1990s

File:1990s decade montage.png|From top left, clockwise: The '''[[Hubble Space Telescope]]''' orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16]]s and [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle|F-15]]s fly over burning oil fields in [[Operation Desert Storm]], also known as the 1991 '''[[Gulf War]]'''; the signing of the '''[[Oslo Accords]]''' on 13 September 1993; the '''[[World Wide Web]]''' gains a public face at the start of the decade and gains massive popularity worldwide; [[Boris Yeltsin]] greets crowds after the failed [[August Coup]], which leads to the '''[[dissolution of the Soviet Union]]''' on 26 December 1991; '''[[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the sheep]]''' is the first mammal to be [[cloned]] from an adult [[somatic cell]]; the [[Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales|funeral procession]] of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], who '''[[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|died in 1997 in a car crash in Paris]]''', and was mourned by millions; hundreds of thousands of [[Tutsi]] people are killed in the '''[[Rwandan genocide]]''' of 1994, which would become a factor in initiating the [[Second Congo War]] of 1998.|335px|thumb rect 1 1 385 312 [[Hubble Space Telescope]] rect 392 1 1101 312 [[Gulf War]] rect 477 318 1101 718 [[Oslo Accords]] rect 723 724 1101 1080 [[Internet]] rect 311 723 717 1080 [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]] rect 1 723 305 1080 [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the sheep]] rect 1 535 471 717 [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales]] rect 1 317 236 529 [[Rwandan genocide]] rect 236 317 471 529 [[Second Congo War]] desc bottom-left The 1990s (pronounced "nineteen-nineties", shortened to "the '90s" and often referred to as simply "the Nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined by many as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the war on terror of the 2000s.