1991: The News.

January:

• Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes on Iraq by allied forces
• SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero, deployed in Iraq

February:

• The IRA launch a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street
• The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation is formed
• The IRA explode bombs at Paddington and Victoria stations
• US President George H. W. Bush declares victory over Iraq

March:

• Germany formally regains complete independence from World War II occupying powers: France, UK, US and USSR
• The Birmingham Six are freed, 26 years after being wrongfully convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings
• An inquest into the Hillsborough disaster returns a verdict of accidental death for the 95 people who died as a result of the tragedy
• Dances With Wolves wins seven awards including Best Picture at the 63rd Academy Awards

April:

• Thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. They are found less than an hour later in an abandoned car near the museum

May:

• Arsenal are crowned champions of the Football League
• Manchester United win the European Cup Winners’ Cup, the first European competition for English clubs following the five-year ban due to the Heysal disaster
• Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space

June:

• South Africa repeals the last legal foundations of Apartheid

July:

• Dean Saunders becomes the most expensive footballer signed by an English club when he joins Liverpool for £2.9 million from Derby County

August:

• Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project. The first website, info.cern.ch, is created

September:

• Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg
• The Big Issue is launched

October:

• Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” enters its record fifteenth successive week at number 1 in the UK singles charts, before eventually being toppled after sixteen weeks by U2’s “The Fly”

November:

• Freddie Mercury dies from AIDS induced pneumonia only 24 hours after going public with his AIDS diagnosis

December:

• The Soviet Union formally dissolves, ending the Cold War.
• Thousands of British shops defy trading laws by opening their doors on a Sunday in a bid to boost trade badly hit by the recession

Other:

• The Communist Party of Great Britain dissolves
• Scout Groups allow girls to join
• Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” is the best selling single of the year
• Earning $520 million worldwide, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the highest grossing film of the year