Frae left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space efter it was taen up in 1990; American F-16s an F-15s flee ower burnin ile fields in Operation Desert Storm, forby kent as the 1991 Gulf War; The signin o the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; The World Wide Web gains a public face durin the stairt o decade an as a result gains massive popularity warldwide; Boris Yeltsin an follaers stand on a tank in defiance tae the August Coup, which leads tae the Soviet Union's dissolution on 26 December 1991; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal tae be cloned frae an adult somatic cell; The funeral procession o Diana, Princess o Wales, who dies in 1997 frae a caur crash in Paris, an is moorned bi millions; Hunders o thoosands are killed in the Rwandan Genocide o 1994.
The 1990s (pronoonced "nineteen-nineties" an abbreviat as "Nineties") wis a decade o the Gregorian calendar thit stairtit on 1st Januar, 1990, an endit on Dizember 31, 1999.