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1991 Bin Laden expelled from Saudi Arabia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In spring 1991, the Saudi government, concerned about bin Laden's Islamic activism and radical statements, expelled him from the kingdom. According to various accounts, he was either ordered to leave or facilitated departure to attend an Islamic conference in Pakistan. He never returned to Saudi Arabia. ●●

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On August 19, 1991, hard-line Soviet communists attempted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed, and within weeks the Communist Party collapsed as an effective political organization. The Soviet Union formally dissolved shortly thereafter. ●●

1991 Coalition begins bombing Iraq in the Gulf War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 16, 1991, a 34-nation coalition led by the United States launched a bombing campaign against Iraqi military targets and forces occupying Kuwait. ●●

1991 Marie Warburg, letter to the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Marie Warburg, letter to the author, October 31, 1991. 15. ●●

1991 The New York Times, August rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The New York Times, August 11, 1991. 28. ●●

1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The power structure became unipolar in the 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and continuing growth of America's material capabilities ●●

1991 Soviet Union dissolved, replaced by the CIS ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In December 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved by the heads of its Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian republics and formally replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States. ●●

1991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ukraine's declaration of independence in December 1991 and control over Soviet army units on its soil prevented the CIS from becoming a confederal USSR and set an example for other republics. ●●

1991 He was back in the States rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was back in the States on September 26, 1991. ●●

1991 Little was indicted, brought to trial, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Little was indicted, brought to trial, and then acquitted on April 17, 1991. ●●

1991 When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Bor candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Boris Yeltsin, the Communist Party had been declared illegal, and the empire which had been so bloodily assembled by every Russian ruler since Peter the ●●

1991 Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), p rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), p. ●●

1991 1991: ” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launc... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee intended it to be used as a collaboration tool, which is why he was dismayed that ●●

1991 1991: Presper, 69 , 70 –72, 74 –75, 81 , 82 , 83 –84, 88 , 94 , 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story self-driving cars of, 456 Google Glass, 259 –60 Gopher, 415 Gore, Al, 260 , 400 –403 Gore Act (1991), 402 , 416 , 423 government funding, 73 –74, 482 , 484 see also ARPANET Graetz, Martin, 204 , 205 G ●●

1991 1991: , 167 , 188 Hayes Smartmodem, 387 Heart, Frank, 252 “Heat... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 64 Hewlett-Packard, 156 , 189 , 199 , 344 , 345 , 348 , 351 , 450 High Performance Computing Act (1991), 402 , 416 Higinbotham, William, 215 Hilbert, David, 43 , 44 , 45 , 47 , 78 , 103 Hiltzik, Micha ●●

1991 1991: of the basic desires that drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of the basic desires that drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee inten ●●

1991 1991: nest, Les, 251 , 281 Easy Writer, 356 Eckert, J. Presper, 69 , 70 –72, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story nest, Les, 251 , 281 Easy Writer, 356 Eckert, J. Presper, 69 , 70 –72, 74 –75, 81 , 82 , 83 –84, 88 , 94 , 105 , 106 , 109 , 110 , 119 , 134 , 137 , 2 ●●

1991 1991: –5, 106 , 222 , 271 , 328 –29 Hayden, Stone & Co., 167 , 188 Hayes Sma rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story –5, 106 , 222 , 271 , 328 –29 Hayden, Stone & Co., 167 , 188 Hayes Smartmodem, 387 Heart, Frank, 252 “Heath Robinson,” 79 Heinlein, Robert, 257 , 299 ●●

1991 or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the operation peaked in 1991, fiber was being rolled out, globally, at over 5,000 miles per hour, or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9 ●●

1991 Later in 1991, at Senate hearings on the confirmation of Robert Gates ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Later in 1991, at Senate hearings on the confirmation of Robert Gates as head of the CIA, former CIA officers Melvin Goodman and Harold Ford testified that the CIA’s analysis of the Bulgarian Connecti ●●

1991 The most recent of these imperial dissolutions was that of the former Soviet Union, a country built rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The most recent of these imperial dissolutions was that of the former Soviet Union, a country built on ostensibly universalistic ideological principles which collapsed after 1991 into smaller states based on ethnolinguistic solidarity. ●●

1991 Most of the colonial empires were dismantled in the three decades following World War II; one of the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Most of the colonial empires were dismantled in the three decades following World War II; one of the last large ones, that of the former Soviet Union, fell apart in 1991. ●●

1991 It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spre rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spread throughout Western Europe, and not until the collapse of communism in 1989–1991 that it was extended into Eastern Europe as well. ●●

1991 191 Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 191 Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, and also founded the Center for Democracy, one o ●●

