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* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
At the time of the parliamentary decision, Lieutenant-General Valeh Barshadli became the first Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, from September 5 to December 11, 1991.
The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.
His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.
* 1991 – The Airbus A340 aircraft makes its first flight.
* 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.
In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.
* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.
In 1991, DENR provided its first assessment of acid rain in the United States.
The country's first post-communist Assembly elections, in November 1991, made the winning new pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) to make government alone, having won 110 out of the 240 seats in the assembly.
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.
When Congress overrode his veto, the project had its green light and ground was first broken in 1991.
Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.
The fastest industrial braille embosser is probably the $ 77, 000 Belgian-made " NV Interpoint 55 ", first produced in 1991, which uses a separate air compressor to drive the embossing head and can output up to 800 braille characters per second.
In 1991, BCI published a reference guide containing 2300 vocabulary items and detailed rules for the graphic design of additional characters, so they settled a first set of approved Bliss-words for general use.
Of the first major conversion of the Abbey in 1989, Kay ( 1991 ) observed ;
HTML (< u > H </ u > yper < u > t </ u > ext < u > M </ u > arkup < u > L </ u > anguage ) has been in use since 1991, but HTML 4. 0 ( December 1997 ) was the first standardized version where international characters were given reasonably complete treatment.
In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.
On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.
Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.
He is believed to have been in this position since the death of Dáithí Ó Conaill, the first chief of staff, in 1991.
Raquel Wolstenhulme ( Sarah Lancashire ) first appeared in 1991 and went on to become one of the most popular characters.
Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.
After independence the first one was carried out in 1991, further rounds followed in 2001 and 2011.

1991 and Robot
Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Return of Convoy ( 1991, Japan )-also known as " Transformers: The Battlestars " or " Battlestars: Return of Convoy "
* Giant Robot ( demo ), a demo tape released by Buckethead in 1991
rereleased Romantic Robot ( RR1991 ) 2 CD-set: Terezín: The Music 1941-44 by FISYO ( Filmový symfonický orchestr ) Prague conducted by Mario Klemens and Bambini di Praga led by Bohumil Kulínský ; this was the first available recording in Czech from a two-CD set produced by Alexander Goldscheider and released in 1991, which further contains Krása's string trio Tanec together with music from other leading Terezín composers, namely Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein
His first Valiant work appeared in Magnus, Robot Fighter # 1 ( May, 1991 ), in which he inked Art Nichols ' artwork from Jim Shooter's script.
The first was " Norby the Mixed-Up Robot " running for 18 chapters, from January 1990, to July 1991.
* Spirit Commands in the Super Robot Wars series of video games ( 1991 ) include a variety of exceptional feats used by expending Spirit Points ( SP ), while attacks are used by expending Energy ( EN ).
The first game in the long-running Super Robot Wars series is another early example of the genre, initially released for the Game Boy in 1991.
Among the oldest robotic combat competitions extant in the United States were the " Critter Crunch " ( founded about 1987 ) in Denver and " Robot Battles " ( founded in 1991 ) based in the southeastern U. S. Both events were run by members of the " Denver Mad Scientists Society ".
** Film: The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), Curly Sue ( 1991 ), Captain Ron ( 1992 ), I, Robot ( 2004 ), The Break-Up ( 2006 ), The Dark Knight ( 2008 ), Wanted ( 2008 )

1991 and Battles
Its slogan, " The Mother of all Games ", was coined in 1991, during the Gulf War, after Saddam Hussein threatened the U. S. that if they stepped on Iraqi soil, it would be " The Mother of all Battles ".
Apparently coined in 1994, the retrospective name " The Mother of All Demos " references " The Mother of All Battles ," a name used by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to describe the 1991 Gulf War ; the term " the mother of all " subsequently became a widely used stock phrase or snowclone.
* The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo ( 1991 )

