1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1991 - Events. 1991 - January. January 2 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first black woman to lead a city of that size and importance. January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians. January 10 - SA State Govt forced to bail out State Bank. January 11 - The S ...

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1991 - Events
1991 - January 1991 - February 1991 - March 1991 - April 1991 - May 1991 - June 1991 - July 1991 - August 1991 - September 1991 - October 1991 - November 1991 - December 1991 - Undated events
1991 - Births 1991 - Deaths
1991 - January-February 1991 - March-May 1991 - June-December
1991 - Nobel Prizes
1991 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

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Soviet coup attempt of 1991, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - Background, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - The August Coup, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - The aftermath

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1991 - January. January 2 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first black woman to lead a city of that size and importance. January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians. January 10 - SA State Govt forced to bail out State Bank. January 11 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. January 12 - Gulf War: The U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing ...

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1991, 1991 - Events, 1991 - January, 1991 - February, 1991 - March, 1991 - April, 1991 - May, 1991 - June, 1991 - July, 1991 - August, 1991 - September, 1991 - October, 1991 - November, 1991 - December, 1991 - Undated events, 1991 - Births, 1991 - Deaths, 1991 - January-February, 1991 - March-May, 1991 - June-December, 1991 - Nobel Prizes, 1991 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

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The year 1985 marked the accession of Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Despite efforts to introduce concepts such as glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring), Gorbachev found himself presiding over a declining empire. The Union faced opposition abroad through the Western assumption of military superiority and the internal struggle within the restless republics led by Boris Yeltsin that asserted sovereignity. A fa ...

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History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev and reform History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR
History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary
History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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By December 1991, all of the republics had declared independence, and negotiations over a new union treaty began anew. In September, the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had been recognized by the Soviet Union, and "re-recognized" by the United States and other western democracies who throughout the era of Cold War had considered the 1940 Soviet annexation of the three Baltic nations illegal in the first place. For several months after his return to Moscow, Gorbachev and his aides made futile attempts to restore stability and l ...

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Soviet coup attempt of 1991, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - Background, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - The August Coup, Soviet coup attempt of 1991 - The aftermath

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Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. Changing relations with the United States might also have been an impetus for reform. While it was Jimmy Carter who had officially ended the policy of Détente following Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, East-West tensions during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981–1985) increased to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. By 1985, the brief rule of Konstantin Chernenko as General Se ...

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History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev and reform, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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On February 7, 1990 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power. The USSR's constituent republics began to assert their national sovereignty over Moscow, and started a "war of laws" with the central Moscow government, in which the governments of the constituent republics repudiated all-union legislation where it conflicted with local laws, asserting control over their local economies and refusing to pay tax revenue to the central Moscow government. This strife caused economic dislocati ...

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History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev and reform, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. During their heyday (from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s), many BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the "SysOp" (system operator), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access. In current usage (primarily in Japan and China) the term BBS may be used to ref ...

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Bulletin board system - History Bulletin board system - Shareware Bulletin board system - Features
Bulletin board system - BBSes Bulletin board system - Related terms Bulletin board system - BBS programs Bulletin board system - Other

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Busan Subway Line 2 (coloured green) is the second line of the metro system in Busan, South Korea. As of 2005, the line is 40 km long. The line uses 28 vehicles, each one having six cars. Although construction on the first section—a 22.4-km route, with 21 stations, between Hopo and Seomyeon—began in 1991, it was not opened until June 30, 1999. The line was extended 8.7 km southeast from Seomyeon to Geumnyeonsan on August 8, 2001. It was extended 0.9 km north to Gwangan on January 16, 2002, and finally, on August 29, 2002, it was extended 8 km east to Jangsan. Currently, Line 2 is being ...

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Busan Subway Line 2 - List of Stations

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Angel Corella was born in Madrid in 1975. He began his ballet studies in Colmenar Viejo, and later studied in Madrid with Victor Ullate and Karemia Moreno. In May 1991, Corella won First Prize in the National Ballet Competition of Spain. In December 1994, he won the Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the Concours International de Danse de Paris, dancing the pas de deux from Don Quixote and Le Corsaire. Corella joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in April 1995 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in August, 1996. His repertoir ...

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The two brothers Arkady (Арка́дий, August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991) and Boris (Бори́с, born April 14, 1933) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spelling: Strugatski) are Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction. Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work. The Strugatsky brothers (Бра́тья Струга́цкие), as they are usually called, became the best-known Soviet science fiction writers with a well developed fan base. Th ...

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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Noon Universe Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Tributes Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Selected bibliography

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Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on August 18, 1969 in New York City) is an American actor. His mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater, who gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). His father is the English actor Michael Hawkins. Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his daughter in 2001.< ...

