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| 1991 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin foils a hard-line Communist coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, on holiday at the time in the Crimea | |
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| 1991 |
| | | US sculptor Jeff Koons marries one of his favourite subjects, Italian porn star La Cicciolina | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in the film The Silence of the Lambs | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Macedonia follows the example of Slovenia and Croatia in proclaiming its independence from Yugoslavia | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Civil war in Somalia topples the Marxist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Regeneration is the first volume of English author Pat Barker's trilogy of novels set during World War I | |
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| c. 1991 |
| | | A man found frozen high in the Alps turns out to be a neolithic hunter from about 5000 years ago | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A military coup in Haiti ousts the reforming president Jean-Bertrand Aristide | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, attacks Sierra Leone from bases in Liberia | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The parliament in Bosnia-Herzegovina votes to secede from the crumbling Yugoslavia | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fight for democracy in Burma | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Armenia delcares its independence from the USSR, 70 years after it was annexed | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The US spacecraft Galileo provides scientists with close-up photographs of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Multiparty elections in Zambia result in a massive defeat for the long-serving president, Kenneth Kaunda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Soviet region of Chechnya proclaims its independence from the USSR, calling itself the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A new party, the Islamic Salvation Front, seems certain to win the Algerian election – until the army intervenes | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Three Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) declare independence, leading to the formal disbanding of the USSR | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Paul Keating becomes prime minister of Australia after a Labor party leadership contest against Bob Hawke | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Eight more Soviet Socialist republics vote to join the three founder members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Kurds in northern Iraq achieves a measure of autonomy in a safe haven imposed by the UN | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the defunct USSR, handing power to Boris Yeltsin as president of the new Russian republic | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Algeria is plunged into a brutal civil war between a military junta and Muslim terrorists | |
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| 1992 |
| | | US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Fighting intensifies between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, for territory within Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Saw Maung resigns as Burma's dictator and is replaced by Than Shwe (who still heads the junta some 20 years later) | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Riots follow the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen charged with assaulting the African American Rodney King | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic encourages ethnic cleansing by paramilitaries in Bosnia | |
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| 1992 |
| | | A Land Acquisition Act enables Mugabe to purchase land compulsorily, abandoning the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle agreed at Lancaster House | |
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| 1992 |
| | | US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Yitzhak Rabin returns as prime minister of Israel after the Labour party wins a general election | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Slobodan Milosevic is elected president of Yugoslavia (by now only Serbia and Montenegro) | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The New York company Dance Theatre of Harlem tours South Africa, with the slogan 'Dancing Through Barriers' | |
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| 1992 |
| | | After a single term as president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino returns to private life | |
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