Living in the 1990s: A Timeline
1990
Carol J. Adams published The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, a work that examined the linkages between the exploitation of animals and the exploitation of women and advocated for veganism as a necessary feminist act.
The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party gives up its monopoly of power, continuing the trend, since the beginning of the Berlin Wall coming down, that the Cold War was about to end. The ending of the Cold War was completed, in many ways, by the strong policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the Soviet block.
The Gulf War begins after Saddam Hussein accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Iraq. Iraq invades Kuwait and the US sends half a million soldiers to defend Saudi Arabia against invasion.
The Hubble Telescope is placed into orbit by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery.
South African antiapartheid activist, Nelson Mandela is freed after spending 27 years as a political prisoner.
1991
Five days after the U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing the use of force to liberate Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq. Iraq responds by sending eight Scud missiles into Israel.
The Gulf War ends one day after Iraq withdraws its forces from Kuwait and sets the oil fields on fire. A ceasefire is declared and Iraq accepts the condition of disarmament after one hundred hours of ground fighting. The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 687, calling for the destruction and removal of the entire Iraqi chemical and biological weapons stockpile, plus ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometers. Iraq also agrees to withdraw its support of international terrorism.
1992
The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is passed two hundred and two years after its initial proposal. It bars the United States Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise. This amendment had been originally proposed By James Madison in 1789, as part of twelve amendments, of which ten would become the original Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791.
Riots erupt in South Central LA following the acquittal of four white police officers who were caught on video beating speeding suspect Rodney King. During the riots, 55 people were killed, 2,300 people were injured and 1,100 buildings were destroyed.
In a three-way race for the presidency of the United States, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton defeat incumbent President George H.W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot of the Reform Party.
1993
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect, creating a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic terrorists when a van parked below the North Tower of the structure explodes. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured.
The fifty-one day Waco standoff begins when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms attempt to arrest the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on federal arms violations. Four agents and five members of the cult are killed in the raid. The siege would end on April 19 when a fire, started by the Davidians, killed seventy-five members of the group, including the leader.
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act is signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
1994
The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found outside her home in Los Angeles, California. Her husband, former football star O.J. Simpson is arrested for the crime, but is later acquitted on October 3, 1995. The Simpson case was one of the highest profile murder cases in the nation's history.
President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bars the use of these weapons for ten years.
The Rwandan Genocide claims an estimate of 500, 000 to 1,000,000 lives, almost 20% of the total population of the country.
1995
Anarchists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols explode a bomb outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing one hundred and sixty-eight people in a domestic terrorism attack.
The Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated in ceremonies presided by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Yong-sam.
1996
"The Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested. Kaczynski killed three people and injured many more with mail bombs.
At the Roslin Institute in Scotland, Dolly, the sheep, becomes the first mammal to be cloned. This begins a rampant debate on the ethics of the procedure in animals and the viability and morality of cloning in human beings.
The Summer Olympics Games are opened in Atlanta, Georgia by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The games are positively known for the achievements of American track and field athlete Michael Johnson, who won both the 200 and 400 meter races, setting a new World Record in the 200, and for the victory of the American women's gymnastics team. These games would be marred, however, by the Centennial Park bombing of Olympic tourists on July 27, which killed one person and injured one hundred and eleven.
President Bill Clinton defeats Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole, as well as the second run of businessman Ross Perot.
A speech by the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan suggest that "irrational exuberance" may be causing the extraordinary run up of stock prices.
1997
Federal funding for any research into human cloning is barred by President Bill Clinton.
The NATO alliance expands into eastern Europe when it extends an invitation to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1998
The Monica Lewinsky scandal begins when U.S. President Bill Clinton denies his relationship with the White House intern in a televised interview. This denial, and other denials to a grand jury investigation, would lead to the impeachment of the president.
John Glenn, thirty-six years after becoming the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, becomes the oldest astronaut in space at seventy-seven years old. His role on the Space Shuttle Discovery flight tests the effect of space travel on aging.
1999
The Euro currency is introduced as a competitive tool to stem the power of the dollar and maximize the economic power of the European Union nations.
Two students go on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Colorado. They kill 13 people and then themselves.
SOURCES: “The 1990s: Prosperity as the World Turns” America’s Best History Timeline (2012) http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1990.html; “Vegan Terrorist: The Rhetoric of Veganism and the post-9/11 Backlash.” Vegan Body Project http://veganbodyproject.blogspot.com/2012/11/vegan-terrorist-rhetoric-of-veganism.html; “1990s Timeline” http://www.kidzworld.com/article/4255-1990s-timeline; "1990s" Wikipedia (2013)
Carol J. Adams published The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, a work that examined the linkages between the exploitation of animals and the exploitation of women and advocated for veganism as a necessary feminist act.
