The Gulf War – Iraq was left in severe debt after the 1980s war with Iran. President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of flooding the market with oil and driving down prices
Iraq invades Kuwait leading to the Gulf War.
Government-imposed price increases double or triple the prices of consumer goods in the Soviet Union.
COMECON is dissolved.
Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague.
Cartoon Network was first broadcast on television.
In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
he U.S. House of Representatives votes 246–188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
The element Copernicium is discovered.
Pokemon Green was released in Japan as the first game in the world famous Pokemon series.
A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.
Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
CBS telecasts The Wizard of Oz for the last time.
A snowstorm leaves 14 inches (36 cm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 21 inches (53 cm) in Chicago, Illinois, killing 68.
Impeachment of Bill Clinton: President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate.
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by JK Rowling is published.
Hillary Clinton wins a seat for the United States Senate from New York
Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
9-11
United States Department issues it's report in War on Terror.
United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in unanimous security council vote.
A tragedy a NASA occurs when space shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentering over Taxes.
Saddem Hussein, former leader of Iraq is captured in a small numker in Tikrit by U.S.
Mars rover Mer-B confirms to NASA that the area of their land was once covered with water
President George W.Buah wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Mass.
Super Bowl XXXIX the Patriots win
Hurricane Katrina
1 Billionth song downloaded from itunes.
The population of U.S reaches three undred million
Apple introduces the first IPhone
A terror plot to blow up JFK National Airport in NYC
The price of petroleum hits $100 per barrel for the first time.
Barack Obama wins the election
The death of American entertainer Michael Jackson triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief.
Patric Swayze movie and dance star dies
Haiti Earthquake
The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.
Beginning of the Arab Spring.
A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing.
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
The worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injurin.g 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century
Benedict XVI resigns as Pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII.
