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  • 20 Sep 1992

    NASA's 50th space shuttle mission, STS-47, landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  • 12 Sep 1992

    Mae Jemison becomes first Black woman in space.

  • 11 Aug 1992

    Mall of America Opens its Doors to Shoppers.

  • 28 Jun 1992

    The third-strongest recorded earthquake in US history happened in Southern California.

  • 19 May 1992

    The 27th Amendment was ratified.

  • 13 May 1992

    Three astronauts, Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers, and Pierre J. Thuot, simultaneously walked in space for the first time.

  • 29 Apr 1992

    Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles.

  • 23 Feb 1992

    NASA successfully launched the third of its advanced series 2 GPS satellites into orbit.

  • 17 Feb 1992

    Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is jailed for life.

  • 4 Dec 1991

    Muslim Shi'ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years).

  • 24 Nov 1991

    STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.

  • 2 Sep 1991

    The United States announced its recognition of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania's independence as individual countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  • 19 Aug 1991

    Race riots break out in the Crown Heights area of New York city.

  • 18 Aug 1991

    North Carolina, US, was hit by hurricane Bob.

  • 31 Jul 1991

    US and USSR sign Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

  • 22 Jul 1991

    American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer admitted to murdering 17 people.

  • 29 Jun 1991

    A 5.6 magnitude earthquake dubbed the 'Sierra Madre Earthquake' occurred in South California and caused around $40 million in damages.

  • 5 Jun 1991

    NASA's STS-40 became the first spaceflight with three women to be launched into space.

  • 3 Mar 1991

    Los Angeles police brutally beat an unarmed Rodney King with batons up to 60 times.

  • 23 Feb 1991

    President H. W. Bush gave Iraq the ultimatum that they had 24 hours to get their forces out of Kuwait or face war.

  • 8 Dec 1990

    NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.

  • 28 Aug 1990

    An F5 max rating tornado smashed through Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 people, injuring 353, and causing $165 million in damages.

  • 12 Aug 1990

    The largest dinosaur fossil is found.

  • 10 Aug 1990

    After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA's Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.

  • 7 Aug 1990

    The first American soldiers arrived in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.

  • 26 Jul 1990

    Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is signed into law.

  • 22 Jun 1990

    The state of Florida banned thong bikinis at some state parks.

  • 14 Jun 1990

    Police checks on drunk drivers was declared constitutional by the US Supreme Court.

  • 17 May 1990

    The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.

  • 25 Apr 1990

    The Discovery Space Shuttle deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit.

  • 24 Apr 1990

    NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

  • 12 Apr 1990

    The 'Twentieth Century Dinosaurs' exhibit opened at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History.

  • 28 Mar 1990

    Jesse Owens posthumously receives the Congressional Gold Medal.

  • 18 Mar 1990

    $500 million worth of art was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, US.

  • 24 Jan 1990

    Japan launched its first lunar probe, Hiten, from the Uchinoura Space Center.

  • 21 Jan 1990

    American tennis player John McEnroe became the first player to be expelled from the Australian Open.

  • 9 Jan 1990

    NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-32.

  • 20 Dec 1989

    United States' invasion of Panama begins.

  • 3 Dec 1989

    Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declared an end to the Cold War.

  • 22 Nov 1989

    The Discovery Space Shuttle was launched on the fifth Department of Defense shuttle mission.

  • 7 Nov 1989

    New York City elected its first African American Mayor, David Dinkins.

  • 17 Oct 1989

    Loma Prieta earthquake rocks California.

  • 13 Sep 1989

    'Uncle Sam' became the official nickname of the United States.

  • 22 Aug 1989

    The rings of Neptune were discovered.

  • 8 Aug 1989

    The Space Shuttle Colombia launched from the Kennedy Space Center for a secret military mission.

  • 17 Jul 1989

    The Stealth Bomber makes its debut.

  • 21 Jun 1989

    Burning the US flag was deemed legal.

  • 5 May 1989

    Mike Tyson received his second speeding ticket while drag racing his Lamborghini in Albany, New York.

  • 4 May 1989

    NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle ferried the Magellan space probe into orbit.

  • 2 Apr 1989

    New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.

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