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The fall of the Berlin Wall
On the night of Thursday from November 9 to Friday November 10 there is the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which would mean the end of the cold war and the reunification of Germany. This fact is consistent with the 1989 revolutions that ended approximately 40 years of communist governments in Eastern Europe. -
Reunification of Germany
On July 1, 1990, both states carried out an economic, monetary and social union. On October 3, the GDR was dissolved, so that all its inhabitants became citizens of the RFA, after having notified each other in the parliaments of both countries of the Unification Treaty agreed a month earlier. Previously, the signing of the so-called 2 + 4 Treaty had taken place. -
Gulf War
On January 17, 1991, the Allied forces unleashed the Desert Storm operation, a broad air and aircraft offensive that developed over forty days at the rate of more than 2000 daily departures. The United States used means mainly Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-117 A fighter jets to destroy Iraqi control and communications centers in Kuwait and Iraq, as well as various chemical facilities. -
the breakup of the USSR.
Among the most important novelties of the new Soviet policy, he emphasized from 1989 the refusal of the USSR to intervene in Eastern Europe, unlike past times, in the development of the reformist movements that ended the communist governments of Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia and culminating in October 1990 with the German reunification. -
The power at the hands of clinton
After the victory in the Gulf War, George Bush, more dedicated to foreign policy than to the internal problems of his country was losing popularity.
in the elections of November 4, 1992
Bill Clinton, who obtained 370 of the 538 members of the electoral college, with 43.2% of the popular vote and 44 million votes -
Birth of the DVD
In 1995, the DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) was born as a storage system for multimedia information (data, audio and video) with CD format, which includes DVD-ROM, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video products. In 1997, the first one was launched. -
the first cloning
Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Public opinion suffered a severe seizure at the beginning of 1997, after the success obtained by the genetic techniques of cloning. -
Juan Pablo II visits Cuba
One of the most important and outstanding trips along the Papacy of John Paul II was, without a doubt, his visit to Cuba. The impact of the trip was enormous and attracted worldwide attention. -
Kosovo War
The president of Yugoslavia, Milosevic undertook a harsh military repression, followed by an ethnic cleansing process in the area. -
Tragedy in Vargas
In December 1999, heavy rains terrorized Venezuela, between the 15th and 16th of that month, mudslides dragged thousands of objects such as trees, cars and even houses. It swept through the Vargas State killing more than 30,000 people being one of the worst tragedies in all contemporary history. -
End of 70 years of hegemony of the PRI in Mexico
On July 2, Ernesto Zedillo had to publicly acknowledge the first defeat of his party in 71 years. This is how a period of more than seven decades in the power of a single party ended and, also for the first time in the history of independent Mexico, the country experienced a transfer of power to the peaceful and orderly opposition. -
Decryption of the Human Genome.
In February 2001, with 90% of the sequenced genome, a first draft of the genetic map of humans was published. The researchers completed the decipherment of the genome in April 2003. The sequencing of the human genome, one of the most relevant scientific events in the history of mankind, showed that humans have about 31,000 genes. -
USA UU. suffers the greatest terrorist attack in history.
On September 11, 2001, Tuesday, an American Airlines Boeing 767-300 plane, with 92 passengers, took off from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles; It was 7:59 a.m. (in the US) and at 8:45 a.m., diverted its route, it crashed into one of the Twin Towers (the North Tower), of the World Trade Center of New York City, in the South of Manhattan -
The Euro enters into circulation in 12 countries
During the first two months of 2002, in each participating country the national notes and coins coexisted with the euro notes and coins, while the first one was exchanged for the latter. -
11-M terrorist massacre in Madrid.
The attack was committed against four RENFE Cercanías trains that made the Alcalá de Henares-Madrid and Guadalajara-Madrid journeys. The terrorists placed backpacks with explosives inside the train cars that detonated using mobile phone alarms. The explosions of the four trains occurred almost simultaneously first thing in the morning. -
A tsunami devastates Southeast Asia
The worst tsunami in history has left more than 280,000 dead and millions displaced. The marine earthquake, of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale, originated around the northwestern coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in the Indian Ocean, and caused a tsunami that reached the coast of 12 countries. -
World commotion for the death of John Paul II
The ill health of the Pontiff worsened during the first months of 2005, and brought massive attention to the global media. After performing a tracheotomy that gave the world the image of a pope without a voice and some controversy about the sense of its continuity at the head of the Holy See, John Paul II died on April 2. His death, despite not being a surprise, was a real planetary shock. -
The first African-American to arrive at the White House.
The 2008 presidential elections not only meant the end of the Bush presidency, but also represented the possibility of a change with a global impact since at the beginning of the traditional primary elections to elect the presidential candidate of the most powerful country in the world, for the first time in North American history a woman (Hillary Clinton) and an African-American (Barack Obama) aspired to her for the Democratic Party. -
Pandemic global influenza A (H1N1).
Influenza A is an infectious disease caused by a strain of influenza virus of subtype H1N1, whose RNA combines genetic materials from strains of human influenza, avian and swine flu. -
Death of Michael Jackson (The King of Pop)
Michael Jackson, a singer who had his beginnings in the Jackson 5, a group of African Americans made up of his brothers who achieved great success. He later launched himself as a soloist, becoming the most successful artist of all time.
