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1990s Timeline
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Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a law tht was passed by the congress. This law was intended to protect discrimination based on disablity. This law allows people to work, and do other services. -
Magic Johnson's HIV Annoucement
Magic Johnson announces to the world about his retierment from the Los Angeles Lakers because he tested positive for HIV. At that time American viewed HIV as a gay white mans disease. -
Confirmation of Clarence Thomas
George H.W. Bush had nominated Clarence Thomas for the Surpreme Court replace Thurgood Marshall.Toward the end of the confimations hearings, sexual harassment allegation but Antia Hill, then soon later was leaked to the media from a confidental FBI report. -
Arrest of Jeffery Dahmur
Jeffery Dahmur was arrested by the Milwaukee Police, he is a sex offeder, and a serial killer. He commited rape, murder and dimemberment of seventeen men and boys. With his later murders also involving necrophilia and canniblism. -
Jeffrey Dohmer Trial
Jeffrey Dahmer had pleaded that he was guilty on January 13, the charges brought against him Dahmer had waived his rights to the intial trial. His trial determanined if he had suffered mental or personality disorder. Later he was sentenced sixteeth term life in prisonment on May 1, 1992. -
U.S. Soilders in Somalia
Task Force Ranger was created in August 1993 and developed to Somalia. This consist of specaial Forces units from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. This was part of the Operation Gothic Serpent. -
Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement
An agreement that was signed bu Canada, Mexico, and Untied States creating Trilateral trade bloc in North America. NAFTA has two supplements, the North American Agreement on Enviormental Cooperation and North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. -
O.J. Simpson Trial
O.J. Simpson tried on two counts murder on his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. He pleaded not guilty for both murders, the grand jury had dismissed as a result of excessive media coverage. -
The Olympic Park Bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing was a terrorist bomb attack in Atlanta Georgia. The blast directly killed 1 person and injured 111 people, another person dies later from a heat attack. -
Murder of Jon Benet Ramsey
Jon Benet Ramsey was a six-year old American girl who was killed in her home in Boulder Colorado. Police had found her body eight hours after she went missing. -
NATO Bombing in Yugosalvia
The bombing was the NATO military operation against Serbian people and the Federal Republic of Yugosalviaduring the Kosovo war.
