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!

 

 

[EsmeraldaA]

A little sillier than usual....huh?

[Soaring Feather]

Woo Hoo honey!!

[EsmeraldaA]

You can say that again!

[Colonel_Flagg]

My dear Queenie! How are you?

[Soaring Feather]

Doing okay, thanks Colonel. And you??

[laurenmarlowe]

THAT's her, that's her, LOL! She's doing just great. She has not changed all that much since I took that picture! She is a sweetie.

[Lady Jag]

Cool shot of the "planes".

I scoffed it from somewhere. Like the one below, it was kind of big to post so I reduced it, compressed it, and improved the lighting texture a little. When I fiddle with a "moving" picture, my heart gets closer to it.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Colonel! It's good to see you.

[Colonel_Flagg]

In desperate need of a weekend. So thank God one is here.

[luvie]

Sillier than usual---how can that be!!!!

....I thought I was being normal!!! Aren't you?

[Soaring Feather]

Oh my gooness Colonel, set yerself down and get comfy!!

Unwind those knots in your head. LOL

[Colonel_Flagg]

Hi, Lauren! Nice to be here. How have you been?

[luvie]

Oh, I am so glad that is LUV--she is so pretty--just like me! LOL! Give her a little hug just for me, if you can catch her!

[Colonel_Flagg]

I'm working on it. With alcohol. :)

[NYTexan]

You was gone? Oh my!

[laurenmarlowe]

Doing good dear, thanks! Just baking away here in Texas, LOL!

[ValerieUSA]

oh -- you got that one

[ValerieUSA]

me?

[ValerieUSA]

me?

[ValerieUSA]

me?