1988-1994, US historical timeline compiled by Piero Scaruffi

1988: a missile fired by an American warship downs an Iranian civilian plane and kills all 290 passengers aboard
1988: first fiber optic cable across the Atlantic
1988: terrorists backed by Libya blow up a Pan Am plane over Scotland killing 259 people probably on behalf of Iran
1988: Reagan’s vice-president George Bush is elected president
1989: the USA fights the drug cartels of Colombia
1989: Magellan Corporation introduces the first hand-held GPS receiver
1989: the Berlin wall falls, thus ending the Cold War
1989: the USA invade Panama and remove dictator Manuel Noriega
1989: the Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan and Afghanistan plunges into chaos
1989: Congress declares sanctions against Iraq to protest Iraq’s use of poison gas against the Kurds
1989: the Arsenio Hall show debuts on tv, the first major talk show hosted by an African-American
1989: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is founded to bring together the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, New Zealand, Philippines
1989: Gartner analyst Howard Dresner coins the term “business intelligence”
1989: Tele-evangelist Jim Bakker is convicted of fraud
1990: Jack Kevorkian performs the first assisted suicide
1990: the Human Genome Project is launched to decipher human DNA
1990: computer viruses spread over the Internet
1990: Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Kuwait and US president Bush organizes an anti-Iraqi coalition
1990: the Hubble space telescope is launched
1991: the USA leads the Gulf War against Iraq, the first war to use high-precision bombs guided by the GPS
1991: serial killer Dennis Rader kills ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991
1991: serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute, is arrested for killing seven men who abused her
1991: the Soviet Union is dismantled
1991: serial killer Arthur Shawcross is sentenced to 250 years in jail for the murders of ten women and claims to have killed (and eaten) women and children since the Vietnam war
1991: Pan Am goes out of business
1991: MTV’s “The Real World” launches the fad of “reality shows”
1991: the “Riot Grrrls!” movement is born at Olympia, Washington
1991: 2200 homicides are committed in New York, 1050 in Los Angeles
1991: the world-wide web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee in Geneve) debuts on the Internet
1991: The first economic recession ever strikes California
1991: John Gotti is arrested and the American Mafia declines
1992: racial riots erupt in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, etc (48 dead)
1992: John Mackey founds the food store “Whole Foods”
1992: Jeffrey Dahmer is convicted for killing and dismembering 17 young men
1992: one million Americans are in jail
1992: street gangs terrorize entire areas of metropoles like Los Angeles
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1992: Bill Clinton is elected president of the U.S., the youngest ever since John Kennedy
1992: USA troops land in Somalia to stop fighting by clans, but are massacred
1993: Marc Andreesen develops the first browser for the World Wide Web (Mosaic)
1993: serial killer Joel David Rifkin is arrested for killing 17 prostitutes in the New York area
1993: the “Youth Day” in Colorado is the largest youth event since Woodstock
1993: Colin Ferguson opens fire on a train killing six commuters
1993: the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, the European Space Agency and Brazil launch a project to build the International Space Station, the largest international scientific project in history
1994: the first genetically engineered vegetable (Flavr Savr tomato) is introduced
1994: Pizza Hut begins selling pizzas via the WWW
1994: Fidel Castro allows 50,000 people to leave Cuba
1994: the USA invades Haiti to restore Aristide as president
1994: Netscape, the company founded by Marc Andreesen, goes public even before earning money and starts the “dot.com” craze and the boom of the Nasdaq
1994: Jerry Yang launches the first search engine, Yahoo