Nineties PODs

Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

Banned
Here are some that I've posted:

1990
Indo-Pakistani war

1991
Major assassinated by the IRA
Union of Sovereign States

1992
Successful coup by Chavez

1993
Parliamentary victory in the Russian constitutional crisis

1994
Nigerian-Cameroonian war over Bakassi

1995
Juan Carlos I assassinated by ETA
French president Jospin
French president Emmanuelli
French president Balladur

1996
Peres wins the Israeli prime ministerial election
Russian president Zyuganov
US presidential candidate Powell

1997
Khaled Mashal assassinated by Mossad

1998
Bin Laden killed or captured by the US

More general
Uzbek-Tajik-Kyrgyz war
Padania
Turco-Syrian war over Syrian support for the PKK
 

aktarian

I noticed how few PODs/TLs deal with Chechnya even though there are host of potential there. Dudayev removed prior to invasion, 1994 war even worse for Russia/better for Russia, No Grozny 2, Basayev doesn't romp around Russia.....
 

SunilTanna

1990 After conquering Kuwait, and without waiting for Americans to arrive, Iraqi forces invade Eastern Saudi Arabia.

1991 During the Soviet coup, Boris Yeltsin stands on top of a tank in front of the White House... and is shot by a sniper

1992 Four white police officers convicted of beating Rodney King. There were fears of a potential riot in LA if the officers had been acquitted... but LA remains conspicuously peaceful.

1993 After a brief armed stand-off, David Koresh surrenders the Waco compound peacefully to ATF officers.

1993 David Platt is fouled inside the Dutch penalty area by Ronald Koeman during a crucial worldcup qualifying match in Rotterdam. The German referee awards a penalty to England, and sends Koeman off for a professional foul (neither of which happened in OTL). England win 1-0, and later qualify for the world cup in 1994. They are beaten in the semi-finals by Italy, and Graham Taylor is lauded as one of the greatest England managers ever.

1994 Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire (UN Force Commander in Rwanda) notifies the Military Advisor to the Secretary-General, Major-General Maurice Baril of plans for a potential genocide in Rwanda. French, Belgian and US airborne troops are sent to the country to prevent this. Many African leaders, and Republicans in US congress, later decry the West's over-reaction.

1995 O.J. Simpson Trial - O.J. Simpson convicted. Many people are later convinced of his innocence.

1995 Oklahoma City - Timothy McVeigh is arrested for firearms offences. He is latter to discovered to be plotting a terrorist bombing.

1996 Apple buys Be, Inc., and builds its next generation operating system based on BeOS.

1997 Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed both survive a serious car crash in Paris.

1998 David Beckham is given a yellow card after a retaliatory foul against Diego Simeone in the England/Argentina game in the round-of-16 in the World Cup Finals. Beckham scores from a free kick in extra time, and England beat Argentina 2-1, but are beaten in the Quarter Finals 2-1 by the Netherlands. Beckham's popularity peaks, but Michael Owen goes on to become a much bigger star of media.

1999 A nuclear explosion on the far side of the moon, causes it to leave the Earth's orbit.
 

ejhawman

1990: Saddam Hussain has an uncharacteristic attack of good sense
and realizes if he invades Kuwait the US will not be amused. He goes
on to get his Bomb several years later...

1991: Soviet hardliners execute their coup more competently; Gorbachev
and Yeltsin both end up dead. cold war goes into overtime, but the
USSR is still broke...

1992: Ross Perot decides definitely to run, early, and chooses someone
more articulate in debate than Stockdale (which is, anyone with a pulse)
for his running mate. (I wouldn't be surprised if he acutually did WORSE
in November...)

1993: 1 - River Phoenix lives.
2- Selena is not killed.
3- BATF is more sensible about apprehending David Koresh. They
pick him up while he is away from the compound on an errand. Without him,
the Branch Davidians do not resist the raid later that day.
4: The plot to destroy the World Trade Center is done very
differently, and succeds.

1994: Either Nicole Brown Simpson or Ron Goldman defends themselves
better, leaving their killer's blood all over the place, too much to just wipe
up. Possibly even leaves the killer dead...

1996: Bob Dole dosen't run, for whatever reason.

1997: Lots of people expecting Diana dosen't die...

1998/9: Clinton convicted.

Personal POD during this decade: 1992, I play some lottery numbers I
was considering, which are worth ten million dollars...

EJH
 

Blue Max

bm79 said:
Germany v. Poland 1991 style... definitely an interesting twist :p Makes the Gulf War look like a minor incident in comparison.
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Wait. Its some kind of law--If Germany attacks Poland, Russia has to attack Poland too!

And then it gets called a partition...
 

Joseph Solis in Australia

1990 - Iraq-Iran war ends.

1991 - Much earlier USSR collapse. Worst Persian Gulf war. Much worse economic recession.

1992 - George Bush lose soundingly to Clinton. Clinton 50%, Bush 32%, Perot 16%

1993 - Russian constitutional crisis foiled.

1994 - Worse Civil War in Chechnya.

1995 - Economic crisis in Mexico less worse.

1996 - Paul Keating won soundingly over John Howard (thanks to the rapid economic recovery in Australia). Clinton won over George Bush, 60% to 38%.

1997 - Asian Financial Crisis didn't happened but instead Asian economy grows faster.

1998 - No Clinton impeachment.

1999 - Civil War in Chechnya ends with Russian victory over Chechens.
 

Hendryk

Banned
January 1994: in Chiapas, southern Mexico, a Mexican soldier's bullet hits Subcommandante Marcos as he was leading his EZLN troops in the first phase of their insurgency. He dies shortly after. He is swiftly succeeded by a more radical underling, who decides to change strategy from one of local guerrilla to one of international terrorism. In the following years, Mexico and the US are wracked by a campaign of terror.

WilyBadger said:
1997 - George Lucas hires someone else to write the screenplay and direct the movie Star Wars: Episode I: The Rising Storm.
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The hired hand's first decision is to scrap Lucas's ridiculous idea to start the story with Anakin Skywalker's childhood, and instead makes Episode I the tale of his joining the Jedi as a teenager.
 
Prestonian

Prestonian

SunilTanna said:
1991 During the Soviet coup, Boris Yeltsin stands on top of a tank in front of the White House... and is shot by a sniper
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No wonder he was alcoholic - can you imagine standing on top of a tank in Moscow, and then the next minute you and the tank have suddenly moved thousands of miles to the west?;)
 

carlton_bach

Hendryk said:
January 1994: in Chiapas, southern Mexico, a Mexican soldier's bullet hits Subcommandante Marcos as he was leading his EZLN troops in the first phase of their insurgency. He dies shortly after. He is swiftly succeeded by a more radical underling, who decides to change strategy from one of local guerrilla to one of international terrorism. In the following years, Mexico and the US are wracked by a campaign of terror.
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A friend of mine who is generally well connected among Latin American leftists maintains that 'Subcomandante Marcos' is actually a fiction created by committee and has already been killed at least once.

A couple of ideas off the top of my head, without specific dates:

Indian and/or Pakistani nuclear weapons programme identified early by Western intelligence agencies. What happens once the press gets it leaked?

Germany's early-nineties xenophobic backlash leads to a stronger refoulement policy. The constitutional court does not stop this. As a result, the PKK (several senior figures having been turned over to the tender mercies of the Turkish government) begins a bombing campaign. Kurds become identified as an 'enemy group' by the German street and xenophobic attacks increase in frequency. By the late 1990s, hard-right parties gain enough votes and respectability to become a regular presence in state parliaments as many voters begin to think of skinheads as 'protectors'.

Iran decides to seriously contest Pakistan's hold on postwar Afghanistan.

Aum get their bioweapons programme right. Several thousand cases of anthrax in Tokyo. Worldwide fear of bioterrorism.

US Congress implements Internet user fee in 1996 on the assumption that non-institutional and non-US users are 'free-riding'. Service providers must monitor bnumbers of users and geographic origin. US government charges countries by those statistics. US users (unless affiliated with government organisations or schools, colleges and universities) are charged a flat monthly fee. Other governments follow suit. A competing, separate infrastructure is built up in Europe to avoid the US server fee, and the EU decides to charge US and other non-EU users by a similar system. Japan's government develops its own infrastructure and makes it free to citizens. By 2000, the internet is mostly a place for businesses and educators. Few private individuals bother to have connections, though many use it to do business from public pay terminals. Much less money in content. Private internet use is seen largely as 'an Asian thing'.
 

metalstar316

1990- New Kids on the Block burn to death after Donnie Wahlberg accidentally sets their hotel on fire.:D

*sigh* if only.... :(
 

Gracie

Banned
Salt Lake City is awarded 1998 Olympics

Originally, SLC was trying to get 1998 Olympics, lost the bid, and awarded 2002.

It becomes a terrorist target since security is lax.
 
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