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New Years Day
The 90's begin... -
Hubble Telescope launched in space
The Hubble Telescope is a space telescope orbiting around earth. As of 2019 it still stays in operation and is still used for the purpose of being a telescope. It is said to be one of the strongest and best Telescope of 1990 and is still holding up. -
Euro Disney opened in France
The park opened on 12 April 1992 as the first of the two parks built at the resort. In the early 1950's, Walt Disney began designing a huge amusement park to be built near Los Angeles. He intended Disneyland to have educational as well as amusement value and to entertain adults and their children. ... In 1965, work began on an even bigger Disney theme park and resort near Orlando, Florida -
Intel introduces the Pentium Microprocessor
The Pentium Microprocessor was a central processing unit that consisted of many micro chips which ultimately revolutionized computers and became the choice of many to put into personal computers. It had huge importance for the advancement in computing power. It was the start of a new generation of where new and more powerful computing parts were made. -
Nelson Mandela is elected as President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela was known for being the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993, along with South Africa's president at the time, F.W. de Klerk, for having led the transition from apartheid to a multiracial democracy. After his term all the head of states in South Africa have been non-white. -
Vancouver Canucks lose in Game 7, causes riot in the city
Boston wins 4-0 in a elimination game, which causes citizens of Vancouver to start a riot over the horrible effort of the team and release their frustration -
OJ Simpson goes to jail
OJ Simpson's was sent to jail for brutally murdering his ex-wife and her friend. -
Windows 95 Released
Windows 95 got released. It marked a new era in OS advancements. It widespread onto many computers of the time making everyday and professional life easier and more efficient. It was created because earlier versions of windows were hard to use and slow. This was the start for future versions of windows that would evolve into the windows known as today. -
Toonie Is Introduced
The toonie becomes a thing and is Canada's $2 coin. It was a change from the two dollar note used prior to its introduction. This could be considered a follow up to the $1 coin made a few years earlier. -
Dolly the Sheep
Dolly the Sheep (July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003), was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived there until her death when she was six years old. Her birth was announced on February 22, 1997. -
Pathfinder Lands on Mars
The first ever rover/robot to land on mars. It recorded important information about the martian soil. It took small samples of the rusty soil and sent detailed and clear images back home on earth for new discoveries. It's historical significance is that it was the first ever rover to land on mars and send samples back home on Earth. -
Google is founded
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California -
The Debut of the Euro
On January 1, 1999, the European Union introduced its new currency, the euro. Within three years, however, the euro was established as an everyday currency and replaced the domestic currencies of many member states. -
Nunavut becomes Canada's third territory
On April 1, 1999, Nunavut became the last territory to join Canada. 132 years after Canada became a country, Nunavut, the largest Canadian territory/province joins Canada. It showed more of Canada's diversity and cultural differences such as the First Nations people and their traditional way of living.