The 1990s
1990
- Under the theme "Adventures in Innovation - The First 100 Years,"
Stout kicks off a year-long centennial celebration at Family Weekend.
- Blue Devil baseball team captures conference crown.
- Nelson Mandela, South African black leader, freed after 27 years of
house arrest.
- U.S. military acts to depose Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega.
- Nolan Ryan pitches a record sixth no-hitter.
- Congress enacts Americans With Disabilities Act.
1991
- University of Wisconsin-Stout marks its first century as a leading educational
institution on January 5.
1992
- Boris Yeltsin announces Russia to stop targeting United States cities
with nuclear weapons.
- Riots in Los Angeles after verdict of "not guilty" in Rodney
King case.
- Bill Clinton is elected president.
- The Mall of America -- the largest shopping mall in the US -- is constructed.
1993
- Czechoslovakia divides, establishing independent Slovakia and Czech
Republic.
- Six are killed and more than 1,000 injured in bomb attack on the north
tower of the World Trade Center.
- Janet Reno becomes the first female Attorney General of the U.S.
- Large scale battle between US peacekeeping forces and local militia
in Mogadishu, Somalia.
1994
- Rwandan Genocide in Rwanda. 937,000 Rwandan Tutsis and Hutu moderates
died at the hands of Hutu militias and the Hutu-dominated government.
- The Channel Tunnel opens between England and France.
- Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
- The Republican Party gains control of both the House and Senate for
the first time in 40 years.
1995
- Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space aboard the Mir space station
breaking a duration record.
- Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed, killing 168 people.
- An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern U.S., killing at least
3,000 people.
1996
- Micheels Hall, housing an art gallery, a general access computer laboratory
and other educational facilities, is dedicated in September.
- One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states,
killing more than 100.
- Scottish scientists successfully clone a sheep.
- "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana
cabin.
- Bill Clinton re-elected president.
1997
- About 500 students participate in "WinTerM," taking classes
between first and second semester.
- Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state.
- IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer beat
a chess grand master.
- The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic
of China.
1998
- Service Management degree, the first of its kind, is launched in fall
semester.
- An earthquake in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
- 77-year old John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, returns to
space on board the shuttle Discovery, making him the oldest person
to go into space.
1999
- Instructional development team formed to deliver courses via the Internet.
- President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the US Senate in his impeachment
trial.
- For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the
10000 mark at 10006.78.
- Two Colorado teenagers open fire at Columbine High School, killing 12
students, one teacher and then turn their guns on themselves.
- Eileen Collins, the first female shuttle pilot (1995), becomes first
female commander of a space shuttle mission.
