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| 1991 |
| | | Another cease-fire in Angola's bitter civil war brings another brief period of peace | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Former Communist Boris Yeltsin is elected leader of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III is performed at the National Theatre in London | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The break-up of Yugoslavia begins with a joint declaration of independence by two of its regions, Slovenia and Croatia | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The US rock group Nirvana become the leading performers of grunge | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Carl Lewis beats his own previous 100-metre world record, winning gold at the World Championships in Tokyo | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Morocco and the Polisario end hostilities on the understanding that there will be a referendum in the Western Sahara | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Hutu youth militias, known as the Interahamwe, are formed in Rwanda to spearhead attacks on Tutsis | |
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