1991 Panama signs treaty expanding US legal authority ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eventually, after many American threats to cut off aid, Panama signed a treaty in April 1991 giving US authorities parti ●●

1991 The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an April 1991 secret report, warned that “if DU gets in the food chain or ●●

1991 Father Charles Beirne, vice rector of the Jesuit rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Father Charles Beirne, vice rector of the Jesuit university, declared in 1991 that “the Americans were helping to protec ●●

1991 The United States had waged ruthless war against rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United States had waged ruthless war against the Salvadorean revolution, and threatened worse—in April 1991, Chairma ●●

1991 Aristide takes office as president of Haiti ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The president-priest took office in February 1991 after a coup attempt against him in January failed ●●

1991 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide served less than eight months rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide served less than eight months as Haiti’s president before being deposed, on 29 September 1991, ●●

1991 ) National Platform, 1900 Following its bombing of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ) National Platform, 1900 Following its bombing of Iraq in 1991, the United States wound up with military bases in Saudi ●●

1991 How the Bush Administration Bungled its Way to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How the Bush Administration Bungled its Way to War in the Gulf”, The Village Voice (New York), 22 January 1991, p ●●

1991 Bob Woodward, The Commanders (Simon & Schuster, New rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bob Woodward, The Commanders (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991), pp ●●

1991 Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War, a report ●●

1991 Torvalds announces the Linux kernel ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Linus Torvalds posted a message about his new kernel on the MINIX newsgroup. ●●

1991 Berners-Lee announces the Web on alt.hypertext ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Berners-Lee announced his hypertext project on an Internet newsgroup, sparking early interest. ●●

1991 William Cooper publishes Behold a Pale Horse ai_extracted 1 cit. no story William Cooper's conspiracy book "Behold a Pale Horse" was copyrighted and published in 1991, later becoming an influential and widely circulated fringe conspiracy text. ●●

5 November 1992 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages wikidata 1 cit. no story European treaty adopted in 1992 ●●●

1 March 1992 Independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 cit. no story A referendum backs independence from Yugoslavia; recognition follows in April 1992 as the Bosnian War begins. politics / war ●●●

6 April 1992 to 14 December 1995 Bosnian War 0 cit. no story Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia triggers a three-sided war marked by ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica genocide. NATO intervention and the Dayton Accords end the war after about 100,000 deaths. politics / war ●●●●

5 May 1992 to 27 June 1997 Tajikistani Civil War 0 cit. no story Post-Soviet Tajikistan collapses into war between the government and an Islamist-democratic opposition. Tens of thousands die before a 1997 power-sharing peace. politics / war ●●

1992 NAFTA 'initialing' ceremony staged ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An initialing ceremony for NAFTA was staged in October 1992 so President George H.W. Bush could take credit, though Fast Track was not yet in place to actually sign it. ●●

1992 First Rio conference creates Agenda 21 (1992) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The U.N.'s first Rio conference in 1992 produced Agenda 21, the defining document for sustainable development. Wood argues sustainable development is warmed-over Technocracy. ●●

1992 Gates presents post-Cold War threat list ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gates compiled a to-do list for a world without the Soviet Union and gave it to Congress. It named 176 threats, from nuclear weapons to climate change, but none matched the immensity of the old enemy. ●●

1992 U.S. military intervention in Somalia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush authorized an American military intervention to relieve mass starvation in Somalia. The mission soon mutated into a hunt for a warlord, with the CIA lacking any real intelligence network on the ground. ●●

1992 Black Wednesday and the pound sterling crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story George Soros executed a massive currency attack on the British pound, forcing the Bank of England to buy sterling frantically and ultimately driving pound out of exchange mechanism. ●●

1992 Bill Clinton elected president ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bill Clinton defeated President George H. W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot, winning 370 electoral votes with 43 percent of popular vote. ●●

1992 Najibullah agrees to resign in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Under a United Nations-brokered agreement on April 25, 1992, Afghan President Mohammed Najibullah agreed to resign following the collapse of Soviet support. ●●

1992 New York: William Morrow and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992. Adler, Cyrus. ●●

1992 Eddy Lachman, letter to the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eddy Lachman, letter to the author, April 19, 1992. 4. ●●

1992 Eddy Lachman, letter to author, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eddy Lachman, letter to author, April 19, 1992. 15. ●●

1992 result, Austria upset the delicate balance of offs... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As a result, Austria upset the delicate balance of offsetting hatreds. Three generations later, in 1992, the same elemental passions erupted over comp ●●

1992 And Slovakia was not an enthusiastic part of a Cze... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And Slovakia was not an enthusiastic part of a Czech-dominated state, as it would demonstrate by seceding in 1939 and again in 1992. The new Yugoslavi ●●

