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 | The WWW and Mosaic were formed.
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| The Toronto Blue Jays on Oct 2, become the first sports team in
history to draw 4 million fans, as they clinch the American League
East title
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| New York City - Canadian rock
group Crash Test Dummies' 'Superman's Song' peaks at #56 on the
Billboard pop singles chart.
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| Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML and the World Wide Web. ARPAnet
shuts down, the Internet has 300,000 hosts. Archie, the first
Internet search engine is developed at McGil University in Montreal
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| January 16th. The GULF WAR!!
Say no more! Operation Desert Storm.
The ground campaign began with an allied night attack. More than 14,000 Iraqis were
captured in the first 24 hours of fighting.
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| Terry Waite, The Archbishop of Canterbury's special
liaison in Lebanon was released along with 51 other hostages. He had been kidnapped
in 1987.
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| and British hostage John McCarthy is released in Beirut
by Islamic Jihad. This
event holds no special meaning, other than I remember walking to work every morning past a
flat in Hammersmith with a John McCarthy poster in the window.
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There was a total Solar Eclipse |
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| Borland snaps up Ashton-Tate for $440 million - The
computer landscape was changing in 1991, as industry titans realigned, merged, and struck
new alliances. IBM and Microsoft had ended their long alliance the previous year, and in
short order there were rumors of a joint venture between IBM and Apple. In the midst of
all this action, Philippe Kahn, CEO of Borland, announced his company's acquisition of
faltering database maker Ashton-Tate, as we reported in the July 15, 1991 issue of InfoWorld.
This move made Borland, which now owned dBase as well as Paradox, the undisputed king of
desktop databases. But the company missed out on the industry wide move to client-server
databases, and both its PC products would be dealt a death blow by Microsoft's Access
within just a few short years.
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The Sky Dome Hotel has 70 rooms that overlook center field of the Toronto Blue Jays'
hometown ballpark. |
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 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Goalie
Manon Rhéaume 1972- plays one game for the QMJHL Trois-Rivières Draveurs; the
first
woman to play on a major junior A hockey team; later goaltender for the Women's
Canadian National Team at the 1992 and 1994 Women's World Championships, winning a gold
medal both times; 1992 signed as free agent by the Tampa Bay Lightning and played in an
exhibition game (Tampa Bay Lightning vs. St. Louis Blues) on Sept. 23, 1992, making her
the first woman to play in a professional hockey game; 1998 goalie for
the Canadian Olympic Silver medal women's team. |
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