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The first reusable Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted into orbit. Only carrying two astronauts and a relatively light payload, it stayed in orbit a little over two days. -
All of the twenty-three major world markets experienced a sharp decline in October 1987.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
The Gulf War was an armed campaign waged by a United States-led coalition of 35 nations against Iraq in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. -
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the complex.
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Created by Matt Groaning, The Simpsons is considered not only one of the best cartoons ever, but one of the best television series ever, and is the longest-running American sitcom. -
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.