At A Glance
25 October 1991 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 October 1991 was a Friday.
- 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 25 October is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 October 1991 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for October is Opal.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 October 1991 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 25 October
- 1973 Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
- 1989 The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1990 The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
- 1997 After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
- 2001 Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
Famous people born on 25 October
- Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1984)
- Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer (born 1981)
- Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
- Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (born 1985)
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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).
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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