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- Germany records first monthly trade deficit since 1991 as inflation soars https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/04/germany-records-first-trade-deficit-since-1991-as-inflation-soars 148 comments
- [Schatz] Feel like sharing, so hey DVOA fans, let’s look at the updated best defenses with the new DVOA v8.0: Reg. Season 1991 PHI -38.0% 1986 CHI -32.2% 2002 TB -32.1% 1985 CHI -29.2% 2018 CHI -28.1% 2008 BAL -27.7% 2008 PIT -26.9% 2004 BUF -26.1% 1984 CHI -25.8% 1995 SF -24.5% https://twitter.com/aschatznfl/status/1704231174749454577?s=46&t=MYSRtuKMHJHP5sANh7R8gA 70 comments nfl
- Phil Jackson: "Who's open?" Michael Jordan: "Paxson." Phil: "OK, so get him the damn ball." John Paxson clinches Chicago's first NBA title with 10 points in the final four minutes of the 1991 Finals https://streamable.com/jvbplt 342 comments nba
- [NYR Stats & Info] Adam Fox becomes the sixth defenseman in NHL history with a nine-game home point streak in the postseason. He joins Ray Bourque (10 GP in 1991), Paul Coffey (10 GP in 1985), Al MacInnis (9 GP in 1989), Paul Reinhart (9 GP in 1986) and Denis Potvin (9 GP in 1983). https://twitter.com/NYRStatsInfo/status/1532888276033486849 96 comments hockey
- [Hanes] The Flames have 62 shots. It’s been nearly 30 years since an NHL team had 62 or more shots in a regular season game. The last to do it was the Boston Bruins (73 shots, the NHL record) versus the Quebec Nordiques on March 21, 1991. https://twitter.com/DarrenWHaynes/status/1486529033445675011?amp%3Bs=19&t=lprTynTKreH8aqsvkwiPhA 65 comments hockey
- [Red Bull Racing Honda] 1991 ← 10 poles for @HondaRacingF1 → 2021 https://twitter.com/redbullracing/status/1469691553564270601 19 comments formula1
- [Highlights] On This Day in 1991, the 2 Legit to Quit Falcons edge out the Packers in a wild game featuring 2 penalties to knock a potential tying FG out of range, a fumble return for a touchdown, and a dropped snap on a punt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVpI1WcDsu0 6 comments nfl
- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Why Jhunjhunwala thinks power reforms will be bigger than 1991's liberalisation https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/why-jhunjhunwala-thinks-power-reforms-will-be-bigger-than-1991s-liberalisation/articleshow/86651638.cms 10 comments india
- Toni Kukoc’s Free Throw Line Dunk (Yugoslavia All-Star Game 1991) https://youtu.be/zj3Q55bcLaQ 19 comments nba
- California man who killed son for insurance is convicted of killing wife in 1991 for insurance https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-man-killed-son-insurance-convicted-killing-wife-1991 19 comments nottheonion
- December 1st 1991: More than 92 percent of Ukrainian voters approved their country's independence as declared on 24 August. Yellow means Yes, white means No and the saturation of the colour shows the strength of the vote. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/ukr_referendum_1991.png 12 comments europe
- ESPN/ABC keeps saying Pascal Siakam had the most efficient Finals game of all time. Let's not forget when MJ went 15-18 and made 13 consecutive FGs in game 2 of the 1991 NBA Finals. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/bw4wg1/espnabc_keeps_saying_pascal_siakam_had_the_most/ 30 comments nba
- TIL Wayne Gretzky has his name on the CFL's Grey Cup from 1991 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/gretzky-candy-to-get-names-etched-on-grey-cup-1.686330 8 comments hockey
- Weird report from 1991 where the Fed calls the US economy a ponzi scheme https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/afyp61/weird_report_from_1991_where_the_fed_calls_the_us/ 22 comments wallstreetbets
- Cancer in America is way down: mortality rates declined each year from 1991 through 2016, averting 2.6 million deaths. Gains have been reaped mostly by the wealthy; the impact of limited access to treatment for the poorest Americans has increased inequality wealth-based inequality. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-08/cancer-in-america-is-way-down-for-the-wealthy-anyway 701 comments science
- On December 7th, 1991, President George H. W. Bush came aboard my vessel (the USS Missouri) for the Memorial. Here is a funny story from that day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident 18 comments navy
- On this day in 1991, Mark Messier is traded to the New York Rangers for forwards Bernie Nicholls, Steven Rice and Louie DeBrusk. The Rangers would go on to win the Presidents' Trophy that season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mark_messier#1991%E2%80%931997:_new_york_rangers 10 comments hockey
- In a game against the St. Louis Blues on March 9, 1991, Theo Fleury scored 3 shorthanded goals in the game, the most by a player in a match in NHL history https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/955kmt/in_a_game_against_the_st_louis_blues_on_march_9/ 28 comments hockey
