The Crazy 1990s!

By Jarrett Gingrich

• In 1991 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched

• The telescope has published more than 6,000 scientific articles!

• Every 97 minutes the telescope makes a trip around the earth

• The telescope was launched on April 24 from the space shuttle “Discovery”

• The telescope is 43.5 ft long• It weighs 24,500 pounds!• It cost $1.5 billion to launch!!

1991

• Operation Desert Storm started on January 17, 1991

• President George H.W. bush Senior was the president

• The operation last 38 days

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1992

• Rodney King started a high speed chase• Police officers beat him with their batons

and kicked him• Riots started because people started

thinking that racial profiling from police officers was occurring

• On February 28,1993, The FBI raided a cult compound in Waco Texas.

• The leaders of the cults name was David Koresh

• The cult was abusing children and storing weapons

• For 51 days the FBI tried to negotiate with the cult

• During negotiations, the cult let a number of children and a few adults go.

O.J. Simpson was accused of O.J. Simpson was accused of murdering his wife and her friendmurdering his wife and her friend

It was said that O.J. stabbed 2 people It was said that O.J. stabbed 2 people to deathto death

O.J was checked into Clark County O.J was checked into Clark County Detention Center and charged with 2 Detention Center and charged with 2 counts each of robbery with a deadly counts each of robbery with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon.weapon.

• Lots of DNA on the crime scene was linked back to O.J.

• A glove with blood on it was found on the crime scene and an identical glove was found on O.J.’s property.

• O.J. Was said to be not guilty

•On March 20, a cult named Aum Shinrikyo performed a sarin gas attack in Tokyo subways

•Members of the cult dropped bags of the liquid form of the gas on the floor and put holes in it with sharpened umbrella tips

•Sarin gas is 500 times more potent than cyanide

►The number of injuries that occurred The number of injuries that occurred from the attack is about 3,800 to from the attack is about 3,800 to 6,0006,000

►One victim who stayed on the train for One victim who stayed on the train for 40 minutes after the gas was released 40 minutes after the gas was released says he still suffers from shuddered says he still suffers from shuddered headaches and weight lossheadaches and weight loss

• A man named Theodore Kaczynski was arrested for being the “Unabomber”

• He was blamed for 16 mail bombs• All of the bombings occurred over a 18

year period

1996• The man killed 3 people and injured

23• He targeted mostly universities and

airlines• He was arrested by the FBI

1997• Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered on

March 22• It was discovered by amateur astronomers

Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp• Alan hale was in New Mexico when he

saw it and Thomas Bopp was in Arizona

When it was first discovered, it was When it was first discovered, it was 665 million miles away665 million miles away

It was named “the great comet of It was named “the great comet of 1997”1997”

1998• In 1998, the movie “Titanic” was

named most nominated film of all time

• It was nominated for 14 Oscars and won 11

• The movie cost $200 million to make

The film won many awards like:Best DirectorBest pictureBest film editingBest sound effectsAnd best visual effect

It is said to be the most famous It is said to be the most famous school shooting everschool shooting ever

The shooting happened at Columbine The shooting happened at Columbine High SchoolHigh School

They originally planned to kill They originally planned to kill hundreds of peoplehundreds of people

1999• On April 20, two teens named

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started a school shooting

• The shooting killed 13 people• The two also threw and set up

many bombs

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