25 Years in GIFs (27 gifs)

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1988 - The PEPCON explosion

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1989 - The Berlin Wall comes down

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1990 - The Gulf War begins

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1991 - The Super Nintendo is released

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1992 - Sinead O'Connor rips a picture of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live"

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1993 - The first Intel Pentium Processor is sold

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1994 - OJ Simpson runs from the cops

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1995 - "Toy Story," the first film made entirely using computer animation, is released

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1996 - Tupac dies in a still-unsolved homicide

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1997 - Steve Jobs returns to a struggling Apple at that year's Macworld conference

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1998 - The Monica Lewinsky scandal

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1999 - Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour De France

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2000 - George W. Bush is elected President following a contentious recount battle in Florida

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2001 - The US invades Afghanistan following the September 11 terrorist attacks

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2002 - The first detainees start arriving at Guantanamo Bay

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2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry

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2004 - The Olympics return to Athens, Greece

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2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans

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2006 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion

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2007 - The first iPhone is released

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2008 - Barack Obama is elected President

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2009 - Michael Jackson dies

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2010 - An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig causes a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

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2011 - Barack Obama announces the death of Osama Bin Laden

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2012 - Mitt Romney and Barack Obama square off in the presidential race

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