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In 1992, Hurricane Andrew takes place and kills 65 people. Due to this Category 5 hurricane, there was $26 billion in damage to Florida and other areas of the U.S. This natural disaster was very costly and dangerous -
The 1992 Los Angeles riots sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and the city's African Americans. On April 29, 1992, anger boiled over after four LAPD officers were found not guilty of assaulting King, leading to several days of widespread violence. By May 3, thousands of National Guardsmen and federal troops had largely curbed the uprising, which left more than 60 people dead and produced about $1 billion in damage. -
Ruby Ridge was the location of a violent 11-day standoff in remote Boundary County, Idaho, beginning on August 21, 1992. U.S. Marshals and federal agents faced off against Randy Weaver, his wife and five children and his friend Kevin Harris. The Ruby Ridge incident was the culmination of years of investigation into Weaver by local authorities, the FBI, the ATF and the Secret Service. The standoff ended with the shooting deaths of a U.S. marshal, Weaver's wife Vicki and their teenage son, Samuel. -
In 1994, a natural disaster known as the Northridge Earthquake takes place. This earthquake kills 72 people and injures 9,000 people in the Los Angeles area. In total, there was $20 billion in damage after the earthquake struck. -
In 1994, the FIFA World Cup is hosted by the U.S. This event is won by Brazil. The final game of the World Cup was played with Brazil against Italy. -
A heat wave killed 739 people in Chicago during July of 1995. This wave brought attention to the plight of the urban poor. Also, attention was given to elderly in these extreme weather conditions. -
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995. The bombing was outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing168 people. The blast was set off by antigovernmental militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. -
The Monica Lewinsky scandal began in the late 1990s, when America made the realization that a political sex scandal occurred. This scandal involved President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern in her early 20s. In 1998, when news of Clinton's affair became public, Clinton denied his relationship before later admitting to "inappropriate intimate physical contact" with Lewinsky. -
The Columbine shooting was on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In this shooting, two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others. At the end, the teens turned the gun towards themselves and committed suicide. The Columbine shooting was, at the time, the worst high school shooting in U.S. history. -
A violent tornado outbreak in Oklahoma kills 50 people. This tornado is the first tornado to cost over $1 billion in destructive damage. Also, thousands of people had lost their homes.