
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Millennia:
1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium
|- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. While optimism and hopes were high following the collapse of Communism, the backlash of the Cold War's effect was only beginning, precipitating the rise of Terrorism in 3rd world regions that were once the frontlines for American and Soviet foreign politics, particularly in Asia. ===Technology=== * The World Wide Web was born at CERN * Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology * Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity * Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) * Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM PCs * Development of free operating system Linux is started * Breakthrough of compact disc technology, later branching into DVD ===Science=== * Detection of extrasolar planets orbiting star other than the sun * Cloning (of Dolly the sheep) achieved * Human Genome Project begun * DNA identification of individuals finds wide application in criminal law * Hubble Space Telescope launched; revolutionizes astronomy * Protease inhibitor (pharmacology) introduced allowing HAART therapy against HIV; drastically reduces AIDS mortality ===War, peace and politics=== * Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990 * Gulf War and United Nations embargo on Iraq in 1991 * Break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 - the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world superpower. Debate over Military actions in Somalia lead to questions of the United States' role as a policing officer of the world. (see also, Black Hawk Down). * The bombing of the World Trade Center by an explosive-filled van leads to awareness of international terrorism as a rising threat. * End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela * Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994 * The birth of the "Second Republic" in Italy, with the Mani Pulite investigations of 1994 * Peace process begins in Northern Ireland * History of Yugoslavia in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia * North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen * A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland * European Union is declared in 1992 * The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in July 1, 1997 * U.S. president Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and his impeachment trial in 1998, which lasts the entire year * Anti-globalization protests * The Second Congo War start in 1998 in central Africa and includes 5 different cultures and 7 different nations. It goes on until 2002 ===Economics=== * Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions * After 1992 the booming of the US stock market, in reference to which Alan Greenspan coined the memorable phrase "irrational exuberance", which eventually stretched into the dot-com boom / dot-com bubble ===Culture=== * Douglas Coupland publishes the novel ''Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation born in the late 1960s and early 1970s (then college-age) * Grunge music gains widespread mainstream acceptance in the early part of the decade; alternative rock gains popularity as a result * Rap music gains widespread mainstream acceptance in the late part of the decade * Black becomes a dominant color in fashion, along with several dark colors (see Goth, the Matrix, and Regis Philbin) * Trance, techno electronic music becomes widely popular in Europe/USA * Dogme 95 becomes the leading European artistic film movement by the end of the decade * Video games become more advanced. The more influential game systems include the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sony Playstation, and the Sega Dreamcast, being one of the first to jumpstart the online gaming craze of the 2000s. * Extreme sports reached a new height in popularity, and by 1995, were given their own annual tournament on ESPN, the X-Games * Cartoons aimed at an adult audience become popular. Among the most successful are The Simpsons (1989-), Ren & Stimpy (1991-1995), Beavis & Butthead (1993-1997), South Park (1997-), and Family Guy (1999-) ===Others=== * Global Homo sapiens sapiens impact on the environment widely accepted * Divorce and scandal rock the United Kingdom Royal House of House of Windsor * Assassination of Selena Quintanilla * O.J. Simpson's trial, called by many the ''trial of the century'' * ''You go, girl!'' becomes a popular phrase in the media as feminism is more widely accepted and publicised in the media with The Spice Girls, the WNBA, Women's boxing, Sex and the City and others showcasing modern femininity. * The Vieques, Puerto Rico controversy * The Oklahoma City Bombing, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168. * Waco massacre prompts a nationwide debate in the U.S. about the freedom of association right of the Michigan Militia, Montana Militia and other radical groups * Crime levels in the U.S. peak late in the decade and begin to taper off * Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car accident in 1997. Debates of accident vs assassination rage. ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia) * Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia) * Prime Minister John Howard (Australia) * President Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (Brazil) * President Itamar Franco (Brazil) * President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil) * Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada) * Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada) * "Paramount Leader" Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China) * President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China) * President Lee Teng-hui (Republic of China on Taiwan) * President Franjo Tudjman (Croatia) * Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (Denmark) * President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) * President François Mitterrand (France) * President Jacques Chirac (France) * Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany) * Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (Germany) * Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (India) * President Mohammad Khatami (Iran) * President Saddam Hussein (Iraq) * Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel) * Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) * Emperor Akihito (Japan) * President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority) * Pope Pope John Paul II * President Boris Yeltsin (Russia) * Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach John Bruton (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Republic of Ireland) * President Boris Yeltsin (Russia) * President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa) * President Nelson Mandela (South Africa) * President Kim Dae-jung (South Korea) * President Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union) * Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom Commonwealth Realm) * Prime Minister John Major (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom) * President George H.W. Bush (United States) * President Bill Clinton (United States) * President Slobodan Milosevic (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) ===Entertainers=== * Adam Sandler * Anthony Hopkins (''The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Titus'') * Ashley Judd * Billy Bob Thornton * Bret Hart * Bruce Willis (the ''Die Hard'' series, ''Pulp Fiction'') * Dana Carvey (''Wayne's World'') * Demi Moore (''Ghost'', ''Striptease'', ''A Few Good Men'') * Ellen DeGeneres (''Ellen (TV show)'') * Harrison Ford * Helen Hunt (''Mad About You'', ''Twister (movie)'', ''As Good as It Gets'') * Jack Nicholson * Jerry Seinfeld (''Seinfeld'') * Jim Carrey (''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''The Mask'') * Julia Roberts (''Pretty Woman'', ''Notting Hill'') * Kate Winslet (Titanic (1997 movie)) * Kurt Cobain * Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic (1997 movie)) * Liam Neeson * M. Night Shyamalan * Mark Calaway * Meg Ryan * Mel Gibson (''Braveheart'') * Michael Jackson * Michael Keaton * Michelle Pfeiffer (''The Age of Innocence'', ''Batman Returns'') * Mike Myers (actor) (''Wayne's World'', ''Saturday Night Live'') * Mira Sorvino * Nicole Kidman (''My Life'', ''Eyes Wide Shut'') * Phil Collins * Quentin Tarantino (''Pulp Fiction'') * Ralph Fiennes (''Schindler's List'', ''The English Patient'') * Samuel L. Jackson (''Goodfellas'', ''Pulp Fiction'') * Sandra Bullock (''Speed (movie)'', ''A Time to Kill'') * Shawn Michaels * Steve Williams * Tim Burton (''Edward Scissorhands'', ''Batman Returns'') * Tom Hanks (''Forrest Gump'', ''Saving Private Ryan'', Philadelphia (movie), ''Toy Story'', ''The Green Mile'') * U2 (band) (''Achtung Baby'') * Uma Thurman (''Pulp Fiction'') * Whoopi Goldberg (''Sister Act'', ''Ghost'', ''Ghosts of Mississippi'', ''Hollywood Squares'') ===Sports figures=== * Andre Agassi (U.S tennis player) * Sergey Bubka (Ukrainian athletics) * Roger Clemens (U.S. baseball player) * Linford Christie (English athletics) * Dale Earnhardt (U.S. motor racing) * Brett Favre (U.S. American football player) * Paul Gascoigne (English football (soccer) player) * Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopian athletics) * Ryan Giggs (Welsh football (soccer) player) * Jeff Gordon (U.S. motor racing) * Steffi Graf (German tennis player) * Wayne Gretzky (Canadian ice hockey player) * Hicham El Guerrouj (Moroccan athletics) * Tony Hawk U.S. extreme sport athlete) * Evander Holyfield (U.S. boxing) * Miguel Induráin (Spanish cycling) * Andrew Johns (Australian Rugby League player) * Michael Johnson (athlete) (U.S. athletics) * Michael Jordan (U.S. basketball player) * Michelle Kwan (U.S. figure skating) * Brian Lara (Trinidadian cricket (sport)er) * Matthew Le Tissier (English football (soccer) player) * Mario Lemieux (Canadian ice hockey player) * Tony Lockett (Australian Australian Rules Football player) * Jonah Lomu (New Zealand rugby union player) * Greg Maddux (U.S. baseball player) * Mark McGwire (U.S. baseball player) * Karl Malone (U.S. basketball player) * Mark Messier (Canadian ice hockey player) * Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lankan cricket (sport)er) * Michael Owen (English football (soccer) player) * Cal Ripken Jr. (U.S. baseball player) * Patrick Roy (Canadian ice hockey player) * David Robinson (basketball player) (U.S. basketball player) * Pete Sampras (U.S tennis player) * Barry Sanders (U.S. American football player) * Michael Schumacher (German motor racing) * Monica Seles (Yugoslavian tennis player) * Ayrton Senna (Brazilian motor racing) * Emmitt Smith (U.S. American football player) * John Stockton (U.S. basketball player) * Sachin Tendulkar (Indian cricket (sport)er) * Alberto Tomba (Italian skiing) * Mike Tyson (U.S. boxing) * Courtney Walsh (Jamaican cricket (sport)er) * Shane Warne (Australian cricket (sport)er) * Steve Waugh (Australian cricket (sport)er) * Larry Walker (U.S. baseball player) ==See also== * 1990s music groups ==External links== *[http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/ 90s memories and memorabilia] 1990s la:Decennium 200 mi:Ngahurutanga 200 simple:1990s zh-min-nan:1990 nî-tāi
