In 1991 Operation Desert Storm happens as a United Nations Coalition Force led by the United States bombs Iraq forces in Kuwait • Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia at the start of the Balkan War • The Dow Jones average topped 3,000 for the first time • Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, issues a public statement confirming that he is stricken with AIDS, and the next day he dies of complications • Police brutality is captured on film in California in the case of the Rodney King arrest • Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union officially ceases to exist • Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, and Estonia all gain independence after the Soviet Union breaks up • The internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and the number of computers connected reaches 1 million • The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
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