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Signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act
Make discrimination against people with disabilities illegal. Employment, State and local programs, public accommodations, school, transportation, ect… are all open to people with disabilities. Everything must be accessible by everyone including people with disabilities. From electronic to real it must accept people with disabilities. -
Confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court
President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court of the United States to replace Thurgood Marshall, who had announced his retirement. The nomination proceedings were contentious from the start, especially over the issue of abortion, and many women's groups and civil rights groups opposed Thomas on the basis of his conservative political views, as they had also opposed Bush's Supreme Court nominee from the previous year, David Souter. -
Magic Johnson’s HIV Announcement
After a physical before the 1991–92 NBA season, Johnson discovered that he had tested positive for HIV. In a press conference held on November 7, 1991, he stated that his wife Cookie and their unborn child did not have HIV and that he would dedicate his life to "battle this deadly disease". Johnson initially said that he did not know how he contracted the disease, but later acknowledged that it was through having multiple sexual partners during his playing career. -
Entrance of US Soldiers in Somalia / Black hawk Down
The battle is also referred to as the First Battle of Mogadishu, to distinguish it amongst the nine major Battles of Mogadishu during the decades-long Somali Civil War. Between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—and Somali militiamen loyal to the self-proclaimed president-to-be Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had support from armed fighters. -
Signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement
An agreement made by Canada, Mexico, and United States creating a trade bloc in North America. A negotiation to break down barriers and allow people to have freedom to trade goods and services among the three countries. America joined because we saw an opportunity for exponential economic growth. The main focus of the Agreement was to try and create more economic opportunities -
Verdict in the O.J. Simpson Trial
The only testimony reviewed was Alan Park the limo driver said that he did not see Oj’s bronco outside his estate when he arrived to pick him up after the murders occurred. O.J. was involved in a car chase which interrupted the nba finals to broadcast the chase between cops and O.J.. The trail was called the trial of the century and was often known as People of California vs O.J. Simpson. -
Olympic Park Bombing
Attack in Centennial Olympic Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics. 2 people were killed in the event one was from heart attack the other was from the bombing itself. Eric Rudolph was the bomber and he was trying to make a statement about how he felt on the topic of countries coming together in one place. He called police warning them about the bombing before it took place and before killing one person with the bomb and injuring 111 others. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
On the night of October 6th, Shepard got a ride with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, they drove Shepard to a remote area and began to rob, pistol whip, and torture Shepard, after they were done they tied him to a fence and left him to die. He was in a coma for 18 hours before he was found by a biker who mistook him for a scarecrow. He was alive but covered in blood he was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered he was HIV positive. -
Beginning of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. It started on March 18, further peace talks in Paris collapsed after the Serbian delegation refused to sign a deal calling for Kosovo autonomy and the deployment of NATO troops to enforce the agreement. Two days later, the Serbian army launched a new offensive in Kosovo. On March 24, NATO air strikes began. -
Columbine Shooting
At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in trench coats, began shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver. The pair then moved inside the school, where they gunned down many of their victims in the library. By approximately 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 other people. Shortly after 12 p.m., the two teens turned their guns on themselves.
