1990s
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[[fr:Ann�es 1990]]Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
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Events and Trends
- Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990
- Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology
- Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994.
- Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions
- Cloning (of Dolly, the sheep) achieved
- Break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 -- the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world superpower
- Human Genome Project begun
- Global human impact on the environment widely accepted
- Peace process begins in Northern Ireland.
- Balkan war in former Yugoslavia
- Gulf War and embargo on Iraq
- After 1992 the booming of the stock market, which stretched into the dot-com boom/dot-com bubble
- Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and his Impeachment trial
- Grunge music
- Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K)
- Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
- End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela
- North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
- A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland
- Divorce and scandal rocks the British Royal House of Windsor
- Assasination of Selena Quintanilla
- O.J.'s trial, called by many the trial of the century
- You go, girl! becomes a popular phrase as the media gives feminist movements a boost with The Spice Girls, the WNBA, women's boxing, Sex and the City and others showcasing feminine talent.
- The Vieques controversy
World Leaders
- Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia)
- Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia)
- Prime Minister John Howard (Australia)
- Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada)
- Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Canada)
- Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
- President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China)
- President Lee Teng-hui (Republic of China on Taiwan)
- President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
- President [[Fran�ois Mitterrand]] (France)
- President Jacques Chirac (France)
- Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany)
- Chancellor [[Gerhard Schr�der]] (Germany)
- Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (India)
- President Mohammad Khatami (Iran)
- President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel)
- Emperor Akihito (Japan)
- President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority)
- Pope John Paul II
- President Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
- President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa)
- President Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
- Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister John Major (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom)
- President George H. W. Bush (United States)
- President Bill Clinton (United States)
- Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland)
- Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (Republic of Ireland)
- Taoiseach John Bruton (Republic of Ireland)
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Republic of Ireland)
Entertainers
- Sandra Bullock
- Tim Burton
- Bush
- Jim Carrey
- Phil Collins
- Kevin Costner
- Harrison Ford
- Mel Gibson
- Green Day
- Tom Hanks
- Helen Hunt
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Ashley Judd
- Nicole Kidman
- Demi Moore
- Shawn Mullins
- Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (Wayne's World)
- Jack Nicholson
- Nirvana
- The Offspring (Smash)
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Julia Roberts
- Meg Ryan
- Adam Sandler
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Mira Sorvino
- Quentin Tarantino
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Uma Thurman
- Bruce Willis
Sports figures
- Cal Ripken Jr.
- Mark McGwire
- Roger Clemens
- Barry Sanders
- Emmitt Smith
- Brett Favre
- Michael Jordan
- Karl Malone
- David Robinson
- Wayne Gretzky
- Mario Lemieux
- Patrick Roy
- Pete Sampras
- Andre Agassi
- Dale Earnhardt
- Evander Holyfield
- [[Miguel Indura�n]]
Music
- Ace of Base (The Sign)
- Aerosmith (Get a Grip)
- Alan Jackson (A Lot About Livin' (And a Little About Love))
- Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill)
- Alice in Chains (Dirt)
- Anthrax (Persistence of Time)
- Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92)
- Ash (1977)
- Backstreet Boys (Backstreet's Back)
- Beck (Mellow Gold)
- Beenie Man (Blessed)
- Billy Ray Cyrus (Some Gave All)
- blink-182 (Enema of the State)
- Blur (Parklife)
- Boyzone (Where We Belong)
- Buju Banton (Till Shiloh)
- Bush (Sixteen Stone)
- The Cardigans (First Band on the Moon)
- Celine Dion (Let's Talk About Love)
- Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera)
- Clint Black (The Hard Way)
- Cradle of Filth (Dusk & Her Embrace)
- D'Angelo (Brown Sugar)
- Da Brat (Funkdafied)
- Dixie Chicks (Wide Open Spaces)
- DMX (It's Dark and Hell Is Hot)
- Dr. Dre (The Chronic)
- Dr. Octagon (Dr. Octagonecologyst)
- Eminem (The Slim Shady LP)
- Emperor (In the Nightside Eclipse)
- Erykah Badu (Baduizm)
- Fugazi (Repeater)
- Garth Brooks (Ropin' the Wind)
- Get Up Kids (Something to Write Home About)
- Green Day (Dookie)
- Guru (Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1)
- GZA (Liquid Swords)
- Hootie and the Blowfish (Cracked Rear View)
- Kid Rock (Devil Without a Cause)
- Kris Kross (Totally Krossed Out)
- Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
- Limp Bizkit (Significant Other)
- Lush (Split)
- Madonna (Ray of Light)
- Marilyn Manson (Antichrist Superstar)
- Mary J. Blige (What's the 411?)
- MC Hammer (Too Legit to Quit)
- My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
- Nas (Illmatic)
- Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral)
- Nirvana (Nevermind)
- NOFX (Punk in Drublic)
- Notorious B.I.G. (Life After Death)
- Oasis (Definitely Maybe)
- The Offspring (Smash)
- OutKast (Aquemini)
- Pantera (A Vulgar Display of Power)
- Paul Oakenfold (Global Underground: Oslo)
- Pearl Jam (Ten)
- Pennywise (Pennywise)
- The Prodigy (The Fat of the Land)
- Radiohead (OK Computer)
- Raekwon (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx)
- Rancid (And Out Come the Wolves)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
- Reverend Horton Heat (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em)
- Ricky Martin (A Medio Vivir)
- Ride (Nowhere)
- Sepultura (Chaos A.D.)
- Shania Twain (Come on Over)
- The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
- Spacemen 3 (Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to)
- The Spice Girls (Spice World)
- Stone Temple Pilots (Core)
- Sunny Day Real Estate (How It Feels to Be Something On)
- Tool ([[�nima]])
- A Tribe Called Quest (The Low End Theory)
- Tupac Shakur (2pacalaypse Now)
- Type O Negative (Bloody Kisses)
- The Vandals (Quickening)
- Weezer (The Blue Album)
- White Zombie (La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1)
- Wilco (Being There)
- Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))
See also: 1990s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 1990s
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1990s" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s December 9, 2003
