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Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after more than 11 years. 1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In late 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web.
Major League Baseball players and owners agree to a new four-year contract, ending the lockout begun on February 15. March 22 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska finds Joseph Hazelwood guilty of misdemeanor negligence for his role in the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He is sentenced to pay $50,000 in restitution and to spend 1,000 hours cleaning oily ...
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "the 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 echoes of the gunshots from 90 years ago will be heard again the weekend of May 24 when the town of Gibsland hosts the Bonnie and Clyde Festival, marking the anniversary milestone of the ...
There's something about October 3. Today happens to be the birthday of a boy bander, a Scream star, American Pie's bad boy and a handful of other Gen X-meets-Millennial celebrities who were born ...
A 90-year-old New Yorker is facing eviction from his Brooklyn home of over 50 years after he says he fell victim to a deed scam — 18 years ago.. Ray Cortez’s plan to live out his days in the ...
Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years (1996), short articles; Martin, Bradford. The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Hill & Wang; 2011) 242 pages; emphasis on efforts by the political left; Meacham, Jon. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (2015) excerpt
1961 – Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within (pictured). 2017 – Kim Jong-nam , the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un , was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.