1990s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1990s. Office of the Historian - Department History - Short History - The End of the Cold War, 1981-1992. The End of the Cold War. Apartheid Timeline. APARTHEID TIMELINE Use with the handout "Introduction to Apartheid", used in Section B of the lesson on Racial Discrimination Directions for teacher: · Cut the timeline into strips as indicated by the dotted lines. · Divide students into groups and give each group one strip.
Directions for the activity are provided on the handout "Introduction to Apartheid. " South Africa Repeals Major Apartheid Law : Reform: The Separate Amenities Act was used to segregate facilities ranging from restaurants to libraries. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Parliament on Tuesday repealed a major apartheid law used for decades to segregate South Africa's public facilities ranging from restaurants to libraries to buses.
The repeal of the Separate Amenities Act was the latest in a series of reforms by President Frederik W. de Klerk since he came to power last year. The changes have angered conservative whites, who oppose the idea of sharing power with the black majority. The Separate Amenities Act was passed in 1953 and gave governments and privately owned enterprises the right to reserve facilities such as parks, hotels, swimming pools, toilets and recreation centers for whites only.
Operation Desert Storm. In the 1988 election, George Bush and his running mate.
Dan Quayle, won 54% of the popular vote and 426 of the 538 electoral votes, soundly beating Democrat Michael Dukakis. The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. This was no ordinary act of aggression. Iraq's army was well equipped. Kuwait was a major supplier of oil to the United States. Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, In Memoriam, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1990 -1991. Otzi the Iceman. On September 19, 1991, two German tourists were hiking in the Otzal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border when they discovered Europe's oldest known mummy sticking out of the ice.
Otzi, as the Iceman is now known, had been naturally mummified by the ice and kept in amazing condition for approximately 5,300 years. Research on Otzi's preserved body and the various artifacts found with it continues to reveal much about the life of Copper Age Europeans. The Discovery. Otzi. Iceman. The Iceman I.
Identification 1. The Issue The focus of research in this case study deals with a very ancient subject: a dispute between Austria and Italy over rights to the body of a Neolithic trader found on their border. The Economic Collapse of the Soviet Union. In the 1970's and 1980's the Soviet Union seemed to be one of the most stable political units in the world.
In international politics the Soviet Union was very strong and seemed only to be getting stronger. It was, for example, securing political client states in Africa. The Western powers believed this image was valid. But in the Soviet Union few things were really what they seemed to be. In 1974 there was a power summit meeting near Vladivostok, U.S.S.R. between President Gerald Ford of the U.S. and Leonid Breznev of the Soviet Union. 20 Years Since The Fall of the Soviet Union - In Focus. My friend Alain-Pierre Hovasse is a photojournalist who was based in Moscow in August of 1991, and was a firsthand witness to many of the historic events - six of the photos above were taken by him.
I asked if he'd be interested in sharing some observations from that time, happily he agreed and has shared his memories here: Nelson Mandela Released From Prison. Nelson Mandela, as a leader in the African National Congress, an organization dedicated to protesting the South African government’s policy of apartheid, had been arrested in 1956 on treason charges, but was acquitted.
In 1961, believing that non-violent measures would not be successful, Mandela and other ANC leaders formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a militant wing of the ANC. Beginning on Dec. 16, 1961, MK, with Mandela as its commander in chief, launched bombing attacks on government targets and made plans for guerilla warfare. Mandela was arrested in August 1962 and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1963, he was convicted a second time for sabotage. He received a life sentence on June 12, 1964, and was sent to prison on Robben Island. Nelson Mandela (president of South Africa) Nelson Mandela, in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, byname Madiba (born July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa—died December 5, 2013, Johannesburg), black nationalist and the first black president of South Africa (1994–99).
His negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped end the country’s apartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a peaceful transition to majority rule. The Telescope - Hubble Essentials. Since the earliest days of astronomy, since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper.
