On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
MEMORABLE dates in the annals of home improvement. 1860: Li- noleum. 1938: Teflon. 1945: Tup- perware. 2001: Floating furni- ture. History marches on.
The showdown in a Baghdad parking lot between United Nations inspectors and Iraqi officials was less a struggle over a batch of documents than over who is calling the shots in the Persian Gulf's unstable peace -- George Bush or Saddam Hussein. With Baghdad's new overture tonight to the United Nations, President Bush may have won the central gamble behind his strategy in the gulf. Administration officials have said they were betting that Mr. Hussein would back down and that Mr. Bush would never actually have to carry out his strongly implied threat of using military force. Again Using U.N. Aegis Clearly, Mr. Bush is driving the Western approach to the Iraqi President in the latest struggle, although he is careful to do so in the name of the United Nations, as he has been throughout the last year.
INTERNATIONAL The Japanese have begun to retaliate against the 63 percent U.S. tariff on the most advanced screens for laptop and notebook computers, with some companies saying they will stop sending the screens to the U.S. [ Page D1. ] OPEC agreed to a Saudi proposal to increase the group's total production ceiling by more than a million barrels a day, which would keep oil prices at their current moderate range, about $19. The accord was opposed by several OPEC countries. [ D1. ]
David Owen has been an imposter for more than a decade. In 1980, he posed as a high school senior in Stratford, Conn. Thanks to his baby face, no one suspected he was actually 24 years old and covertly researching a book called "High School: Undercover With the Class of '80." And for the last six years, he has been playing a role far more daunting than any homework at Stratford High.
Transforming a political feud into a constitutional drama, New York State's Chief Judge said today that he is suing Gov. Mario M. Cuomo to force Mr. Cuomo to spend more money on the state's overburdened court system. The lawsuit, by Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, could wind up being settled in the court over which he presides, the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. He said he would excuse himself from the case if it gets that far.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 25, 1991, covering September 26, 1991.
Garth Brooks
Metallica
Natalie Cole
Color Me Badd
Bonnie Raitt
1991Réka Demeter, Hungarian football defender[†]
Réka Demeter is a Hungarian football defender, currently playing for UE L'Estartit in Spain's Primera División. She previously played for Ferencváros and MTK Hungária FC in Hungary's Noi NB I.
1991Alma Jodorowsky, French actress, fashion model and singer[†]
Alma Jodorowsky is a French actress, singer, and fashion model.
1991Dan Preston, English footballer[†]
Daniel Sean Preston is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Northern Premier League Division One Midlands club Bedworth United.
1991Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (born 1919)[†]
William Vaughn, popularly known as Billy Vaughn was an American musician, singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.
In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people[†]