- FCC ruling could allow marketing calls to go straight to your voicemail: 'The companies are arguing to the FCC that since the phone never actually "rings," their ringless voicemails should not be regulated by the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act' http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ringless-marketing-calls-robocalls-voicemails-fcc/ 39 comments technology
- Best modern NBA Finals performances by Game Score: (1) Shaq 2000, (2) Shaq 2002, (3) MJ 1993, (4) MJ 1991, (5) Magic 1987, (6) Shaq 2001, (7) LeBron 2016, (8) MJ 1992, (9) D-Wade 2006, (10) LeBron 2015. Highlights included. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6ejd3r/best_modern_nba_finals_performances_by_game_score/ 93 comments nba
- Ali Hosni has signed for Al Arabi , set to become the first Iraqi to play in Kuwait since 1991 https://twitter.com/socceriraq/status/824670994459717632 3 comments soccer
- 1991 Belgian GP - Senna's Pole Lap https://www.facebook.com/F1RetroGR/videos/1166866550042936/ 43 comments formula1
- TIL Jim Palmer tried to make a comeback to pitching in 1991, a year after being inducted into the HOF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jim_palmer#comeback_attempt 30 comments baseball
- In 1991, every player that got inducted into the Hall of Fame on the regular ballot did so in their first year of eligibility http://www.pro-football-reference.com/hof/1991-ballot.htm 8 comments nfl
- Happy 25th Birthday Slovenia - On 25 June 1991, the Slovenian Assembly adopted three key independence documents, on the basis of which Slovenia became an independent and sovereign country http://www.slovenia25.si/i-feel-25/timeline/becoming-a-republic/ 46 comments europe
- 25 years ago. January 13, 1991. Unarmed civilians face Soviet armed soldiers and tanks sent to crush Lithuania‘s independence movement. http://www.trendinside.cf/2016/06/january-13-1991-we-remember.html 59 comments europe
- 1991 Pilibhit fake encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pilibhit-fake-encounter-all-47-convicted-policemen-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment/ 8 comments india
- Damian Lillard is first Trail Blazer with four consecutive 30-point games since Clyde Drexler in 1991. https://twitter.com/espnstatsinfo/status/701625803004624897 10 comments nba
- Out of a job for first time since 1991, Tom Thibodeau on his year off: "I really want to treat this year like a sabbatical" http://www.nba.com/2015/news/features/steve_aschburner/09/30/ex-bulls-coach-thibodeau-on-sabbatical/ 36 comments nba
- What a 'suppressed' 1991 documentary reveals about Donald Trump -“Now that Trump is running for president, it is time for the American People to meet the real Donald and learn how he does business” http://www.dailydot.com/politics/donald-trump-whats-the-deal-documentary/ 314 comments politics
- Russia to review 1991 decision to recognise independence of Baltic states http://uatoday.tv/politics/russia-to-review-1991-decision-to-recognise-independence-of-baltic-states-447681.html 18 comments nottheonion
- This is the first time the Leafs have allowed nine goals in a game since 1991. https://twitter.com/mirtle/status/534908017498943488 69 comments hockey
- Why Elizabeth Warren Left The GOP: The Week, noted something in her background that “might surprise” her supporters: the fact that she has voted Republican in the past, and was a registered Republican in Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1996. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/27/3431303/warren-left-gop/ 4 comments politics
- Could a Microsoft researcher's 1991 video torpedo Apple's key 'slide to unlock' patent? http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-researchers-1991-video-torpedo-one-apples-patents/ 8 comments technology
- Jack F. Matlock Jr., ambassador to the U.S.S.R. from 1987 to 1991: Who is the bully? The U.S. has treated Russia like a loser since the end of the Cold War. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-is-the-bully-the-united-states-has-treated-russia-like-a-loser-since-the-cold-war/2014/03/14/b0868882-aa06-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html 19 comments europe
- Kill switches: In the 1991 Gulf war Iraq used American-made colour photocopiers to produce their battle plans. Concealed transmitters revealed their position to American electronic-warfare aircraft. Since then... http://www.economist.com/node/18527456?story_id=18527456 27 comments technology
- Want to know how Kramnik looked like in 1991? How about Anand? Hilarious blast from the chest past! http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5266 5 comments chess
- The Americans, beginning 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, killed wantonly, tortured. The people of that unhappy land lost everything - their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment... http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer85.html 18 comments politics
- Kid predicted Super Mario Galaxy in Dec. 1991 Nintendo Power. [Pic] http://i44.tinypic.com/2004qrq.jpg 7 comments reddit.com
- Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time (1991) | CosmoLearning Astronomy. Complete, in Standard and High Quality. Free to watch. Enjoy! http://www.cosmolearning.com/astronomy/documentaries/a-brief-history-of-time-1991/ 4 comments science