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Welcome to the o the . A multimedia presentation By Theresa Mettee. Technology/Inventions. The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990.
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Welcome to the o the A multimedia presentation By Theresa Mettee
Technology/Inventions The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990
Dolly the Sheep, with co-creator Ian Wilmut, was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Watch video
The Persian Gulf war started on August 2, 1990 and ended on February 28, 1991
Coalition forces, led by the U.S. waged war on Iraqi troops occupying the country of Kuwait.
The 90’s also brought to light a kind of terrorism most of America was not used to. Terrorism performed on American land, by Americans.
The Unabomber was arrested on April 3, 1996 ending a reign of terror of 12 years • On April 19th, 1995 Timothy Mcveigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City
In The Headlines January 26th 1998
President Bill Clinton faces impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998 but is acquitted of those charges on February 12, 1999. Click video to play
Football legend OJ Simpson, shown June 17th, 1994 eluding Los Angeles police officers
Amy Fisher Rodney King In 1992, at age 17, she shot and severely injured Mary Jo Buttafuoco, who was the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco. Rodney King was the victim of police brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department. This incident sparked a tumultuous chain of events which would end with the Los Angeles riots in 1992. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/young/amy_fisher/index.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
GRUNGE DOMINATED THE EARLY TO MID 90’s PEARL JAM SOUNDGARDEN
THIS DECADE IN SPORTS Atlanta hosted the 1996 summer olympic games
MICHAEL JORDAN WINS 6 NBA TITLES WITH THE CHICAGO BULLS DURING THE 90’S
Beanie Babies were flying off the shelves during the 90’s TY, the company who started Beanie Babies would eventually be worth over $6 Billion Dollars
And who could forget the Christmas of ‘98 The Furby craze had taken over
And to close out this decadesomething unlike anything anyone has ever seen, Something so scary, Something so earth shattering, the very existence of humankind is threatened…