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 – 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 )

Following the recognition of Belarus as an independent state in December 1991 by the European Community, EC / EU-Belarus relations initially experienced a steady progress.

* 1991: European emission standards euro 1 met with the truck diesel engine of Scania.

European integration led to the formation of the Council of Europe and the European Union in Western Europe, both of which have been expanding eastward since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The 1991 Council Directive 91 / 477 / EEC started the process of creating a new common legal system for gun owners in the EU, and introduced the European Firearms Pass for owners carrying firearms from one member state to another.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to 1991 leaves the United States as the world's single superpower and triggers the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany and an accelerated process of a European integration that is ongoing.

Until 1991, President Mauno Koivisto and two of the three major parties, Center Party and the Social Democrats opposed the idea of European Union membership and preferred entering into the European Economic Area treaty.

After the declaration on the restoration of its full independence on August 21, 1991, Latvia became a member of the United Nations on September 17, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of UN organizations and other international agreements, including Council of Europe, CERCO, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, UNICEF, International Criminal Court, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

This union also led to its independent membership in the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) in 1991.

The following season, Manchester United claimed its first Cup Winners ' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1 – 0 in the final at Old Trafford.

" Familie " started in late 1991, and with over 5000 half-hour episodes, it has the highest amount of episode of a soap on the European continent.

The country gained its independence from Yugoslavia in June 1991, and is today a modern state and a member of the European Union and NATO.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

In July 1991, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins released the album Black Music for White People, which features covers of two Waits compositions: " Heartattack & Vine " ( which later that year was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits ' permission, resulting in a lawsuit ) and " Ice Cream Man ".

In August 1991 an independent democratic Estonian state was re-established and a period of quick development to a modern European capital ensued.

The wharves of the main seaport were constructed in 1989 – 1991 with financial assistance from the European Union.

* On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project.

European Handball Federation is founded in 1991.

* Schilling, R., in Bonnefoy, Y., and Doniger, W. ( Editors ), Roman and European Mythologies, ( English translation ), University of Chicago Press, 1991. pp. 146.

Founded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia.

This team won Primera División four times between 1991 and 1994 and won the European Cup in 1992.

Franco Maria Malfatti di Monte Tretto () ( Rome, 13 June 1927 – 10 December 1991 ), was an Italian politician and President of the European Commission.

Marks, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community ( 1991 ).

Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons ( Syracuse University Press, 1991 )

Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons ( 1991 ).

“ From Individual to Community: Becoming a Shaker at New Lebanon, 1780 – 1947 .” Communal Societies, Volume 11 ( 1991 ): 18 – 33.

* Foster, Morris W. ( 1991 ) Being Comanche: A Social History of an American Indian Community.

* FA Community Shield: 1991 ( shared ), 1998, 1999

Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees ( 1969 – 1971 ), Secretary of State of California ( 1971 – 1975 ), chairman of the California Democratic Party ( 1989 – 1991 ), Mayor of Oakland ( 1999 – 2007 ) and Attorney General of California ( 2007 – 2011 ).

Community activists persuaded the city council to co-rename the street as Martin Luther King Blvd in 1991.

* Forest Gardening: Rediscovering Nature and Community in a Post-Industrial Age, Green Books ( UK ) ( 1991, 1996 revised ).

The first major step taken by the European Economic Community to harmonise copyright laws came with the decision to apply common standard for the copyright protection of computer programs, enacted in the Computer Programs Directive in 1991.

The campaign planned by the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership from May 1992 to March 1993 and erupting the following April, was meant to implement objectives set forth by Croat nationalists in November 1991.

Between 1945 and 1969 and again from 1991 to 2008 the church was also a full member of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany ( VELKD ) and since 1973 also of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe.

Between 1989 and 1991 Militant led the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation's non-payment campaign against the Community Charge (' poll tax ').

Mortality rose above the European Community average, and in 1991 Irish fertility fell to replacement level.

As a result of a revitalised fund-raising campaign ( originally begun decades earlier ), this was followed a few years later by the construction of a Community Centre, opened in in 1987, which was extended in 1991.

In 1991, a European Community report recommended the repeal of a regulation preventing the sale in Spain of computer products not supporting " all the characteristics of the Spanish writing system ," claiming that it was a protectionist measure against the principles of the free market.

In April 1991, Community and Social Services minister Zanana Akande announced that food banks would have to remain open in light of changed economic circumstances.

The university officially changed its name from Rijksuniversiteit Gent ( RUG ) to Universiteit Gent ( UGent ) in 1991 following an increased grant of autonomy by the government of the Flemish Community.

Although less as a " collective " after 1990, DIVA TV continued documenting ( over 700 camera hours ) the direct actions of ACT UP, activists, and the community responses to HIV / AIDS, producing over 160 video programs for public access television channels ( as the weekly series " AIDS Community Television " from 1991 – 1996 http :// www. actupny. org / divatv ; and from 1994-96 the weekly call-in public access series " ACT UP Live "; film festival screenings ; and continuing on-line documentation and streaming internet webcasts.

Since the passage of the Road Traffic Act 1991, decriminalised parking enforcement has meant that most local authorities have taken on this role and now only the Metropolitan Police employs Traffic Wardens, combining the role with PCSOs as " Traffic Police Community Support Officers ".

Since 1991, as time has eased the bitter split ( helped by the fact that both Arzalluz and Garaikoetxea have gone into political retirement ), both parties agreed to form an electoral coalition in a number of local elections as a means to maximize the nationalist votes, which eventually led to reunite both candidatures in a joint list again for the regional governments of Navarra and the Basque Autonomous Community in 1998.

The abolition of the Community Charge was announced on 21 March 1991.

The church was formally organized on April 6, 1991 from members of the Community of Christ who had grown disaffected with the church starting to ordain women and other late-20th-century changes.