The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party gives up its monopoly of power, continuing the trend, since the beginning of the Berlin Wall coming down, that the Cold War was about to end. The ending of the Cold War was completed, in many ways, by the strong policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the Soviet block.
The Gulf War begins after Saddam Hussein accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Iraq. Iraq invades Kuwait and the US sends half a million soldiers to defend Saudi Arabia against invasion.
The Hubble Telescope is placed into orbit by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery.
South African antiapartheid activist, Nelson Mandela is freed after spending 27 years as a political prisoner.
1991
Five days after the U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing the use of force to liberate Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq. Iraq responds by sending eight Scud missiles into Israel.
The Gulf War ends one day after Iraq withdraws its forces from Kuwait and sets the oil fields on fire. A ceasefire is declared and Iraq accepts the condition of disarmament after one hundred hours of ground fighting. The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 687, calling for the destruction and removal of the entire Iraqi chemical and biological weapons stockpile, plus ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometers. Iraq also agrees to withdraw its support of international terrorism.
1992
The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is passed two hundred and two years after its initial proposal. It bars the United States Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise. This amendment had been originally proposed By James Madison in 1789, as part of twelve amendments, of which ten would become the original Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791.
Riots erupt in South Central LA following the acquittal of four white police officers who were caught on video beating speeding suspect Rodney King. During the riots, 55 people were killed, 2,300 people were injured and 1,100 buildings were destroyed.
In a three-way race for the presidency of the United States, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton defeat incumbent President George H.W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot of the Reform Party.
1993
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect, creating a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic terrorists when a van parked below the North Tower of the structure explodes. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured.
The fifty-one day Waco standoff begins when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms attempt to arrest the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on federal arms violations. Four agents and five members of the cult are killed in the raid. The siege would end on April 19 when a fire, started by the Davidians, killed seventy-five members of the group, including the leader.
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act is signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
1994
The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found outside her home in Los Angeles, California. Her husband, former football star O.J. Simpson is arrested for the crime, but is later acquitted on October 3, 1995. The Simpson case was one of the highest profile murder cases in the nation's history.
President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bars the use of these weapons for ten years.
The Rwandan Genocide claims an estimate of 500, 000 to 1,000,000 lives, almost 20% of the total population of the country.
1995
Anarchists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols explode a bomb outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing one hundred and sixty-eight people in a domestic terrorism attack.
The Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated in ceremonies presided by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Yong-sam.
1996
"The Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested. Kaczynski killed three people and injured many more with mail bombs.
At the Roslin Institute in Scotland, Dolly, the sheep, becomes the first mammal to be cloned. This begins a rampant debate on the ethics of the procedure in animals and the viability and morality of cloning in human beings.
The Summer Olympics Games are opened in Atlanta, Georgia by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The games are positively known for the achievements of American track and field athlete Michael Johnson, who won both the 200 and 400 meter races, setting a new World Record in the 200, and for the victory of the American women's gymnastics team. These games would be marred, however, by the Centennial Park bombing of Olympic tourists on July 27, which killed one person and injured one hundred and eleven.
President Bill Clinton defeats Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole, as well as the second run of businessman Ross Perot.
A speech by the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan suggest that "irrational exuberance" may be causing the extraordinary run up of stock prices.
1997
Federal funding for any research into human cloning is barred by President Bill Clinton.
The NATO alliance expands into eastern Europe when it extends an invitation to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1998
The Monica Lewinsky scandal begins when U.S. President Bill Clinton denies his relationship with the White House intern in a televised interview. This denial, and other denials to a grand jury investigation, would lead to the impeachment of the president.
John Glenn, thirty-six years after becoming the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, becomes the oldest astronaut in space at seventy-seven years old. His role on the Space Shuttle Discovery flight tests the effect of space travel on aging.
1999
The Euro currency is introduced as a competitive tool to stem the power of the dollar and maximize the economic power of the European Union nations.
Two students go on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Colorado. They kill 13 people and then themselves.
SOURCES: “The 1990s: Prosperity as the World Turns” America’s Best History Timeline (2012) http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1990.html; “Vegan Terrorist: The Rhetoric of Veganism and the post-9/11 Backlash.” Vegan Body Project http://veganbodyproject.blogspot.com/2012/11/vegan-terrorist-rhetoric-of-veganism.html; “1990s Timeline” http://www.kidzworld.com/article/4255-1990s-timeline; "1990s" Wikipedia (2013)