1991

Warsaw Pact dissolved
Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia assert their autonomy
Lithuania's independence recognized by Iceland
US recognizes independence of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
Soviet troops withdrawn from Czechoslovakia after 23-year occupation
Soviet Union dissolved - Cold War ends
Military coup attempt in Moscow fails
15 year civil war in Angola ends
Apartheid policy repealed in South Africa
Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
Leningrad renamed St. Petersburg
War begins in former Yugoslavia
The "Ice Man" discovered in the Austrian Alps
Rodney King beaten by police in Los Angeles
Gulf War
Michael Jackson signs a $1 billion multi year contract with Sony Corp.
US Minimum Wage - $4.25/hour
Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost
John Updike's Rabbit at Rest
Digital answering machine
Songs - "Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em", "Everything I Do I do It For You"
Broadway - "Miss Saigon"
Films - "JFK", "Thelma and Louise", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
TV - "Home Improvement"
Dame Margot Fonteyn, Martha Graham, Wilfred Hyde White, Michael Landon, Robert Motherwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Soichiro Honda, Frank Capra, Theodore Geisel (Dr. Suess), Miles Davis, Gene Roddenbury, Joseph Papp, Fred MacMurray die