On the page about 1990 you say the following: End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela This is incorrect. The ANC were elected in 1994. :The page for 1990 notes Mandela's release and the legalization of the ANC, not the end of apartheid or Mandela's election, which you will indeed find listed in 1994. 1990s, the article this page is a discussion area for, lists important events that occur during the entire decade of the 1990s. --User:Brion VIBBER I suggest some kind of (maybe commonly used) classification for events and trends. Suggestion edited now to 1990s. Argument: after a while we are going to have mess of details at these decades and centuries near our time. In 20th_century there is also alittle different grouping... --- Aulis Eskola 27.4.2006 How about adding the 1997 Hong Kong hand over to China and 1999 Macau hand over to China ? ---- ==Music== Do all of the musicians on the list belong here? While many of them were major artists in the 1990s, some of them seem to just be there to point out that they were still making music at the time (such as Tear For Fears and ZZ Top), and others had very little impact. -- User talk:LGagnon : I agree LGagnon. There's definitely a lot of artists here who have only been added because they're someone's favourite rather than because of major sales or lasting influence. Many of them will be forgotten in 10 years time - in fact about half of them I haven't even heard of -- but that probably says more about my parochial attitude than anything else! But that notwithstanding, someone needs to do a cull. Personally I'd recommend ditching the entire list and just leaving the links to music of the 90's that are already there, before the whole page gets taken over by third-rate musicians. --User:Lancevortex 12:08, 24 May 2004 (UTC) :: I did some culling. More may be warranted, but I'll see if anybody begins screaming. I wouldn't be opposed to removing the lists of musicians, athletes and entertainers. ::: I think there should be a list of popular figures, but we should definitely be willing to cull when there are signs of people padding them. User:Average Earthman 09:48, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) The list definitely needed trimming, but why get rid of the whole thing? A list of the prominent and influential acts or albums of the 1990's has relevence. No such information exists anywhere else on Wikipedia. I understand getting rid of the 2000's list, but we have some hindsight on the 90's right? Can we agree acts like Nirvana (band), Spice Girls and Radiohead had some impact (even if you're not fans of them)? If society's views change later, then the list can change with them. User:Swidly 07:45, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) : I agree with you Swidly, but I thought that it was best to delete the lot and start again as it had become so diluted with acts of little importance. In my opinion, about 5-10 bands would be a reasonable number to show the most important and influential musicians of the decade. It's crazy that a list of musicians should so dominate a page which is meant to distill the most important events of this time period. I would welcome you (or anyone else) re-creating the (much shorter) list, but I fear that it is likely to go the same way again. --User:Lancevortex 12:08, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) == 1990s#Entertainers == Should examples of works (albums, movies) come from the 1990s only? ie, would it be incorrect to put Murder by Numbers for Sandra Bullock since this came after the time? User:Constafrequent (User talk:Constafrequent) 23:46, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) : Correct! --User:Lancevortex 09:39, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::Roger that. Over and out. User:Constafrequent (User talk:Constafrequent) 14:45, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) Random Passing Person: What about TV? Digimon(for the now University age N.Americans), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. What about Harry Potter? == Science, Technology, Culture == I wish the science section was more developed than the entertainer section. I added a line in the science section about the development of protease inhibitors and HAART for the treatment of AIDS since it had such a huge impact on mortality rates. Seems like there should be more to say in the area of science for that whole decade. Anybody know anything about physics, biology, chemistry that would represent a key breakthrough?User:Tobycat 05:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) : Couldn't agree more, Tobycat. Alas, Wikipedia contributors tend to add what they know about and more people are well-versed in entertainment than science. Says a lot about Western society I think! I also think that it's too soon to write a definitive list of the most important events of the 1990s; I think in 20 years time we may have a better perspective on it and be able to decide more easily which events were truly world-changing. I think even some of the science events listed here will seem quaint and old-fashioned then. Anyway, I realise this wasn't a very helpful reply, hopefully someone else will come up with one! --User:Lancevortex 12:15, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Millennia:
1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium
|- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. While optimism and hopes were high following the collapse of Communism, the backlash of the Cold War's effect was only beginning, precipitating the rise of Terrorism in 3rd world regions that were once the frontlines for American and Soviet foreign politics, particularly in Asia. ===Technology=== * The World Wide Web was born at CERN * Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology * Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity * Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) * Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM PCs * Development of free operating system Linux is started * Breakthrough of compact disc technology, later branching into DVD ===Science=== * Detection of extrasolar planets orbiting star other than the sun * Cloning (of Dolly the sheep) achieved * Human Genome Project begun * DNA identification of individuals finds wide application in criminal law * Hubble Space Telescope launched; revolutionizes astronomy * Protease inhibitor (pharmacology) introduced allowing HAART therapy against HIV; drastically reduces AIDS mortality ===War, peace and politics=== * Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990 * Gulf War and United Nations embargo on Iraq in 1991 * Break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 - the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world superpower. Debate over Military actions in Somalia lead to questions of the United States' role as a policing officer of the world. (see also, Black Hawk Down). * The bombing of the World Trade Center by an explosive-filled van leads to awareness of international terrorism as a rising threat. * End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela * Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994 * The birth of the "Second Republic" in Italy, with the Mani Pulite investigations of 1994 * Peace process begins in Northern Ireland * History of Yugoslavia in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia * North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen * A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland * European Union is declared in 1992 * The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in July 1, 1997 * U.S. president Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and his impeachment trial in 1998, which lasts the entire year * Anti-globalization protests * The Second Congo War start in 1998 in central Africa and includes 5 different cultures and 7 different nations. It goes on until 2002 ===Economics=== * Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions * After 1992 the booming of the US stock market, in reference to which Alan Greenspan coined the memorable phrase "irrational exuberance", which eventually stretched into the dot-com boom / dot-com bubble ===Culture=== * Douglas Coupland publishes the novel ''Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation born in the late 1960s and early 1970s (then college-age) * Grunge music gains widespread mainstream acceptance in the early part of the decade; alternative rock gains popularity as a result * Rap music gains widespread mainstream acceptance in the late part of the decade * Black becomes a dominant color in fashion, along with several dark colors (see Goth, the Matrix, and Regis Philbin) * Trance, techno electronic music becomes widely popular in Europe/USA * Dogme 95 becomes the leading European artistic film movement by the end of the decade * Video games become more advanced. The more influential game systems include the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sony Playstation, and the Sega Dreamcast, being one of the first to jumpstart the online gaming craze of the 2000s. * Extreme sports reached a new height in popularity, and by 1995, were given their own annual tournament on ESPN, the X-Games * Cartoons aimed at an adult audience become popular. Among the most successful are The Simpsons (1989-), Ren & Stimpy (1991-1995), Beavis & Butthead (1993-1997), South Park (1997-), and Family Guy (1999-) ===Others=== * Global Homo sapiens sapiens impact on the environment widely accepted * Divorce and scandal rock the United Kingdom Royal House of House of Windsor * Assassination of Selena Quintanilla * O.J. Simpson's trial, called by many the ''trial of the century'' * ''You go, girl!'' becomes a popular phrase in the media as feminism is more widely accepted and publicised in the media with The Spice Girls, the WNBA, Women's boxing, Sex and the City and others showcasing modern femininity. * The Vieques, Puerto Rico controversy * The Oklahoma City Bombing, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168. * Waco massacre prompts a nationwide debate in the U.S. about the freedom of association right of the Michigan Militia, Montana Militia and other radical groups * Crime levels in the U.S. peak late in the decade and begin to taper off * Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car accident in 1997. Debates of accident vs assassination rage. ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia) * Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia) * Prime Minister John Howard (Australia) * President Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (Brazil) * President Itamar Franco (Brazil) * President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil) * Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada) * Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada) * "Paramount Leader" Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China) * President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China) * President Lee Teng-hui (Republic of China on Taiwan) * President Franjo Tudjman (Croatia) * Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (Denmark) * President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) * President François Mitterrand (France) * President Jacques Chirac (France) * Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany) * Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (Germany) * Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (India) * President Mohammad Khatami (Iran) * President Saddam Hussein (Iraq) * Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel) * Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) * Emperor Akihito (Japan) * President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority) * Pope Pope John Paul II * President Boris Yeltsin (Russia) * Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach John Bruton (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Republic of Ireland) * President Boris Yeltsin (Russia) * President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa) * President Nelson Mandela (South Africa) * President Kim Dae-jung (South Korea) * President Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union) * Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom Commonwealth Realm) * Prime Minister John Major (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom) * President George H.W. Bush (United States) * President Bill Clinton (United States) * President Slobodan Milosevic (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) ===Entertainers=== * Adam Sandler * Anthony Hopkins (''The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Titus'') * Ashley Judd * Billy Bob Thornton * Bret Hart * Bruce Willis (the ''Die Hard'' series, ''Pulp Fiction'') * Dana Carvey (''Wayne's World'') * Demi Moore (''Ghost'', ''Striptease'', ''A Few Good Men'') * Ellen DeGeneres (''Ellen (TV show)'') * Harrison Ford * Helen Hunt (''Mad About You'', ''Twister (movie)'', ''As Good as It Gets'') * Jack Nicholson * Jerry Seinfeld (''Seinfeld'') * Jim Carrey (''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''The Mask'') * Julia Roberts (''Pretty Woman'', ''Notting Hill'') * Kate Winslet (Titanic (1997 movie)) * Kurt Cobain * Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic (1997 movie)) * Liam Neeson * M. Night Shyamalan * Mark Calaway * Meg Ryan * Mel Gibson (''Braveheart'') * Michael Jackson * Michael Keaton * Michelle Pfeiffer (''The Age of Innocence'', ''Batman Returns'') * Mike Myers (actor) (''Wayne's World'', ''Saturday Night Live'') * Mira Sorvino * Nicole Kidman (''My Life'', ''Eyes Wide Shut'') * Phil Collins * Quentin Tarantino (''Pulp Fiction'') * Ralph Fiennes (''Schindler's List'', ''The English Patient'') * Samuel L. Jackson (''Goodfellas'', ''Pulp Fiction'') * Sandra Bullock (''Speed (movie)'', ''A Time to Kill'') * Shawn Michaels * Steve Williams * Tim Burton (''Edward Scissorhands'', ''Batman Returns'') * Tom Hanks (''Forrest Gump'', ''Saving Private Ryan'', Philadelphia (movie), ''Toy Story'', ''The Green Mile'') * U2 (band) (''Achtung Baby'') * Uma Thurman (''Pulp Fiction'') * Whoopi Goldberg (''Sister Act'', ''Ghost'', ''Ghosts of Mississippi'', ''Hollywood Squares'') ===Sports figures=== * Andre Agassi (U.S tennis player) * Sergey Bubka (Ukrainian athletics) * Roger Clemens (U.S. baseball player) * Linford Christie (English athletics) * Dale Earnhardt (U.S. motor racing) * Brett Favre (U.S. American football player) * Paul Gascoigne (English football (soccer) player) * Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopian athletics) * Ryan Giggs (Welsh football (soccer) player) * Jeff Gordon (U.S. motor racing) * Steffi Graf (German tennis player) * Wayne Gretzky (Canadian ice hockey player) * Hicham El Guerrouj (Moroccan athletics) * Tony Hawk U.S. extreme sport athlete) * Evander Holyfield (U.S. boxing) * Miguel Induráin (Spanish cycling) * Andrew Johns (Australian Rugby League player) * Michael Johnson (athlete) (U.S. athletics) * Michael Jordan (U.S. basketball player) * Michelle Kwan (U.S. figure skating) * Brian Lara (Trinidadian cricket (sport)er) * Matthew Le Tissier (English football (soccer) player) * Mario Lemieux (Canadian ice hockey player) * Tony Lockett (Australian Australian Rules Football player) * Jonah Lomu (New Zealand rugby union player) * Greg Maddux (U.S. baseball player) * Mark McGwire (U.S. baseball player) * Karl Malone (U.S. basketball player) * Mark Messier (Canadian ice hockey player) * Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lankan cricket (sport)er) * Michael Owen (English football (soccer) player) * Cal Ripken Jr. (U.S. baseball player) * Patrick Roy (Canadian ice hockey player) * David Robinson (basketball player) (U.S. basketball player) * Pete Sampras (U.S tennis player) * Barry Sanders (U.S. American football player) * Michael Schumacher (German motor racing) * Monica Seles (Yugoslavian tennis player) * Ayrton Senna (Brazilian motor racing) * Emmitt Smith (U.S. American football player) * John Stockton (U.S. basketball player) * Sachin Tendulkar (Indian cricket (sport)er) * Alberto Tomba (Italian skiing) * Mike Tyson (U.S. boxing) * Courtney Walsh (Jamaican cricket (sport)er) * Shane Warne (Australian cricket (sport)er) * Steve Waugh (Australian cricket (sport)er) * Larry Walker (U.S. baseball player) ==See also== * 1990s music groups ==External links== *[http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/ 90s memories and memorabilia] 1990s la:Decennium 200 mi:Ngahurutanga 200 simple:1990s zh-min-nan:1990 nî-tāi
