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1994 — North American Free Trade Agreement goes in effect. 1994 — 1994 Northridge earthquake kills 72 and injures 9,000 in the Los Angeles area and causes $20 billion in damage. 1994 — Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment. 1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is ...
t. e. The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as " the '90s " or " nineties ") was a 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 ]
June 1. Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Chemical Weapons Accord to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,900 for the first time ever.
631152000 – 662687999. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1990. 1990(MCMXC) was a common year starting on Mondayof the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era(CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990sdecade. Calendar year ...
1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created. 1970 – The Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, is signed into law. 1971 – Singer Jim Morrison dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1971 – President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard ...
The decade of the 1990s in film involved many significant developments in the industry of cinema. [1] Numerous feature-length movies were specifically filmed or edited to be displayed not only on theater screens but also the smaller TV screens, like showing more close-ups and less wide shots during dialogue scenes .
January–March. January 8 – Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor released her famous single "Nothing Compares 2 U" (originally written, composed and performed by Prince) which was a worldwide success, becoming one of the best selling singles in the world in 1990 and topped the charts in many countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.
December 1990 - The World Wide Web and its HTTP protocol and HTML language (a dialect of SGML until HTML5) are first successfully parsed by Tim Berners-Lee [ 4 ][ 5 ] and eventually displace the Gopher protocol. 1991 - Development of the free Linux kernel is started by Linus Torvalds in Finland. 1995 - Microsoft introduces Windows 95, which ...