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early 1990s
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1990s
<imagemap>File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The
Hubble Space Telescope
floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American
F-16s
and
F-15s
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 during the start of decade and as a result gains massive popularity worldwide;
Boris Yeltsin
and followers stand on a tank in defiance to the
August Coup
, which leads to the
Soviet Union
's
dissolution
on 26 December 1991;
Dolly the sheep
is the first mammal to be
cloned
from an adult
somatic cell
; The
funeral procession
of
Diana, Princess of Wales
, who
dies in 1997 from a car crash in Paris
, and is mourned by millions; Hundreds of thousands are killed in the
Rwandan Genocide
of 1994.|420px|thumb rect 1 1 147 118
Hubble Space Telescope
rect 150 1 419 119
Gulf War
rect 182 122 419 272
Oslo Accords
rect 275 277 419 411
World Wide Web
rect 119 276 274 411
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
rect 1 275 116 411
Dolly the sheep
rect 1 203 180 274
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
rect 1 120 180 202
Rwandan Genocide
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