1991

1991 in

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1991 was a year.

Events

Dated

On 4 May, Captain Therése Gavalle was found at an airport in Nice, France, taking a flight to Switzerland. She had no memory of what had happened to her since her disappearance in Réunion in 1988. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness ^[+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"])

On 23 July, Melanie Bush returned to Brighton after travelling with the Doctor and Sabalom Glitz. (PROSE: Missing, Part One: Business as Usual ^[+]Loading...["Missing, Part One: Business as Usual (short story)"])

On 1 September, Uzbekistan gained its independence from the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Brave New Town ^[+]Loading...["Brave New Town (audio story)"])

On 15 October, the first ultra-high-energy cosmic ray was detected on Earth. It became known as the Oh-My-God particle. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary ^[+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

Undated

Though the exact dates were disputed, it was most commonly accepted that 1991 was the year in which the Cold War ended. (PROSE: A History of Humankind ^[+]Loading...["A History of Humankind (novel)"])

A security system consisting of three inches of steel lining all of the walls was installed in the Cabinet Room inside 10 Downing Street. (TV: World War Three ^[+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"])

Aubrey Prior burned down Kenilworth's house. (PROSE: The Sands of Time ^[+]Loading...["The Sands of Time (novel)"])

Shaun Brett hired Monica Lewis to aid in building a monument to his deceased father in Alaska. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Land of the Dead (audio story)"])

Jenny Winterleaf wandered onto Iris Wildthyme's Celestial Omnibus when it was parked in Sunderland. Wildthyme left Earth before Jenny could get out and the two began travelling together. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap ^[+]Loading...["The Dreadful Flap (short story)"])

The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Mel visited Merseyside. (AUDIO: The Blood Furnace ^[+]Loading...["The Blood Furnace (audio story)"])

The tech company VOR was founded. (TV: Spyfall ^[+]Loading...["Spyfall (TV story)"])

Future P.R.O.B.E. director Giles's sister Sandra married Harry King. Shortly after the wedding, Giles and Sandra fell out, with their disagreement persisting for over twenty years afterwards, despite periodic attempts from Giles to make up with her. (AUDIO: Broken Bonds ^[+]Loading...["Broken Bonds (audio story)"])

rewboss had met the Ninth Doctor at the fall of the Wall in 1989, where the Doctor remarked about meeting rewboss again. rewboss later met the Doctor in Wolverhampton in 1991, but the Doctor failed to recognise him, and rewboss suspected that the Doctor had merely forgot about him over the course of a couple of years. rewboss later wrote about this on the website Doctor Who? in March 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

C. M West encountered the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler on an observation deck of Tokyo Tower, as the Doctor was describing to Rose a fire and its course of destruction. When West asked them if they were shooting a new Godzilla movie, the two pretended not to know English. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Births and deaths

George Smithers' wife died of lung cancer. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People ^[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])