From Deseret News archives:
'90s world timeline
1990: The Chunnel, linking France and Britain by rail under the English Channel, is opened.
1990: Margaret Thatcher, known as the "Iron Lady," retires as British prime minister.
1990: Boris Yeltsin is elected president of Russia.
1990: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait and U.S. troops fight the gulf war.
1991: A Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia shocks the world.
1991: Riots erupt in Los Angeles after four white police officers are acquitted of beating Rodney King.
1993: New York's World Trade Center is hit by a massive bomb that is later traced to terrorists.
1993: A stand-off in Waco, Texas, between followers of David Koresh and federal authorities ends in a compound fire that kills 40.
1994: Los Angeles is hit by an earthquake that kills 34, causes $7 billion in damage and disrupts the World Series.
1994: Republicans take control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.
1995: A bomb explodes in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168. It was later found to be the work of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
1995: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole.
1996: A terrorist bomb attack in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. soldiers and injures 300.
1996: Theodore J. Kaczynski, known as the notorious Unabomber is arrested at his Montana cabin by FBI agents.
1996: TWA Flight 800 crashes in the Atlantic Ocean killing all 230 aboard.
1997: The stock market plunges 554 points in one day, then climbs back up again, rising 20 percent for the third straight year.
1997: The LDS Church celebrates the sesquicentennial of the pioneer trek to Utah with a months-long re-enactment.
1997: Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris.
1998: Two U.S. embassies are bombed by terrorist organizations in Sudan and Kenya.
1998: President Bill Clinton is impeached following disclosures of an affair with Monica Lewinsky, but he is acquitted by the Senate.
1998: Mark McGuire breaks Roger Maris' home-run record in baseball.
1999: An earthquake in Turkey leaves at least 15,000 dead.
1999: The U.S. hands control of the Panama Canal to Panama.
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