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Events on Monday 1 October 1990 2
1990Rwandan Civil War beginsRwandan Patriotic Front invades from UgandaOn 1 October 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front, made up largely of Tutsi exiles, invaded Rwanda from Uganda. The invasion began a civil war between the RPF and the Hutu-led government. The conflict simmered for years before erupting into the 1994 genocide.
1990Tim Berners-Lee proposes the WebHTML and HTTP invented at CERNTim Berners-Lee at CERN formally proposed the World Wide Web in late 1990, writing the first web browser and server software and implementing HTTP and HTML for the first time.