In the 1990's...
1. The Cold War ended.
2. Riots in L.A. after the acquittal of four LAPD officers on the battery of Rodney King. (Civil Rights violation) 3. ATF agents confronted the cult compound in Waco, Texas, leading to a 51 day stand-off, a gunfight, and a fire that that ended with 75 dead. 4. A truck bomb blew up part of the World Trade Center in New York, killing 6 and injuring thousands. 5. O.J. Simpson was arrested for double-murder and found "innocent". 6. Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building with a home-made bomb. G 7. Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was arrested. Ending his 16-bomb campaign in which he used mail to deliver the explosives. 8. Bill Clinton was elected president, then later on impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. 9. Tiger Woods won the masters. 10. School shooting at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, became the first student shooting in a U.S. school, shocking the country. 11. Y2K (year 2000) apocalypse paranoia spread because people feared every computer in the world would reset itself, detonating nukes & collapsing economies. |
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