1990s facts for kids

From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; The World Wide Web becomes more popular worldwide; Boris Yeltsin and followers stand on a tank against the August Coup, which leads to the end of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell; The funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, who dies in 1997 from a car crash in Paris, and is mourned by millions; Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people are killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1990s was the decade that started on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.

Events
People
- Actors and directors
- Athletes
  - Basketball
  - Boxing
  - Cricket
  - Football
  - Ice Hockey
  - Rugby
  - Wrestling
  - Other
- Musicians
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See also

Events

1990 — Gulf War
1991 — The end of the Cold War.
1991 — Breakup of Yugoslavia.
1991 — Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1992 — Established European union.
1993 — Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
1994 — End of Apartheid in South Africa

People

Actors and directors

Athletes

Basketball

Boxing

Cricket

Football

Ice Hockey

Rugby

Wrestling

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Hulk Hogan
"Macho Man" Randy Savage
Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
Goldberg
The Undertaker
Steve Borden
Triple H
Kane
Big Show
Mick Foley

Other

Musicians

The 1990s saw the rise of diverse musical trends, identifiable through the decade's top-selling pop songs and the continued prominence of established genres such as gangsta rap, grunge, industrial rock, and deep house. Alternative hip hop gained visibility at the start of the decade, while the public's interest in independent music surged as a counter to commercial radio payola.

Some of the notable artists and bands of the 1990s include AC/DC, Ace of Base, Alanis Morissette, Alice in Chains, Backstreet Boys,Madonna, Beck, Blur, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Destiny's Child, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Nirvana, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Spice Girls, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., U2, Nas, and Wu-Tang Clan. These artists and bands defined the soundscape of the decade, shaping popular music and influencing future generations.

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Yitzhak Rabin.
Hurricane Georges downed trees in Key West along the old houseboat row on South Roosevelt Blvd.
The crash site of El Al Flight 1862 in 1992.
The Dow Jones Index of the 1990s
Bush and Gorbachev at the 1990 Helsinki summit.
Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton share a laugh in October 1995.
The logo created by The President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, for use on Y2K.gov
A pair of Eurostar trains at the former Waterloo International since moved to St Pancras International
Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Hubble Space Telescope.
Women's rights demonstration in Paris, November 1995
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1997.
The highest-grossing film of the decade was Titanic (1997)
Seinfeld premiered on NBC in 1989, becoming a commercial success and cultural phenomenon by 1993.
Friends, which premiered on NBC in 1994 became one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. From left, clockwise: Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer, the six main actors of Friends.
Grunge-style flannel shirt and curtained hair
Will Smith donning a Hi-top fade in 1993
The Petronas Twin Towers were the world's tallest buildings when completed in 1999.
Fireworks in the SkyDome after Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run, as the Canadian Toronto Blue Jays won their second straight World Series title in 1993 against the US' Philadelphia Phillies.
Michael Jordan, the most popular NBA player of the 1990s.
A typical early 1990s Personal Computer.
An early portable CD player, a Sony Discman model D121.
Mobile phones gained massive popularity worldwide during the decade.
Pagers became widely popular.
The Super Nintendo was a hit in the 1990s.
The European PAL version of the Mega Drive launched in 1990, later becoming the highest-selling fourth-gen console in Europe.
Grunge styles were popular in the 1990s, as modelled here by Krist Novoselic (left) and Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana, one of the most influential bands of the decade.
The internet was created and in its infancy in the 1990s.
The Nintendo 64 was released in 1996. Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game of the decade.
Crystal Pepsi was a popular drink in the 1990s, which was re-released in 2016.
Rugrats and other cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head, The Simpsons, and Ren & Stimpy were popular in the 1990s.
A VHS-C tape as would be used in the 1990s.
One of the sets used in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, was popular in the 1990s.
The handheld digital pet device Tamagotchi became an especially popular game among children around the world during the decade
Pogs was an especially popular game among children around the world during the decade
In the 1990s, Dr. Martens shoes became a popular fashion item heavily influenced by the grunge scene and the prominent grunge musicians who wore them
Nintendo's Game Boy was a popular handheld game console during the 1990s.
The PlayStation was released in the mid-1990s and became the best-selling gaming console of its time.
The game Tomb Raider, launched in 1996, became particularly popular during the decade and as a result Lara Croft's character eventually became a cultural icon in the video game industry
Private LAN parties were at the peak of their popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s when broadband Internet access was unavailable or too expensive for most people