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Minimum Waqe
US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hourThe minimum wage was raised to $3.80 an hour beginning April 1, 1990, and to $4.25 an hour beginning April 1, 1991. amendments also established a training wage provision (at 85% of the minimum wage, but not less than $3.35 an hour) for employees under the age of twenty, a provision that expired in 1993. -
Major event in 1992
27th Amendment, prohibiting changes to Congress members' salaries from taking effect until after an election of representatives. United States Constitution prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. -
Major event in 1991
The World Wide Web is publicly debuted as an Internet service, known simply as the Web.Document pages on the World Wide Web are called web pages and are accessed with a software application running on the user's computer, called a web browser.The web page can contain text, images and videos as well as web navigation . -
Major Event in 1991
Cold War ends as the USSR dissolves,The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences, It was termed as "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides.The USSR took control over the states of the Eastern Bloc while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power. -
Major event in 1994
Northridge earthquake kills 72 and injures 9,000 in the Los Angeles area and causes $20 billion in damage. it lasted for about 10 to 20 seconds.it had magnitude of 6.7, which produced ground acceleration that were the highest ever , recorded in an urban area in North America. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation resulted in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The bomb damaged 324 buildings.$652 million worth of damage.The bombers were tried and convicted in 1997. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 and Micheal had 12 years in prison for not warning the U.S government. -
Major event in 1995-1996
A budget crisis forces the federal government to shutdown for several weeks. Which was result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget. The government shut down after Clinton vetoed the spending bill the Republican Party-controlled Congress sent him. -
Snowstorm
A snowstorm along the East Coast kills 150 people and causes $3 billion in damage,the U.S. East Coast was up to 4 feet , Blizzard of 1996 had paralyzed east coast. It was followed by another storm on January 12.which caused rapid melting and river flooding. -
School Shooting
Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School. It is the deadliest mass murder at a high school in U.S. history, and sparks debates on gun control and bullying.The shootings occurred on April 20, 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve students and a teacher, and wounded 23 others, before they both committed suicide. -
Tornado damge
A violent tornado outbreak in Oklahoma kills 50 people and becomes the first to produce a tornado that causes $1 billion in damage.took place across much of the Central and parts of the Eastern United States,he tornado tore through southern and eastern parts of Oklahoma City.This tornado casue alot of damge but it was not the deadliest