What happened with running shoes in 1991?
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What else happened in 1991?
Operation Desert Storm begins, starting the Gulf War, with air strikes against Iraq on January 16th.
On March 15, Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the UK, the USA, and the USSR) relinquish all remaining rights they had to the country.
On June 17, the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, that had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
On July 22, the boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape a Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The mummy of Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps on the border between Austria and Italy on September 19. He is believed to lived some time between 3350 and 3105 BC.
By the end of the year, the Soviet Union no longer existed, probably ending the ‘Cold War’.
Bert Sakmann and Erwin Neher are awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries and work on the function of single ion channels in cells.
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