1992 When, in 1992, then Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was asked whether Japan would accept a N rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When, in 1992, then Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was asked whether Japan would accept a North Korean nuclear capability, he answered with very un-Japanese directness by the single word “no. ●●

1992 1992: 137 By the fall of 1992, a year after its release, Linux’s ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story became a model of the shared production that propelled digital-age innovation. 137 By the fall of 1992, a year after its release, Linux’s newsgroup on the Internet had tens of thousands of users. Self ●●

1992 1992: “It now seems really silly, but up until 1992, it was illega... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e not connected to an educational or research institution. “It now seems really silly, but up until 1992, it was illegal to connect a commercial service like AOL to the Internet,” Steve Case said. 37 ●●

1992 1992: ” 36 When Andreessen saw the Web demonstrated in November 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story he Internet would be before it got built.” 36 When Andreessen saw the Web demonstrated in November 1992, he was blown away. So he enlisted an NCSA staffer, Eric Bina, a first-class programmer, to part ●●

1992 1992: Jude (Jude Milhon), 301 , 302 Sams, Jack, 356 –57 Samson, ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Endless Frontier” (Bush), 263 n Scientific American , 47 Scientific and Advanced Technology Act (1992), 402 Scientific Data System, 187 Scientific Memoirs , 25 , 30 , 32 Scientific Revolution, 3 , 479 ●●

1992 1992: production that propelled digital-age innovation. 137 By the fall of 1 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story production that propelled digital-age innovation. 137 By the fall of 1992, a year after its release, Linux’s newsgroup on the Internet had tens of tho ●●

1992 1992: nnected to an educational or research institution. “It now seems reall rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story nnected to an educational or research institution. “It now seems really silly, but up until 1992, it was illegal to connect a commercial service like ●●

1992 1992: nd what the Internet would be before it got built.” 36 When Andreessen rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story nd what the Internet would be before it got built.” 36 When Andreessen saw the Web demonstrated in November 1992, he was blown away. So he enlisted an ●●

1992 1992: Russell, Steve, 203 –6, 207 , 320 , 321 , 473 St. Jude (Jude Milhon), rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russell, Steve, 203 –6, 207 , 320 , 321 , 473 St. Jude (Jude Milhon), 301 , 302 Sams, Jack, 356 –57 Samson, Peter, 200 , 200 , 206 Sanders, Bob, 207 S ●●

1992 Event of 1992 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story rowing strength of the commonwealth of freedom” would “forge for all nations a new world order far more stable and secure than any we have known.” The United States and its allies would move “beyond containment and to a policy of active engagement.” ●●

1992 28 All of this exploded in the 1992 “Tangentopoli” scandal. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 28 All of this exploded in the 1992 “Tangentopoli” scandal. ●●

1992 Vatican opposes family planning at Rio Earth Summit ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the 1992 Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Vatican had exploited suspicion of population control once again to weaken all references to family planning. ●●

1992 P.: and AVS, 207, 208; and Birth Control Investigation Committee, 96, 106, 110; and Eugenics Soci... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story P.: and AVS, 207, 208; and Birth Control Investigation Committee, 96, 106, 110; and Eugenics Society, 60, 96, 99, 102, 105–107, 168, 188; and IPPF, 56, 106, 163, 168, 177, 188, 190; as “reform” eug... ●●

1992 The Thai political system went from an authoritarian military regime to a reasonably open democracy candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Thai political system went from an authoritarian military regime to a reasonably open democracy between 1992 and 1997, preparing the way for the rise of the populist politician Thaksin Shinawatra. ●●

1992 Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992); Desmond King et al. ●●

1992 ” 76 In early 1992, the war came rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ” 76 In early 1992, the war came to an official end when a United Nations commission, after a year-and-a-half effort, fi ●●

1992 Afterwards, American officials say, the CIA cut its rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Afterwards, American officials say, the CIA cut its ties to SIN, but in 1992 a US Drug Enforcement Administration docume ●●

1992 FRAPH leader Emmanuel Constant joins CIA payroll ai_extracted 1 cit. no story FRAPH’s leader, Emannuel Constant, went onto the CIA payroll in early 1992 and, according to the Agency, this relation e ●●

1992 The American Empire 1992 to present We assert rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story The American Empire 1992 to present We assert that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn ●●

1992 Taiwan admits army killed thousands of Taiwanese ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1992, the Taiwan government admitted that its army had killed an estimated 18,000 to 28,000 native-born Taiwanese in ●●

1992 In December 1992, German officials charged a Palestinian rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In December 1992, German officials charged a Palestinian with the bombing ●●

