Mandela released from prison
1990 · Event
Released after 27 years in prison; goes on to lead the ANC in formal negotiations to end apartheid.
On these timelines: Master, The Fall of Apartheid, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1990
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)