1991 was a year in which there was hardly time to catch your breath, as seminal moments in history and popular culture seemed to arrive on a near weekly basis.
Many were positive — decades of living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation seemed to be over as the collapse of the Soviet Union brought the Cold War to an end, while in South Africa apartheid crumbled as legislation and negotiation sped up the dismantling of racial segregation.
Tragedy was prominent, too, however, with history-altering wars breaking out in the Balkans and the Middle East, bringing atrocity and chaos to those regions.
