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* 1991: Crown Heights Riot-May-between African Americans and the area's large Hasidic Jewish community, over the killing of a 10-year old black child by a Jewish motorist.
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* 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
The Chronicle of San Juan De LA Pena: A Fourteenth-Century Official History of the Crown of Aragon ( University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-8122-1352-1
For the 1993 Valentine's Day issue, the magazine cover by Art Spiegelman depicted a black woman and a Hasidic Jewish man kissing, referencing the Crown Heights riot of 1991.
He also became the grandsire of 1991 Canadian Triple Crown winner Dance Smartly, who became the richest filly at that time with twelve wins from seventeen career starts including the 1991 Breeders ' Cup Distaff and over $ 2 million.
On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.
In 1991, the Crown Center on 5005 Rockside Road was built making it the tallest building between Downtown Cleveland and Akron.
" Use of the term to refer to events in 1918-19 in Polish cities including Kielce, Pinsk and Lwów was specifically avoided in the 1919 Morgenthau Report ( preferring " excesses "), whose authors argued that the term pogrom was inapplicable to the conditions existing in a war zone and required the situation to be antisemitic in nature rather than political, and media use of the term pogrom to refer to the 1991 Crown Heights riot caused public controversy.
The 1991 Crown Heights Riot in Brooklyn, New York has been referred to as a " pogrom " by persons such as Rudy Giuliani and the New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal.
Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 ), The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971 ), Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ), Moonstruck ( 1987 ), Other People's Money ( 1991 ), The Hurricane ( 1999 ) and The Statement ( 2003 ).
The copyrights were thus Crown property between 1935 and 1991, making dozens of books — even many of O. T. O.
In 1991, Schneerson was indirectly involved in the start of a riot in his neighborhood of Crown Heights.
Released in March 1991 as an early 1992 model, the Crown Victoria sedan ( which dropped the LTD prefix ) was completely redesigned with a rounder, eight-window roofline ( which shared many design cues with its contemporary, the newly redesigned 1992 Taurus ).
The Crown Heights Riot was a three-day disturbance that occurred in August 1991 in the Crown Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
* Lemrick Nelson ( born 1975 ), convicted of violating Yankel Rosenbaum's civil rights in his murder during the 1991 Crown Heights riot
" Dinkins's term was marked by polarizing events such as the boycott of Korean-owned groceries in Flatbush and the 1991 Crown Heights riot.
About one third of this estate, generally the land considered most valuable, has been protected from mining since 1997 via being listed in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 ( though recent ( 2010 ) moves by the Fifth National Government have proposed exemption some areas from Schedule 4 ).
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Chick was born in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California, the first of two children of commercial artist Thomas Chick ( 1903 – 1973 ) and his wife Pauline ( 1903 – 1991 ).
This proposed freeway was built as Route 18 between Wall Township and Eatontown from 1965 to 1991 while the southern portion to Seaside Heights was never built.
In 1991, Columbia Heights joined Sister Cities International and selected Lomianki, Poland as its Sister City.
His later films include Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ), The Day of the Locust ( 1975 ), Marathon Man ( 1976 ), Yanks ( 1979 ), " An Englishman Abroad ", The Falcon and the Snowman ( 1985 ), Pacific Heights ( 1990 ), the TV play A Question of Attribution ( 1991 ), The Innocent ( 1993 ) and The Next Best Thing ( 2000 ).
* August 19, 1991 – A Jewish automobile driver accidentally kills a seven-year-old African-American boy, thereby touching off the Crown Heights riots, during which an Australian Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, was fatally stabbed by Lemrick Nelson.
In the late 20th century, leaving aside injudicious name-calling by senator Ernest Hollings to fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum on the floor of the Senate, the Crown Heights riots of 1991 were a violent expression of tensions within a very poor urban community, pitting African American residents against followers of Hassidic Judaism.
There is one secondary school ; Boronia Heights College, with Boronia High School ( later named Tormore Secondary College ) closing in 1991.
Funding for the remaining seven Green Line stations in the District and Prince George's remained in doubt as of August 1991, with District officials saying that it made sense to build the Georgia Avenue – Petworth and Columbia Heights stations and Prince George's representatives demanding that the three stations in their county be completed.
On Tuesday, July 2, 1991, at a show at the Riverport Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights, Missouri, Axl spotted a spectator recording the concert with a video camera, and jumped into the audience after him when concert security failed to respond to Rose's request to apprehend the man.
In 1991, Professor Michael André Bernstein alleged reductio ad Hitlerum over a full-page advertisement placed in The New York Times by the Lubavitch community, following the Crown Heights Riot, under the heading " This Year Kristallnacht Took Place on August 19th Right Here in Crown Heights.
The Crown Heights Riot was a three-day riot that occurred August 19 – 21, 1991 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York.
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* Bahru Zewde ( 1991 ) A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974, Eastern African studies series, London: Currey, ISBN 0-85255-066-9
In Guinea-Bissau in 1989, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) under the direction of President João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira began to outline a political liberalization program which the People's National Assembly approved in 1991.
The number of IMF member countries has more than quadrupled from the 44 states involved in its establishment, reflecting in particular the attainment of political independence by many African countries and more recently the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union because most countries in the Soviet Sphere of influence did not join the IMF.
* 1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
* 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
In 1990, São Tomé became one of the first African countries to embrace democratic reform and changes to the constitution — the legalization of opposition political parties — led to elections in 1991 that were nonviolent, free, and transparent.
Telkom was incorporated on 30 September 1991 as a public limited liability company registered under the South African Companies Act, 61 of 1973, as amended.
The NCNW produced its first cookbook, The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, in 1958, and revived the practice in 1993, producing a popular series of cookbooks featuring recipes by famous African Americans, among them: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook ( 1991 ), Celebrating Our Mothers ' Kitchens: Treasured Memories and Tested Recipes ( 1994 ), and Mother Africa's Table: A Chronicle of Celebration ( 1998 ).
Kaundas successor, president Frederick Chiluba ( 1991 – 2002 ), also played an important role in African politics.
The importance of both albums allowed Simon to stage another New York concert, and on August 15, 1991, almost a decade after his concert with Garfunkel, Simon staged another concert in Central Park with both African and South American bands.
* Garber, Anne ( 1991 ) ' The phonological structure of the Senufo word ( Sicite )', Journal of West African Languages, 21, 2, 3 – 20.
* Transition Magazine, founded by Rajat Neogy ( 1938 – 1995 ), a Ugandan of Indian ancestry, was published from 1961 to 1976 on the African continent and was revived in 1991 in the United States
( According to The Guardian of 26 July 1991, Pik Botha told a press conference that the South African government had paid more than £ 20 million to at least seven political parties in Namibia to oppose SWAPO in the run-up to the 1989 elections.
In 1989, the Prince flew as a volunteer for the African Medical Research and Education Foundation ( AMREF ) in Kenya, and in 1991 he spent a month flying for the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Following the demise of Eastern Air Lines in 1991 the concourse was used by a variety of African and Latin American carriers.
A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season ( 1989 ), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon ; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft ( 1989 ) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, Lock Up ( 1991 ) with Sylvester Stallone ; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 ), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith.
It was nominated for both Best Director and Original Screenplay during the 1991 Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person ever nominated for Best Director and the first African – American to be nominated for the award.
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