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, she became the National Spokesperson for the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund / CHEC ( Children ’ s Health Environmental Coalition ) following the death of four year old Colette Chuda, a family friend, from cancer.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

A report published by Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in 2004 estimated that since 1991, 200, 000 children carried arms or had been recruited in the country's militias.

Aho was the prime minister of the centre-right coalition government ( Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party ) from 1991 to 1995.

Schwarzkopf later became a General in the U. S. Army and led the UN Coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War against the Ba ' athist Iraq.

A portion of the airport, King Abdullah Air Base, was used by Coalition B-52 heavy bombers during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf (; born August 22, 1934 ), also known as " Stormin ' Norman " and " The Bear ", is a retired United States Army general who, while he served as Commander of U. S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.

In January 1991, during the prelude to the Coalition ground invasion of Iraq, B Squadron 22 SAS were stationed at a forward operating base in Saudi Arabia.

The Iraqis kill one passenger and detain the other 384 passengers and crew for use as " human shields " around important targets in Iraq ; all survive and the Iraqis eventually release them before the onset of Coalition attacks against Iraq in January 1991.

* 1991: Dissident members of Savisaar cabinet ( Jaak Tamm ), and centrists found the Estonian Coalition Party ( Eesti Koonderakond ), led by Tiit Vähi

In 1991 a group of Chicago business people joined the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless to address the growing problem of street homelessness.

The idea was refloated in 1991 by the opposition Liberal-National Coalition led by Dr John Hewson, the GST was the centrepiece of the opposition's " Fightback!

In 1982 he was appointed Vice President in charge of foreign affairs of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea and from 1991 to 1993 he served in the Supreme National Council as Khmer Rouge representative.

Despite these Iraqi threats, the Coalition launched a 38-day aerial campaign on 17 January 1991.

Coalition and Iraqi units deployed in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, as of 24 – 28 February 1991.

Wise began his anti-racism work first as a youth coordinator, and then associate director, of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the various organizations founded for the purpose of defeating political candidate, David Duke, when Duke ran for U. S. Senate and Governor of Louisiana in 1990 and 1991, respectively.

Two Iraqi reinforced hangars showing the effects of Coalition bombing during Operation Desert Storm, 1991.

The brigade, commanded by Brigadier Patrick Cordingley, later took part in the Coalition of the Gulf War ground campaign to liberate Iraqi-occupied Kuwait on 24 February 1991 that began after a sustained air campaign.

He was named to the LSU School of Journalism Hall of Fame in 1991 ; " Legislator of the Year " by the National Taxpayers Union, 1977, and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, 1990 ; 96 percent rating, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry ; recipient, Winston Churchill Award, Council for National Policy, 1990 ; producer, Baton Rouge Today, named " Outstanding Local News Program in the U. S ." by Community Broadcasters Association, 1992 ; named " Louisiana's Pro-Family, Pro-Life Champion " by Christian Coalition of Louisiana for his service in the legislature ; listed in Who's Who in America ; B. A., Journalism, Juris Doctor, LSU.

Saudi, Qatari and Coalition forces compelled the Iraqi army to withdraw from the city on the January 31, 1991 as a consequence of the Battle of Khafji.

Uosukainen was Minister of Education ( 1991 – 1994 ), National Coalition Party presidential candidate in 2000, and Speaker of the Finnish Parliament almost continuously from 1994 to 2003.

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.

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.

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.

The Land Forces were " basically a light infantry force in 1991, supported by specialized elements.

At the highest level, five Numbered Air Forces served within the command at various times, the Second Air Force, Eighth Air Force, Fifteenth Air Force, Sixteenth Air Force, and briefly, in 1991 – 92, the Twentieth Air Force.

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.

" On the ' Downward Control ' of Extratropical Diabatic Circulations by Eddy-Induced Mean Zonal Forces " Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 48, Issue 4 ( February 1991 ) pp. 651 – 678.

The 15th Air Base Squadron inactivated at Wheeler on 31 October 1991, one day before the U. S. Army assumed operational control of the installation in accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed by the Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces, and the Commander, US Army Western Command.

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.

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.

* Kenneth Conboy and Simon McCouaig, South-East Asia Special Forces, Elite series 33, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991.

In November 1991, he received his fourth star and in December 1991, became Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe ( CINCSOUTH-Naples, Italy ) and Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe ( CINCUSNAVEUR-London ).

The Joint Commander Gulf Forces ( based in the United Kingdom at RAF High Wycombe ) was Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine 1 October 1990 — 31 March 1991, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon from 31 March 1991.