At A Glance

15 October 1991 at a glance

Day of the week
15 October 1991 was a Tuesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” by Bryan Adams.
Top Film of 1991
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1991 was Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Star sign
The star sign for 15 October is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 15 October 1991 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for October is Opal.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 15 October 1991 was First Quarter.

On this day: 15 October

  • 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
  • 1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
  • 1991 The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
  • 1991 The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
  • 1994 The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.

Famous people born on 15 October

  • Dominic West, English actor and director (born 1969)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (1844–1900)
  • Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer (born 1989)
  • Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer (born 1957)

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Events of 1991 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1991 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 3 January – The UK expels all Iraqi diplomats from the country due to the Iraqi government's illegal annexation of Kuwait five months earlier.
  • 7 February – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch a mortar attack against 10 Downing Street in London, blowing in all the windows of the cabinet room, during a session of the War Cabinet, but there are no injuries.
  • 8 March – Ribble Valley, the tenth safest Conservative constituency in Britain, is won by the Liberal Democrats in a by-election (caused by the departure of David Waddington to the House of Lords).
More events of 1991 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Life in 1991

Prime Minister

John Major

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£1.15

Loaf of Bread

57p

Average House

£56,565

Weekly Wage

£290.00

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