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Body Peircings, like tattoos, became popular as a form of self expression. It was especially popular among young people as a way to attract attention, much like today. People started getting tattoos and body peircings more and more to the point where almost everyone has one or the other.
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Christina set a goal at 9 years old to become a professionalsinger. After being on the show Star Search. She became one. She has since been travaling outof the country recording songs and even recorded a song for the Disney film Mulan.
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Dolly was a sheep that was cloned from Molly. This raised a lot of questions like why did they clone molly.
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The Persian Gulf War began when Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. Thirty-nine countries organized to help fight against the invading troops including America.
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The MP3 player was made for people that did not have time to sit an listen to a radio. The mp3 was a combination of music and technology.
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These became popular because of its "sexy" form-fitting spandex material. It was worn by Catwoman in Batman Returns, played by Michelle Pfieffer. Also worn by Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham. It wasn't worn for very long only a couple of years, except for by famous people.
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The creation of google made another search site that is fast and reliable. Google is really popular.
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Bill Clinton was elected during a term as governor for Arkansas. His main goal was to reduce the deficit and increase educational and economic opportunities.
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At 12:18 p.m a terrorist bomb detonated in the arking garage of the World Trade Center and caused several floors to collapse. THe explosion killed six eople and left thousands injured.
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THis was an armed conflict between a cult of Davidians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobaco, and Firearms. This event last fifty-one days and took the lives of eighty-four people.
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The Backstreet Boys are a five member all boy band. They won a grammy in 1998.
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The Spice Girls formed in the early 1990s in England. they had the best selling album throughout the 1990s too.
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Two US helicopters are shot down while on route to capture a terrorist target. 160 US Rangers and Delta Force soldiers were pinned down with limited supplies and no help. The battle cost eighteen US soldiers their lives and left seventy-three wounded.
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China detonates a nuclear divice and set the United States toward renewing its nuclear testing facilities. This lead to negotiations about where such divices could be used.
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Freinds was, obviously, about a group of freinds, Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Pheobe and joey and their lives, together, and apart. Very Realatable, and ver popular.
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The "Rachel" cut was inspired by Jennifer Aniston's role as Rachel Greene on hit TV comedy series Freinds. This happened because during the 2nd season Jennifer had blonde hair layered and cut short with brown lowlights. This was known as the "Rachel" cut. The "Rachel" cut impacted young girls, specifically teens and early to late 20's to die and cut their hair like Rachel Greene (Jennifer Aniston) and became "popular".
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Nancy Karrigan was an olympic figure skater. One of her team mates paid a man to club her in the knee. She thought she wouldn't be able to preform due to badly bruised tissue in the knee. She got to preform and won a silver medal.
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The creation of the playstation made another way to entertain people. A lot of people had them.
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O.J. SImson was pulled over after a low speed chase and accused -of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Richard Goldman. His trial split the races in America.
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George Clooney had his hair in an "ultra-short ceaser cut" in the mid 90's. The style became very popular for men and is still popular now. Men started to cut their hair short to look like george clooney and "attract woman".
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A 5,000 pound bomb explodes and destroys the north face of the Murrah Federal Buildiing in Oklahoma. It killed 189 people including nineteen children.
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The creation of dell made another type of computer. By the end of the first month that dell was released over 100,000 people owned a dell computer.
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The 1996 Olympics took place in Atlanta Georgia. There were more than 11,000 athletes participating in the event. Also there was a terrorist attack at centra olympic park 2 people were killed and 110 were injured.
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Micheal Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls. He won two gold medals at the Olympics and was NBA mvp player five years in a row.
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Kerri Strung went to the Olympics in gymnastics. She messed up on her irst vault and heard a pop in her ankle when she landed. She got up and couldn't walk because she tore two ligaments in her ankle. Some how she managed to do her last vault and landed it and won the gold for her team.
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Mia Hamm was one of the youngest team members in history to win the world cup. Her team also won a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Roseanne was a comedy about a modern family. lIt was a show that real poeple could connect to, but it was mostly about Roseanne Barr. It showed the real troubles of real families all around the world to it audiences.
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Grunge clothing was things like mens button up shirts or baggy sweaters . This became popular because Sara Gilbert wore these sort of clothes while playin Darlene Conner in the television comedy Roseanne. Girls liked to dress like Sara to become popular so many teens started to dress like Sara did on the tv show.
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Worn ripped up jeans became popular because actress Sara Gilbert wore them as Darlene Conner in Roseanna. Many girls also started to wear their jeans like this to be like Sara. The fact that girls were wearing their jeans like this meant that popular pants companies were going to start making their jeans alreadty worn and ripped up.
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Thirty-nine people were found dead in a mansion. This mass suicide was later called the Heaves Gate Suicide.
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Tiger was 21 when he won his first master. He was the youngest person to ever win a masters and got the title of the U.S. Junior National Championship.
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This movie was popular because it was based on the sinking of the titanic. Although, most young girls saw it time, after time because Leonardo DiCaprio was "Dreamy" and they admired and envied kate winslet (Rose Dewitt Bukater). This movie made $1,843,201,268.00 worldwide. It told America the true story of exactly how the Titanic sank.
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It was about 3 Sisters who didn't know they were witches until their 20's and they were the most powerful witches of all. the charmed ones. Many girls watched this show because they felt a connection with the sisters.
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Two high school seniors attacked their fellow students and teachers killing twelve of the students and one teacher. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had guns, knives, and bombs. The attack started at 11:19a.m. and lasted till 12:08 p.m. when they both commited suicide.
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Britney was 17 when she became number one on the U.S. poplist with the song Oops!...I Did It Again. She was also on the mickey mouse show.
