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Decade - 1990s
This category has questions involving events, social trends, political beliefs, major discoveries, or general information related to the 1990s.
1,197 Questions
How much did a dress cost in the 1990's?
That actually depends. Inflation was crazy in the 50's. Prices more than doubled between 1950 and 1959. It also depends on what kind of dress. A regular everyday dress would cost about 6.00-8.00 USD. Fabric to make your own dress (which was common) would be about 1.00-2.00. The only way someone would pay 100.00 for a dress in any part of the 50's is if it was couture. Just about everything in the 50's cost around 10% of what it does today.
Important world events in 1996?
== == July 1996- Jimmy Chaimberland, the drummer for the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, was arrested for posession
The group called Linkin Park became a band in this year
Dramatic
Flight 800 from New York crashes. Killing all aboard, July 18th
The Port Arthur Massacre in Hobart, Australia. lone gunman Martin Bryant randomly shoots 34 people dead during an 18-hour spree at the historic site in Tasmania
O.J. Simpson trial begins
Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer
Nintendo 64 Released
Cloned Sheep Dolly Created
What did not contribute to the federal budget surplus in the 1990s?
a decrease in government spending
All wars are illegal because People kill other people. You or me or any other people aren't allowed to kill anyone unless were in the military. Killing people in anyway is illegal.
* A lot of boy bands were pretty popular at that time and of course Britney Spears, Christina, Agulara and most other pop music singers
How much did computers cost in the 1990's?
Not exactly what you've asked, but anyway: December 1991 I purchased in Perth at Myers an Amstrad 286 PC, for about $1900 Australian. It had a 40Mb HDD, 16Mhz CPU, 14 inch monitor, and a five and an a quarter plus a three and half FDD, and about one or two Meg RAM if I recall correctly.
What African country gained its independence in 1990?
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea, on October 12, 1968.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/blIndependenceTime.htm
What important events have happened in the last 15 years?
-9/11
-Iraq War and Afganistan
-Darfur
-Bhutto exile and return
-Rabin and Araffat deaths
-Ongoing Isreali-Palistian conflict
-Tsunami
-Pervez Musharaff steps down as President
-Murtuza Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto assasinations
-Russia invades Georgia and threatens Poland with war
-7/7
-Fall and death of Saddam Hussian
-Fall of Taliban gov. in Afganistan
-First African American get nomination of party in US (Obama)
-Hillary Clinton is the woman closest to presidency
-First Republican woman VP, Sarah Palin
-Bill and Monica
-Prince Charles get Hitched to Mistress
-Reagans death
-Pope John Paul II death
-Battle of Tora Bora
-Betancourt kiddnapping
-Asif Zardari runs for President
-N Korea and the nuclear issue
-Democratic election in Iraq
-King Hussain of Jordan death
-JFK Jr death
-Pakistan and India missle tests/kashmir in 98
-millenium
-Putin goes from pres. to prime minister
-Congo War
-Kosovo and second Chechen war
-Virginia Tech
-Isreal and Lebannon Summer 2006
-Oil price rise
-Robert and Zimbabwe
-Bye Bye Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Boris Yeltzin, Bill Clinton, Chirac
-Hello Ban Ki Moon, Gordon Brown, Putin, 2nd Bush, Sarcozy
1998 world event that took place?
A lot of world events took place in 1998. Please be more specific as to which area of the world. For a general list take a look at the related link.
Who in the 1990s won the gold medal for speed skating?
Long Track ...
Men: Dan Jansen, United States
Women: Bonnie Blair, United States
Short Track ...
Men: Kim Gi-Hun, South Korea
Women: Jeon I-Gyeong, South Korea
Who were the New York Yankees third basemen in the 1990's?
Alex Rodriguez replaced Aaron Boone as the Yankees third baseman in 2004. Boone injured his knee in a pick-up basketball game during the offseason. He was cut by the team due to violating his contract.
Historical events that happened from 1975 to 2005?
January 2005
Thursday 06:
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
Sunday 09:
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.
Wednesday 12:
Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
Wednesday 26:
A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
Sunday 30:
Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
February 2005
Thursday 10:
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
Wednesday 16:
The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.
Friday 18:
The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
Sunday 20:
Jeff Gordon wins his third Daytona 500.
Tuesday 22:
Milford, Connecticut's Mayor James Richetelli Jr. named February 22nd, 2005 as Christy Carlson Romano Day. She also received the "Connecticut's Finest Citizen Award" the same day.
March 2005
Thursday 10:
In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.
Saturday 12:
Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
Monday 14:
The online statistics service SOTKAnet is opened for the public in Finland.
Friday 18:
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a nationwide debate about her.
Tuesday 22:
Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's college basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.
April 2005
Saturday 16:
BBC announces David Tennant's casting as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running science-fiction series, Doctor Who
Friday 22:
Mordechai Vanunu installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Sunday 24:
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Tuesday 26:
Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
Thursday 28:
The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
May 2005
Sunday 08:
The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
Friday 13:
The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
Saturday 14:
Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrate the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
Saturday 21:
In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.
Tuesday 31:
W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair published today that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal. The Washington Post would confirm this on June 1st. Felt was at the time (1972) the number two man at the FBI.