1990s
On the page about 1990 you say the following: End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela This is incorrect. The ANC were elected in 1994. :The page for 1990 notes Mandela's release and the legalization of the ANC, not the end of apartheid or Mandela's election, which you will indeed find listed in 1994. 1990s, the article this page is a discussion area for, lists important events that occur during the entire decade of the 1990s. --User:Brion VIBBER I suggest some kind of (maybe commonly used) classification for events and trends. Suggestion edited now to 1990s. Argument: after a while we are going to have mess of details at these decades and centuries near our time. In 20th_century there is also alittle different grouping... --- Aulis Eskola 27.4.2006 How about adding the 1997 Hong Kong hand over to China and 1999 Macau hand over to China ? ---- ==Music== Do all of the musicians on the list belong here? While many of them were major artists in the 1990s, some of them seem to just be there to point out that they were still making music at the time (such as Tear For Fears and ZZ Top), and others had very little impact. -- User talk:LGagnon : I agree LGagnon. There's definitely a lot of artists here who have only been added because they're someone's favourite rather than because of major sales or lasting influence. Many of them will be forgotten in 10 years time - in fact about half of them I haven't even heard of -- but that probably says more about my parochial attitude than anything else! But that notwithstanding, someone needs to do a cull. Personally I'd recommend ditching the entire list and just leaving the links to music of the 90's that are already there, before the whole page gets taken over by third-rate musicians. --User:Lancevortex 12:08, 24 May 2004 (UTC) :: I did some culling. More may be warranted, but I'll see if anybody begins screaming. I wouldn't be opposed to removing the lists of musicians, athletes and entertainers. ::: I think there should be a list of popular figures, but we should definitely be willing to cull when there are signs of people padding them. User:Average Earthman 09:48, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) The list definitely needed trimming, but why get rid of the whole thing? A list of the prominent and influential acts or albums of the 1990's has relevence. No such information exists anywhere else on Wikipedia. I understand getting rid of the 2000's list, but we have some hindsight on the 90's right? Can we agree acts like Nirvana (band), Spice Girls and Radiohead had some impact (even if you're not fans of them)? If society's views change later, then the list can change with them. User:Swidly 07:45, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) : I agree with you Swidly, but I thought that it was best to delete the lot and start again as it had become so diluted with acts of little importance. In my opinion, about 5-10 bands would be a reasonable number to show the most important and influential musicians of the decade. It's crazy that a list of musicians should so dominate a page which is meant to distill the most important events of this time period. I would welcome you (or anyone else) re-creating the (much shorter) list, but I fear that it is likely to go the same way again. --User:Lancevortex 12:08, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) == 1990s#Entertainers == Should examples of works (albums, movies) come from the 1990s only? ie, would it be incorrect to put Murder by Numbers for Sandra Bullock since this came after the time? User:Constafrequent (User talk:Constafrequent) 23:46, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) : Correct! --User:Lancevortex 09:39, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::Roger that. Over and out. User:Constafrequent (User talk:Constafrequent) 14:45, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) Random Passing Person: What about TV? Digimon(for the now University age N.Americans), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. What about Harry Potter? == Science, Technology, Culture == I wish the science section was more developed than the entertainer section. I added a line in the science section about the development of protease inhibitors and HAART for the treatment of AIDS since it had such a huge impact on mortality rates. Seems like there should be more to say in the area of science for that whole decade. Anybody know anything about physics, biology, chemistry that would represent a key breakthrough?User:Tobycat 05:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) : Couldn't agree more, Tobycat. Alas, Wikipedia contributors tend to add what they know about and more people are well-versed in entertainment than science. Says a lot about Western society I think! I also think that it's too soon to write a definitive list of the most important events of the 1990s; I think in 20 years time we may have a better perspective on it and be able to decide more easily which events were truly world-changing. I think even some of the science events listed here will seem quaint and old-fashioned then. Anyway, I realise this wasn't a very helpful reply, hopefully someone else will come up with one! --User:Lancevortex 12:15, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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