1990s Pop Culture

History

-Nelson Mandela released from prison

-Operation Desert Storm
-South Africa repeals apartheid laws
-Riots occur in L.A. following the trial for Rodney King
-Lorena Bobbitt takes her brutal revenge on cheating husband John by cutting of his genitals and throwing the bloody appendage onto the road and a car runs over it. Ouch!, lol.

-O.J. Simpson is arrested and convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman

-Sarin gas is released on the Tokyo subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult
-Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris trying to escape paparazzi

-Jackie Kennedy dies of lymphoma

-April 19, 1995: Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of the bombings of Oklahoma City federal buildings

-April 20, 1999: Columbine shooting
-March 11, 1997: Former Beatle Paul McCartney receives knighthood from the Queen of England

-Gulf War
-Channel Tunnel opens, connecting England with France
-Ted Kacyzinsky, aka the Unabomber, is arrested

Music

-Los Del Rio
-Celine Dion

-Michael Jackson
-Will Smith

-Green Day

-Guns N Roses
-Bryan Adams
-Seal

-Heart
-Prince

-The Spice Girls

-Madonna
-The Goo Goo Dolls
-Aerosmith

-Usher

-The Foo Fighters
-Genesis
-Boyz II Men
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Jon Bon Jovi

-Ricky Martin
-Whitney Houston

-Sheryl Crow

Movies

-Freejack

-The Full Monty

-Smoke Signals
-Enemy of the State
-10 Things I Hate About You
-Tarzan
-Mulan

-The Mask of Zorro
-Antz
-A Bug's Life
-Sleepy Hollow

-The Sixth Sense
-Runaway Bride
-Payback
-Bent

-Anna and the King

-Ronin
-The Negotiator
-Cop Land
-Bean:The Movie

-Ever After