30 Facts From the 90s That Will Overwhelm You With Nostalgia

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26Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve

In 1995, Christopher Reeve starred in the film ‘Above Suspicion’, in which he played a quadriplegic character. It premiered 6 days before his horse riding accident.


27. An actor named Del Close died in 1999. In his will, he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.


28. On 18 May 1990, an English doctor named Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.


29. In 1994, a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.


30. In 1990, Donald Trump threatened to sue the stockbroker firm, Janney Montgomery Scott, after an analyst made negative comments regarding the financial prospects of the Trump Taj Mahal. The analyst was fired, refusing to withdraw the statement. The Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy later that same year.

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