But What Year is It?

But what year is it?
Monday, August 6 at 7.30pm on Channel Nine

It was the year people across the world started to question their faith in computers, but the world’s biggest selling toy was a fluffy computerised pet called a Furbie – and it’s the next instalment on Channel Nine’s What A Year, Monday, August 6 at 7.30pm.

In fashion, Sass and Bide burst out of Brisbane and became a force of nature in the fashion world. While Australians went to the polls to vote on becoming a republic – and chose to keep the Queen.

On the sporting field, Tony “Plugger” Lockett made his 1300th kick for goal, finally overtaking the record set by Collingwood’s Gordon Coventry in 1937. We watched a young Queensland golfer named Karrie Webb win her first major and launch the most successful female golfing career the world has ever seen.

On the music charts, white rapper Eminem was rising to fame while two young stars of Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, were making their mark.