The 90's Thread

[Mitchell]

1994-August 12-Major league baseball begins a strike, which cancells the remainder of the 1994 regular season, the playoffs, and World Series, and lasts until April, 1995.

Mitch

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1995: (February 15) Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.

 

[NukeLaloosh]

1996

February 4 - Former Milli-Vanilli band member Rob Pilatus was hospitalized when a man hit him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California, USA. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1997: (March 13) The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, AZ.

 

[milagros317]

1998

The House of Representatives impeaches President Bill Clinton on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice. (Dec. 19)

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1999: (April 5) In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.

 

[milagros317]

1990

Martina Navratilova again wins the Women's Singles Championship at Wimbleton.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1991: (January 12) Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.

 

[milagros317]

1992

November: Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States.

 

[tklee88]

1999- The Backstreet Boys release their album Millenium! MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA

 

[milagros317]

1992

November: Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States.

^ last post in order, year-by-year within the 1990's


1993

January: Bill Clinton is inaugurated as President of the United States

 

[paracarl44]

1994.

April 22nd: Former President Richard M. Nixon dies in New York City.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1995: (March 6) On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.

 

[milagros317]

1996

November: Bill Clinton is reelected as President of the United States, winning easily over Bob Dole.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1997: (August 31) Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 04:00.

 

[milagros317]

1998

December: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice.

 

[makeUsquirm]

1999: The last time the Atlanta Braves were in the World Series

 

[paracarl44]

1990.

January 18th: Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is busted for drug possession in an FBI sting.

 

[tklee88]

1991: Nirvana's album Nevermind was #1 album of the year

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1992: (January 8) George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

 

[milagros317]

1993

On the very last day of the regular baseball season, the Dodgers beat the hated jints, knocking them out of the pennant race and giving the NL West Championship to the Atlanta Braves, who had won earlier that day. 😀

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1994: (January 19) Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.

 

[paracarl44]

1995.

January 9th: Soviet Cosmonaut Valeri Polakov completes a 14 month stay aboard the Space Station Mir. He has the longest record for being in space flight of a total of 22 months.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1996: (January 3) Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.

 

[McNoodle]

1997

March 20 Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive