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 – 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 )

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.

In 1991 the country declared independence as the Republic of Moldova.

Moldova adopted the Romanian flag during the declaration of independence from the USSR in 1991 ( and was used in various demonstrations and revolts by the population ) and later the Moldovan coat of arms ( which is part of the Romanian coat of arms ) was placed in the center of the flag.

The Moldavian SSR became independent of the Soviet Union only with the latter's 1991 demise, becoming the Republic of Moldova.

During the process of dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Moldavian SSR declared itself sovereign ( 23 June 1990 ) and declared independence from the USSR on 27 August 1991, becoming the Republic of Moldova.

The areas allotted to the Ukrainian SSR in 1940 became part of the new independent Ukraine since 1991, while the area roughly corresponding to Transnistria became the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic separate from the government of the Republic of Moldova.

Since 1991, most of the territory forms the core of Moldova, with smaller parts in Ukraine.

The Republic of Moldova became independent on December 25, 1991 ; a day before the final dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The period of the most significant redevelopment of the city extended from 1971, when the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union adopted a decision " On the measures for further development of the city of Kishinev ", which secured more than one billion rubles in investment from the state budget, which continued until the independence of Moldova in 1991.

Betweenn 1991 and 1994 it was the national anthem of Moldova as well, but was subsequently replaced by the current Moldovan anthem, " Limba noastră " (" Our language ").

Large amounts of Pinot were planted in central Moldova during the 19th century, but much was lost to the ravages of phylloxera ; Soviet control of Moldova from 1940 to 1991 also reduced the productivity of vineyards.

In the Declaration of Independence of Moldova ( 27 August 1991 ), the official language was named " Romanian ", but the 1994 constitution declared Moldovan the state language.

In 1991, a total of 520 books were published in Moldova, of which 402 were in Romanian, 108 in Russian, eight in Gagauz, and two in Bulgarian.

Between 1991 and 2008, 400, 000 women were trafficked from Moldova.

After the Republic of Moldova declared its independence in 1991, the small area to the east of the Dniester that had been part of the Moldavian SSR refused to participate and declared itself the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or Transnistria, with its capital at Tiraspol on the river.

After the Declaration of Sovereignty on June 23, 1990 and until the Declaration of Independence on August 27, 1991, it was officially referred as Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova.

These alocations stopped in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when Moldova became independent.

On May 23, 1991, the Moldovan parliament changed the name of the republic from " Moldavian SSR " to " Republic of Moldova ".

Moldova then seceded from the USSR and became a sovereign, independent state on August 27, 1991, after the failed coup in the Soviet Union.

On March 17, 1991, Armenia, along with the Baltics, Georgia and Moldova, boycotted a union-wide referendum in which 78 % of all voters voted for the retention of the Soviet Union in a reformed form.

With the exception of a five-day de facto independence in the winter of 1906, when a peasant uprising declared an autonomous Republic of Comrat, Gagauzians have been ruled by the Russian Empire ( 1812 – 1917 ), Romania ( 1918 – 1940 and 1941 – 1944 ), the Soviet Union ( 1940 – 1941 and 1944 – 1991 ), and Moldova ( 1917 – 1918 and 1991 to date ).

However, when the Moldovan parliament voted on whether Moldova should become independent on 27 August 1991, six of the twelve Gagauz deputies in Moldovan parliament voted in favour, while the other six did not participate.

* 1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.

* 1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

* 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

* 1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.

* 1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

* 1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

* 1991 – Tajikstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.