Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Meiji's panda-printed, cream-filled biscuit went on sale as Hello Panda in Singapore in 1991 after the 1987 Japanese Konnichiwa Panda was dropped, and is now sold in over 30 countries.

Hours after announcing allied air attacks on Iraq, President Bush ordered the first emergency sale in the reserve's history. The Energy Department released its sales notice on 17 January 1991 and eventually sold 17.3 million barrels to 13 companies, half of what it offered: bids for sour crude came in too low to accept.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards on 20 February 1991 at Radio City Music Hall, Quincy Jones's Back on the Block won Album of the Year and he took six awards in all; Phil Collins won Record of the Year, Julie Gold Song of the Year and Mariah Carey Best New Artist.

Garth Brooks won six of his seven categories at the 26th Academy of Country Music Awards on 24 April 1991 at the Universal Amphitheatre, including Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year for No Fences and Single Record of the Year for "Friends in Low Places".

The prototype Canadair Regional Jet, C-FCRJ, took off from Montreal International Airport on 10 May 1991 for a 1 hour 25 minute flight; the CRJ200 is its re-engined successor.

Unit 2 returns in May 1991, ahead of Units 3 and 1. The reactor database supplies the May 24 grid/restart marker.

Square released the action RPG Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden on Game Boy in Japan on 28 June 1991; it reached North America as Final Fantasy Adventure in November 1991 and became the first game in the Mana series.

Square released Final Fantasy IV on the Super Famicom in Japan on 19 July 1991, the series' first game on the 16-bit console and the debut of the Active Time Battle system. Its many versions have sold over four million copies.

The Airbus A340-300, the first Airbus with four engines, made its maiden flight on 25 October 1991 and began a two-year test programme with six aircraft. Testing showed the wing had to be stiffened to carry the outboard engines at cruise speed.

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". It reached US theaters on 22 November 1991.

Square released SaGa 3: Jikuu no Hasha for the Game Boy in Japan on 13 December 1991; it topped the Famitsu sales chart from December 1991 to January 1992.

Cafe Luna in Carmel Mountain Ranch. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Seasonal fine dining celebrating Québec producers and regional ingredients.

Square released Romancing SaGa for the Super Famicom in Japan on 28 January 1992, the fourth SaGa game, which sold over a million copies and topped the Famitsu charts in February and March 1992.

At the 34th Grammy Awards on 25 February 1992 at Radio City Music Hall, Natalie Cole's duet with her late father Nat King Cole, "Unforgettable", won Record and Song of the Year and her album Unforgettable... with Love won Album of the Year, while Marc Cohn took Best New Artist.

The prototype Saab 2000 flew for the first time on 26 March 1992 with pilots Eric Sjöberg and Lennart Nordh, a stretched 50-58 seat turboprop built to cruise near jet speeds.

Crayon Shin-chan begins its television run on TV Asahi, an irreverent slice-of-life comedy following five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin-chan" Nohara and his family in Kasukabe, Saitama.

The 27th Academy of Country Music Awards, broadcast by NBC on 29 April 1992 with Clint Black, Lorrie Morgan and Travis Tritt as hosts, gave Garth Brooks a second Entertainer of the Year, Alan Jackson Album and Single of the Year, and Brooks & Dunn their first two ACMs.

Munich Airport opened at its current site on 17 May 1992, replacing Munich-Riem, and is one of only two European airports to hold Skytrax's 5-Star rating.

Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki's tale of a pig-faced Italian First World War ace turned bounty hunter, opened in Japanese theaters on 18 July 1992 and was the year's top film in Japan.

The direct-to-video Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still begins release, a seven-episode OVA reviving Mitsuteru Yokoyama's 1960s manga/tokusatsu property with a retro-futurist mecha story about the secret organization Big Fire's plot for world domination.

Developer Triple Five Group opened the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, debuting 330 stores and an indoor amusement park inside the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Enix released Dragon Quest V on the Super Famicom in Japan on 27 September 1992. It follows one hero across decades of his life and let players recruit monsters; it was the best-selling home game of 1992 in Japan.

The first Airbus A330, a -300, made its maiden flight on 2 November 1992, a 5 hour 15 minute sortie with 21 tonnes of test equipment on board. Certification followed in October 1993 and service with Air Inter in January 1994.

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy film based on the Middle Eastern folk tale "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 25 November 1992.

Square released Final Fantasy V on the Super Famicom in Japan on 6 December 1992 and sold about 900,000 cartridges on its first day. It topped Japanese sales charts and sold 2.45 million Super Famicom copies in Japan.