June 2005
Thursday 02:
Sun Microsystems announces it will purchase Storage Technology Corporation for US$4.1 billion.
Saturday 04:
First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.
Monday 13:
Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during his child molestation trial.
Tuesday 14:
Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
Thursday 23:
The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois
July 2005
Thursday 07:
Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.
Tuesday 12:
Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.
Wednesday 20:
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 received its Royal Assent. See Same-sex marriage in Canada
Sunday 24:
Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.
Wednesday 27:
STS-114: NASA makes the decision to ground the Space shuttle pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam shed problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery shed a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam did not strike the spacecraft.
August 2005
Friday 12:
Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
Sunday 14:
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
Sunday 21:
Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over 800,000 people attended the closing liturgy.
Friday 26:
Fiji's High Court rules that the island's sodomy law is unconstitutional.
Monday 29:
Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing thousands and costing over 100 billion dollars in damage.
September 2005
Wednesday 07:
Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.
Tuesday 20:
The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.
Saturday 24:
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and Houston, Texas.
Sunday 25:
Fernando Alonso wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 3rd in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Monday 26:
The shock elimination of favoured to win, Teresa Bergman, on New Zealand Idol.
October 2005
Saturday 01:
Another bombing happens in Bali, almost three years to the anniversary of a similar event which occurred in 2002.
Sunday 02:
The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty-one people.
Thursday 13:
The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 is scheduled to carry two astronauts for five days in orbit.
Tuesday 18:
The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.
Saturday 29:
2005-Animusic 2 will be released.
November 2005
Tuesday 15:
DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends. The One with All Ten Seasons
Tuesday 22:
Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is due to debut in North America.
December 2005
Friday 02:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe.
Saturday 10:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.
What countries were colonized by the Netherlands?
The Netherlands colonized the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. There were also Dutch colonies in the Caribbean, as well as Suriname in South America.
In what year was slavery abolished in Mississippi?
The official abolition was in 1833.
In 1995, the state legislature symbolically ratified the Thirteenth Amendment.
However the paperwork was not submitted to the Federal government. This was discovered by a professor who watched the movie Lincoln at the end of 2012, and he ensured that in 2013 the paperwork was finally completed, so the official abolishing of slavery by the state Mississippi was in 2013.
How much did Bill Clinton get paid as president in the 1990s?
He was paid about $200,000.00 a year. Then he doubled it, but that didn't come into action until 2000 when George W. Bush became president. He was the first this change would benefit. The president's salary is now $400,000.00 a year.
It's hard to say, but there's evidence of the two shooters at Columbine, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, being bullied on a daily basis. Many say that this made them snap and plan to take it out on the school that they hated so much.
Also, if you take the time to read (or read about) their journals, they wrote entry after entry of incredibly angry rants. They hated mankind and thought that they were more evolved or more enlightened than everyone else around them.
They didn't really kill anyone in particular at Columbine... They just wanted to achieve a high body count.
The bottom line is that they were disturbed kids who were treated poorly and hated humanity. They didn't just one day snap...they'd had this massacre planned for well over a year. i agree they planned it for over 12 months and they planned it pretty well to bad that they did what they did they could have been very successful in life
Why was unemployment high in the 1990s in the Russian Federation?
Because of Gaidar's privatisation, inspired by Maggie. 14,000,000 victims.
When was the Columbine incident?
On April 20th, 1999 two senior students named Dylan and Eric brought guns to school, they also set up home made bombs in the cafeteria. When the bombs failed to go off, they began shooting. The library was the location of the worst attack. 12 kids died, and 1 teacher. Many were wounded, and then Eric and Dylan committed suicide in the library.
What two presidents were in office during 1990's?
The 42nd President of the United States was Bill Clinton from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001
How did the United nation react in early 1990s to Iraqs violation of international treaty?
The UN issued sanctions and trade restrictions.
Who was the President of the United States in 1995?
The 42nd President of the United States was William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001, including all of 1995.
What was the budget situation of the federal government at the end of the twentieth century?
C. there was a budget surplus
Why Columbine high school shooting?
The two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were exposed to alot of violence as children. Klebold was a typical underachieving, depressed teen who hated and blamed himself more than he hated or blamed others. Harris was a psychopath who would have eventually, on his own, wreaked havoc on the world he hated and the stupid, worthless people who inhabited it; he enjoyed hating, he enjoyed demeaning, and he enjoyed the idea of inflicting pain and suffering on others. Harris was also an adept liar. His friends and classmates reported that he lied about anything and everything. He enjoyed lying as much as he enjoyed hating and knew that it gave him an advantage. Authorities have gained a lot of insight into these personalities since their deaths because they not only left behind their websites and videos, but also journals chronicling their true feelings.
On the other hand, Martha Stout ("The Sociopath Next Door") and Robert Hare ("Without Conscience") have theorized that one of the boys was a sociopath and the other a delusional follower.
Eric was an angry teen who just wanted to hurt people. He wanted to do something people would remember.
That's what the media wants you to believe.
They were bullied and the school (as usaul) does nothing about it.
That's why it happened.
Not because of Doom, or Natural Born Killers, Nor Marylin Manson. It was provoked by the schools respected football team.
