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| 1990 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin, impatient with the pace of reform under Gorbachev, resigns from the Communist party | |
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| 1990 |
| | | UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, by now at odds with many in her cabinet, is challenged in a leadership contest and loses | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Iraqi troops cross the border into Kuwait and are soon in control of the whole country and its oil wells | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed on corruption charges and her party loses the resulting elections | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Saddam Hussein announces the annexation of Kuwait, claiming it to have been historically part of Iraq | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Mary Robinson is elected president of the republic of Ireland, the first woman to hold the post | |
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| 1990 |
| | | East and West Germany are united in a new Federal Republic of Germany | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Irish author Brian Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa has its premiere at the Abbey Theatre | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Sadler's Wells ballet company moves to Birmingham, to become the Birmingham Royal Ballet | |
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| 1990 |
| | | An army of the Rwandan Patriotic Front crosses the border from Uganda to invade Rwanda | |
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| 1990 |
| | | West Indian author Derek Walcott publishes Omeros, an epic poem of the Caribbean | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Russian dancer Irek Mukhamedov leaves the Bolshoi company to join the Royal Ballet in London | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Piano Lesson is the second of August Wilson's plays to win a Pulitzer Prize | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew steps down after 31 years in office | |
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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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| 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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