George H. Bush Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
| 1989 | His inauguration as 41st President of the United States |
| 1989 | The Berlin Wall erected on 13 August 1961, fell on November 9, 1989, followed by the Collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War |
| 1989 | The Invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989 in order to bring the Panama President Manuel Noriega to justice for drug trafficking |
| 1989 | The Savings Loan bail out was one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of the United States. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) to ensure that real estate appraisals are performed to high standards |
| 1989 | The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska: On March 23, 1989 an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, left the Alyeska Pipeline carrying 53 million gallons of crude oil towards Long Beach, California. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran into Bligh Reef, Prince William Sound, Alaska spilling 10.8 million gallons of oil into the sound. |
| 1990 | The Hubble Space Telescope is launched on April 24, 1990 |
| 1990 | The Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China on June 4, 1989 |
| 1990 | The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed on July 26, 1990 |
| 1990 | The First Gulf War (1990-1991): Iraq invades Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and Saddam Hussein proclaims Kuwait as a province of Iraq. US forces arrive in Saudi Arabia on 7 August 1990 |
| 1990 | The Americans with Disabilities Act giving civil rights protections in employment to individuals with disabilities |
| 1990 | East and West Germany are reunited after 45 years on October 3, 1990. |
| 1991 | The First Gulf War Operation Desert Storm: Desert Storm begins on 24 February 1991 |
| 1991 | The First Gulf War: Iraq accepts conditions for a permanent cease fire on 3 March 1991 |
| 1991 | START the Strategic Arms Reduction Talk is signed by the President and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 31 July 1991 calling for additional disarmament of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons. |
| 1991 | The War in former Yugoslavia starts: The Yugoslav Wars (31 March 1991 – 21 June 1999) break out between Serbs on one side and Croats and Bosnians on the other |
| 1991 | 25 December 1991 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns to the new Russian President Boris Yeltsin |
| 1991 | The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War: The Soviet Union breaks up into independent republics on 25 December 1991 and the Cold War finally ends. |
| 1992 | The 27th Amendment was made to the US Constitution limiting how Congress can increase how much its members are paid. |
| 1993 | His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was Bill Clinton |
George H Bush Timeline of important Events |