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In the 1990's, America changed dramatically on numerous occasions wit deaths, tragedies, and uplifting occasions, all throughout the decade, for instance. The Hubble Telescope's launch in 1990 sped up humanity to one of its largest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope tat orbits Earth, its position is above the atmosphere, which blurs and blocks the light that reaches our planet, giving it a view of the universe that would typically surpass that of the ground-based telescopes. The Operation Desert Storm has also ad great affect on America on the 17th of January, Operation Desert Storm began with a coordinated attack which included, tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAMS) launched from battleships, destroys, and cruisers in the Red Sea and the Persian gulf. The TLAM launches opened a carefully crafted joint strategic air career. The initial barrage of over 100 TLAMS annihilated heavily protected targets in the vicinity of Baghdad and made a critical contribution to eliminate Iraqi air defenses, and command, and control capabilities. Something that also had great affect on the economy was the Cold War, towards the end of the 1980's, the Cold War came to a dramatic end, the economics of the nations behind the Iron Curtain were in trouble. People in East Germany for instance they could see prosperity and wealth of their West German neighbors. In Russia there were long lines of people waiting to purchase food. They had to heave coupons from the government in order to buy the things that some people needed. Some Historians believe tat the millions and billions of dollars that both the U.S. and the USSR spent on the conventional armies and Nuclear Arms had caused the problems in Russia. There was also a lot of paper demand for freedom in the citizens living behind the Iron Curtain. At 12:18 pm a terrorists bomb explodes in a parking garage of the United World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a huge crater at about 60 feet wide and causing several steel reinforced concrete floors when the blast happened. Now the bombing of the world trade center put a huge dent in the economy because just the World center itself cost over $500 million in damage, not including that the explosion took the lives of 6 innocent people and injured over 1,000 other people. On May 6, of 1994 the channel tunnel officially opened. The channel tunnel is approximately is 31.25 mile long tunnels that connect Great Britain to France's mainland. The channel tunnel which took 6 years and over $15 billion to build, it is considered one of the greatest feats of all engineering of the 20t century. On April 1995 the standoff between the Branch Dravidian and the FBI (led by David Koresh) at the Dravidian compound in Waco, Texas ended in a fiery tragedy. Wen the FBI tried to stop the problem by gassing the complex, the entire complex went up in smoke, claiming the lives of 75 peoples' lives including many young children. The death toll was high and many people blamed te US government for the tragedy. This was called the Oklahoma City Bombing. In England, one of the greatest natural disasters is the mad cow disease, ABC's correspondent Chris Clark reports tat the costs of health and economics loss in England barely can be imagined at tis state “he says” and te government should pay dearly for its mismanagement. Princess Diana of Wales tragically died after being involved in a fatal car wreck in Paris. She was taken to the hospital immediately after the car crash. Surgeons tried to save her but they could not, and she died at 0300 BST. At the palace the Queen and Prince of Wales made a statement saying “distressed and deeply shocked”. Prince Charles released the news of their mothers death to Princes Henry and William at Balmoral castle in Scotland. President Clinton was impeached after debating for nearly 14 hours, the House of Representatives approves the impeachment against Bill Clinton charging obstructing justice, and lying oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton is the second president to ever be impeached. Little over a week of striking air attack against Serbia are resulted in civilian casualties and taking the lives of innocent people and have damaged factories that were deeply important to Serbia and its wealth these attacks were known as NATO attacks.