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2008 — U.S. oil prices hit a record $147 per barrel in the wake of—among other factors—international tensions and the falling U.S. dollar vs. the Euro. 2008 — A global financial crisis begins as the stock market crashes.
The 1990s were also marked by a number of influential cultural events. The sitcom Friends debuted, while a landmark “show about nothing” ended. A little movie called Titanic packed theaters, becoming the first film to earn $1 billion at the box office. And when it came to music, grunge and hip-hop made a lot of noise.
6 wrz 2024 · The 1990s began with the biggest art theft in history at the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Germany was reunited after 45 years of separation, South Africa's Nelson Mandela was freed, Lech Walesa became the first president of Poland, and the Hubble Telescope was launched into space.
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August 2nd The Gulf War between The United States and Iraq started. The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes.
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