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Christian Slater - Legal Run-ins Christian Slater - Partial filmography

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Capital punishment is legal in India although rarely used. Between 1975 and 1991, about 40 people were executed, though there was a period between 1995 and 2004 when there were no executions. Anti-death penalty activists dispute those figures, claiming much higher numbers on Death Row and actual executions. In August 2004, a 41-year-old man, Dhananjoy Chatterjee, was executed for raping and killing a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Calcutta. This was the country's first execution since 1995[1] and the first execution in West Be ...

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Colleen Dewhurst (born June 3, 1924; died August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-born actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Born an only child to a football player turned businessman and his homemaker wife in Montreal, Quebec, but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten as "Jos ...

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Although reform in the Soviet Union stalled between 1969–1982, a generational shift gave new momentum for reform. Changing relations with the United States might also have been an impetus for reform. While it was Jimmy Carter who had officially ended the policy of Détente following Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, East-West tensions during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981–1985) increased to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. After years of stagnation, the "new thinking" of younger Communis ...

See also:

History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Reforms, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Unintended consequences, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS and official end of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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Although reform stalled between 1969–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. Changing relations with the United States might also have been an impetus for reform. While it was Jimmy Carter who had officially ended the policy of Détente following Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, East-West tensions during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981–1985) increased to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. By 1985, the brief rule of Konstantin Chernenko as General Se ...

See also:

History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev and reform, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS and official end of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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On February 7, 1990 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power. The USSR's constituent republics began to assert their national sovereignty over Moscow, and started a "war of laws" with the central Moscow government, in which the governments of the constituent republics repudiated all-union legislation where it conflicted with local laws, asserting control over their local economies and refusing to pay tax revenue to the central Moscow government. This strife caused economic dislocati ...

See also:

History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Reforms, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Unintended consequences, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS and official end of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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On February 7, 1990 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power. The USSR's constituent republics began to assert their national sovereignty over Moscow, and started a "war of laws" with the central Moscow government, in which the governments of the constituent republics repudiated all-union legislation where it conflicted with local laws, asserting control over their local economies and refusing to pay tax revenue to the central Moscow government. This strife caused economic dislocati ...

See also:

History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The rise of Gorbachev and reform, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - The August Coup, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Formation of the CIS and official end of the USSR, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Summary, History of the Soviet Union 1985-1991 - Post-Soviet restructuring

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On land, the UK Thatcher government sharpened the 1967 anti-offshore broadcasting law further, this time to permit the boarding and silencing of stations operating even in international waters, if British nationals were involved. On August 19, 1989 James Murphy, an investigator for the Office of Official Solicitor acting on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry, led colleagues and counterparts from the Netherlands Radio Regulatory Authority to carry out a raid on the Ross Revenge in which vital equipment was wrecked or confis ...

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Radio Caroline, Radio Caroline - History, Radio Caroline - 1964-1968, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline opens, Radio Caroline - Creation of Radio Caroline North and South, Radio Caroline - The Mi Amigo runs aground, Radio Caroline - The Radio City death, Radio Caroline - The 1967 Marine Offences Act, Radio Caroline - 1969-1971, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline International, Radio Caroline - Caroline Television, Radio Caroline - 1972-1980, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline returns, Radio Caroline - Radio Atlantis and Radio Seagull, Radio Caroline - Radio Mi Amigo, Radio Caroline - Loving Awareness, Radio Caroline - Dutch Marine Broadcasting Act, Radio Caroline - 1983-1988, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline's return from the Ross Revenge, Radio Caroline - Radio Monique, Radio Caroline - The mast collapses, Radio Caroline - 1989 Joint Anglo-Dutch Raid, Radio Caroline - 1990-1991 After the Raid, Radio Caroline - 1991-present day, Radio Caroline - The RSL broadcasts, Radio Caroline - Satellite Caroline, Radio Caroline - Dutch Caroline and Caroline South, Radio Caroline - 2004, Radio Caroline - Footnotes

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Japan (1974-1981) The third-generation Toyota Corolla, built from 1974–81 (worldwide versions) (KE3x/KE5x), marked Toyota's greatest growth in the United States in the wake of the fuel crisis. In addition to the Sprinter, there was a rebodied version built by Toyota affiliate Daihatsu, called the Daihatsu Charmant. While there were certain fourth-generation models with a longer model life, this generation, when considered as a wh ...

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Toyota Corolla, Toyota Corolla - Alternative versions, Toyota Corolla - First Generation - E10 series - October 1966, Toyota Corolla - Second Generation - E20 series - 1970, Toyota Corolla - Third Generation - E30 E40 E50 series - April 1974, Toyota Corolla - Fourth generation - E70 series - 1979, Toyota Corolla - Fifth generation - E80 series - 1983, Toyota Corolla - Sixth generation - E90 series - May 1987, Toyota Corolla - Seventh generation - E100 series - June 1991, Toyota Corolla - Eighth Generation - E110 series - May 1995, Toyota Corolla - Ninth generation - E120 series - August 2000

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