Dow drops 22 percent to 2,247. Rush Limbaugh goes national. World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee. Garth Brooks releases first album. Tiananmen Square demonstration crushed.
First woman graduates from West Point.
Berlin wall torn down. 1990 Germany reunified. Nelson Mandela freed from South African prison. 1991 Gen. Colin Powell, first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plays key role in Gulf War victory. President Bush appoints Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court.