Nineties history, facts, and party trivia are great ways to entertain at nineties theme parties! Take a look back at a time when huge leaps in the growth of the world wide web seemed to unite the global community in the nineties, the the gulf war in 1991 ushered in the decade and, Americans remembered, perhaps for the first time since Vietnam, that war is a reality from which no one is immune, and the closer we get to world unity, the farther we seem to push it away.
Captured photographically by satellites Voyager II, Galileo, and the Hubble Space Telescope, The Shoemaker-Levy comet, named after its founders, Eugene Shoemaker, Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy, was spotted at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, March 23, 1993, and its collision with Jupiter in July of 1994, has been compared to the one on earth that created what is now known as the Gulf of Mexico, and ended the reign of dinosaurs on earth.
The late nineties seem, in retrospect, to be filled with sadness. We watched as India-Pakistan nuclear testing began in the nineties. We saw the Hong Kong hand over, and the whole world mourned the passing of, not just a princess, but "The People's Princess," when Diana, Princess of Wales' life, which seemed to be steeped in sadness ended, on August 31, 1997.
The whole world watched "The Wonder Years" and knew the most famous zip code in America with "Beverly Hills 90210" . The world was shocked by the Bill Clinton sex scandal, as they were rocked by U2, Fiona Apple, and Nirvana. No matter what your take is on the nineties, they brought us to where we are today, and while the verdict is still out as to whether we have improved, stayed somewhere in the middle, or declined, they are far enough away to provide fun party trivia and close enough to not be too much of a challenge to younger guests at your nineties party. |
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