-longest expansion in American history (the 1960s expansion was a year longer), comes to an end; the ...
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
The U.S. economy boomed in the enthusiasm for high-technology industries in the 1990s until the Nasdaq crashed as the dot-com bubble burst and the early 2000s recession marked the end of the sustained economic growth. In 2000, Republican George W. Bush was elected president in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
Dunlap, Riley E., and Angela G. Mertig, eds. American environmentalism: The US environmental movement, 1970–1990 (2014) Ehrman, John. The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan. (2005) Ferguson Thomas, and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986). Greene, John Robert. (2nd ed. 2015) excerpt
The 1990s economic boom in the United States was a major economic expansion that lasted between 1993 and 2001, coinciding with the economic policies of the Clinton administration. It began following the early 1990s recession during the presidency of George H.W. Bush and ended following the infamous dot-com crash in 2000.
North America portal; 1990s portal; History portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. ... December 1990 events in ...
Important events of 1990 include the ... 1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In late 1990, ... the date and time using American formats was 12 ...