Agriculture accounted for only 20 % of net material product and 10 % of employment before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

On August 19, 1991, a day before the New Union Treaty was to be signed devolving power to the republics, a group calling itself the " State Emergency Committee " seized power in Moscow declaring that Gorbachev was ill and therefore relieved of his position as president.

Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success during his 15-year law career with comedy and comedic script writing, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway?

In July 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, in the context of the outing of his press aide Pete Williams, dismissed the idea that gays posed a security risk as " a bit of an old chestnut " in testimony before the House Budget Committee.

The band had a falling out soon after, but played two shows in 1991 before breaking up.

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

NBC lasted until 1991, but attempted to bring them back in 1993 before cancelling its game show block again in 1994.

Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

1, 015 km ; Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km ; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use ; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft ; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf War

The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time ( before 9 / 11 ), and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.

* 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.

Dahmer picked up the pace of his killing: four more murders before the end of 1990, two more in February and April 1991, and another in May 1991.

In June 1991, in Paris, Jacques-Yves Cousteau remarried, to Francine Triplet, with whom he had ( before this marriage ) two children, Diane and Pierre-Yves.

On 16 December 1991, just five days before that declaration, Kazakhstan had become the last of the republics to proclaim its independence.

The signing meeting saw the first formal meeting of the heads of respective navies since before the 1991 Gulf War.

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.

On January 5, 1991 he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC before receiving his MINIX copy, which in turn enabled him to begin work on Linux.

Cypress Hill, of which Mellow Man Ace was a member before going solo, would become the first Latino rap group to reach platinum status in 1991.

People who arrived in Latvia during the Soviet era, and their descendants born before 21 August 1991, have to pass a naturalisation process to receive Latvian citizenship.

An effort to promote visibility from 1991 to 1992 provoked the government to declare homosexuality illegal in 1994, effectively ending the movement, until 2004, when Grupo Safo – Grupo de Mujeres Lesbianas de Nicaragua was created, four years before homosexuality became legal again.

By the end of 1991, however, two years before the termination of the plan, no quantitative plan targets had been made public, an indication that the plan has not fared well.

* 1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

In the three years leading up to the 1992 election, Labour had consistently topped the opinion polls, with 1991 seeing the Tories ( rejuvenated by the arrival of a new leader in John Major the previous November ) snatch the lead off Labour more than once before Labour regained it.

The project received approval from state environmental agencies in 1991, after satisfying concerns including release of toxins by the excavation and the possibility of disrupting the homes of millions of rats, causing them to roam the streets of Boston in search of new housing.

For the film's 1991 laserdisc release, Toho completed a crude reconstruction of the original 1962 version.

With the release of the Linux kernel in 1991, the primary user of GNU's userland components soon became operating systems based on the Linux kernel ( Linux distributions ), prompting the coining of the controversial term GNU / Linux.

This is not the case in England and Wales, where under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) Act of 1991 ( amended by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act, 2004 to remove the option of a guardianship order ), the court can mandate a hospital order, a restriction order ( where release from hospital requires the permission of the Home Secretary ), a " supervision and treatment " order, or an absolute discharge.

After the release of the Game Boy sequel Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters in 1991, the game series lay dormant for 20 years.

He was brought in as a songwriter for Ozzy Osbourne's 1991 No More Tears album, providing lyrics for the tracks " Hellraiser ", ( which Motörhead would later record themselves and release a single ), " Desire ", " I Don't Want to Change the World " and the single " Mama I'm Coming Home ".

1991 brought the release of In Control, Vol.

* Pole to Pole ( Travel 1991 ; Programme release 1992 ): travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole, following as closely as possible the 30 degree line of longitude, over as much land as possible, i. e., through Europe and Africa.

* 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.

Presumably, this means the first release of Paint Shop Pro was on August 22, 1991.

In 1991 Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut which removed the voiceovers originally added at the request of worried executives before the film's release, and made a number of other small changes, including to the ending.

After the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in 1991, it was expected that the next Star Trek feature film would feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television spinoff series.

The release of Street Fighter II in 1991 is often considered a revolutionary moment in the fighting game genre.

They would eventually go on to release three more afterwards ; The Friends of Mr. Cairo, Private Collection and Page of Life released in 1981, 1983, and 1991 respectively.

* Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards ( 1987 ), remade in 1991 ( VGA version ) and being remade again for a 2012 release.

After Outland ( 1991 ), another critical and commercial disappointment and his second and last studio album with IRS, Numan reactivated Numa Records, under which he would release his next two albums.

It enjoyed a degree of success in arcades and was subsequently ported to the Sega Mega Drive by Toaplan on May 31, 1991 in Japan, and by Sega during the following year in Europe, followed by a PC Engine CD-ROM release by Naxat Soft on September 18, 1992 only in Japan.

In the early 1990s, the arcades experienced a major resurgence with the 1991 release of Capcom's Street Fighter II, which popularized competitive fighting games and revived the arcade industry to a level of popularity not seen since the days of Pac-Man.

In the UK the single reached No. 2 on its original 1972 release and a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12.

In his stead, the band used session musicians such as Irving ( who was no longer an official band member ), Snow, Steve Nieve, Bruce Hornsby and Carol Isaacs for the 1991 release Play, which came out on the Reprise label.

The final release of Pbmplus was December 10, 1991.

The 2000 UK release, however, was in the 1991 video version.

John Carnochan, the editor responsible for the change in the 1991 video release, said " It's sort of appalling to me that these stereotypes were ever put in ".

* Nobel prize in Economics 1991 – Press release