
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- Soviet troops withdrawn from Czechoslovakia after 23-year occupation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- Apartheid policy repealed in South Africa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
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