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1990 - South Africa releases Mandela Mandela free after 27 years Mr Nelson Mandela walked out of prison a free man yesterday, and within hours told an ecstatic crowd of supporters in Cape Town that the armed struggle against apartheid would continue. 1991 - Allies attack Iraq Kuwait's liberation begun, says US Bombs rained down on Baghdad and other targets in Iraq and Kuwait early today as the long months of waiting in the Gulf crisis finally ended. Allied planes launched wave after wave of air attacks on the city and on Iraq's Scud missile bases. 1992 - War in Bosnia Escape from Sarajevo Jordi had his doubts on Sunday morning. He wanted to leave. At 12.10 on Sunday afternoon a mortar bomb dropped out of the sky like a shot putt and killed him. 1993 - The middle-east peace process Symbolic gesture seals hopes to end blood and tears With faith, hope and a careworn charity, Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organisation shook hands on a joint accord at the White House yesterday and rolled the dice of history in what President Bill Clinton called "a brave gamble for peace". 1994 - Genocide in Rwanda Rwandan PM killed as troops wreak carnage The Rwandan capital of Kigali descended into chaos yesterday as troops, presidential guards and gendarmes swept through the suburbs killing the prime minister, United Nations peacekeepers and scores of civilians. 1995 - Unstoppable rise of Microsoft Bill Gates: The world's richest private individual Bill Gates, founder of the Microsoft Corporation, is the world's richest private individual, with $12.9 billion (£8.3 billion). 1996 - The Dunblane massacre Schoolchildren shot dead The small Scottish town of Dunblane was racked with grief and horror last night as details emerged of the killer who had lived in their midst until yesterday, when he shot dead 16 small children and a teacher in three minutes of carnage in a primary school gym. 1997 - Hong Kong transferred to China A last hurrah and an empire closes down With a clenched-jaw nod from the Prince of Wales, a last rendition of God Save the Queen, and a wind machine to keep the Union flag flying for a final 16 minutes of indoor pomp, Britain last night at midnight shut down the empire that once encompassed a quarter of the globe. 1998 - Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky Zippergate is a scandal for him, for her and for us Insomniacs and obsessives couldn't wait till the morning. They stayed up until 3am to watch Bill Clinton give his TV address live - and they weren't disappointed. It made gripping viewing. 1999 - Allies attack Serbia over Kosovo Defeating Milosevic: Troops may be needed As the bombers go in, for the first time in the long evolution of the Balkan crisis, the outside powers are directly confronting the author of that crisis. Always before, the Serbian leader has distanced himself from the tragic situations which he has played such a large part in creating.
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