THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN RELATION TO JOASH'S LIFE: part 2

1990:

1. I turn 3 this year, still can't remember shit but i'm quite sure i'm walking an talking like a normal child.
2. Apperently i didn't say a 1st word, but said a phrase, "gimmie that f***ing cookie b*tch!" (maybe not that phrase per se)
3. The first Macdonald's opens in Moscow, Russia.
4. Nelson Mendela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years behind bars.
5. The Royal New Zealand Navy stops it's daily rum ration.
6. East Germany holds it's first free elections.
7. West and East Germany unite on Oct 3.
   
8. The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.
9. Iraq invades Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War I.
10. The first known World Wide Web page is written.
11. Slobodan Milošević becomes President of Serbia.
12. Goh Chok Tong becomes the second Prime Minister of Singapore.
13. The East-West MRT line is complete.
14. Pearl Jam is formed! (whoo!)

1991:

1. I turn 4 this year. My life of eternal holidays are gone.
   
2. I am forced to go to kindergarten.
   
3. I cry for at least the first few weeks. My grandad wonders what horrible things are happening there and agrees to fetch me from school.
4. 4 Pakistanis hijack Singapore Airlines Filght 117, and are killed by the SOF.
5. Operation Desert Storm begins after Iraq fails to follow the UN deadline to withdraw from Kuwait.
6. Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
7. The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved in Prague.
8. The SNES is released in the US.
9. States like Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Latvia declare independence from Russia signalling the collaspe of the Soviet Union.
10. Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union.
11. The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist.
12. First GSM-phonecall rang in Finland.
13. A Michigan Court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian in assisting suicides.
    
14. Nirvana release Nevermind.
15. Grunge is in!
16. Freddie Mecury dies of AIDS related complications in his home.
17. Dave Matthews Band release their debut album (rocks!).
18. Eric Clapton's 4 year old son falls 53 stories in his New York apartment.
19. RHCP release Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
20. Bands like Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, L'Arc-en-Ciel, AFI and OutKast form.

more soon!







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