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New Seekers
Greatest Hits
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Dances With Wolves
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Bright New Day1991 sees Lyn Paul on the move. Together with her husband Alan and their two-year-old son, Ryan, Lyn moves from her home in Putney to a new house in Windsor, just two doors down from her parents and her youngest sister Nikki. They call their new home Ryalyn - a combination of their three names: Ryan, Alan and Lyn!
 
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| In the News - 1991 | |
| Jan | Eight officials working at the Iraqi embassy are expelled from the UK on 3rd January. A rail passenger from Orpington in Kent, Martin Strivens, is killed in a train crash at Cannon Street station in London on 8th January. A second passenger, Patricia McCay, dies three days later. 542 people are injured. On 13th January, in an attempt to halt Lithuania's bid for independence, Soviet troops help the National Salvation Committee to take control of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Saddam Hussein ignores the UN deadline of 15th January for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. The next day US forces began air and missile attacks on Iraq and Kuwait. On 18th January Iraq fires Scud missiles at Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, and at its main seaport, Haifa, but the attacks fail to provoke Israel into unilateral retaliation. |
| Feb | On 1st February an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits the Hindu Kush Mountains in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The IRA fire a mortar bomb into the garden of No. 10 Downing Street on 7th February. The bomb explodes just 12 metres away from the room where the Prime Minister John Major is chairing a meeting of the Cabinet. Ministers from the twelve member states of the European Community (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) sign the Maastricht Treaty on 7th February. In Haiti, on 7th February, Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as the country's first democratically-elected President. On 9th February Lithuanians defy Moscow by voting in favour of independence. On Wednesday, 13th February, almost a month after the outbreak of the Gulf War, hundreds of Iraqi civilians are killed when US bombers strike military targets in the Baghdad suburbs. Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (born Margaret Hookham) dies on 21st February, aged 71. On 25th February the Warsaw Pact votes to dissolve its military structure. On Tuesday, 26th February Iraqi troops flee Kuwait City. The next day President Bush declares that the Gulf War is over. The war does not formally end until 11th April when the UN Security Council declares a permanent cease-fire. |
| Mar | Edwin Land, the American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, dies on 1st March, aged 82. On 3rd March Latvians and Estonians vote for independence. On the same day an amateur photographer films four white Los Angeles police officers beating a black motorist, Rodney King. Charges are brought against the officers on 15th March. The Clash top the UK singles chart on 9th March with Should I Stay Or Should I Go. The single had only reached number 17 when it was first released in 1982 but is more successful the second time around, following its use in a television commercial for Levi's 501s. On Thursday, 14th March the "Birmingham six" are released from prison in England, after their convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings are quashed by the Court of Appeal. The six men from Northern Ireland (Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker) receive £2 million in compensation. Eric Clapton's four-year-old son Coner is killed on 20th March when he falls out of a 53rd floor window in New York. In a 22-minute statement to the House Of Commons on Thursday, 21st March the Environment Secretary, Michael Heseltine, announces that the Poll Tax is to be scrapped in favour of a new Council Tax. Dances With Wolves wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony on 25th March. |
| Apr | All military actions of the Warsaw Pact officially cease on 1st April. Graham Greene, author of the novels Brighton Rock, The Heart Of The Matter and Travels With My Aunt, dies in Vevey, Switzerland on 3rd April, aged 86. Israeli Housing Minister, Ariel Sharon, announces on 10th April that Israel will expand its settlements in occupied Arab territories. Miss Saigon, the musical based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, opens on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on 11th April. Jonathan Pryce (The Engineer) and Lea Salonga (Kim) reprise their roles from the original London production. On 15th April the European Community lifts trade sanctions against South Africa. Steve Marriott, the former lead vocalist with the Small Faces and founder of Humble Pie, dies in a fire at his home on 20th April, aged 44. On 29th April a Category 5 tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh. 138,000 people are killed with as many as 10 million left homeless. |
| May | Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday, 14th May for her part in the kidnap of four youths. Her sentence is later reduced to a fine. Edith Cresson becomes the first woman Prime Minister of France on Wednesday, 15th May. On 16th May Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address a joint session of the United States Congress. A 27-year-old from Sheffield, Helen Sharman, joins two cosmonauts aboard the Soviet Soyuz TM-12 space capsule to become the first Briton to travel in space. The Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, is assassinated by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber on 21st May whilst campaigning in the Indian elections. The 16-year-long civil war in Angola is formally ended on 31st May. |
| June | David Ruffin of The Temptations dies of a drug overdose on 1st June, aged 50. Fellow band member Eddie Kendricks is arrested at Ruffin's funeral on 10th June on a charge of owing $26,000 in child support. Three members of the IRA - Anthony Dorris, Lawrence McNally and Peter Ryan - are killed on 3rd June, when their car is ambushed by the British army as the men drive through the village of Coagh in County Tyrone. On 12th June Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic. During June the South African House of Assembly repeals apartheid legislation. Following the abolition of the Land Acts and the Group Areas Act on 5th June, the population Registration Act is annulled on 17th June. Ronald Allen, best known for his role as David Hunter in the long-running television soap opera Crossroads, dies of cancer on 18th June, aged 60. Berlin is once again to be the capital of Germany. On 20th June members of the Bundestag vote in favour of Berlin over Bonn by a majority of 17 votes. On 21st June it is revealed that the chairman of British Gas, Robert Evans, had accepted a 66% pay rise, taking his annual salary from £222,000 to £370,000. Sega releases a new computer game, Sonic the Hedgehog, on Sunday, 23rd June. Croatia and Slovenia declare independence on 25th June. Within 48 hours Yugoslav tanks and troops advance on both republics. On 28th June Margaret Thatcher announces that she is to give up her seat in the House of Commons at the next general election. |
| July | Michael Landon, best known for his TV roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza and Charles Ingalls in Little House On The Prairie, dies from pancreatic and liver cancer on 1st July, aged 54. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) is charged with fraud and closed down on 5th July. On 10th July the USA lifts sanctions against South Africa. Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown get married on 18th July. 21-month-old Ben Needham, who had been holidaying with his parents on Kos, goes missing on 24th July. Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti gives a concert in Hyde Park on 30th July to celebrate 30 years in opera. Although the number of people attending is kept down by heavy rain, it is nonetheless the biggest outdoor music event in Hyde Park since The Rolling Stones performed there in 1969. In Moscow on Wednesday, 31st July, the US President George Bush and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), an agreement to cut nuclear warheads by a third. |
| Aug | On Thursday, 8th August the British journalist John McCarthy, who had been held captive by Islamic Jihad since April 1986, is the first of many hostages in Lebanon to be set free. Paul Simon gives a free concert in New York's Central Park on 15th August. On Monday, 19th August the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev survives an attempted coup d'état by Communist hardliners. Tanks roll into Moscow as it is announced on the radio that he has been relieved of his duties. However, thousands gather in protest and the coup collapses three days later. Gorbachev resigns as general secretary of the Communist Party and orders the Soviet Parliament to take over all Communist Party property. On 20th August Estonia proclaims its independence from the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities recognise Estonia's independence on 6th September and on 17th September Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are admitted into the United Nations. The Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declares that it will no longer follow the laws of the USSR on 24th August, effectively declaring independence from the Soviet Union. Voters approve the declaration in a referendum held on 1st December. The Supreme Soviet of Moldova declares the country's independence from the Soviet Union on 27th August. The Supreme Soviets of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan follow suit on 30th and 31st August respectively. |
| Sep | The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic declares independence on 2nd September. US film director Frank Capra dies on 3rd September, aged 94. An independence referendum is held in then Socialist Republic of Macedonia on 8th September. An overwhelming majority (95.3%) vote in favour. Oliver North escapes prosecution for supplying arms to Nicaraguan guerrillas when the charges against him are dropped on 16th September. The Republic of Armenia officially declares its independence on 21st September. On 24th September, after more than two years in captivity, Jackie Mann is released by his kidnappers in Beirut. Jazz legend Miles Davis dies of pneumonia and a stroke on 28th September, aged 65. On 30th September the President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is overthrown by a military coup. During the following months thousands of Haitians flee from their homeland aboard small boats. |
| Oct | Actress Elizabeth Taylor marries her 8th husband Larry Fortensky on 6th October. Levon Ter-Petrosyan is elected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Armenia on 16th October. Israel and the Soviet Union restore diplomatic relations on 18th October. On 30th October US President George Bush opens a Middle East peace conference in Madrid, attended by Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of the Palestinians and Israel's other Arab neighbours. |
| Nov | On 4th November Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines after almost six years in exile. The dead body of the millionaire newspaper publisher, Robert Maxwell, is found in the sea off the coast of Tenerife on Thursday, 5th November. The Prime Minister, John Major, calls him a "great character". The satirical magazine Private Eye comments: "Here lies Robert Maxwell. He lies everywhere else." The Church of England envoy Terry Waite is released by his kidnappers on Monday, 18th November, having been held hostage in Beirut since January 1987. He arrives at RAF Lyneham the next day. Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, dies from pneumonia, aged 45, at his home in London on Sunday, 24th November, a day after announcing publicly that he had AIDS. On 27th November the British and US governments demand that Libya hands over two of its intelligence agents who are implicated in the 1988 Lockerbie air disaster. The Libyans refuse. |
| Dec | The journalist Terry Anderson is freed on Wednesday, 4th December, six years after being kidnapped by an Islamic militant group in Beirut. The "World's Most Experienced Airline", Pan Am, ceases operations on the same day. On Thursday, 5th December, faced by debts of at least £1 billion, Ian and Kevin Maxwell call in administrators in an attempt to salvage the Maxwell business empire. Mirror Group Newspapers reveals that their father, Robert Maxwell, had removed £350 million from its pension fund shortly before his death. On 8th December Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine form a new Commonwealth of Independent States. By 21st December the other Soviet republics (with the exception of Georgia) have all joined the CIS. On Christmas Day Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union, which in effect no longer exists. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights". The Peace Prize medal and diploma are accepted on her behalf by her husband Michael Aris and her sons Alexander and Kim at Oslo City Hall in Norway on 10th December. On 16th December Kazakhstan becomes the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence. The 12-year-long civil war in El Salvador officially comes to an end on New Year's Eve. |
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Darts: Dennis Priestley beats Eric Bristow in the final of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Darts Championship. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: Ben Okri The Famished Road Martin Amis Time's Arrow Roddy Doyle The Van Rohinton Mistry Such A Long Journey Timothy Mo The Redundancy Of Courage William Trevor Reading Turgenev |
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