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With advances in DNA medical research was increased and it helped crime fighting. The Human Genome Project is a project that is attempting to map the human genome.
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Saddam Hussein, the Dictator of Iraq, invaded because of oil and the US and 40 allies go in and liberate Kuwait.
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Once disastrous turns into a success, couldn't see at first be modifications were made and was every successful.
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The Berlin wall was torn down
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Was imprisoned for 27 years for being a political activist against segregation. Was elected president of South Africa after he got out.
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The internet spawned from the ARPANET system which linked governement agencies. In 1985 the National Scenece Foundation funded supercomputers where people could access information, this paved the way for the internet which came about in 1991 using "http"
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For the first time in Russia's history they had a democratic election in which Borris Yeltsen was elected President of Russia.
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Gorbachev signs the U.S.S.R. out of existence. When this happens the Cold War is finally over.
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Economy that revolved around investing heavily in internet companies.
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The different states of Yugoslavia were breaking up after the communist government that was keeping them togethor dissolved. Ratko Mladic, Bosnian, and Serbian leaders did mass genocide they called "ethnic clensing"
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An African American man was assaulted by police officers, in LA, who were aquited from police brutality charges. This created the largest riots in American history
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Until 1992 South Africa was legally segregated, this started after WW2 and white supremicists ruled.
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George Bush won the Republican nominmation and Bill Clinton won the Democratic nomination. There was a third party, H. Ross Perot who ran on a no-nonsense basis and appealed to grassroots movement. Clinton Won with 43% of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes.
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Hillary Clinton was the first lady for Clinton and she was given the task to reform health care so everyone in the country could have it. Was shot down because of the cost.
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The Brady Bill made people have a waiting period before getting a gun and the dealors had to run backround checks on the customers.
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Al Qaeda detonated a bomb on the north tower of the World trade center. The bomb killed 5 people.
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A cult was held up in there compound and the ATF and FBI wanted to go in but they wouldn't let them and the standoff ended violently when the compound burned down and 75 people died.
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US was in Somalia for famine relief. The mission turned inot a raid on trying to stop warloards from taking food and 18 US troops were killed in an incident dubbed "Black Hawk Down"
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This was Clinton's attmept to answer whether homosexuals were allowed to serve in the military. This law stated that a homosexual can serve as long as they don't reveal their sexual orientation.
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Newt Gingrich, leader of the Republican party, along with the members of the Republican party made a Contract with America that stated what the Republican party wanted, like lower taxes and Welfare reform.
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The MLB players went on strike for money and the entire baseball season got canceled. This was the first time since its creation that the world series wasn't played.
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North Korea was rumored to have a nuclear missile but it appears that they have no such weapon.
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The Whitewater investigation spawned from the Clinton's investing in the Whitewater development while still governor of Arkansas.
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This tunnel connects France and England by making a tunnel under the English Channel that carries high speed passenger trains and large comercial freight trains.
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This tunnel connects France and England by making a tunnel under the English Channel that carries high speed passenger trains and large comercial freight trains.
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On June 12 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outsided Brown's house. OJ was aquited of the murder and found not guilty surprising the entire country.
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The NAFTA agreement (North American Free Trade Agreement) is an agreement that allows Mexico, America, and Canada to trade freely without tariffs and taxes.
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A man drove a car into Oklahoma City and detonated a bomb destroying several buildings and killing 658 people.
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Windows '95 was released. This was the first modern like windows operating system with a point and click mouse.
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This was the largest snow storm on the Northeastern seaboard creating record snow fall. The blizzard shut down the area for days.
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Clinton was the Democratic Nominee running against Republican Bob Dole and Third Party member Ross Perot. Clinton won by a moderate margin.
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A truck drove up to US military barracks in Saudi Arabia and exploded wounding 15.
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The plane had just taken off when it exploded killing all 230 people aboard. It was initially thought to be a terrorist attack but the FBI released a statement that no evidence to that effect had been found.
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An anti-abortion activist set off a bomb that killed one person and wounded many. This was outside Olympic Park in Atlanta.
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England gives over complete control of Hong Kong to China. Previously Hong Kong was an England common wealth.
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The unabomber receives life sentence without parole. The unabomber sent mail bombs to several people.
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President Clinton admits to having a sexual realtionship with Monica Lewinsky. Congress impeaches the President as a result.
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The former republican speaker of the house resigns. He resigned in disgrace because he violated the ethics code of Congress.
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The US military bombs a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan claiming it had terrorists. This was an attempt at killing terrorists such as Sadaam Hussein.
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Clinton was acquited of commiting perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Two seniors at Columbine High School came in and killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and injuring students.
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NATO launched a 78 day offensive to fight the Serbian forces who had made attacks on the Kosovo section of their own country.
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The US gave the rights of the Panama Canal to the country of Panama. It used to be the US's
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The Y2K bug that was thought to have the possibility of crashing the worlds computers. What would happen was because the dates on the computers would only show that last two digits of the year then in the year 2000 it would show 00 and the computer would think it was 1900. Many people were paranoid about wide spread poer outages and brouhaha.
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The worth of the websites worth extremely overrated and they crashed creating an economic downturn
