1990-2017

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  • Hubble Space Telescope launch during Space Shuttle Discovery Mission

    "The mission featured the deployment of Hubble, the first of NASA's Great Observatories to reach orbit. STS-31 was the tenth launch of the shuttle Discovery. (https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/april-25-1990-deployment-of-the-hubble-space-telescope)

  • Cold War Ends as the USSR dissolves

    The war was at a state of geopolitical tension after World War II.

  • Los Angelo's Riots

    Resulted in over 50 deaths and $1 billion in damage, spurred by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King.

  • Hurricane Andrew

    A Category 5 hurricane, kills 65 people and causes $26 billion in damage to Florida and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast, and will be the costliest natural disaster until Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  • Bill Clinton inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States

  • Bill Clinton is inaugurated to his second-term

  • Global Crisis Scare

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows world markets and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15.

  • A booming US economy

    The resurgence of the U.S. economy from 1995 to 1999 outran all but the most optimistic expectations.

  • US Presidential election

    George W. Bush wins

  • Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

    It was a sweeping piece of tax legislation in the United States passed by the 107th Congress and signed by President George W. Bush.

  • 9/11

    Was a terrorist attack that hit down the twin towers.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    One of the most harsh natural disasters that hit and affected the south.

  • Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley

    Caused a damage of $2 to $4 billion in damage.

  • Barack Obama was re-elected for President

  • Destructive wild fires in Colorado

    Burned nearly 16,000 acres.