This nice set of GIFs will make you recollect the memorable events from the recent decades.
1987 - Ronald Reagan asks Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"
1988 - The PEPCON explosion
1989 - The Berlin Wall comes down
1990 - The Gulf War begins
1991 - The Super Nintendo is released
1992 - Sinead O'Connor rips a picture of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live"
1993 - The first Intel Pentium Processor is sold
1994 - OJ Simpson runs from the cops
1995 - "Toy Story," the first film made entirely using computer animation, is released
1996 - Tupac dies in a still-unsolved homicide
1997 - Steve Jobs returns to a struggling Apple at that year's Macworld conference
1998 - The Monica Lewinsky scandal
1999 - Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour De France
2000 - George W. Bush is elected President following a contentious recount battle in Florida
2001 - The US invades Afghanistan following the September 11 terrorist attacks
2002 - The first detainees start arriving at Guantanamo Bay
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry
2004 - The Olympics return to Athens, Greece
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans
2006 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
2007 - The first iPhone is released
2008 - Barack Obama is elected President
2009 - Michael Jackson dies
2010 - An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig causes a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
2011 - Barack Obama announces the death of Osama Bin Laden
2012 - Mitt Romney and Barack Obama square off in the presidential race
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