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Jun 18"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" single released by Bryan Adams (Billboard Song of the Year, 1991) Canada introduces the Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) a national sales tax South Africa Winnie Mandela The Indian general elections end; the Indian National Congress wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority. Six days later, Congress leader P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India. [154] [155] Single European Market lifts trade restrictions within the EEC and the Maastricht treaty opens the way for closer political Union Bank of Credit and Commerce International

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Internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and number of computers on the net reaches 1 million January 24 – The government of Papua New Guinea signs a peace agreement with separatist leaders from Bougainville Island, ending fighting that had gone on since 1988. [27] Crossette, Barbara (1991-03-01). "General's Widow Wins Bangladesh Vote". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-06-12.

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Since the early 1970s we have been living in a new era, whose uncertain prospects Freedman recognizes. He may regard them with less worry than I do, but we both stand too close to the present for historical judgment. Yet while I will not die in the last ditch for my name for this, still unconcluded, period ("The Landslide"), few economic historians will doubt that we have Passed a major turning-point in world history. (By the way, few of them would agree with Freedman that the late 1940s and the early 1970s do not mark "obvious punctuation points") Compared to that "Golden Age" the post-l973 years have been an era of uncertainties, instabilities and difficulties for capitalism, some new, some - like the revival of serious economic crises and permanent mass unemployment in Europe- once familiar. My argument was not that the global economic system is "rolling steadily downhill" - indeed I specifically predict another great leap forward (pp. 570-71), but that it is no longer possible to believe, as it was in the heyday of the "Golden Age" that a way had been found to solve, or at least to minimize, the economic, social and political problems which had convulsed capitalist society in its "Age of Catastrophe". The historically novel retreat of the state, which Freedman notes, the rise of a virtual free market anarchism, far beyond what even the nineteenth century USA would have considered acceptable to serious political influence, make it more difficult to confront these problems. Rostker, Bernard (2000). "Information Paper: Iraq's Scud Ballistic Missiles". Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control from 2000 to 2006. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 . Retrieved 21 May 2009. September 25 – Salvadoran Civil War: Representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front reach an agreement with President of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani, setting the stage for the end of the war. [239] [240] [241] The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, resulting in 140 deaths with one survivor. [96]In November of 1990 the U.N. authorizes the use of force against Iraq if they did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991. phrase the question in such a way that it was acceptable and relatable to the public – for example, in the late 1970s many West Indians felt it inappropriate to describe people born in Britain as ‘West Indian’ John Leonard Orr, one of the most prolific serial arsonists of the 20th century, is arrested in California. [305] August 1991" redirects here. For the film, see August 1991 (film). The Warsaw radio mast after its collapse on August 8. August 19: The coup attempt in Moscow. Police Brutality Captured On Film in California in the case of Rodney King arrest Russia Mikhail Gorbachev