1992 Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (Westview Press, Colorado, ●●

1992 War Crimes in the Gulf (Thunder’s Mouth Press, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story War Crimes in the Gulf (Thunder’s Mouth Press, NY, 1992), pp ●●

1992 Howard French, New York Times, 27 September 1992, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Howard French, New York Times, 27 September 1992, p ●●

1992 Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story See Regulation D; Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions, Federal Reserve document 12 CFR 204; as amended effective December 22, 1992, p20: ●●

1992 War or conflict rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “No Civil War at All, Part Two,” by William Mcllhany, Journal of Individualist Studies, Fall, 1992, pp ●●

1992 Legislative action rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Michail Gorbachev, “The River of Time and the Necessity of Action,” 46th John Findley Green Foundation Lecture, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, ●●

1992 Goldberg and Tripp pursue Monica Lewinsky scandal under Starr investigation candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1992, Lucianne Goldberg, working with former Pentagon employee Linda Tripp, pursues sexual scandal against Clinton during Whitewater investigations, leading to impeachment ●●

1992 Pat Robertson negotiates diamond deal with Mobutu ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1992, Pat Robertson's African Development Corporation enters into negotiations with Zairean President Mobutu for diamond trade development in Tshikapa ●●

1 January 1993 Formation of the Czech Republic 0 cit. no story Czechoslovakia, founded in 1918, peacefully splits in the Velvet Divorce and the Czech Republic becomes a sovereign state. politics ●●●

24 May 1993 Independence of Eritrea 0 cit. no story Eritrea formally becomes independent from Ethiopia after a thirty-year liberation war and a near-unanimous referendum. politics / war ●●●

1 January 1993 Formation of Slovakia 0 cit. no story Slovakia becomes a sovereign state as Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolves in the Velvet Divorce. politics ●●●

1993 Official Agenda 21 book published ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The official 300-page, 40-chapter Agenda 21 book was published on April 23, 1993. Wood says it drew little attention in the U.S. ●●

1993 Reinventing Government book published ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book Reinventing Government by Osborne and Gaebler was published on February 1, 1993. Wood says its authors were technocrats and it inspired Clinton's National Performance Review. ●●

1993 United Religions Initiative founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United Religions Initiative was founded in 1993 by Episcopal Bishop William Swing as an interfaith organization. Wood links it to sustainable development and the global elite. ●●

1993 National Adult Literacy Survey ranks American adults ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports the 1993 National Adult Literacy Survey, which sorted American adults into five reading levels and found tens of millions unable to read functionally. ●●

1993 Atlantic Monthly on the psychologization of schooling, 1993 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes an April 1993 Atlantic Monthly article describing how schools were turning to therapeutic remediation and psychological services. ●●

1993 Shooting at CIA headquarters gate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A Pakistani gunman opened fire on cars waiting at the entrance to CIA headquarters, killing two officers and wounding three. It was an early sign of terrorism reaching American soil. ●●

1993 First World Trade Center bombing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring more than a thousand. The plot traced back to a blind Egyptian sheik whom the CIA had helped admit to the United States. ●●

1993 Plot to assassinate former President Bush ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During a visit to Kuwait, the secret police arrested seventeen men accused of plotting to kill George H. W. Bush with a car bomb. The CIA concluded Saddam Hussein was behind the attempt. ●●

1993 Wendy Gramm votes to deregulate commodity futures ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm voted to exclude commodity contracts from regulatory oversight, enabling derivatives deregulation and company like Enron to avoid disclosures. ●●

1993 Wendy Gramm resigns CFTC and joins Enron board ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm resigned after Clinton took office and joined Enron's board within weeks, exemplifying revolving door between regulators and industry. ●●

1993 Robert Rubin appointed to National Economic Council ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Clinton appointed Goldman Sachs co-chairman Robert Rubin as assistant for economic policy and head of newly created National Economic Council. ●●

1993 Congress apologizes for the 1893 Hawaii overthrow ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress passed a resolution in 1993 apologizing to Native Hawaiians for the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The resolution, signed by President Clinton, acknowledged the loss of Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination rights. ●●

1993 January 21, 1993. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story January 21, 1993. Handwriting Assessment Report: S. ●●

1993 Communists and Nationalists gain in Russian election ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Russian parliamentary election of December 1993, the Communist and Nationalist Parties together achieved nearly 50 percent of the vote. ●●

1993 Clinton proposes a Pacific Community at APEC ai_extracted 1 cit. no story There has been a surge of American interest in Asia as symbolized by the proposal for a Pacific Community made by Clinton at a meeting with the Asian heads of government in 1993. ●●