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 )

* In 1991, development of the free Linux kernel is started by Linus Torvalds in Finland.

The Linux kernel, started independently by Linus Torvalds in 1991, filled the last gap, and Linux version 0. 12 was released under the GPL in 1992.

In 1991, the first version of the Linux kernel was released by Linus Torvalds.

Union, Kentucky, the son of Sara Lena ( née Loafman ) ( 1897 – 1974 ) and Linus Pitts Napier ( 1888 – 1991 ).

In 1991 he starred as Linus Bragg in the movie " Carolina Skeletons " ( or " The End of Silence "), featuring an African-American boy who was executed at the age of 14, a story partly based on the true events around George Stinney Jr.

Ewan Cameron ( 31 July 1922, Dumbarton – 21 March 1991 ) was a Scottish physician who worked with Linus Pauling on Vitamin C research.

When Linus Torvalds first started writing his Linux operating system kernel ( 1991 ), he was working on a machine running MINIX, so the initial releases based a lot of functionality on Minix subsystems.

Ari, however, not happy with the Freax name, gave Linus a directory called linux on FUNET's FTP server ( ftp :// ftp. funet. fi /) in September 1991.

The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991.

Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade ( later released as Cosmic Spacehead in 1993 ) is a video game released in 1991.

In the 1991 release notes for versions 0. 01 to 0. 11 of the Linux kernel ( which was not released under the GNU General Public License until version 0. 12 ), Torvalds wrote, " Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere < nowiki >[...]</ nowiki > Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software.

Media sources frequently make erroneous statements such as claiming that the entire Linux operating system ( rather than simply the kernel ) was written from scratch by Torvalds in 1991 ; that Torvalds directs the development of other components such as graphical interfaces or the GNU tools ; or that new releases of the kernel involve a similar degree of user-visible change as do new versions of proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, where many things besides the kernel change simultaneously.

Because the system is more widely referred as " Linux " people tend to " think it's all Linux, that it was all started by Mr. Torvalds in 1991, and they think it all comes from his vision of life, and that's the really bad problem ".

* 1991 – Gulf War: U. S. President George H. W. Bush announces that " Kuwait is liberated ".

* 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

* Dec. 1991: NCR announces acquisition of Teradata.

* 1991: The Walt Disney Company announces plans to build WestCOT.

* 1991: In October, National City Corporation announces it has reached an agreement with Merchants National Corporation to acquire the Indianapolis-based holding company.

* June 1991: SuperValu announces ShopKo will spin off as a publicly held company.

* 26 March – The Minister of Education Piet Clase announces that as of January 1991, the segregation of Whites and Blacks in state run schools is no more

At the time of the parliamentary decision, Lieutenant-General Valeh Barshadli became the first Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, from September 5 to December 11, 1991.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

* 1991 – The Airbus A340 aircraft makes its first flight.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.

In 1991, DENR provided its first assessment of acid rain in the United States.

The country's first post-communist Assembly elections, in November 1991, made the winning new pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) to make government alone, having won 110 out of the 240 seats in the assembly.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

When Congress overrode his veto, the project had its green light and ground was first broken in 1991.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

The fastest industrial braille embosser is probably the $ 77, 000 Belgian-made " NV Interpoint 55 ", first produced in 1991, which uses a separate air compressor to drive the embossing head and can output up to 800 braille characters per second.

In 1991, BCI published a reference guide containing 2300 vocabulary items and detailed rules for the graphic design of additional characters, so they settled a first set of approved Bliss-words for general use.

Of the first major conversion of the Abbey in 1989, Kay ( 1991 ) observed ;

HTML (< u > H </ u > yper < u > t </ u > ext < u > M </ u > arkup < u > L </ u > anguage ) has been in use since 1991, but HTML 4. 0 ( December 1997 ) was the first standardized version where international characters were given reasonably complete treatment.

In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

He is believed to have been in this position since the death of Dáithí Ó Conaill, the first chief of staff, in 1991.

Raquel Wolstenhulme ( Sarah Lancashire ) first appeared in 1991 and went on to become one of the most popular characters.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.

After independence the first one was carried out in 1991, further rounds followed in 2001 and 2011.