Starostin's ( 1991 ) lexicostatistical research claimed that the proposed Altaic groups shared about 15 – 20 % of potential cognates within a 110-word Swadesh-Yakhontov list ( e. g. Turkic – Mongolic 20 %, Turkic – Tungusic 18 %, Turkic – Korean 17 %, Mongolic – Tungusic 22 %, Mongolic – Korean 16 %, Tungusic – Korean 21 %).

A mummified man, determined to be 5, 000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian – Italian border in 1991.

* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Magnus Paajarvi, Swedish hockey player

* 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

* 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.

* 1991 – Rikiya Otaka, Japanese actor

* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer

* 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

* 1991 – Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress and singer

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Dave Days, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1991 – Skyler Day, American actress

* 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

The Angolan Armed Forces ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas ) are the military in Angola that succeeded Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola ( FAPLA ) following the abortive Bicesse Accord with UNITA in 1991.

On September 20, 1991 the Supreme Soviet of Belarus passed resolution " On the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " and on January 11, 1992 resolution " On the Armed Forces deployed in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hizballah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.

The role of the president as the head of state has been, historically, largely ceremonial although the constitution was amended in 1991 to give the president some veto powers in a few key decisions such as the use of the national reserves and the appointment of key judiciary, Civil Service and Singapore Armed Forces posts.

In 1991, the Library of Congress used the term ' Sudan People's Armed Forces ' to refer to the entire armed forces, but by the late 2000s ( decade ), the ' Sudanese Armed Forces ' term was most widespread.

* Algerian Civil War ( 1991 – 2002 ) – the conflict effectively ended with a government victory, following the surrender of the Islamic Salvation Army and the 2002 defeat of the Armed Islamic Group.

Among those freed as a result were the Salvadoran Armed Forces ( ESAF ) officers convicted in the November 1989 Jesuit murders and the FMLN ex-combatants held for the 1991 murders of two U. S. servicemen.

The 1991 Barrios Altos massacre by members of the death squad Grupo Colina, made up of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces, was one of the crimes cited in the request for his extradition submitted by the Peruvian government to Japan in 2003.

The school is the main source of regular officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ), which prior to 1991 included those of the Philippine Constabulary.

Thus, began the linear roster of officers for both the Constabulary and the Armed forces up until the PC was merged with the Integrated National Police in 1991.

Partial autonomy was reached by Kurdistan Uyezd ( 1923 – 1926 ) and by Iraqi Kurdistan ( since 1991 ), while notably in Turkish Kurdistan, an armed conflict between the PKK and Turkish Armed Forces was ongoing 1984 to 1999, and the region continues to be unstable with renewed flaring up of violence in the 2000s.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

All techniques were demonstrated for and deemed medically feasible by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner ( given a single attack opponent ) and a board of forensic pathologists from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ( AFIP ) in 1991.

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hezbollah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.

Operation Storm ( Croatian / Bosnian / Serbian: Operacija Oluja, Cyrillic: Oпeрaциja Oлуja ) is the code name given to a large-scale military operation carried out by Croatian Armed Forces, in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina retaking control of the Krajina region that had been in Serb hands since 1991.

Armed with a fastball, slider, devastating forkball and a fierce competitive spirit, Morris was a five-time All-Star ( 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1991 ), and played on four World Championship teams ( 1984 Tigers, 1991 Twins, and 1992 and 1993 with the Blue Jays ).

While in the Senate, Cohen served on both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Governmental Affairs Committee ( 1979 – 1997 ) and was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee 1983 – 1991 and again 1995 – 1997.

Prior to his election as president, Ramos served in the Cabinet of President Corazon Aquino first as chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ), chief of Integrated National Police, and later on, as Secretary of National Defense from 1986 to 1991.

The RVSN was first formed in the Soviet Armed Forces, and when the USSR collapsed in 1990 – 1991, it effectively changed its name from the Soviet to the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces.

The current 1991 constitution does not have that requirement, but subsequent administrations have tended to include members of opposition parties.

During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, he argued that smoke from the Kuwaiti oil fires would have little impact, in opposition to most commentators.

In January 1991, the Assembly passed by unanimous vote a law governing the legalization of opposition parties.

From 1980 to 1991, opposition parties were illegal.

Aristide Menezes led the Democratic Front, which in 1991 became the first legal opposition party and paved the way for democratic elections.

The elections of March 1991 kept the former Communists in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a coalition cabinet that included non-Communists.

The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time ( before 9 / 11 ), and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

In the newly created municipal elections of 1991, however, opposition candidates won several major urban centers, including Asunción.

After the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze ' evi withdrew from the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir, remaining in the opposition for a decade.

In 1990, São Tomé became one of the first African countries to embrace democratic reform and changes to the constitution — the legalization of opposition political parties — led to elections in 1991 that were nonviolent, free, and transparent.

Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).

The government of Uzbekistan has instead tightened its grip since independence ( September 1, 1991 ), cracking down increasingly on opposition groups.

In response to growing popular demand for multi-party democracy, and after lengthy, difficult negotiations between the Kaunda government and opposition groups, Zambia enacted a new constitution in August 1991.

By 1991 economic deterioration and unrest led him to agree to share power with opposition leaders, but he used the army to thwart change until May, 1997, when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.

Likewise, philosopher and critical analyst Judith Butler ( 1991 ) states that the in / out metaphor creates a binary opposition which pretends that the closet is dark, marginal, and false and that being out in the " light of illumination " reveals a true ( or essential ) identity.

In 1991, with Labour still in opposition and a general election due by June 1992, he proposed the Commonwealth of Britain Bill, abolishing the Monarchy in favour of the United Kingdom becoming a " democratic, federal and secular commonwealth ", a republic with a written constitution.

Until 1991, opposition parties in Taiwan were formally illegal.

After leading a " Statehood Crusade " throughout the islands of Puerto Rico, in 1991 he became president of the PNP, successfully leading an opposition to a referendum sponsored by the then Governor of the island, Rafael Hernández Colón.

The first was an effort on May 6th, 1991, by Mike Harris, later premier but then leader of the opposition Progressive Conservatives, to derail the implementation of the budget tabled by the NDP government under premier Bob Rae.

In February 1991, a national conference began ; the opposition gained control of the conference, and the conference's declaration of its own sovereignty was not challenged by Sassou Nguesso.

Moi managed to accomplish this against fierce opposition, single handedly convincing the delegates at the KANU conference at Kasarani in December, 1991.

After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991, Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the Kenyan presidency in 1992 and 1997.