Population: 281,421,906 (2000 Census)
Unemployment: 5.8 million, or 4.2% (Sept 99)
National Debt: $5,413.l Million (1997)
Average Salary: $13.37/hr (1999)
Teacher's Salary: $39,347 (1998)
Minimum Wage: $5.15/hr (1997)
Life Expectancy: Male 73.1 Female 79.1(1997)
Auto Deaths: 49,772 (1997)
President and Mrs. George Bush ( 1988 - 1992)
President and Mrs. Bill Clinton (1992-2001).
The World Wide Web was born in 1992, changing the way we communicate
In the 1990's the United States played the role of world policeman, sometimes alone but more often in alliances.
The decade began with Sadam Husein's invasion of Kuwait and the resultant Gulf War. In 1993 the war was in the African country of Somalia, as the television images of starving children led to an attempt to oust the warlord, General Adid.
By September, 1994, the U.S. was once again sending troops to a foreign country to overthrow a military dictatorship, this time in Haiti.
In 1996 about 20,000 American troops were deployed to Bosnia as part of a NATO peace keeping force.
In late March 1999, the U.S. joined NATO in air strikes against Yugoslavia in an effort to halt the Yugoslavian government's policy of ethnic cleansing in its province of Kosovo.
The decade was to end much as it began with U.S. forces deployed in many countries, and the U.S. playing arbitrator, enforcer, and peace keeper throughout the world.
1990s
1990
Africanized honeybees entered the U.S.
1991
10 million people worldwide estimated to be HIV-positive, including 1 million in U.S.; more than 36,000 Americans have died of AIDS since the late 1970s
January 1 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak
Israel reopens consulate in U.S.S.R. after 23 years
Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
January 11 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
January 12 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
January 15 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
January 17 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
January 17 Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq
January 20 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
January 23 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
January 25 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government
January 28 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
February 1 Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
February 1 President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
February 2 US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
February 5 Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
February 12 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
February 13 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
February 23 Military coup in Thailand
February 25 U.S., barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
February 27 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated
March 3 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on video
March 3 Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R.
March 7 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
March 13 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill Many veterinarians involved in animal rescue and rehab
March 31 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
March 31 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves
April 1 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
April 1 U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
April 1 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
April 5 U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
April 8 Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
April 12 U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases
April 29 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
May 7 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 18 U.S.S.R. launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
May 20 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
May 21 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
May 23 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
May 28 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
June 4 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church
June 4 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
June 5 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
June 6 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
June 25 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
July 11 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
July 31 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
August 8 Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy
August 11 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
August 11 Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy
August 20 Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent
August 21 Latvia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R.
August 24 Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R.
August 27 Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R.
September 28 U.N. weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
October 7 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
October 10 U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
October 21 U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
October 31 Palestinians attend U.S. mideast peace talks in Madrid
November 6 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
November 12 Indonesian army shoots on funeral prossession: 270-520 die
November 17 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
November 18 Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland
November 26 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students
November 29 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
December 3 Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen
December 4 Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years)
December 31 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
December 31 U.S.S.R., last day of existence
1992
First sensitive and specific test for Babesia equii antibody developed.
First vaccine for hepatitis A (Humans)
January 3 32 Cubans defect to the U.S. via helicopter
January 7 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
January 12 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
January 26 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
January 27 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
February 8 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
February 20 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
February 27 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
March 17 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad
March 31 U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya
April 6 Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
April 11 Euro-Disney opens near Paris
May 7 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
May 13 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
May 21 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
May 22 India launches its Agni rocket
May 30 U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
June 19 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
September 10 Lucy in Peanuts raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
October 31 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
November 3 Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush
November 3 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate
November 11 Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests
November 23 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
December 3 U.N. votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia
December 6 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
December 22 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1993
Developed paper from chicken feathers.
Showed that deficiency in either selenium or vitamin E can trigger a mutation in a normal benign human virus; first report of a specific nutritional deficiency permitting a nonvirulent virus to become virulent.
U.S. annual AIDS deaths approach 45,000
120,000 cattle have been diagnosed with BSE in Britain.
Veterinarians around the world become super vigilant
US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1993) estimated that between 130,000 and 3 million deaths could follow the aerosolized release of 100 kg of anthrax spore upwind of the Washington, D.C. area. The lethality would match or exceed that of a hydrogen bomb. Veterinarians in the US become more vigilant and update their knowledge to be on the look out for this disease
January 1 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
January 1 Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia
February 10 U.S. officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
February 26 World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
March 17 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
May 1 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
May 7 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
May 24 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
May 29 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
June 5 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
June 5 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
June 14 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
June 23 U.N. authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
June 24 Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
June 26 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad
July 2 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
July 16 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
July 25 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
August 4 Angolese air force bombs Huambo
August 6 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
August 13 U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
August 31 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
September 9 PLO recognizes state of Israel
October 3 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers
October 7 Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
November 9 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
November 19 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
December 5 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
December 8 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
December 14 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
December 17 Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
December 30 Vatican recognizes Israel
1994
Developed method to genetically modify Brucella abortus Strain 19, to differentiate between naturally infected and vaccinated animals.
