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    The document summarizes major events that occurred each year from 1991 to 1999. Some of the key events included: the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, officially ending the Cold War; the beginning of genocide in Bosnia in 1992 and devastating riots in Los Angeles; the first World Trade Center bombing and Waco siege in 1993; Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa in 1994 as genocide occurred in Rwanda; and OJ Simpson being found not guilty in his murder trial in 1995. The document also mentions events like the Atlanta Olympic bombing in 1996, Dolly the sheep being the first cloned mammal in 1997, and the debut of the euro currency along with concerns about Y2K in 1999.

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    The document summarizes major events that occurred each year from 1991 to 1999. Some of the key events included: the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, officially ending the Cold War; the beginning of genocide in Bosnia in 1992 and devastating riots in Los Angeles; the first World Trade Center bombing and Waco siege in 1993; Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa in 1994 as genocide occurred in Rwanda; and OJ Simpson being found not guilty in his murder trial in 1995. The document also mentions events like the Atlanta Olympic bombing in 1996, Dolly the sheep being the first cloned mammal in 1997, and the debut of the euro currency along with concerns about Y2K in 1999.

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    Historia de la musica y sus etapas en la decada de los 90's. Documento en ingles

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    The document summarizes major events that occurred each year from 1991 to 1999. Some of the key events included: the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, officially ending the Cold War; the beginning of genocide in Bosnia in 1992 and devastating riots in Los Angeles; the first World Trade Center bombing and Waco siege in 1993; Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa in 1994 as genocide occurred in Rwanda; and OJ Simpson being found not guilty in his murder trial in 1995. The document also mentions events like the Atlanta Olympic bombing in 1996, Dolly the sheep being the first cloned mammal in 1997, and the debut of the euro currency along with concerns about Y2K in 1999.

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    History of The 90s Decade

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    Teresita Aguirre
    The document summarizes major events that occurred each year from 1991 to 1999. Some of the key events included: the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, officially ending the Cold War; the beginning of genocide in Bosnia in 1992 and devastating riots in Los Angeles; the first World Trade Center bombing and Waco siege in 1993; Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa in 1994 as genocide occurred in Rwanda; and OJ Simpson being found not guilty in his murder trial in 1995. The document also mentions events like the Atlanta Olympic bombing in 1996, Dolly the sheep being the first cloned mammal in 1997, and the debut of the euro currency along with concerns about Y2K in 1999.

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    The first years was…

    The '90s began with the biggest art theftin history at the Isabelle Stewart
    Gardner Museum in Boston.
    Germany was reunited after 45 years of separation,
    South Africa's Nelson Mandela was freed,
     Lech Walesa became the first president of Poland,
    the Hubble Telescope was launched into space.
    1991

    The year went on to see the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines
    that killed 800 and the airlift of 14,000 Jews from Ethiopia by Israel. 
    On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, officially ending
    the Cold War that had begun in 1947, shortly after World War II ended in
    1945.
    1992

    The year 1992 marked the beginning of the genocide in Bosnia and
    devastating riots in Los Angeles after the verdict in the Rodney King trial.
    1993

    New York's World Trade Center was bombed and the compound of the
    Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, was raided by agents from the Bureau
    of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. 
    The lurid tale of Lorena Bobbitt was in the news, as well as the exponential
    growth of the internet.
    1994

    Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994 as genocide


    was occurring in another African nation, Rwanda.
    1995

    O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the double murder of his ex-wife,
    Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. 
    Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated
    On a lighter note, the last "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip was published 
    1996

    The Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta was bombed during the Olympic
    Games
    in 1996, mad cow disease hammered Britain, 6-year-old JonBenet
    Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born.
    1997

    the first "Harry Potter" book hit the shelves


    the Hale-Bopp comet became visible,
    Hong Kong was returned to China after years as a British Crown Colony
    Pathfinder sent back images of Mars,
    young Tiger Woods won the Masters Golf Tournament.
    The tragic news: Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.
    1998
    India and Pakistan both tested nuclear weapons
    President Bill Clinton was impeached but escaped conviction
    Viagra hit the market.
     1999

    The euro made its debut as the European currency in 1999,

    the world was worried about the Y2K bug as the millennium turned

    Tragedies not to be forgotten: John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn
    Bessette, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the small plane Kennedy
    was piloting crashed into the Atlantic off Martha's Vineyard

    the killing spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, took the
    lives of 15, including the two teenage shooters.

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