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90's


            
            
             The 90s have been said to be the age of information. There has been a great increase in the technological field of information. From the first fiber optic cable, to the latest palm sized cellular phone, this decade has found more new ways to communicate than ever before. Also, new global news satellites, and the way everything from money to information is wired electronically, have also added to this information age. A main point of this decade has been the use of the internet for at home purposes. With the internet we have been able to communicate and find more information than we ever have before. Of all the unfortunate events of the 90's including the Gulf War, the crisis in Waco, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the presidential scandals, the internet has probably been the most positive thing to have happen in this decade. .
             Some important people during the 1990s would be Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, Rodney King, Lorena Bobbit, O.J. Simpson, Yitzhak Rabin, Princess Diana, Tiger Woods, President Clinton, and JFK Jr. All of these people had their own affect on American life.
             1990- Lech Walesa became the first president of Poland; he was leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Polish people out of communism. Poland was the icebreaker for the rest of Central Europe in the "velvet revolutions".
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             He was born September 29, 1943, in Popowo, Poland. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel peace prize and in 1995 he was defeated in the presidential election. .
             1991- Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa. In 1993 he received the Nobel Peace prize and shared it with FW deKlerk, whom was South Africa's last white president. Mandela was in prison for twenty-seven years for advocating acts of violence against the government. He spent his years at the maximum-security Robben Island prison. After he was released was when he was elected as president.
             1992- Rodney King is beaten brutally for 19 seconds by a semicircle of the Los Angeles Police Department.


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