1991 and competition
Dennis Bergkamp scored six goals in the competition and was the top goalscorer in Dutch football in 1991 and 1992.
Honduran domestic manufacturers also suffered from increased Central American competition resulting from a trade liberalization pact signed in May 1991 by Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
In 1991 Saddam threatened to expose those who had taken largesse from him: " From Mr. Chirac to Mr. Chevènement, politicians and economic leaders were in open competition to spend time with us and flatter us.
* Welsh Professional Championship, a snooker competition for 1977 to 1991
Feyenoord progressed to the 1991 final, where they beat BVV Den Bosch 1 – 0 to win the competition.
An Irish version of the competition called Challenging Times ran between 1991 and 2002.
Red Star is the only Serbian and former Yugoslav club that has won a UEFA competition, winning the 1991 European Cup in Bari, Italy.
Telstra also faced competition in market niches such as long distance corporate voice and data services, with AAPT ( a spinoff of the local AAP financial data / news service ) active from 1991.
The intense competition of the 1991 Ryder Cup is widely regarded as having elevated public interest in the series.
Intel made a successful major push into the motherboard and chipset markets — becoming the largest motherboard manufacturer in the world and, at one stage, almost the only chipset manufacturer — but badly fumbled its attempt to move into the graphics chip market, and ( from 1991 ) faced sharp competition in its core CPU territory from AMD, Cyrix, VIA and Transmeta.
A sequel was developed and planned for release in 1991, but canceled when location testing showed the game could not succeed in competition with other titles.
In June 1991, after competition with other tank manufacturers ' designs ( including the M1A2 Abrams and the Leopard 2 ( Improved )), the MoD placed a £ 520 million order for 127 MBTs and 13 driver training vehicles.
In 1991, São Paulo won its third competition title after beating Carlos Alberto Parreira's Bragantino, and the club began a period of consistent achievement both nationally and internationally.
Presumably, this organization ran regional packet-submission tournaments in the 1991 and 1992 competition seasons, but that's unconfirmed ( the tournament labeled 1992 ACF Regionals on the Stanford Archive is actually the 1993 Regionals ).
With the competition now set as a qualifying event for the Olympic Games, Soviet Union, led by Dmitri Fomin won the title in 1991, at the brink of dissolution.
USSR / The Unified Team / Russia / Ukraine / Belarus / Armenia: Before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet gymnasts dominated both men's and women's gymnastics commencing with the introduction of the full women's program into the Olympics and the overall increased standardization of the Olympic Gymnastics competition format which happened in 1952.
In 1991, Tanzania hosted a hip hop competition called " Yo Rap Bonanza .” While most rappers were performing American songs word for word ; Saleh Ajabry, a Tanzanian, wrote his own Swahili lyrics to a song based on Vanilla Ice ’ s “ Ice Ice Baby ,” and won the competition .< ref > AFRICAN HIP HOP IN TANZANIA-Highlights of a Conversation with Alex Perullo 2005.
Eastern ceased operations in 1991 due to labor issues and competition throughout the Eastern seaboard, leaving Delta with the only major airline hub in Atlanta.
The event was named the CONCACAF Gold Cup, with the USA hosting the first competition in 1991.
In 1990 – 91, Wimbledon did well to finish seventh in the First Division and there were high hopes that the club could qualify for European competition or win one of the two domestic cups during the 1991 – 92 season.
In 1991 and 1992 the club won the B & Q Cup, the competition for all non-Premier teams, firstly defeating Ayr 1-0 at Fir Park and then Morton 3-2 at Love Street.
The competition was originally played over two legs, one at each participating club's stadium, except in exceptional circumstances ; for instance in 1991 when Red Star Belgrade were not permitted to play a second leg in their native Yugoslavia due to the civil war which was taking place at the time.
Robson was still a regular choice for United during the 1991 – 92 season despite competition from likes of Paul Ince, Neil Webb and Andrei Kanchelskis.
Hardened by regular, tough competition in the Currie Cup, the first few years of Namibian rugby union were relatively successful, their highest point being 2 – 0 home series victories over Ireland and Italy in 1991.

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