The Unicode consortium was incorporated on January 3, 1991, in the state of California, and in October 1991, the first volume of the Unicode standard was published.

DocBook began in 1991 in discussion groups on Usenet and evenually became a joint project of HAL Computer Systems and O ' Reilly & Associates and eventually spawned its own maintenance organization ( the Davenport Group ) before moving in 1998 to the SGML Open consortium, which subsequently became OASIS.

In 1991, a U. S. House of Representatives committee investigated charges that a Wackenhut executive, working for a consortium of oil companies, illegally spied on a whistleblower, former independent oil executive Chuck Hamel, exposing environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

PrimeStar was a U. S. direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in 1991 by a consortium of cable television system operators.

British Petroleum is leading an international consortium, which includes California-based Unocal, for the construction of the $ 3 billion BTC project that would establish the largest pipeline in the world, crossing through Georgia, a country mired in poverty and political instability since gaining independence from Russia in 1991.

MAI was part of a consortium which bid for the ITV south and south east area, which formed Meridian Broadcasting in 1991.

Bronfman sold the team to a consortium of owners in 1991, with Claude Brochu as the managing general partner.

The consortium was announced on the 9th of April 1991 by Compaq, Microsoft, MIPS Computer Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Santa Cruz Operation.

In 1991, the NSW Government established a consortium including the University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney and UNSW which transformed Alexandria side of the workshops site into the Australian Technology Park.

In August 1991, Highland Scottish was sold to a consortium made up of Rapson's Coaches, a coach operator based near Inverness, and recently privatised Scottish Citylink, for £ 800k.

A private consortium purchased the track in 1991 and began to upgrade it.

By the time he started the Pentium project, a large number of established and new players, including the AIM consortium ( a consortium led by Apple, IBM and Motorola ) an Advanced Computing Environment ( ACE ) consortium formed in 1991 and led by Compaq, Microsoft, DEC, and MIPS Technologies, Inc, and a consortium by Sun Microsystems ( which comprised companies like Sun, Fujitsu, Philips, Tatung and Amdahl ), using superior RISC ( Reduced Instructions Based Computing ) had all begun aggressively working on their big idea for the PC industry and these projects seriously threatened Intel ’ s dominance in the segment.

The ATM Forum was founded in 1991 to be the industry consortium to promote Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology used in telecommunication networks.

Since 1991, the Association of American Law Schools, the principal consortium of United States law schools, required that all of its member institutions establish a policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and that member schools require the same policy of any employer to which it grants access for recruiting employees.

Soon thereafter, in December 1991, Landbank joined the consortium, followed by HSBC in February 1992.

In 1991 a consortium of printer and network manufacturers ( Insight Development, Intel, LAN Systems, Lexmark and Texas Instruments ) formed the Network Printing Alliance ( NPA ).

The contract for construction of the pontoon bridge was awarded in August 1991 to a consortium, Arbeidsfellesskapet Salhus Bru, which consisted of Norwegian Contractors, Aker Entreprenør, Veidekke and Kværner Eureka.

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.

In 1990-91, the Army had ten military regions and an estimated 73 + ' brigades ', each with a mean strength of 1, 000 and comprising infantry, tanks, APC, artillery, and AA units as required ( IISS Military Balance 1990 or 1991 ).

* 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around, killing at least 138, 000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.

* The origins of ` Pursuing Stacks ' This is an account of how ` Pursuing Stacks ' was written in response to a correspondence in English with Ronnie Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor, which continued until 1991.

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

* 1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

In 1991, Atari Corp. relaunched the Lynx with a new marketing campaign, new packaging, slightly improved hardware, and a new sleek look.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

In Australia and New Zealand the largest barter exchange is Bartercard, founded in 1991, with offices in the UK, Thailand and Cyprus.

In 1991, the Orioles experimented with longtime TV writer / producer Ken Levine as a play-by-play broadcaster.

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

Songwriters Tom Russell and Dave Alvin addressed Haley's demise in musical terms with " Haley's Comet " on Alvin's 1991 album Blue Blvd.

Some believe that Georg Cantor's set theory was not actually implicated by these paradoxes ( see Frápolli 1991 ); one difficulty in determining this with certainty is that Cantor did not provide an axiomatization of his system.

In early 1991, Bixby was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent treatment.

He appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 US tour ; in Legends of Guitar ( filmed live in Spain, 1991 ) with B. B.

2nd Edition ( 1991 ) with additional third author Frangois Ochsenbein, 2 volumes, LCCN 91026764.

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby ’ s Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

With French support, a reorganization of the armed forces was initiated early in 1991 with the goal of reducing its numbers and making its ethnic composition reflective of the country as a whole.

On October 23, 1991, the Paris Conference reconvened to sign a comprehensive settlement giving the UN full authority to supervise a cease-fire, repatriate the displaced Khmer along the border with Thailand, disarm and demobilize the factional armies, and prepare the country for free and fair elections.

The population rose steadily ( with the exception of censuses taken following the two world wars ) from 2. 1 million in 1857 until 1991, when it peaked at 4. 7 million.

When the Soviet Union broke up in late 1991, a major boost to Cuba's economy was lost, leaving it essentially paralyzed because of the economy's narrow basis, focused on just a few products with just a few buyers.

In 1991, Cyprus introduced a Value Added Tax ( VAT ), which is currently 15 % in line with the EU minimum.

Love also briefly dated Billy Corgan in early 1991, but her most prolific relationship was undoubtedly with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Colombia's present constitution, enacted on July 5, 1991, strengthened the administration of justice with the provision for introduction of an adversarial system which ultimately is to entirely replace the existing Napoleonic Code.