Events from 1991

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1991

18 events
1992 →
1991 ID: 2083
Pope John Paul II: 'Fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature'
ID: 2083
1991 ID: 2084
BCCI collapsed by regulators worldwide
ID: 2084
1991 ID: 2085
Soviet Union dissolves - German strategy of US-Soviet antagonism succeeds completely
ID: 2085
1991 ID: 2086
Maastricht Treaty negotiations - German economic integration of Europe
ID: 2086
1991 ID: 2087
Germany insists on European Central Bank being modeled on Bundesbank
ID: 2087
1991 ID: 2088
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act enhances bank reporting requirements
ID: 2088
1991 ID: 2089
World Wide Web becomes publicly available
ID: 2089
1991 ID: 2090
Carbon nanotubes are discovered by Sumio Iijima, launching nanotechnology materials science
ID: 2090
1991 ID: 2091
The Chemical Manufacturers Association launches Responsible Care
ID: 2091
1991 ID: 2092
Dr. Ehrengut: 'pertussis CNS complications are a reality and under-estimated'
ID: 2092
1991 ID: 2093
Soviet Union falls - Fatima prophecy fulfilled - 'Russia will be converted'
ID: 2093
1991 ID: 4394
IBM, Motorola, and Apple announce PowerPC alliance - RISC architecture to challenge Intel dominance
ID: 4394
1991 ID: 4542
CHR (Constraint Handling Rules) - declarative constraint solving through confluent rewrite rules
ID: 4542
1991 ID: 4622
Physicists discover mirror symmetry - deep connection between different Calabi-Yau manifolds
ID: 4622
1991 ID: 4444
February 1991
Guido van Rossum releases Python 0.9 - emphasizes code readability, 'batteries included' philosophy
ID: 4444
1991 ID: 4393
April 1991
AMD releases Am386 - reverse-engineered Intel 386 clone after legal battles, 40MHz vs Intel's 33MHz
ID: 4393
1991 ID: 4445
May 1991
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 1.0 - rapid application development for Windows, event-driven programming
ID: 4445
1991 ID: 2082
May 1, 1991
May 1: Pope John Paul II issues 'Centesimus Annus' on 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum
ID: 2082

Books & Texts from 1991

📖 1991-cia-world-factbook
📖 winn-schwartau - terminal-compromise