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| 1990 |
| | | John Major is elected leader of the Conservative party and succeeds Thatcher as UK prime minister | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Solidarnośc leader Lech Walesa wins Poland's first free presidential election | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Gulf War begins when Iraq fails to meet the UN deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Expelled from his own country, Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden moves to Sudan where he continues to develop al-Qaeda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | With all Iraqi troops expelled from Kuwait by Allied tanks, President Bush declares a ceasefire in the Gulf War | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A Tuareg uprising in Mali results in some 120,000 refugees fleeing the country | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The incumbent president, Mathieu Kérékou, loses in Benin's first democratic election | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Rajiv Gandhi is killed near Chennai, during an election campaign, by a suicide bomber on behalf of Tamil militants | |
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| 1991 |
| | | As Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels approach Addis Ababa, the leader of the Dergue, Mengistu, flees the country | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The rebel Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by Meles Zenawi, takes control in Ethiopia | |
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