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World Wide Web Released Publicly
The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee. This has influenced the world and helped connect the world. It evolved and made life much easier and is probably the most powerful communication medium in existance. Today we use it pretty much daily, without this we would not have most of the technology we have today. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney King had been drunk driving and was being chased by multiple police cars, and a helicopter. After they finally cornered him and forced him to stop, they instructed him to get out of his car face down. He resisted and the cops tazered him, and later beat him with their batons, hitting him over 33 times and kicking him multiple times too. This changed how people view race and caused a lot of rioting, because the officers were found innocent. -
Soviet Union Collapsed
Representatives of the 11 soviet republics said they were all leaving the soviet union and becoming independent states. The president of the USSR resigned peacefully one day before this. After all the terrible things that the Soviet Union did, it went down peacefully. This had affected the entire world, because the Soviet Union was a large world "superpower" and it just dissolved so easily. -
World Trade Center Bombing
A rental truck was parked unter one of the twin towers by terrorists. The truck was filled with homemade explosives. The explosion caused 6 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. It did not critically hurt the structure of the building, but it caused more than $500 million in damages. All of the terrorists involved were caught by the FBI and charged with life in prison. At the time, this was the biggest terrorist attack there had ever been, affecting the entire world. -
Rwanda Genocide Began
Rwanda's population consisted of three major ethnic groups, Hutu, Tutsi and Twa. The Hutu (85% of the population) blamed the Tutsi for the country's growing social, economic, and political problems. The Hutu began to start the mass genocide of the Tutsi people, trying to kill as many of them as they could. It ended with over 800,000 people dead. -
OJ Simpson Trial
OJ Simpson was tried for the killing of his ex wife (Nicole Brown Simpson) and a waiter (Ronald Lyle Goldman). The court came to a verdict of not guilty. Many people believe this was a mistake, because there was a lot of proof that he killed them. This one trial was heard or watched by over 90 million americans. It was the most publicized court case in America's history. -
Subway Disaster in the Baku Metro in Azerbaijan
Over 300 People died in a fire in the subway in Azerbaijan. The fire was started from a spark from an old high voltage wire. People died of poisonous fumes mostly, but some burned to death. The incident in the subway cased everyone to panic. This made everyone a little more skeptic and more cautious about subways and transportation as a whole. -
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Monica Lewinsky Scandal
Former president Bill Clinton was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky during this time. It was found out by a few people who worked in the white house, but they did not do much if anything to stop it. Bill later denied the affair, but there was evidence against him. People attempted to impeach him, but this did not work and he remained in office. -
Yitzhad Rabin Assassination
The prime minister of Israel was shot during a peace rally he was attending. The man who killed him was a 27 year old law student and was part of a Jewish group called Eyal. He claimed that Rabin wanted to "give our country to the Arabs." and admitted to the assassination. This is probably because he found a peaceful solution to the Israel Palestine problem. -
Y2K Scare
The world was afraid about the new millennium arriving. They thought that every computer in the world would malfunction because a computer's memory was saved using two digits instead of four. American companies had spend much over $100 billion trying to prevent this crisis from happening. But in the end, not one computer had a single malfunction.
