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