First genetic linkage maps of cattle and swine constructed.
First sensitive and specific test developed for malignant catharrhal fever in sheep.
Cholera outbreak in South America
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
January 10 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
February 3 President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam
February 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
February 9 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
February 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
March 7 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
April 13 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
April 20 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
April 22 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
May 10 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
June 20 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed
July 22 O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
July 24 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
July 25 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.)
July 26 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
July 26 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
July 29 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
July 29 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
August 15 Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
August 20 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
August 28 1st Japanese gay pride parade
September 15 Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria
October 26 Jordan and Israel sign peace accord
1995
Experimentally infected cattle with transmissible mink encephalopathy and scrapie agents.
Death of Jonas Salk (developed a vaccine for polio for humans) (Dr Salk's son and daughter are veterinarians)
January 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union
January 1 Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
January 4 Newt Gingrich becomes speaker of the House
January 22 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
January 30 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
February 15 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
February 17 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
February 25 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
February 25 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
February 27 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
March 4 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
March 5 Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg
March 10 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
March 17 U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck
March 20 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
April 21 FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing killing 168
April 24 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray
May 9 Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
May 16 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
May 19 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
October 3 O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
October 10 Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
November 19 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
November 24 Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
1996
Isolated and developed DNA test to identify bacterium that caused swine diarrhea.
First sensitive and specific test for anaplasmosis antibody in cattle developed.
Robert Gallo's discovery that a natural compound known as chemokines can block HIV and halt the progression of AIDS is hailed by Science magazine as one of that year's most important scientific breakthroughs.
January 12 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with U.S.)
January 27 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
January 27 Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
July 19 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia
August 6 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars
December 12 Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
December 23 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1997
"Dolly" cloned from an udder cell of an adult sheep.
Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, James Michener, and Jimmy Stewart leave this world
January 7 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
January 15 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
February 13 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
February 23 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1
February 28 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
March 2 Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer
March 4 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
March 4 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
March 17 CNN begins spanish broadcasts
April 8 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
April 30 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
May 9 1st U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
May 12 Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
May 27 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
June 10 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
June 13 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
June 26 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
June 26 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
July 1 U.K. returns Hong Kong to China
July 8 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
July 30 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
October 4 Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
October 15 U.S. launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn
November 3 California law ends affirmative-action
November 13 U.N. pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq
November 17 Islamist terrorists murder 60 tourists at Luxor in Egypt
November 25 US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
December 16 President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"
December 23 U.S. Ag, Depart. estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
December 29 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
December 29 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
December 31 Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
December 31 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
December 31 South African and U.S. surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
1998
Bacterial microbe mixture PREEMPT developed for competitive exclusion of Salmonella.
First genetically engineered vaccine for shipping fever in cattle developed.
Discovered that dogs are a definitive host for Neospora.
First sensitive and specific test to detect Babesia caballi antibody in horses developed.
Gene-based test for Johne's disease in cattle developed.
First vaccine for rotavirus (Humans)
First vaccine for Lyme disease (Humans)
Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Barry Goldwater, and Tammy Wynette leave this world
January 1 All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free
January 1 U.S. Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
January 8 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
January 9 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
January 17 President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
January 26 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
January 27 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
January 29 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed
February 1 At least 119 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia
February 12 U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
May 11 India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20 year gap
May 28 Pakistan tests underground nuclear weapons, sparking fears of a nuclear conflict with India
June 25 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr
August 15 Bill Clinton confesses to Hilary about the Monica Lewinsky affair
December 19 House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice
1999
Modified live-bacterium fish vaccine approved; protects young channel catfish against enteric septicemia
Oct. 1999 Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine establishes a program to help people grieving the loss of a pet. The Pet Loss Hotline acts as an outlet for people to share their feelings.
Since it was first identified in the United States in 1999, West Nile Virus has killed more than 650 people, and caused illness in more than 16,000. Veterinarians taught to look for signs of this disease.
February 12 Senate acquits President Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinski case
March 15 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
April 20 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves
May 9 During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China
August 17 Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey
October 29 Cyclone/tidal surge kills as many as 10,000 in eastern India
October 31 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
December 20 Portugal returns Macau to China
December 31 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
