January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
Day of death November 16, 1991
The temperature on November 16, 1991 was between -2.1 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
August 22 » Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
August 27 » The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
October 3 » Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
December 8 » The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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