Title: 1990s Content: File:1990s decade montage.png|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.|420px|thumb rect 1 1 385 312 Hubble Space Telescope rect 392 1 1101 312 Gulf War rect 477 318 1101 718 Oslo Accords rect 723 724 1101 1080 World Wide Web rect 311 723 717 1080 Dissolution of the Soviet Union rect 1 723 305 1080 Dolly the sheep rect 1 535 471 717 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales rect 1 317 471 529 Rwandan genocide rect 236 317 471 529 Second Congo War desc bottom-left The 1990s was the decade that started on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. == Events == * 1990 - 1991 – Gulf War * 1990 – German reunification * 1991 – The end of the Cold War. * 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia. * Yugoslav Wars * 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union * 1992 – The European Union is founded. * 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. * 1994 – Genocide in Rwanda * 1994 – End of Apartheid in South Africa. * 1997 – Handover of Hong Kong == People == * Pope John Paul II, Pope in the 1990s (the last full decade he would serve as Pope until his death in 2005) * Andre Agassi, American tennis player * Pete Sampras, American tennis player * Michael Schumacher, German formula 1 driver * Backstreet Boys, American boy band * Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia from 1989 to 2000 * Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 * John Major, British Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997 * Tony Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 * George H. W. Bush, President of the United States until 1993 *Bill Clinton President of the United States from 1993–2001 * François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995 * Jacques Chirac, President of France from 1995 to 2007 * Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002 * Alberto Fujimori President of Peru 1990–2000 * Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008 * Elizabeth II, British queen since 1952 * Madonna, singer-songwriter * The Prodigy, electronic dance group * Britney Spears, American singer * Spice Girls, music group * Mariah Carey, singer * Celine Dion, singer * Whitney Houston, singer * Mel Gibson, actor * Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR 1985–1991 * Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia from 1991 to 1999 * Michael Jordan, American basketball player * Tom Hanks, American actor * Nicole Kidman, actress * Sandra Bullock, American actress * Tom Cruise, American actor * Robin Williams, American actor and comedian * Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and comedian * George Clooney, American actor * Brad Pitt, American actor * Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian * Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor * Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host * Ellen DeGeneres, American talk show host * Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979–2003 * Helmut Kohl, German chancellor until 1998 * Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa 1994–1999 * Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa 1999–2008 * Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister * Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 * Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan dictator from 1969 to 2011 * Nirvana, rock band * Steven Seagal, American actor * Julia Roberts, American actor/actress * Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005 * Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 * Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader * Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 * Kim Jong-il, dictator of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 * Tupac Shakur, American rapper * Diana, Princess of Wales * Gianni Versace, fashion designer * Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft * Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple