Table of Contents
641 relations: Abuja, Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, Addis Ababa, Adil Çarçani, Adjournment sine die, Africa, African National Congress, African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, Aftermath of World War II, Alan Fiers, Alaska, Albania, Albania–United States relations, Alfredo Cristiani, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Allied-occupied Germany, Alps, Alternative rock, Amadou Toumani Touré, Amiriyah shelter bombing, Amsterdam, Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Andover, Kansas, Anglican Communion, Angola, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Apartheid, Archbishop of Canterbury, Argentina, Armed Forces of Armenia, Armenia, Arnold Rüütel, Askar Akayev, Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Asteroid, Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311, Atlácatl Battalion, Aung San Suu Kyi, Aurora, Australian Labor Party, Autarky, Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani language, Édith Cresson, Ötzi, Babi Yar, Ballistic missile, Baltic states, ... Expand index (591 more) »
Abuja
Abuja is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria.
See 1991 and Abuja
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of 11 March (Aktas dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo) was an independence declaration by Lithuania adopted on 11 March 1990, signed by all members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania led by Sąjūdis.
See 1991 and Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (fountain of hot mineral water, new flower) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.
Adil Çarçani
Adil Çarçani (5 May 1922 – 13 October 1997) was an Albanian politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Albania during the Communist era led by Enver Hoxha.
Adjournment sine die
Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a day") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a day to reconvene.
See 1991 and Adjournment sine die
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
See 1991 and Africa
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.
See 1991 and African National Congress
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde.
See 1991 and African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
Aftermath of World War II
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US).
See 1991 and Aftermath of World War II
Alan Fiers
Alan Dale Fiers Jr. (born 15 April 1939) is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, who served as President Ronald Reagan's chief of the CIA's Central American Task Force from October 1984 until his retirement in 1988.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
See 1991 and Alaska
Albania
Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.
See 1991 and Albania
Albania–United States relations
Albania–United States relations are diplomatic relations between the Republic of Albania and the United States of America.
See 1991 and Albania–United States relations
Alfredo Cristiani
Alfredo Félix Cristiani Burkard (born 22 November 1947) is a Salvadoran politician who was President of El Salvador from 1989 to 1994.
See 1991 and Alfredo Cristiani
Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Ali Mahdi Muhammad (Cali Mahdi Maxamed, علي مهدي محمد) (1 January 1939 – 10 March 2021) was a Somali entrepreneur and politician.
See 1991 and Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Allied-occupied Germany
The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.
See 1991 and Allied-occupied Germany
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
See 1991 and Alps
Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
Amadou Toumani Touré
Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020) was a Malian politician.
See 1991 and Amadou Toumani Touré
Amiriyah shelter bombing
The Amiriyah shelter bombing was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".
See 1991 and Amiriyah shelter bombing
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Anatolijs Gorbunovs
Anatolijs Gorbunovs, also known as Anatoly Valeryanovich Gorbunov (Анато́лий Валериа́нович Горбуно́в; born 10 February 1942), is a Latvian politician who served as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet during the final years of the Soviet regime in Latvia and as Chairman of the Supreme Council of Latvia during the first years after the country regained its independence.
See 1991 and Anatolijs Gorbunovs
Andover, Kansas
Andover is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States, and a suburb of Wichita.
Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
See 1991 and Anglican Communion
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
See 1991 and Angola
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro (16 February 1944 – 16 September 2016) was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001.
See 1991 and António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
See 1991 and Archbishop of Canterbury
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Armed Forces of Armenia
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia (Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan zinvats uzher, abbreviated ՀՀ ԶՈՒ, HH ZU), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (haykakan banak), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and the Air Force.
See 1991 and Armed Forces of Armenia
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
See 1991 and Armenia
Arnold Rüütel
Arnold Rüütel (born 10 May 1928) is an Estonian politician.
Askar Akayev
Askar Akayevich Akayev (translit;; born 10 November 1944) is a Kyrgyz politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution.
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991.
See 1991 and Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 was a regularly scheduled commuter flight in Georgia in the southeastern United States, from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Glynco Jetport (since renamed Brunswick Golden Isles Airport) in Brunswick on April 5, 1991.
See 1991 and Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311
Atlácatl Battalion
The Atlácatl Battalion (Spanish: Batallón Atlácatl) was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion of the Salvadoran Army created in 1981.
See 1991 and Atlácatl Battalion
Aung San Suu Kyi
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945), sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi, is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.
Aurora
An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
See 1991 and Aurora
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.
See 1991 and Australian Labor Party
Autarky
Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems.
See 1991 and Autarky
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (short title) or Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (official title), was the United States Congress's January 14, 1991, authorization of the use of U.S.
See 1991 and Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani or Azeri, also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch.
See 1991 and Azerbaijani language
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson (Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party.
Ötzi
Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC.
See 1991 and Ötzi
Babi Yar
Babi Yar (Бабий Яр) or Babyn Yar (Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
Ballistic missile
A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.
See 1991 and Ballistic missile
Baltic states
The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
See 1991 and Bangkok
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dal, BNP or Nationalist Party) is a major political party in Bangladesh.
See 1991 and Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier.
See 1991 and Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Bank robbery
Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence.
Battle of Khafji
The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War.
Battle of Vukovar
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991.
See 1991 and Battle of Vukovar
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
See 1991 and Beirut
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
See 1991 and Belarus
Belgrade
Belgrade.
Belovezha Accords
The Belovezha Accords (translit, translit, translit) is the agreement declaring that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had effectively ceased to exist and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place as a successor entity.
See 1991 and Belovezha Accords
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
See 1991 and Berlin
Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann (born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist.
Beta Israel
The Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews, are an African community of the Jewish diaspora.
Białowieża Forest
Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus.
See 1991 and Białowieża Forest
Bicesse Accords
The Bicesse Accords, also known as the Estoril Accords, laid out a transition to multi-party democracy in Angola under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
Biological agent
Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons.
Birmingham Six
The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.
Blast shelter
A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from blasts and explosions, like those from bombs, or in hazardous worksites, such as on oil and gas refineries or petrochemical facilities.
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.
Bonn
Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine.
See 1991 and Bonn
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.
Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea.
See 1991 and Bougainville Island
Bougainville Revolutionary Army
The Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) was a secessionist group formed in 1988 by Bougainvilleans seeking independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG).
See 1991 and Bougainville Revolutionary Army
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī; 14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.
See 1991 and Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Bravo Two Zero
Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
See 1991 and Brazil
Brioni Agreement
The Brioni Agreement, also known as the Brioni Declaration (Brijunska deklaracija, italics, Брионска декларација, Brionska deklaracija, Brijunska deklaracija) is a document signed by representatives of Slovenia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia under the political sponsorship of the European Community (EC) on the Brijuni Islands on 7 July 1991.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
Brunswick, Georgia
Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County in the U.S. state of Georgia.
See 1991 and Brunswick, Georgia
Bulgarian Socialist Party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (translit, BSP), also known as The Centenarian (translit), is a centre-left, social democratic political party in Bulgaria.
See 1991 and Bulgarian Socialist Party
Bundestag
The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament and the lower of two federal chambers, opposed to the upper chamber, the Bundesrat.
Cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.
See 1991 and Cable-stayed bridge
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cambodian Civil War
The Cambodian Civil War (សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា, UNGEGN) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong) against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom (both supported by the United States and South Vietnam).
See 1991 and Cambodian Civil War
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
See 1991 and Cambodian–Vietnamese War
Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
See 1991 and Cape of Good Hope
Carbon nanotube
A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale).
Carl Bildt
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994.
César Gaviria
César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party from 2005 to 2009.
Centre Party (Finland)
The Centre Party, (Cen; Suomen Keskusta, Kesk; Centern i Finland, C) officially the Centre Party of Finland, is an agrarian-centrist political party in Finland.
See 1991 and Centre Party (Finland)
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
See 1991 and CERN
Chadli Bendjedid
Chadli Bendjedid (الشاذلي بن جديد; ALA-LC: ash-Shādhilī bin Jadīd; 14 April 1929 – 6 October 2012) was an Algerian nationalist politician who served as the third President of Algeria.
Chandra Shekhar
Chandra Shekhar (17 April 1927 – 8 July 2007), also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991.
Chatichai Choonhavan
Chatichai Choonhavan (ชาติชาย ชุณหะวัณ;,; 5 April 1920 – 6 May 1998) was a Thai army officer, diplomat and politician.
See 1991 and Chatichai Choonhavan
Chemical Bank
Chemical Bank, headquartered in New York City, was the principal operating subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation, a bank holding company.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1991 and China
China–Vietnam relations
Relations between Vietnam and China (p, pinyin: Zhōng-Yuè Guān Xì; Quan hệ Việt–Trung) had been extensive for a couple of millennia, with Northern Vietnam especially under heavy Sinosphere influence during historical times.
See 1991 and China–Vietnam relations
Coalition of the Gulf War
On 29 November 1990, the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 authorized the assembly of a multinational military coalition to fight against Iraq in the Gulf War.
See 1991 and Coalition of the Gulf War
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.
See 1991 and Colonel
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Comecon
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world.
See 1991 and Comecon
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.
See 1991 and Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Nations membership criteria
The criteria for membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, which apply to current and prospective member states, have been altered by a series of documents issued over the past eighty-two years.
See 1991 and Commonwealth of Nations membership criteria
Commonwealth Secretariat
The Commonwealth Secretariat is the main intergovernmental agency and central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations.
See 1991 and Commonwealth Secretariat
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CP RSFSR; Коммунистическая партия Российской Советской Федеративной Социалистической Республики; КП РСФСР; Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Sovetskoy Federativnoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki, KP RSFSR), was a communist political party in the Russian SFSR.
See 1991 and Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.
See 1991 and Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist state
A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology.
Consumer goods in the Soviet Union
Consumer goods in the Soviet Union were usually produced by a two-category industry.
See 1991 and Consumer goods in the Soviet Union
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
See 1991 and Crimea
Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
See 1991 and Croatia
Croatian Parliament
The Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of Croatia.
See 1991 and Croatian Parliament
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.
See 1991 and Croatian War of Independence
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
See 1991 and Cuba
Cuba–Soviet Union relations
After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid and was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
See 1991 and Cuba–Soviet Union relations
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1948 until 1989, when the country was under communist rule, and was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest.
See 1991 and Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Davíð Oddsson
Davíð Oddsson (pronounced; born 17 January 1948) is an Icelandic politician, and the longest-serving prime minister of Iceland, in office from 1991 to 2004.
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period.
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Decommunization
Decommunization in former communist states is the process of purging former communist high officials and eliminating communist symbols.
Democratic Left (Great Britain)
Democratic Left was a post-communist political organisation in the United Kingdom during the 1990s, growing out of the Eurocommunist strand within the Communist Party of Great Britain and its magazine Marxism Today (which closed around the same time).
See 1991 and Democratic Left (Great Britain)
Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
See 1991 and Denver
Dhahran
Dhahran (translit) is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
See 1991 and Dhahran
Dirigisme
Dirigisme or dirigism is an economic doctrine in which the state plays a strong directive (policies) role, contrary to a merely regulatory interventionist role, over a market economy.
Disinvestment from South Africa
Disinvestment (or divestment) from South Africa was first advocated in the 1960s in protest against South Africa's system of apartheid, but was not implemented on a significant scale until the mid-1980s.
See 1991 and Disinvestment from South Africa
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
Douglas DC-8
The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
See 1991 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
Downing Street mortar attack
The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991.
See 1991 and Downing Street mortar attack
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines (also colloquially known as Eastern) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 to 1991.
See 1991 and Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.
See 1991 and Eastern Front (World War II)
Economic liberalisation in India
The economic liberalisation in India refers to the series of policy changes aimed at opening up the country's economy to the world, with the objective of making it more market-oriented and consumption-driven.
See 1991 and Economic liberalisation in India
Economy of India
The economy of India is a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors.
Economy of Poland
The economy of Poland is a high-income, industrialized, developed market with a mixed economy that serves as the sixth-largest in the European Union by nominal GDP and fifth-largest by GDP (PPP).
See 1991 and Economy of Poland
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
See 1991 and Egypt
Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
Elias Phisoana Ramaema
Major-General Elias Phisoana Ramaema (10 November 1933 – 11 December 2015) was Chairman of the Military Council and Council of Ministers of Lesotho (head of government) from 2 May 1991 to 2 April 1993.
See 1991 and Elias Phisoana Ramaema
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
Emir of Kuwait
The emir of the State of Kuwait (أمير دولة الكويت.) is the monarch and head of state of Kuwait, and is the country's most powerful office.
Eric Carr
Paul Charles Caravello (July 12, 1950 – November 24, 1991), better known as Eric Carr, was an American musician.
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher (born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology.
Esko Aho
Esko Tapani Aho (born 20 May 1954) is a Finnish politician who was prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.
Eswatini
Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government rebels from 12 September 1974 to 28 May 1991.
See 1991 and Ethiopian Civil War
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; translit) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1988 to 2019.
See 1991 and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) is a post–Cold War, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) institution.
See 1991 and Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD; French: Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement, BERD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991.
See 1991 and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
See 1991 and European Economic Community
Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.
See 1991 and Exxon Valdez oil spill
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas.
See 1991 and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
Fall of communism in Albania
The fall of communism in Albania, the last such event in Europe outside the Soviet Union, started in December 1990 with student demonstrations in the capital, Tirana, although protests started in January that year in other cities like Shkodra and Kavaja.
See 1991 and Fall of communism in Albania
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, abbreviated FMLN) is a Salvadoran political party and former guerrilla rebel group.
See 1991 and Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Fatos Nano
Fatos Thanas Nano (born 16 September 1952) is an Albanian socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Albania in 1991, from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2005.
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
See 1991 and Federal government of the United States
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania.
See 1991 and Federated States of Micronesia
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
See 1991 and Finland
Flag of Russia
The national flag of the Russian Federation (Государственный флаг Российской Федерации) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom.
Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (p) or FIS RF (r) is Russia's external intelligence agency, focusing mainly on civilian affairs.
See 1991 and Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)
Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
See 1991 and France
Franjo Tuđman
Franjo Tuđman (14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death.
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.
Frederick the Great
Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.
See 1991 and Frederick the Great
G7
The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member".
See 1991 and G7
Gamma ray
A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
See 1991 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Gennady Yanayev
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Геннадий Иванович Янаев; 26 August 193724 September 2010) was a Soviet politician.
George Carey
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born 13 November 1935) is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
See 1991 and George H. W. Bush
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
See 1991 and Georgia (country)
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
See 1991 and Georgia (U.S. state)
Gerhard Gesell
Gerhard Alden Gesell (June 16, 1910 – February 19, 1993) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
See 1991 and Germany
Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.
See 1991 and Government of Canada
Government of Haiti
The government of Haiti is a semi-presidential republic, a multi-party system wherein the President of Haiti is head of state elected directly by popular elections.
See 1991 and Government of Haiti
Government of Latvia
The Government of Latvia is the central government of the Republic of Latvia.
See 1991 and Government of Latvia
Government of South Africa
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system.
See 1991 and Government of South Africa
Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
See 1991 and Government of the United Kingdom
Grunge
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.
See 1991 and Grunge
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
See 1991 and GSM
Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
See 1991 and Haiti
Haiti–United States relations
Haiti–United States relations are bilateral relations between Haiti and the United States.
See 1991 and Haiti–United States relations
Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina.
See 1991 and Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
Hamlet, North Carolina
Hamlet is a city in Richmond County, North Carolina, United States.
See 1991 and Hamlet, North Carolina
Harald V
Harald V (Harald den femte,; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway.
Harare
Harare, formerly known as Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
See 1991 and Harare
Harare Declaration
The Harare Commonwealth Declaration was a declaration of the Commonwealth of Nations, setting out the Commonwealth's core principles and values, detailing the Commonwealth's membership criteria, and redefining and reinforcing its purpose.
See 1991 and Harare Declaration
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
See 1991 and Hawaii
Heart cancer
Heart cancer is an extremely rare form of cancer that is divided into primary tumors of the heart and secondary tumors of the heart.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
History of Formula One
Formula One automobile racing has its roots in the European Grand Prix championships of the 1920s and 1930s, though the foundation of the modern Formula One began in 1946 with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) standardisation of rules, which was followed by a World Championship of Drivers in 1950.
See 1991 and History of Formula One
History of São Tomé and Príncipe
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were uninhabited at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese sometime between 1469 and 1471.
See 1991 and History of São Tomé and Príncipe
History of the Jews in Ukraine
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century).
See 1991 and History of the Jews in Ukraine
HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
House arrest
In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence.
House banking scandal
The House banking scandal broke in early 1992, when it was revealed that the US House of Representatives allowed its members to overdraw their House checking accounts without the risk of being penalized by the House bank, which was actually a clearinghouse.
See 1991 and House banking scandal
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
See 1991 and Hungary
Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California.
See 1991 and Huntington Library
Hurricane Bob
Hurricane Bob was one of the costliest hurricanes in New England history.
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
See 1991 and Iceland
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
See 1991 and India
Indian National Congress
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
See 1991 and Indiana
Indianapolis
Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.
Ingvar Carlsson
Gösta Ingvar Carlsson (born 9 November 1934) is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996.
Inkatha Freedom Party
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP; IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko) is a conservative political party in South Africa, which is a part of the current South African government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC).
See 1991 and Inkatha Freedom Party
Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey is an academic journal publishing peer-reviewed articles on Turkish politics since 1999.
International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.
See 1991 and International Atomic Energy Agency
International community
The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.
See 1991 and International community
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
See 1991 and International Olympic Committee
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council.
See 1991 and Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Iraq disarmament crisis
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003.
See 1991 and Iraq disarmament crisis
Iraq–Israel relations
Iraq–Israel relations refer to the bilateral ties between the State of Israel and the Republic of Iraq.
See 1991 and Iraq–Israel relations
Iraq–Russia relations
Iraq–Russia relations (Российско–иракские отношения, العلاقات الروسية العراقية) are the bilateral relations between Iraq and Russia and, prior to Russia's independence, between Iraq and the Soviet Union.
See 1991 and Iraq–Russia relations
Iraqi Armed Forces
The Iraqi Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Iraq.
See 1991 and Iraqi Armed Forces
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War.
See 1991 and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
See 1991 and Israel
Israel–Russia relations
The State of Israel is represented in the Russian Federation through an embassy in Moscow and a consulate-general (to be opened) in Yekaterinburg.
See 1991 and Israel–Russia relations
Italian invasion of Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom in 1939.
See 1991 and Italian invasion of Albania
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
See 1991 and Italy
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (29 June 1926 – 15 January 2006) (translit) or Jaber III was Emir of Kuwait from 31 December 1977 until his death in 2006.
See 1991 and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Jackie Mann
Jackie Mann, (11 June 1914 – 12 November 1995) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, who in later life was kidnapped by Islamists in Lebanon in May 1989 and held hostage for more than two years.
James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
January Events
The January Events (Sausio įvykiai) were a series of violent confrontations between the civilian population of Lithuania, supporting independence, and the Soviet Armed Forces.
Japan–Soviet Union relations
Relations between the Soviet Union and Japan between the Communist takeover in 1917 and the collapse of Communism in 1991 tended to be hostile.
See 1991 and Japan–Soviet Union relations
Jatiya Sangsad
The Jatiya Sangsad (translit), often simply referred to as Sangsad and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991.
See 1991 and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president.
See 1991 and Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude Duvalier (3 July 19514 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (Bébé Doc, Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
See 1991 and Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jeddah
Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (جِدَّة|Jidda), is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.
See 1991 and Jeddah
John Heinz
Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 – April 4, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1977 until his death in 1991.
John Leonard Orr
John Leonard Orr (born) is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.
John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985.
Joint European Torus
The Joint European Torus (JET) was a magnetically confined plasma physics experiment, located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK.
See 1991 and Joint European Torus
Justin Lekhanya
General Justin Metsing Lekhanya (7 April 1938 – 20 January 2021) was the Minister of Defence and Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (head of government) from 24 January 1986 to 2 May 1991.
Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
See 1991 and Kansas
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
KDVR
KDVR (channel 31) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.
See 1991 and KDVR
KGB
The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.
See 1991 and KGB
Khaleda Zia
Begum Khaleda Zia (born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006.
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
Khojavend District
Khojavend District (Xocavənd rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan.
See 1991 and Khojavend District
Kiss (band)
Kiss (often styled as KISS) was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass guitar), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals) and Peter Criss (drums, vocals).
Kokkadichcholai
Kokkadichcholai (கொக்கட்டிச்சோலை) is a village in Batticaloa District within the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
Kommersant
(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.
Kuril Islands dispute
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands.
See 1991 and Kuril Islands dispute
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
See 1991 and Kuwait
Kuwaiti oil fires
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led coalition forces in the Gulf War.
See 1991 and Kuwaiti oil fires
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
La Repubblica
(English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023.
Lagos
Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.
See 1991 and Lagos
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
See 1991 and Latvia
Lauda Air Flight 004
Lauda Air Flight 004 (NG004/LDA004) was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Vienna, Austria.
See 1991 and Lauda Air Flight 004
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
See 1991 and Lebanon
Lebanon hostage crisis
The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height.
See 1991 and Lebanon hostage crisis
Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
The Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa) is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador.
See 1991 and Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
See 1991 and Lesotho
LGBT rights by country or territory
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality.
See 1991 and LGBT rights by country or territory
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; translit, translit; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
See 1991 and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Licence Raj
The Licence Raj or Permit Raj (rāj, meaning "rule" in Hindi) is a pejorative for the system of strict government control and regulation of the Indian economy that was in place from the 1950s to the early 1990s.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
See 1991 and Linux
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
See 1991 and Lisbon
List of bank mergers in the United States
This is a partial list of major banking company mergers in the United States.
See 1991 and List of bank mergers in the United States
List of heads of state of Mali
This is a list of heads of state of Mali since the country gained independence from France in 1960.
See 1991 and List of heads of state of Mali
List of heads of state of the Soviet Union
The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (between 1938 and 1989) and the earlier Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of Soviets (between 1922 and 1938) as the highest organs of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between legislative sessions.
See 1991 and List of heads of state of the Soviet Union
List of monarchs of Prussia
The Monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia.
See 1991 and List of monarchs of Prussia
List of prime ministers of Cape Verde
This article lists the prime ministers of Cape Verde, an island country in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, since the establishment of the office of prime minister in 1975.
See 1991 and List of prime ministers of Cape Verde
List of Serbian paramilitary formations
This is a list of Serbian paramilitary units and formations throughout history.
See 1991 and List of Serbian paramilitary formations
List of states with limited recognition
A number of polities have declared independence and sought diplomatic recognition from the international community as sovereign states, but have not been universally recognised as such.
See 1991 and List of states with limited recognition
List of volcanoes in Japan
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Japan.
See 1991 and List of volcanoes in Japan
Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
Livorno
Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.
See 1991 and Livorno
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
See 1991 and London
London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.
See 1991 and London Paddington station
London Victoria station
Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.
See 1991 and London Victoria station
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California.
See 1991 and Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
See 1991 and Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles runway disaster
On the evening of February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
See 1991 and Los Angeles runway disaster
Macedonia naming dispute
The use of the country name "Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) between 1991 and 2019.
See 1991 and Macedonia naming dispute
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
See 1991 and Mali
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (27 August 1928 – 9 September 2023) was a South African politician and Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023.
See 1991 and Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.
Manufacturers Hanover Corporation
Manufacturers Hanover Corporation was an American bank holding company that was formed as parent of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, a large New York City bank formed through a merger in 1961.
See 1991 and Manufacturers Hanover Corporation
Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
Maronites
Maronites (Al-Mawārinah; Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon.
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
Mauritania–Senegal Border War
The Mauritania–Senegal Border War was a conflict fought between the West African countries of Mauritania and Senegal along their shared border from 1989 to 1991.
See 1991 and Mauritania–Senegal Border War
Medininkai
Medininkai (Меднікі; Ме́дники, old Мьдники) is a village in Lithuania.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማርያም, pronunciation:; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian former politician and former military officer who was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991.
See 1991 and Mengistu Haile Mariam
Merion Station, Pennsylvania
Merion Station, also known as Merion, is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
See 1991 and Merion Station, Pennsylvania
Mesut Yılmaz
Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
See 1991 and Mexico
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes.
See 1991 and Michael Schumacher
Michel Aoun
Michel Naim Aoun (ميشال نعيمعون,; born 30 September 1933) is a Lebanese politician and former military general who served as the President of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 until 30 October 2022.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
See 1991 and Midwestern United States
Miguel Trovoada
Miguel dos Anjos da Cunha Lisboa Trovoada (born 27 December 1936) was the prime minister from 1975 to 1979 and second president of São Tomé and Príncipe 1991 to 2001.
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and is scheduled to compete once again in 2024.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
See 1991 and Mikhail Gorbachev
Mil Mi-8
The Mil Mi-8 (Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968.
Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)
The Military Intelligence Corps is the intelligence branch of the United States Army.
See 1991 and Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)
Minister of Finance (India)
The Minister of Finance (Vitta Mantrī) (or simply, the Finance Minister, short form FM) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India.
See 1991 and Minister of Finance (India)
Ministry of foreign affairs
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad.
See 1991 and Ministry of foreign affairs
Miss Black America
The Miss Black America beauty contest is a competition for young African-American women.
See 1991 and Miss Black America
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.
See 1991 and Moldova
Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.
See 1991 and Moment magnitude scale
Monarchy of Norway
The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system.
See 1991 and Monarchy of Norway
Monarchy of the United Kingdom
The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.
See 1991 and Monarchy of the United Kingdom
Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
See 1991 and Moscow
Mouloud Hamrouche
Mouloud Hamrouche (مولود حمروش; born 3 January 1943) was the head of government of Algeria from 9 September 1989 to 5 June 1991.
See 1991 and Mouloud Hamrouche
Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon island of the Philippines.
Mount Unzen
is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island.
Moussa Traoré
Moussa Traoré (25 September 1936 – 15 September 2020) was a Malian soldier, politician, and dictator who was President of Mali from 1968 to 1991.
MPLA
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), from 1977–1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party, is an Angolan social democratic political party.
See 1991 and MPLA
MTS Oceanos
MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 when she suffered uncontrolled flooding.
Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya
Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (مخابرات الجماهيرية) (Intelligence of the Jamahiriya) was the national intelligence service of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi.
See 1991 and Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya
Multi-party system
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections.
See 1991 and Multi-party system
Murder of Harry Collinson
The murder of Harry Collinson, the planning officer for Derwentside District Council, occurred on 20 June 1991 at Butsfield, County Durham, England.
See 1991 and Murder of Harry Collinson
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist.
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923.
See 1991 and Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
See 1991 and NASA
National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
The National Assembly (Milli Məclis), also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan.
See 1991 and National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
National flag
A national flag is a flag that represents and symbolizes a given nation.
National Geophysical Data Center
The United States National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provided scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space.
See 1991 and National Geophysical Data Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
See 1991 and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Peace Keeping Council
The National Peace Keeping Council (NPKC) (คณะรักษาความสงบเรียบร้อยแห่งชาติ.) was the name assumed by a Thai military junta that overthrew the elected civilian government of Chatichai Choonhavan in 1991.
See 1991 and National Peace Keeping Council
Nationalist Republican Alliance
The Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, abbreviated ARENA) is a conservative, center-right to right-wing political party of El Salvador.
See 1991 and Nationalist Republican Alliance
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
Nature Portfolio
Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
See 1991 and Nepal
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nevermind
Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records.
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New Front for Democracy and Development
The New Front for Democracy and Development (Nieuw Front voor Democratie en Ontwikkeling) was a social-democratic political alliance in Suriname.
See 1991 and New Front for Democracy and Development
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Nicéphore Soglo
Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo (born November 29, 1934) is a Beninese politician who was Prime Minister of Benin from 1990 to 1991 and President from 1991 to 1996.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
See 1991 and Nigeria
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a chartered passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria, on 11 July 1991, which caught fire shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport and crashed while attempting to return for an emergency landing, killing all 247 passengers and 14 crew members on board.
See 1991 and Nigeria Airways Flight 2120
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.
See 1991 and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
See 1991 and Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
See 1991 and Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
See 1991 and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nolisair
Nolisair was a Canadian company, the parent company of Nationair Canada, a Canadian airline, and of Technair, an aircraft maintenance company.
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk (31 October 192215 October 2012) was a member of the Cambodian royal house who led the country as King and Prime Minister.
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.
Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.
See 1991 and Northeastern United States
Oakland firestorm of 1991
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23.
See 1991 and Oakland firestorm of 1991
Oakland Hills, Oakland, California
Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California.
See 1991 and Oakland Hills, Oakland, California
Olav V
Olav V (born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.
See 1991 and Olav V
Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
OMON
OMON is a system of Military special police units within the Armed Forces of Russia.
See 1991 and OMON
Operation Solomon
Operation Solomon (מבצע שלמה, Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert Israeli military operation from May 24 to 25, 1991, to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
See 1991 and Operation Solomon
Operation Uphold Democracy
Operation Uphold Democracy was a multinational military intervention designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
See 1991 and Operation Uphold Democracy
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.
See 1991 and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Ormoc
Ormoc (IPA: ʔoɾˈmok), officially the City of Ormoc (Dakbayan sa Ormoc; Syudad han Ormoc; Lungsod ng Ormoc), is a 1st class independent component city in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
See 1991 and Ormoc
Otava (publisher)
Otava Publishing Company Ltd (Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, Förlagsaktiebolaget Otava) is a major Finnish publisher of books.
See 1991 and Otava (publisher)
Palestinian prisoners in Israel
The future of Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
See 1991 and Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Pan Am
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
See 1991 and Pan Am
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.
See 1991 and Pan Am Flight 103
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
See 1991 and Panama
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
See 1991 and Paris
Parliament of Albania
The Parliament of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) or Kuvendi is the unicameral representative body of the citizens of the Republic of Albania; it is Albania's legislature.
See 1991 and Parliament of Albania
Parliament of Finland
The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.
See 1991 and Parliament of Finland
Parliament of South Africa
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces.
See 1991 and Parliament of South Africa
Party of Labour of Albania
The Party of Labour of Albania (PLA), also referred to as the Albanian Workers' Party (AWP), was the ruling and sole legal party of Albania during the communist period (1945–1991).
See 1991 and Party of Labour of Albania
Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Pedro Pires
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was a socialist state that existed in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea from 1987 to 1991.
See 1991 and People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
People's Republic of Kampuchea
The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1989.
See 1991 and People's Republic of Kampuchea
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
The People's Socialist Republic of Albania (Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë), officially the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 until 1976, and from 1991 to 1992 as the Republic of Albania, was the one-party communist state in Albania from 1946 to 1991.
See 1991 and People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
See 1991 and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Planned economy
A planned economy is a type of economic system where the distribution of goods and services or the investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economic plans that are either economy-wide or limited to a category of goods and services.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
See 1991 and Poland
Politics of Haiti
The politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic, where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.
See 1991 and Politics of Haiti
Politics of Papua New Guinea
The politics of Papua New Guinea takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system, whereby the prime minister is the head of government.
See 1991 and Politics of Papua New Guinea
Politics of Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country located in West Africa, known officially as the Republic of Sierra Leone.
See 1991 and Politics of Sierra Leone
Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
Population Registration Act, 1950
The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid.
See 1991 and Population Registration Act, 1950
Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
See 1991 and Post-Soviet states
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.
See 1991 and Potsdam
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
See 1991 and Prague
President of Albania
The president of Albania (Presidenti i Shqipërisë), officially styled the President of the Republic of Albania (Presidenti i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military and the representative of the unity of the Albanian people.
See 1991 and President of Albania
President of Algeria
The president of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (translit) is the head of state and chief executive of Algeria, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Algerian People's National Armed Forces.
See 1991 and President of Algeria
President of Bangladesh
The President of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতি —) officially the president of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতি —) is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
See 1991 and President of Bangladesh
President of Colombia
The President of Colombia (President of the Republic) is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Colombia.
See 1991 and President of Colombia
President of Croatia
The president of Croatia, officially the president of the Republic of Croatia (Predsjednik Republike Hrvatske), is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military and chief representative of the Republic of Croatia both within the country and abroad.
See 1991 and President of Croatia
President of El Salvador
The president of El Salvador (presidente de El Salvador), officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador (Presidente de la República de El Salvador), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador.
See 1991 and President of El Salvador
President of Georgia
The president of Georgia (tr) is the ceremonial head of state of Georgia as well as the commander-in-chief of the Defense Forces.
See 1991 and President of Georgia
President of Kyrgyzstan
The president of Kyrgyzstan, officially the president of the Kyrgyz Republic (translit; translit), is the head of state and head of government of the Kyrgyz Republic.
See 1991 and President of Kyrgyzstan
President of Russia
The president of the Russian Federation (Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia.
See 1991 and President of Russia
President of Somalia
The president of Somalia (Madaxaweynaha Soomaaliya) is the head of state of Somalia.
See 1991 and President of Somalia
President of the Soviet Union
The President of the Soviet Union (Prezident Sovetskogo Soyuza), officially the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Президент Союза СоветскихСоциалистическихРеспублик), abbreviated as president of the USSR (Президент СССР), was the head of state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 15 March 1990 to 25 December 1991.
See 1991 and President of the Soviet Union
President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
See 1991 and President of the United States
President of Turkey
The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey.
See 1991 and President of Turkey
Prime Minister of Albania
The prime minister of Albania (Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially the prime minister of the Republic of Albania (Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of Albania.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Albania
Prime Minister of Algeria
The prime minister of Algeria is the head of government of Algeria.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Algeria
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Egypt
The prime minister of Egypt, sometimes referred to as "Minister-President of Egypt" and "President of the Government", is the head of the Egyptian government.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Egypt
Prime Minister of Finland
The prime minister of Finland (Suomen pääministeri) is the leader of the Finnish Government.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Finland
Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of Iceland
The prime minister of Iceland (Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Iceland
Prime Minister of India
The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister of Iran
The prime minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Iran
Prime Minister of Israel
The prime minister of Israel (Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: רה״מ; رئيس الحكومة, Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma) is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Israel
Prime Minister of South Korea
The prime minister of the Republic of Korea is the deputy head of government and the second highest political office of South Korea who is appointed by the President of the Republic of Korea, with the National Assembly's approval.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of South Korea
Prime Minister of Sweden
The prime minister of Sweden (statsminister literally translates as "minister of state") is the head of government of the Kingdom of Sweden.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Sweden
Prime Minister of Turkey
The prime minister of Turkey, officially the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı), was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Turkish Parliament and presided over the cabinet.
See 1991 and Prime Minister of Turkey
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
See 1991 and Provisional Irish Republican Army
Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
See 1991 and Pub
Pyroclastic flow
A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
Racha
Racha (also Račha,, Račʼa) is a highland area in western Georgia, located in the upper Rioni river valley and hemmed in by the Greater Caucasus mountains.
See 1991 and Racha
Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
See 1991 and Racism
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan (רָמַת גַּן or רָמַת־גַּן) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
Ramiz Alia
Ramiz Alia (18 October 1925 – 7 October 2011) was an Albanian politician serving as the second and last leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1985 to 1991, serving as First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
See 1991 and Red Sea
Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)
The Republic of Serbia (Република Србија / Republika Srbija) was a constituent state of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003 and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 to 2006.
See 1991 and Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)
Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (r) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
See 1991 and Republics of the Soviet Union
Revolutionary United Front
The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel group that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone, beginning in 1991 and ending in 2002.
See 1991 and Revolutionary United Front
Richard R. Ernst
Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Riga
Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.
See 1991 and Riga
Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality.
Ronald Coase
Ronald Harry Coase (29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
See 1991 and Russia
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
See 1991 and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Sacramento, California
() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
See 1991 and Sacramento, California
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone
The Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone, also known as the Divided Zone, was an area of between the borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that was left undefined when the border was established by the Uqair Convention of 2 December 1922.
See 1991 and Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone
Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel (1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000.
Scientology
Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement.
Scud missile
A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Sebokeng
Sebokeng locally called Zweni by residents, is a middle-class township in the Emfuleni Local Municipality in southern Gauteng, South Africa near the industrial cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.
See 1991 and Secretary-General of the United Nations
Security guard
A security guard (also known as a security inspector, security officer, factory guard, or protective agent) is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) from a variety of hazards (such as crime, waste, damages, unsafe worker behavior, etc.) by enforcing preventative measures.
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
See 1991 and Senegal
Shapour Bakhtiar
Shapour Bakhtiar (شاپور بختیار,; 26 June 19146 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Siad Barre
Mohammed Siad Barre (Maxamed Siyaad Barre, Osmanya script: 𐒑𐒖𐒄𐒖𐒑𐒗𐒆 𐒈𐒘𐒕𐒛𐒆 𐒁𐒖𐒇𐒇𐒗, محمد زياد بري Muhammad Siad Bariy; 6 October 1909 – 2 January 1995) was a Somali major general, politician and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.
Sid Ahmed Ghozali
Sid Ahmed Ghozali (سيد أحمد غزالي) (born 31 March 1937 in Maghnia, Algeria) is an Algerian politician who was the Prime Minister of Algeria from 1991 to 1992.
See 1991 and Sid Ahmed Ghozali
Siege of Dubrovnik
The siege of Dubrovnik (опсада Дубровника) was a military engagement fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings during the Croatian War of Independence.
See 1991 and Siege of Dubrovnik
Sierra Leone Civil War
The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government.
See 1991 and Sierra Leone Civil War
Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.
See 1991 and Singing Revolution
Sino-Vietnamese War
The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam.
See 1991 and Sino-Vietnamese War
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.
Skarnsund Bridge
The Skarnsund Bridge (Skarnsundet bru or Skarnsundbrua) is a long concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Skarnsundet strait, in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway.
SkyWest Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an American regional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah.
Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.
See 1991 and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Party of Albania
The Socialist Party of Albania (Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë, PS or PSSh) is a social-democratic political party in Albania.
See 1991 and Socialist Party of Albania
Socialist Republic of Croatia
The Socialist Republic of Croatia (Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a constituent republic and federated state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
See 1991 and Socialist Republic of Croatia
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, July 11, 1991, with a magnitude of 1.08.
See 1991 and Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991
Solar flare
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
Somali Civil War
The Somali Civil War (Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; الحرب الأهلية الصومالية) is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia.
Somali Democratic Republic
The Somali Democratic Republic (Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية,; Repubblica Democratica Somala; was the name of the socialist totalitarian military government given to Somalia under President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, after seizing power in a coup d'état on 21 October 1969.J.
See 1991 and Somali Democratic Republic
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
See 1991 and Somalia
Somaliland
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
South Africa–United States relations
The United States and South Africa currently maintain bilateral relations with one another.
See 1991 and South Africa–United States relations
South African Air Force
The South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria.
See 1991 and South African Air Force
South Atlantic tropical cyclone
South Atlantic tropical cyclones are unusual weather events that occur in the Southern Hemisphere.
See 1991 and South Atlantic tropical cyclone
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
South Ossetia
South Ossetia, officially the Republic of South Ossetia–State of Alania, is a partially recognised landlocked state in the South Caucasus.
South Ossetia war (1991–1992)
The 1991–1992 South Ossetia War (also known as the First South Ossetia War) was fought between Georgian government forces and ethnic Georgian militias on one side and the forces of South Ossetian separatists and Russia on the other.
See 1991 and South Ossetia war (1991–1992)
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.
See 1991 and Southern Hemisphere
Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
Several Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts occurred after Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990.
See 1991 and Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.
See 1991 and Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.
See 1991 and Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter.
See 1991 and Space Shuttle Discovery
Spacelab
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory developed by European Space Agency (ESA) and used on certain spaceflights flown by the Space Shuttle.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.
See 1991 and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.
See 1991 and Special Air Service
Sri Lanka Army
The Sri Lanka Army (Śrī Laṃkā yuddha hamudāva; Ilankai iraṇuvam) is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.
Sri Lankan Civil War
The Sri Lankan Civil War (śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr) was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009.
See 1991 and Sri Lankan Civil War
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur, also known as Thiruperumbudur, is a town panchayat and the headquarters of Sriperumbudur taluk located in Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
START I
START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms.
See 1991 and START I
State of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.
See 1991 and State of emergency
State Sponsors of Terrorism (U.S. list)
"State Sponsors of Terrorism" is a designation applied to countries that are alleged to have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism" per the United States Department of State.
See 1991 and State Sponsors of Terrorism (U.S. list)
Steingrímur Hermannsson
Steingrímur Hermannsson (pronounced; 22 June 1928 – 1 February 2010) was an Icelandic politician who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1988 to 1991.
See 1991 and Steingrímur Hermannsson
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles.
See 1991 and Strategic Defense Initiative
STS-37
STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
See 1991 and STS-37
STS-39
STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the NASA Space Shuttle ''Discovery'', and the 40th orbital shuttle mission overall.
See 1991 and STS-39
STS-400
STS-400 was the Space Shuttle contingency support (Launch On Need) flight that would have been launched using if a major problem occurred on during STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-4).
See 1991 and STS-400
Sumio Iijima
is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes.
Sunthorn Kongsompong
Sunthorn Kongsompong (สุนทร คงสมพงษ์,,; 1 August 1931 – 2 August 1999) was the de facto head of government of Thailand from 1991 to 1992, after a military coup d'etat led by Sunthorn and General Suchinda Kraprayoon deposed the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan on 23 February 1991.
See 1991 and Sunthorn Kongsompong
Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (tr) was the highest unicameral legislative body in Georgia elected in the first democratic, multiparty elections in the Caucasus on October 28, 1990, while the country was still part of the Soviet Union.
See 1991 and Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
See 1991 and Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (r) was, from 1936 to 1991, the highest body of state authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and based on the principle of unified power was the only branch of government in the Soviet state.
See 1991 and Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Suresnes
Suresnes is a commune in the western inner suburbs of Paris, France.
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti, S or SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna), is a social democratic political party in Sweden.
See 1991 and Swedish Social Democratic Party
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1991 and Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.
See 1991 and Tank
Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz (طارق عزيز, 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
Telecommunications in Iraq
Telecommunications in Iraq include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet as well as the postal system.
See 1991 and Telecommunications in Iraq
Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion
The Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of China were effective from 1948 to 1991 and amended four times by the Central Government of China.
See 1991 and Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion
Ten-Day War
The Ten-Day War (desetdnevna vojna), or the Slovenian War of Independence (slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna), was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991.
Terry A. Anderson
Terry Alan Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024) was an American journalist and combat veteran.
See 1991 and Terry A. Anderson
Terry Waite
Sir Terence Hardy Waite (born 31 May 1939) is an English human rights activist and author.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Barricades
The Barricades (Barikādes) were a series of confrontations between the Republic of Latvia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in January 1991 which took place mainly in Riga.
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See 1991 and The New York Times
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology.
See 1991 and The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
See 1991 and The Washington Post
Thomas Sutherland (academic)
Thomas Sutherland (May 3, 1931 – July 22, 2016), Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985.
See 1991 and Thomas Sutherland (academic)
Thurgood Marshall
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.
See 1991 and Thurgood Marshall
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Tom Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995.
Tonton Macoute
The Tonton Macoute (Tonton Makout) or simply the Macoute, was a Haitian paramilitary and secret police force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Treaty of Asunción
The Treaty of Asunción was a treaty between the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay signed on March 26, 1991.
See 1991 and Treaty of Asunción
Tropical Storm Thelma
Tropical Storm Thelma, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Uring, was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in Philippine history, killing at least 5,081 people.
See 1991 and Tropical Storm Thelma
Tskhinvali
Tskhinvali (ცხინვალი) or Tskhinval (Cxinval, Čreba,; r) is the capital of the disputed de facto independent Republic of South Ossetia, internationally considered part of Shida Kartli, Georgia (except by the Russian Federation and four other UN member states).
Turgut Özal
Halil Turgut Özal (13 October 192717 April 1993) was a prominent Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993.
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
Ukase
In Imperial Russia, a ukase or ukaz (указ) was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law.
See 1991 and Ukase
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
See 1991 and Ukraine
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
See 1991 and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)
The Union of Democratic Forces (translit, СДС/SDS) is a political party in Bulgaria, founded in 1989 as a union of several political organizations in opposition to the communist government.
See 1991 and Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)
UNITA
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola.
See 1991 and UNITA
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
See 1991 and United Nations General Assembly
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975, "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" with 72 votes in favour, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions.
See 1991 and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379
United Nations Protection Force
The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR; also known by its French acronym FORPRONU: Force de Protection des Nations Unies) was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars.
See 1991 and United Nations Protection Force
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
See 1991 and United Nations Security Council
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 was adopted on 3 April 1991.
See 1991 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War.
See 1991 and United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1992–93 formed following the 1991 Paris Peace Accords.
See 1991 and United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
See 1991 and United Press International
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
See 1991 and United States Congress
United States Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.
See 1991 and United States Department of Commerce
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.
See 1991 and United States Department of Justice
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
See 1991 and United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States sanctions
United States sanctions are financial and trade restrictions imposed against individuals, entities, and jurisdictions whose actions contradict U.S. foreign policy or national security goals.
See 1991 and United States sanctions
United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
See 1991 and United States Secretary of State
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
See 1991 and United States Senate
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide.
See 1991 and Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Upper Midwest
The Upper Midwest is a northern subregion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
See 1991 and Uruguay
USA Boxing
USA Boxing is the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing.
Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
See 1991 and Usenet
Uttarkashi district
Uttarkashi District is a district of Garhwal division of the Uttarakhand state in northern India, and has its headquarters at Uttarkashi city.
See 1991 and Uttarkashi district
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
See 1991 and Vietnam
Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
See 1991 and Vilnius
Visegrád Group
The Visegrád Group (also known as the Visegrád Four or the V4) is a cultural and political alliance of four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
Vukovar
Vukovar (Вуковар, Vukovár, Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern regions of Syrmia and Slavonia.
See 1991 and Vukovar
Vukovar massacre
The Vukovar massacre, also known as the Vukovar hospital massacre or the Ovčara massacre, was the killing of Croatian prisoners of war and civilians by Serb paramilitaries, to whom they had been turned over by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), at the Ovčara farm southeast of Vukovar on 20 November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence.
Vytautas Landsbergis
Vytautas Landsbergis (born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.
See 1991 and Vytautas Landsbergis
Wakhan Corridor
The Wakhan Corridor (translit; translit) is a narrow strip of territory in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Warsaw radio mast
The Warsaw Radio Mast (Maszt radiowy w Konstantynowie) was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and was the world's tallest structure at 2,120 ft (646.38 m) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991.
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Warsaw Stock Exchange
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) (Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie (GPW)) is a stock exchange in Warsaw, Poland.
See 1991 and Warsaw Stock Exchange
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Weather satellite
A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.
See 1991 and Weather satellite
West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
White House (Moscow)
The White House (p; officially The House of the Government of the Russian Federation, r), also known as the Russian White House and previously known as the House of Soviets of Russia, is a government building in Moscow.
See 1991 and White House (Moscow)
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
Yıldırım Akbulut
Yıldırım Akbulut (2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir (יצחק שמיר,; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992).
Ylli Bufi
Ylli Bufi (born 25 May 1948, Tirana) is an Albanian politician who served briefly as the 26th Prime Minister of Albania in 1991.
Yugoslav Air Force
The Air Force and Air Defence (Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana; abbr. RV i PVO), was one of three branches of the Yugoslav People's Army, the Yugoslav military.
See 1991 and Yugoslav Air Force
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/ЈНА; Macedonian, Montenegrin and Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and Jugoslavenska narodna armija; Jugoslovanska ljudska armada, JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents from 1945 to 1992.
See 1991 and Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but relatedNaimark (2003), p. xvii.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
Zionism
Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.
See 1991 and Zionism
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia (ზვიად კონსტანტინეს ძე გამსახურდია; Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya; 31 March 1939 – 31 December 1993) was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically-elected President of Georgia in May 1991.
See 1991 and Zviad Gamsakhurdia
102nd United States Congress
The 102nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
See 1991 and 102nd United States Congress
1928 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 March 1928, with Senate elections held a week later on 11 March.
See 1991 and 1928 Polish parliamentary election
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
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1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm.
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1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.
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1990s United States boom
The 1990s economic boom in the United States was a major economic expansion that lasted between 1993 and 2001, coinciding with the economic policies of the Clinton administration.
See 1991 and 1990s United States boom
1991 Andover tornado outbreak
From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak.
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1991 Bangladesh cyclone
The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone was among the deadliest tropical cyclones on record.
See 1991 and 1991 Bangladesh cyclone
1991 Bangladeshi general election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Bangladeshi general election
1991 Belgian Grand Prix
The 1991 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on 25 August 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Belgian Grand Prix
1991 Beninese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Benin in March 1991, the first direct presidential elections since 1970.
See 1991 and 1991 Beninese presidential election
1991 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Bulgarian parliamentary election
1991 Croatian independence referendum
Croatia held an independence referendum on 19 May 1991, following the Croatian parliamentary elections of 1990 and the rise of ethnic tensions that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia.
See 1991 and 1991 Croatian independence referendum
1991 Finnish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 17 March 1991, the first time a Finnish parliamentary election had been held on a single day.
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1991 Georgian independence referendum
An independence referendum was held in the Republic of Georgia on 31 March 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Georgian independence referendum
1991 Halloween blizzard
The 1991 Halloween blizzard was a powerful storm that caused a period of heavy snowfall and ice accumulation, which affected parts of the Upper Midwest of the United States, from October 31 to November 4, 1991.
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1991 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 20 April 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Icelandic parliamentary election
1991 Indian general election
General elections were held in India on 20 May, 12 June and 15 June 1991 to elect the members of the 10th Lok Sabha, although they were delayed until 19 February 1992 in Punjab.
See 1991 and 1991 Indian general election
1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre
On June 12, 1991, 152 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were massacred by members of the Sri Lankan military in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
See 1991 and 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre
1991 Nepalese general election
General elections were held in Nepal on 12 May 1991, to elect 205 members to the House of Representatives.
See 1991 and 1991 Nepalese general election
1991 Perfect Storm
The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as The No-Name Storm (especially in the years immediately after it took place) and the Halloween Gale/Storm, was a damaging and deadly nor'easter in October 1991.
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1991 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 27 October 1991 to elect deputies to both houses of the National Assembly.
See 1991 and 1991 Polish parliamentary election
1991 protests in Belgrade
The 1991 protests in Belgrade happened on the streets of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia when a protest rally turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police.
See 1991 and 1991 protests in Belgrade
1991 Racha earthquake
The 1991 Racha earthquake occurred in the province of Racha, Georgia, at 9:12 UTC on 29 April.
See 1991 and 1991 Racha earthquake
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis
On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours.
See 1991 and 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis
1991 Salvadoran legislative election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Salvadoran legislative election
1991 São Toméan presidential election
Presidential elections were held for the first time in São Tomé and Príncipe on 3 March 1991, as previously the President had been elected by the National Assembly.
See 1991 and 1991 São Toméan presidential election
1991 Soviet coup attempt
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.
See 1991 and 1991 Soviet coup attempt
1991 Soviet Union referendum
A referendum on the future of the Soviet Union was held on 17 March 1991 across the Soviet Union.
See 1991 and 1991 Soviet Union referendum
1991 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Swedish general election
1991 Ukrainian independence referendum
A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.
See 1991 and 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum
1991 Uttarkashi earthquake
The 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake (also known as the Garhwal earthquake) occurred at 02:53:16 Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30) on 20 October with a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
See 1991 and 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake
1992 Constitution of Mali
The 1992 Constitution of Mali was approved by a referendum on 12 January 1992 after being drawn up by a national conference in August 1991.
See 1991 and 1992 Constitution of Mali
951 Gaspra
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.
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