1990-1993
Events
Music
TV
Movies
Sports
1990 Events
• The movie rating NC-17 is created to keep
children out of movies with adult content but
avoiding the X rating
• Iraq invades Kuwait
• Smoking on domestic flights is banned
• Dr. Jack Kevorkian assists in his first “mercy
killing”
• Nelson Mandela is Released from Prison
• Muppet creator Jim Henson dies
1990 Music
• The Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker
▫ “She Talks to Angels”
▫ “Jealous Again”
• Queensryche: Empire
▫ “Silent Lucidity”
▫ “Jet City Woman”
• Phil Collins: Serious Live… Hits
▫ “Another Day in Paradise”
• Wilson Phillips: Wilson Phillips
▫ “Hold On”
▫ #1 song of 1990
▫ Daughters of Brian Wilson, & Michelle & John
Phillips
1990 Music
• Mariah Carey: Mariah Carey
▫ Debut album
▫ “I Don’t Want to Cry”
▫ “Someday”
• Vanilla Ice: To The Extreme
▫ “Ice, Ice, Baby”
• Snap: The Power
▫ “The Power”
▫ Made digital hip hop a new genre of music
1990 TV
• New Shows
▫ “In Living Color”
 Keenen & Damon Wayans
 Jim Carey
▫ “Beverly Hills, 90210”
 Jason Priestley
Shannen Doherty
Jennie Garth
Ian Ziering
Gabrielle Carteris
Luke Perry
Brian Austin Green
Tori Spelling
▫ Seinfeld
 Jerry Seinfeld
 Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 Michael Richards
 Jason Alexander
• Top 5 Shows
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“Cheers”
“60 Minutes”
“Roseanne”
“A Different World”
“The Cosby Show”
“In Living Color, Fire Marshal Bill”
Beverly Hills, 90210
Seinfeld
1990 Movies
• Home Alone: An eight year left home alone,
defends his home against robbers
▫ Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
• Pretty Woman: A wealthy businessman and a
beautiful prostitute fall in love
▫ Julia Roberts, Richard Gear
• Goodfellas: Henry Hill and his friends work
their way up through the mob.
▫ Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro
• Back to the Future III: Marty must rescue Doc
from Mad Dog Tannen before Doc is killed
▫ Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Home Alone
Pretty Woman
Goodfellas
Back to the Future III
1991 Events
• Jan 17th - Operation Desert Storm begins-US
led allies vs. Iraq
• Apartheid is ended in South Africa
• Lech Walesa the Polish Workers President is
elected President of Poland
• Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the
Soviet Union and the Soviet Union officially
ceases to exist
1991 Music
• The KLF: The White Room
▫ “3 am Eternal”
▫ More digital music
• Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
▫ “It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over”
▫ Launches Kravitz as a hit maker in the 90s
• Nirvana: Nevermind
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Kurt Cobain, David Grohl, Chris Novoselic
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Introduces the world to “grunge” music
Seattle is home of “grunge”
1991 Music
• Natalie Cole: “Unforgettable”
▫ A remake of her father’s hit, but as a duet with him
▫ 1st of its kind
• Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch: Music for the
People
▫ Mark Wahlburg, the brother of Donnie from NKOTB
▫ “Good Vibrations”
• Pearl Jam: Ten
▫ More grunge from Seattle
▫ “Even Flow”
▫ “Jeremy”
1991 Music
• The Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kriptonite
▫ “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
▫ “Two Princes”
• Toad the Wet Sprocket: Fear
▫ “Walk on the Ocean”
▫ “All I Want”
▫ “Nightingale Song”
1991 TV
• New Shows
▫ “Darkwing Duck”
▫ “Rugrats”
▫ “Home Improvement”
 Tim Allen
 Starts Pam Anderson’s TV
career
• Top 5 Shows
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“60 Minutes”
“Roseanne”
“Murphy Brown”
“Cheers”
“Home Improvement”
Darkwing Duck & Rugrats
Home Improvement
1992 Events
• Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in
prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to
commit murder and racketeering
• Bill Clinton becomes U.S. president
• The largest shopping mall in the US,
Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed
spanning 78 acres
• Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate
1992 Music
• A New Diva arrives
▫ Celine Dion: Celine Dion
 “Beauty & the Beast” with Peabo Bryson
 “If You Asked Me To”
 “Where Does My Heart Beat Now”
• A Teen Superstar’s Father
▫ Billy Ray Cyrus: Some Gave All
 “Achy Breaky Heart”
 “Could’ve Been Me”
• The Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience
▫ “Hey Jealousy”
▫ “Found Out About You”
1992 Music
• Alternative Rock
• Blind Melon: Blind Melon
▫ “No Rain”
• Alice in Chains: Dirt
▫ “Rooster”
• Stone Temple Pilots: Core
▫ “Plush”
• One of the most successful movie sound tracks
• Whitney Houston: The Body Guard Sound
Track
▫ “I Will Always Love You”
▫ “I Have Nothing”
▫ 3 more hit songs
1992 TV
• New Shows
• 5/22: Johnny Carson hosts his
last “Tonight Show”
• 5/25: Jay Leno hosts his first
“Tonight Show”
• “The Real World” on MTV
• “Melrose Place”
▫ Courtney Thorn-Smith
▫ Jack Wagner
• “Hearts Afire”
▫ Markie Post
▫ John Ritter
• Top 5 Shows
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60 Minutes
Roseanne
Home Improvement
Murphy Brown
Murder, She Wrote
1992 TV: Melrose Place
1992 Movies
• Unforgiven: A retired gunslinger takes one last
job
▫ Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman
• Aladdin: A poor street urchin accidently meets
Princess Jasmine
▫ Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Scott Weinger
• Dracula: The vampire comes to London to find
his lost love.
▫ Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins
• A Few Good Men: A young military lawyer
defends two young Marines on trial for murder.
▫ Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Unforgiven
Aladdin
Dracula
A Few Good Men
1992 Olympics
• The 1992 Summer Olympics: Barcelona, Spain
▫ “The Dream Team”
 Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick
Ewing, Karl Malone, David Robinson,
Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Clyde Drexler,
Scotty Pipen, Chris Mullen,
Christian Laettner
• The 1992 Winter Olympics
▫ Albertville, France
The Dream Team
1993 Events
• Federal Agents lay siege to the Branch Davidian
religious cult complex in Waco, Texas on 28th
February, 50 days later a raid & fire kills 77
members
▫ Led by David Koresh
• The US and Soviet Union sign Start II reducing
nuclear warheads by 3,500 each
• Ty Warner USA launches the first Beanie
Babies
• The World Wide Web was born at European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
1993 Music
• Biggest Debut Album of 1993
▫ Ace of Base: The Sign
 “The Sign”
 “All That She Wants”
 “Don’t Turn Around”
• More Alternative Rock
▫ The Cranberries: Everybody Else is Doing It, Why
Can’t We
 “Dreams”
 “Linger”
• Country Superstar
▫ Shania Twain: 3 major albums during the 90s
 “Any Man of Mine” “Man!, I Feel Like a Woman”
 “From This Moment”
1993
• Rebirth of a rock star
▫ Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II, Back Into Hell
 “I’d Do Anything for Love”
 “Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer
Than They Are”
• The most successful female rap group
▫ Salt-n-Pepa: Very Necessary
 “Whatta Man”
 “Shoop”
1993 TV
• New Shows
▫ “Walker, Texas Ranger”
 Chuck Norris
 Sheree J. Wilson
▫ “Boy Meets World”
 Ben Savage
 Danielle Christine Fishel
▫ “Lois & Clark, The New
Adventures of Superman”
 Dean Cain
 Teri Hatcher
▫ “Frasier”
 Kelsey Grammer
 David Hyde Pierce
 Ran for 11 seasons
• Top 5 Shows
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60 Minutes
Home Improvement
Seinfeld
Roseanne
Grace Under Fire
“Walker, Texas Ranger”
“Boy Meets World”
“Lois & Clark, the New Adventures of
Superman”
1993 Movies
• Jurassic Park: During a preview, a power fail
releases cloned dinosaurs
▫ Sam Neill, Laura Dern
• Groundhog Day: A weather man is stuck in the
same day over and over
▫ Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell
• Mrs. Doubtfire: An actor disguises himself to
spend time with his children
▫ Robin Williams, Sally Field
Jurassic Park
Groundhog Day
Mrs. Doubtfire