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Oct 14 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner becomes 1st NHL player to score his 500th goal, 500th assist, and 1000th point all in the same season In the U.S., telephone services go down in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and San Francisco as a result of a software bug, affecting nearly twelve million customers. [166] [167] Aug 15 Marietta Tree, American diplomat and ambassador (1st woman to serve as chief U.S. delegate to the UN in 1961), dies at 74 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. August 20 – Singing Revolution: Estonia declares independence from the Soviet Union, followed by Latvia the next day.

The Day After Eastern Folds: Many Passengers Are Left Up in the Air: Travel: Some connect with other carriers, several are left on standby status. The 62-year-old airline finally succumbed to a number of infirmities". Los Angeles Times. 1991-01-20 . Retrieved 2020-08-18. The modern state was a product of the ever-increasing demands of warfare - building up the population and industrial capacity, to provide ever more men and materiel for the battlefield, improving science and technology to ensure a steady stream of new types of weapons, refining the broadcasting and print media to generate popular support. Even the early stirrings of the welfare state were prompted by the need for a healthier and better motivated army. What progressive theorists hoped was that the mobilization and directional capacities of the state, as demonstrated in two world wars, could be redirected to more positive purposes. October 13 – In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Union of Democratic Forces defeats the Bulgarian Socialist Party, leaving no remaining Communist governments in Eastern Europe. [258] [259] [260] March 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: In the Salvadoran legislative election, the Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 48 seats in the legislative assembly. [66] [67] This makes collecting ethnicity data, and measuring changes over time, challenging. 1960s: nationality over ethnicity

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October 21 – Lebanon Hostage Crisis: Jesse Turner, a mathematics professor who has been held hostage for more than four years, is released. [268] [269] Drozdiak, William; Hoffman, David (January 9, 1991). "Baker and Aziz Arrive in Geneva". The Washington Post . Retrieved June 12, 2021. Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The forces of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitaries take the Croatian town of Vukovar after the 87-day Battle of Vukovar. They kill more than 260 Croatian prisoners of war. [293] Clarence Thomas is confirmed as the new U.S. Supreme Court Justice following Thurgood Marshall's retirement. [261] [262] February 18 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and Victoria station, in London. [44]

Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers ( France, the U.K., the U.S., and the U.S.S.R.) relinquish all remaining rights to the country. Aug 6 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.Skarnsund Bridge opens in Norway, becoming the world's longest cable-stayed bridge for two years with a span of 530 metres (1,739ft). [316]

May 1 – Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon. [119] [120] A 7.7 M w Limon earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama with a maximum Mercalli intensity, causing between 47 and 87 deaths and up to 759 injuries. [106] [107] December [ edit ] December 8: The signing of the agreement effectively ending the Soviet regime's existence and the founding of the Commonwealth of Independent States. September 22 – The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time. [234] [235] [236]Aug 12 Heavy metal band Metallica release their 5th album "Metallica"; debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart Singing Revolution: Voters in Estonia and Latvia vote more than 3-to-1 in favor of independence from the Soviet Union. [56] [57] Such a gloomy analysis flows naturally from the progressive political tradition, to which Hobsbawm remains attached. Part of this is a disdain for the leading capitalist state, the United States, which is treated unsympathetically throughout, leading to an inadequate grasp of why the `American way’ continues to have such an impact. A more fundamental aspect of this tradition is the view of the state as the natural focus for analytical attention and the best hope for improving the human condition, for reconstructing economic activity in the name of a more just society. The course of enlightened change depended on gaining control of the instruments of coercion and hegemony: without these no political struggle could be won.