Articles on 1990s in the United States, Including - List of California Ballot Propositions 1990 "1999, List of 1990s One-Hit Wonders in the United States, Publishers Weekly List of Bestselling Novels in the United States in the 1990s (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1990 to the present. *1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait leading to the Gulf War. *1991 - Oakland Firestorm of 1991 kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments. *1991 - Cold War ends as the USSR dissolves. *1992 - 27th Amendment, prohibiting changes to Congress members' salaries from taking effect until after an election of representatives *1992 - Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 hurricane, causes $26 billion in damage to Florida and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast, and will be the costliest hurricane until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. *1993 - Massive flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers devastate the Midwest *1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect. *1995 - Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation resulted in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols *1995 - Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The trial, which lasts nine months, receives worldwide publicity *1996 - Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia *1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996 (Bill Clinton is re-elected) *1997 - Sparked by a global economic crisis scare, the Dow Jones Industrial Average follows world markets and and plummets 554.26