Can you name the significant events of 1991?

Date	Answer	Clue
January 16		Operation Desert Storm begins with air-strikes against this country
January 27		This Buffalo Bills placekicker's missed field goal attempt allowed the New York Giants to win Super Bowl XXV
February 5		This infamous doctor is barred by a Michigan court from assisting in suicides
March 3		Amateur video captures LAPD officers beating this man
April 1		This 'South Park' cable channel is launched in its current format
April 29		An estimated 138,000 people are killed when a tropical cyclone hits this country.
May 18		This popular 'Weekend Update' anchor leaves 'Saturday Night Live'.
May 25		This NHL team wins their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
June 12		This man is elected the 1st President of Russia.
June 23		Sega publishes the first game in this video game franchise.
July 1		This 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'Highway to Heaven' actor dies
July 1		This Communist agreement is officially dissolved in Prague.
July 22		This serial killer is arrested in his Milwaukee apartment.
August 13		Nintendo releases this video game system in the US.
September 3		This 'It's a Wonderful Life' director passes away at age 94.
September 19		This 'Similaun Man' is discovered nearly 5000 years after his death in the Alps.
September 24		A surprise success, this Nirvana album is credited with bringing alternative rock into the mainstream.
October 2		This Arkansas Governor announces his candidacy for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.
October 11		This Soviet agency is replaced in Russia by the SVR.
October 15		After a controversial hearing, the Senate votes 52-48 to confirm this judge to the Supreme Court.
October 27		This AL team defeats the Braves to win the World Series.
November 7		This Lakers point guard shocks the nation with his announcement that he has HIV.
November 23		Freddie Mercury, the frontman for this band, publicly announces that he has AIDS; he dies the next day.
December 25		This man resigns as president of the Soviet Union

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1991 Quiz

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Created by: Servo91 -
Contributed: October 29th, 2009
Published: December 12th, 2009
Category: History
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Tags: event, significant, year, date, 1991

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	swellwrench:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	1 point
	July 1 #1 should read "actor," not "actors"

	michael1:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	2 points
	Interesting idea for a quiz.

	gopaladins:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT	4 points
	sucks for norwood. this isn't helping people forget. someone explain the overlap in yeltsin/gorbachev to me.

	PumpkinBomb:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT	10 points
	RIP Ötzi. "Die young, stay pretty".

	greebles:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:39 GMT	4 points
	I can't say I'm entirely convinced by this quiz. It's a good idea but I just think that you chose some strange ones.

	Alexei:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	3 points
	Warsaw was raw.

	marpocky:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	9 points
	Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian SSR. When the Soviet Union dissolved later in the year, Gorbachev stepped down, since his position didn't really exist anymore, and Yeltsin became President of the nation of Russia.

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	Woopee:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 06:39 GMT	8 points
	Why isn't Norwide accepted? :)

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	drpickem:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 07:47 GMT	5 points
	Never heard of Otzi the Iceman, but as a Canadian sports fan and news follower who was very much alive in 1991, the rest were fairly easy.

	danzam:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 08:02 GMT	16 points
	I live in Buffalo area...... "Wide Right" is one of the many daggers in the hearts of Buffalo fans. Although we Bills fans now are longing for the days of losing Super Bowls after not making the playoffs in a decade (and counting).

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	Cheezzy0:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	4 points
	I feel old...that's the year I graduated from high school...

	Stairway:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	7 points
	Ötzi should be accepted (since that's the proper spelling)

	Fidelio:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	19 points
	It was a 47 yard field goal attempt, give the guy a break. People talk about Norwood as if he missed an extra point or something.

	LInkash:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 11:51 GMT	3 points
	I wouldn't have known some of the answers if it wasn't for Sporcle!

	Havok3595:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 11:51 GMT	3 points
	@danzam: Same here. @Fidelio: I also recall that Norwood was a big reason they were in the Super Bowl in the first place, so I really don't understand how one very difficult missed kick made him a pariah. Also? @Cheezzy0: Me too.

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	Lil2:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 13:02 GMT	4 points
	i think i've only ever heard of otzi as simply 'the iceman'

	Arbutus:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 13:19 GMT	3 points
	Same here. I'm almost certain I remember a National Geographic from that time that just referred to him as the "Iceman." I think that should be accepted as well.

	Kicking222:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 13:46 GMT	5 points
	Thanks a lot for reminding me of the Braves' World Series loss... dammit.

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