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 )

* 1991 – Warsaw Pact declared disbanded.

* 1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

Before 1991, the former Soviet Union, China and the Warsaw Pact countries had been a major source of economic and military aid.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ( 1955 – 1991 ), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

On 25 February 1991, the Warsaw Pact was declared disbanded at a meeting of defense and foreign ministers from Pact countries meeting in Hungary.

On 1 July 1991, in Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR.

COMECON and the Warsaw Pact were dissolved, and in 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

** The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the second tallest structure ever built ( it collapses on August 8, 1991 ).

In the mid-20th century, the hegemonic conflict was ideologic, between the Communist Warsaw Pact ( 1955 – 1991 ) and the capitalist NATO ( 1949-present ), wherein each hegemon competed directly ( the arms race ) and indirectly ( proxy wars ) against any country whose internal, national politics might destabilise the respective hegemony.

This is a toponymic rejective phono-semantic matching of Polish Radom, the name of a town in Poland ( approximately 100 km south of Warsaw ), or of its Yiddish adaptation ródem ( see Uriel Weinreich 1955: 609, Paul Wexler 1991: 42 ).

* Warsaw International Film Festival Audience Award ( 1991 )

* The Cold War, ( began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ended with the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 ), is a phrase denoting a polarized state of hostility between economically capitalist NATO allied nations and economically communist Warsaw Pact nations.

* Wybrańcy Bogów Warsaw, 1991 ( second edition in 2000 )

On 8 August 1991 at 16: 00 UTC Warsaw radio mast, the tallest man-made object ever built before the erection of Burj Khalifa collapsed as consequence of an error in exchanging the guy-wires on the highest stock.

* 1991 The Jews in Warsaw: A History, ed.

Completed in 1963, it was the tallest structure ever built until succeeded by the Warsaw radio mast in 1974 ; that mast collapsed in 1991, making the KVLY-TV mast again the tallest structure in the world until the Burj Khalifa overtook it in 2010.

The Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991.

The Polish Government in London was not dissolved until 1991, when a freely elected president took office in Warsaw.

Kazik Na Żywo (" Kazik Live ", also known as KNŻ and Kaenżet ) is a Polish rapcore band formed in 1991, in Warsaw.

* 1991 Warsaw International Film Festival Audience Award ( Krzysztof Kieślowski ) Won

* Warsaw School of Economics ( SGH ), the oldest and most renowned economic university in the country, established in 1906 as “ August Zieliński ’ s Men ’ s Private Trade Courses ”, the present name obtained in 1916, but between 1949 and 1991 had the name “ Main School of Planning and Statistics ”; 18, 000 students ; there ’ s no faculties, all the professors work in the colleges ( there is 5 of them ) and the educational programs are being made by the whole university, not by a given college ;

Monument to units fighting in Warsaw Uprising from 1991 ; This image may be used under the terms of the GFDL.