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 Iraqi no-fly zones were a set of two separate no-fly zones ( NFZs ), and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect the Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south.

He is on the " Saddam's Dirty Dozen " list of people responsible for torture and murder in Iraq, playing a key role in Iraq's brutal suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991.

He played a key part in the suppression of the multi-ethnic Shiite uprising in March 1991.

The film follows the story of Frank al-Bayati, a former Shiite guerrilla traveling back to Iraq for the first time since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein.

* suppressing Kurdish and Shiite uprisings in 1991 ; and

On 2 March 2009, Abdul Sattar was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the violent repression of a Shiite uprising in 1991.

In the wake of the First Persian Gulf War ( aka " Operation Desert Storm ": January to March 1991 ), various considerations led the United States to establish two " no-fly " zones in Iraq: one zone was in southern Iraq, where the Hussein regime had viciously persecuted the Shiite Arabs ; the other zone was in the Kurdish territory in northern Iraq.

* 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

In late December 1991 a car bomb ( estimated to carry 100 kg ( 220 pounds ) of TNT ) exploded in the Muslim neighborhood of Basta.

In 1991, approximately 250, 000 Muslim Rohingyas ( an ethnic group from southwestern Burma ) were forced from their homes by Burman forces.

In 1991 Kountze became the first American city with a Muslim mayor in African-American Charles Bilal.

On February 21, 1991, he and his brother-in-law, Mazen Al-Najjar, founded the World and Islam Studies Enterprise ( WISE ), an academic institution whose purpose was purportedly to promote dialogue between the Muslim and Western worlds.

* Iraqi military forces suppress Kurdish and Shiites Muslim rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country during the 1991 uprising in Iraq, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.

As a result, multiple minorities became Reform Party members of parliament including Rahim Jaffer, who became Canada's first Muslim member of parliament ; Gurmant Grewal an Indo-Canadian who immigrated to Canada six years earlier in 1991 ; and Inky Mark, a Chinese-Canadian.

In 1991, a blind Muslim preacher, Husein Ali Al Habsyie, was sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding a series of bombings in the mid 1980s including the temple attack.

: Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947 ( 1991 ; the original had been published by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar in 1950 ), and also separately published as Whither Sikhism?

In late December 1991 a car bomb ( estimated to carry 220 pounds of TNT ) exploded in the Muslim neighborhood of Basta.

Begum Khaleda Zia ()( born August 15, 1945 ) is the former First Lady of Bangladesh ( 1977 – 1981 ), and then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, having served from 1991 to 1996, becoming the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world ( only after Ms Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988 – 1990 ) to head a democratic government as prime minister.

) The Muslim Brotherhood in Algeria did not join the Front islamique du salut ( FIS ), which emerged as the leading Islamist group in the 1990 local and 1991 parliamentary elections, although the rapidly growing FIS did attract some of its supporters.

The latticework in the star itself bespeaks the former coat of arms of Georgia from 1918 – 1921 and adopted again from 1991 – 2004 ; the crescent moon represents the Muslim Azeris, on a background depicting the national symbol of the Armenians, Mount Ararat.

The 1975 resolution that " Zionism is racism " was revoked by resolution 4686 in 1991 ; 25 Muslim states voted against this revocation.

In 1991 he led three delegations of Muslim Americans to Saudi Arabia to discuss and see up close the situation in the Persian gulf.

AEL was founded and is led by Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Lebanese-born Shi ' a Muslim living in Belgium who emigrated from Lebanon in 1991 to begin university studies in Belgium.

Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by Muslim Bosniaks ( 44 percent ), Orthodox Serbs ( 31 percent ) and Catholic Croats ( 17 percent ), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992.

According to the 1991 census, 44 % of the population considered themselves Muslim ( Bosniak ), 32. 5 % Serb and 17 % Croat, with 6 % describing themselves as Yugoslav.

As Senator, he authored and sponsored several key pieces of legislation, among them the Local Government Code of 1991, the Cooperative Code, the Philippine Sports Commission Act, the Act Creating the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and the People ’ s Small-Scale Mining Act.

The book was translated by the American Muslim scholar Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991 and became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference in a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar.

Yusuf Estes ( born in 1944 ) is an American Muslim preacher and teacher who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991.

Yusuf Estes became a Muslim in 1991 after meeting an Egyptian named Mohamed.

Muslim League seats in Kerala assembly-14 seats ( 1982 ), 15 ( 1987 ), 19 ( 1991 ), 13 ( 1996 ), 16 ( 2001 ), 7 ( 2006 ), 20 ( 2011 )