Generation X

**Generation X** is a period in history, part of modern times. It began in 1990, following the New Wave, and lasted until 1999, the beginning of the End Times.

## Timeline

### 1990

**January 3:** President Manuel Noriega of Panama surrenders to U.S. forces--Panama City.

**February 11:** Nelson Mandela freed after 27 years in prison--Cape Town.

**February 26:** Sandinistas defeated in Nicaraguan elections.

**March 11:** Lithuania declares its independence, beginning the unraveling of the Soviet Union.

**April 24:** Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

**June 4:** Dr. Jack Kevorkian assists a suicide for the first time--Portland, Oregon.

**June 25:** Slovenia declares its independence, beginning the breakup of Yugoslavia.

**August 2:** Iraq invades Kuwait.

**October 3:** Reunification of Germany.

### 1991

FBI agent Fox Mulder is assigned to the agency's X-Files project.

Kurt Cobain records "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

**January 16:** Gulf War begins as the United States starts airstrikes against Iraq.

**January 26:** Somali Civil War begins.

**February 7:** Jean-Bertrand Aristide is the first democratically elected President of Haiti.

**February 26:** Iraqi troops begin withdrawing from Iraq, setting fire to the oil fields as they go.

**March 3:** Rodney King's beating by L.A. police is captured on videotape.

**June 12:** Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia.

**July 22:** Arrest of cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer--Milwaukee.

The advanced chimpanzee Caesar--son of Cornelius and Zira--leads an ape revolt.

**August 6:** Birth of the World Wide Web.

**September 19:** Discovery of an Iceman in the Italian Alps, frozen since 3300 BCE.

**September 26:** Biosphere 2 begins operation--Oracle, Arizona.

**October 11:** Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas quizzed about allegations that he sexually harassed former staffer Anita Hill--Washington, D.C.

**November 7:** Basketball star Magic Johnson discloses he is HIV positive.

**December 26:** The Soviet Union formally dissolves itself.

### 1992

United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center, colloquially known as G Force, organized to combat the kaiju menace.

**January 12:** The artificial intelligence HAL 9000 becomes operational--Urbana, Illinois.

**February 7:** The European Union is established--Maastricht, Netherlands.

**March 3:** Bosnia declares its independence, sparking the Bosnian Civil War.

**April 29:** Riots erupt as the officers who beat Rodney King are acquitted--Los Angeles.

**August 21:** Shootout near the cabin of survivalist Randy Weaver results in the death of his wife and son, as well as a federal Marshall.

**November 3:** Bill Clinton elected President of the United States.

**December 6:** Much of Tokyo destroyed by the psychic mutant Akira.

### 1993

**January 26:** Vaclav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

**February 26:** Terrorists try to bring down the World Trade Center with a vanload of explosives in the parking garage.

**April 19:** The Branch Davidian compound burns to the ground in a Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms raid--Waco, Texas.

**June 23:** Lorena Bobbitt castrates her husband--Manassas, Virginia.

**July 19:** U.S. policy toward gays in the military becomes Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

**July 20:** White House staffer Vince Foster murdered by Hillary Clinton, who smuggles his body to Fort Marcy Park.

Ruby Ridge

**October 3:** A Black Hawk helicopter shot down in Somalia; 18 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of Somali combatants and civilians are killed--Mogadishu, Somalia.

### 1994

Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House

**January 1:** NAFTA treaty goes into effect; the same day, the Zapatista Rebellion begins in Chiapas, Mexico.

**January 6:** Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg in an effort to help her rival Tonya Harding.

**April 5:** Kurt Cobain kills himself--Seattle, Washington.

**April 7:** Rwandan Genocide begins--Kigali, Rwanda.

**April 27:** Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa.

**May 6:** The Channel Tunnel opens, connecting Britain and France.

**May 10:** Silvio Berlusconi begins his first term as Prime Minister of Italy.

**June 12:** Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson--Los Angeles.

**June 17:** O.J. Simpson slowly flees from police in a white Bronco--Brentwood, California.

**June 28:** The Aum Shinrikyo cult releases nerve gas in a subway--Matsumoto, Japan.

**July 15:** The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 begins colliding with Jupiter.

**September 19:** Fermat's Last Theorem is proven--Princeton, New Jersey.

**November 8:** Republicans led by Newt Gingrich take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

**December 14:** The Dayton Accords are signed, bringing the Bosnian Civil War to a close.

### 1995

**April 19:** Timothy McVeigh bombs the Oklahoma City federal building.

**November 15:** Bill Clinton begins an affair with White House staffer Monica Lewinsky.

### 1996

Buffy Anne Summers (b. 1981) is chosen to be a vampire slayer--Sunnydale, California.

**April 3:** Ted Kaczynski is arrested as the Unabomber at his cabin--Lincoln, Montana.

### 1997

Snake Plissken escapes from New York.

The Robinson family is lost in space.

**March 26:** Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit suicide in order to make contact with the UFO shadowing the Comet Hale-Bopp--San Diego

**June 8:** A Terminator 1000 is sent back in time from 2029 to kill John Connor. At the same time, a reprogrammed Terminator 800 is sent back two hours earlier to protect Connor--Los Angeles.

### 1998

**May 11:** A limited outbreak of the mutagenic t-virus at Umbrella Corporation's Arklay Laboratory--Raccoon City, Pennsylvania.

**September 22:** The t-virus begins to infect Raccoon City.

**October 1:** Raccoon City destroyed by nuclear weapon.

### 1999

**April 20:** Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two disgruntled students, carry out a massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School.

A black monolith is discovered on the Moon near a fledgling colony.

Escapees from Monster Island attack world cities, creating a need to destroy all monsters.

Project Mayhem, led by Tyler Durden, launches simultaneous terrorist attacks on the headquarters of the world's credit card companies.

**July 4:** Giant alien spacecraft hovering over the major cities of Earth are destroyed on the United States' Independence Day.

**December 31:** We party like it's 1999.