FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday: 1991 ~ 24 June 2005

StarCMC;Kathy In Alaska;MoJo2001; The Canteen Crew

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1991

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1991.

1991 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1991?

Events that occurred in 1991

- January 16th, Operation Desert Storm begins

- February 4th, Baseball votes to ban Pete Rose

-February 27 - Gulf War: Kuwait is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.

-March 3
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the Soviet Union

-August
August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."
August 8 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

August 18 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea. The putsch is led by eight high-ranking hard-liners, and will collapse in less than 72 hours.

August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev

August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union

August 24 - Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union

August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds post a messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

August 31 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the Soviet Union

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist
 

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XXV was played on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida. The New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20 to 19.

The Minnesota Twins won the World Series of the Atlanta Braves

 

Hit Music From 1991

Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up*

EMF - Unbelievable

Amy Grant - Baby, Baby

Boyz II Men - Motownphilly

Mariah Carey - Someday

Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Scorpions - Winds Of Changes

Marky Marky and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You

C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Extreme - More Than Words

Tesla - Signs

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome, Ros42...thanks for helping honor our troops, and in my favorite colors.

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Morning Bethbg79! *HUGS*

[Bethbg79]

Good morning Sweetheart. ((HUGS))

How are you?

What had you so upset last night?

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Morning MoJo!! *HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning just afternoon, GB, and on the right thread. LOL! I saw you. ((HUGS))

[Mrs.Nooseman]

If you don't have it any Toby Keith song will do!

That one just happens to be one of mine and my daughters favorite of his!

[E.G.C.]

well, it's hot and humid here this morning. Other than that Not much happening except for the SCTUS observation which I posted earlier this morning.

Click on my screename and then "In Forum to read it.

[HiJinx]

Military Men...of course...top of the list..

Well, then, you need to think about that little enclave of military men just up the road a ways...

[HiJinx]

GMTA!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

#750!!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

#750!!

[Bethbg79]

My program is acting up and freezes on me everytime I open it. I'm sure Mo has it in the library somewhere along with all of the other music ever made in all of recorded musical history.

[Bethbg79]

Yeah, but you can't just walk up on a base and start nosing around for a husband. LOL I don't have clearence. How am I supposed to meet the options? LOL

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Excellent! I did not know that about the Ft. McHenry.

[HiJinx]

Get a job at one of the officers' clubs mixing drinks...

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good day after the 25th anniversary and mrs acad's birthday, acad. And thanks for today's daily dose o' da blues.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.
Maybe your program doesn't like Toby!;)

No problem,I can hear a snipped of it on the Encore Western channel,but I would like to hear the whole song!!!!

[Bethbg79]

Hmmm, interesting idea Jinxie. I'll have to ponder that. It's only like an hour away right?

[Kathy in Alaska]

My goodness, NRA...now THAT is a pot. Prayers always for our wonderful troops.

[Bethbg79]

My program doesnt like ME! LOL As of right now I only have two of my requests for this weekend downloaded and thats because I already had them. LOL

I'm waiting on an invite to use another dilmaflobby.