• 1990
    • Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, setting off the Persian Gulf War

    • Euro dance band Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know Its True," and has its Grammy award revoked

    • M.C. Hammer wins Grammies for "U Can't Touch This"

    • Seinfeld debuts on NBC

    • SSTFY does "Wonderful Town"
  • 1991
    • South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws

    • The Buffalo Bills get into the first of four straight Super Bowls

    • Seattle band Nirvana releases the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on their album "Nevermind"

    • Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in a Florida movie theater for indecent exposure

    • "Camelot" is the SSTFY show
  • 1992
    • Violence erupts in Los Angeles after four officers are acquitted in Los Angeles for the beating of Rodney King

    • Eric Clapton wins Song of the Year for "Tears in Heaven"

    • Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time

    • Woody Allen and Mia Farrow engage in a very public and nasty custody battle over their three children sparked by Allen's affair with Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn

    • SSTFY stages "Peter Pan"
  • 1993
    • Federal agents besiege Texas Branch Davidian religious cult. The standoff ends with a fire killing 72

    • A bomb explodes in the basement garage of the World Trade Center; killing six and injuring at least 1,040 others

    • Steven Spielberg gets Best Picture for "Schindler's List"

    • Marc Andreeson, who later starts Netscape, develops Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It becomes the dominant navigating system for the World Wide Web

    • SSTFY puts on "Li'l Abner"
  • 1994
    • Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked

    • Ninety-five million viewers watch O. J. Simpson and Al Cowlings drive along Los Angeles freeways in history's most exciting low-speed chase, Simpson is arrested for the killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman

    • Sheryl Crow takes Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Performance with "All I Wanna Do"

    • ER and Friends debut on NBC, establishing NBC's dominance of the Thursday-night lineup

    • "The Sound of Music" is performed by SSTFY
  • 1995
    • Scores are killed as a terrorist's car bomb blows up the Oklahoma City federal building. Timothy McVeigh, 27, is arrested as a suspect

    • Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia dies

    • Album of the Year goes to Alanis Morissette for "Jagged Little Pill"

    • An estimated 150 million people watch as the not guilty verdict is read in the O. J. Simpson trial

    • The SSTFY show is "South Pacific"
  • 1996
    • The F.B.I. arrests suspected Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, who eluded them for 17 years, during which time he orchestrated 16 explosions that killed three people and injured 23 others

    • A 747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island, N.Y.; all 230 aboard perish

    • A bomb mars the Summer Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia

    • "The English Patient" is the year's Best Picture

    • "Brigadoon" is put on by SSTFY
  • 1997
    • 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit mass suicide believing that a spaceship was trailing the comet Hale-Bopp

    • Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a spectacular car accident causing a worldwide outpouring of grief

    • Elton John gets the Grammy for Male Pop Vocal with "Candle in the Wind 1997"

    • "Titanic" arrives in theaters,  the most expensive film of all time, and gets the Best Picture Oscar

    • SSTFY performs "The Music Man"
  • 1998
    • US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed. US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan.

    • President Clinton is accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky

    • Celine Dion gets Record of the Year for "My Heart Will Go On"

    • An estimated 76 million viewers watch the last episode of Seinfeld

    • SSTFY does "Robin Hood"
  • 1999
    • War erupts in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamps down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents

    • Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, storm Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, killing twelve other students and a teacher, then themselves

    • John F. Kennedy Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren G. Bessette are lost at sea when a plane he was piloting disappears near Martha's Vineyard, off Mass. Coast

    • Record Of The Year goes to Santana for "Smooth"

    • "Damn Yankees" is the SSTFY show