The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth. Its position above the atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically far surpasses that of ground-based telescopes. Hubble is one of NASA's most successful and long-lasting science missions. Lech Walesa Becomes Poland’s First Popularly Elected Leader. Lech Walesa began working as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in the late 1960s and soon became involved in dissident activity. He participated in the mass protests over food prices in December 1970, during which at least 39 protesters were killed by government forces. In the early ‘70s, Walesa became a leading advocate of free trade unions, which were barred under the Communist government.
He would “organize Shipyard workers’ actions, distribute underground leaflets, hold meetings to teach workers about their rights and educate them,” according to the Lech Walesa Institute. He also organized public commemorations for the slain protesters of 1970. Walesa’s actions caused him to be fired from the shipyard in 1976, and he later lost two other shipyard jobs. The strikers were soon joined by strikers from other shipyards and factories from the surrounding area. The Interfactory Strike Committee gained members from across Poland and in September was renamed Solidarity. The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African-American cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[2] Premise[edit]
The Cosby Show. Dream Team + 1992. What Happened in the 1990s featuring News, Popular Culture, Prices and Technology. The People History Home - 1990 - 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, - Nineties Home Page Money and Inflation 1990's To provide an estimate of inflation we have given a guide to the value of $100 US Dollars for the first year in the decade to the equivalent in today's money If you have $100 Converted from 1990 to 2005 it would be equivalent to $153.76 today In 1990 a new house cost $123,000.00 and by 1999 was $131,700.00 In 1990 the average income per year was $28,970.00 and by 1999 was $40,810.00 In 1990 a gallon of gas was $1.34 and by 1999 was $1.22 In 1990 the average cost of new car was $16,000.00 and by 1999 was $21,100.00.
An Account of the Los Angeles Police Officers' Trials(The Rodney King Beating Case) It seemed like an open-and-shut case. The George Holliday video, played on television so often that an executive at CNN called it "wallpaper," showed three Los Angeles police officers--as their supervisor watched-- kicking, stomping on, and beating with metal batons a seemingly defenseless African-American named Rodney King. Unabomber arrested — History.com This Day in History — 4/3/1996. Rwanda Genocide - A Short History of the Rwanda Genocide. Oklahoma City Bombing.
Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway. Yitzhak Rabin Assassination. On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed by Jewish radical Yigal Amir at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv. The Victim: Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin was the prime minister of Israel from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his death in 1995. The Trial of O. J. Simpson. British au pair guilty of 2nd-degree murder - October 30, 1997.
World Trade Center Bombing Resonates 20 Years Later. The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: A New Threat Emerges - Press Past. Waco Siege. Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided (1993): After hearing reports that Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh had been abusing children and amassing a store of weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) gathered resources and planned to raid the Branch Davidian compound, known as the Mount Carmel Center located just outside of Waco, Texas. Lorena Bobbitt Takes Brutal Revenge Against John Bobbitt. Lorena Bobbitt made headlines around the world when she cut off half her husband's penis and threw it out a car window. Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France. The EURO - Europe's New Currency.
An information page of the PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service provided by Prof. Werner Antweiler [Last update: 7-Dec-2001] On January 1, 1999, eleven European countries have replaced their national currencies and introduced a single European currency, the euro. Titanic (1997) Titanic (1997) President Clinton impeached — History.com This Day in History — 12/19/1998. JFK Jr. killed in plane crash — History.com This Day in History — 7/16/1999. Y2K Bug - A Computer Glitch That Scared the World. Killing Spree at Columbine High School. Dolly, First Cloned Sheep. The Exponential Growth of the Internet.
MAD COW DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES: A CASE HISTORY; Britain Has Learned Many Harsh Lessons in a Long Effort to Combat Mad Cow Disease. Diana, Princess of Wales - Princess Diana's life. Princess Diana Biography. Princess Diana 1990 PEOPLE Magazine Cover, Kate in 2012. Charles and Diana Agree on Divorce Terms. Princess Diana Biography: Affairs and Divorce. Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash. Reports (1990-2013) Congressional Apportionment - 1990 Apportionment Results - People and Households. Top names of the 1990s. 1990 s Fashion Trend for Women. 1990s Fashion Trends You Can’t Live Without Today « Sammy Davis Vintage.
The 1990s Fashion History Part 1.