Our Family History

The Genealogy of Robert and Christina Barritt

1988 - 1996 (7 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1988	1988: UK - U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner 1988: UK - Digital cellular phones invented. 1988: UK - The RU-486 'morning after' pill invented. 1988: UK - Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler. 1988: UK - Prozac 1988: Harvard, MA, USA - The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart. 1988: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Wall Falls
2	1989	1989: Alaska, USA - Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline 1989: Beijing, China - Students Massacred in Tiananmen Square 1989: Panama - Invasion of Panama: United States vs Panama 1989-1990. 1989: USA - George H.W. Bush president of the USA 1989-1993. 1989: USA - High-definition television invented. 1989: UK - John Major Prime Minister to 1997 (Conservative)
3	1990	1990: Kuwait - Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering first gulf war 1990: London, UK - Violence flares in London Poll Tax demonstration 1990: London, UK - Margaret Thatcher quits as UK prime minister 1990: South Africa - Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela freed from prison after 27 years 1990: Cape Canaveral, FL, USA - Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space 1990: Poland - Lech Walesa Becomes First President 1990: Geneva, Switzerland - The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. 1990: UK - Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier
4	1991	1991: USSR - Collapse of the Soviet Union 1991: Iraq - Operation Desert Storm 1991: South Africa - Apartheid Laws Repealed 1991: UK - The digital answering machine invented. 1991: Official End of the Cold War
5	1992	1992: Waco, TX, USA - Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
6	1993	1993: Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially 1993: New York, NY, USA - World Trade Center Bombed 1993: USA - William Jefferson Clinton president of the USA 1993-2001. 1993: USA - The pentium processor invented. 1993: Europe - Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France
7	1994	1994: USA - Lorena Bobbit Takes Brutal Revenge 1994: South Africa - Nelson Mandela Elected President 1994: USA - O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder 1994: Rwanda - Rwandan Genocide Begins 1994: UK - HIV protease inhibitor invented. 1994: Zaire - Ebola Virus Spreads
8	1995	1995: Tokyo, Japan - Gas Attack in Subway 1995: UK - Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated 1995: Balkans - Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina: United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia 1995-1996. 1995: USA - The Java computer language invented. 1995: USA - DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented. 1995: UK - Mad Cow Disease Hits Farms
9	1996	1996: UK - Two Royal Divorces 1996: UK - Web TV invented. 1996: UK - UK General Election: Labour routs Tories and Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister