1991 - What happened in 1991 ?
January 1991
Thursday 03:
Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.
Wednesday 09:
The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
Sunday 13:
Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
Wednesday 16:
US serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
Sunday 27:
Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
February 1991
Wednesday 13:
Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis civilians.
Saturday 16:
Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
Saturday 23:
Thailand: General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
Monday 25:
Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines.
Tuesday 26:
Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
March 1991
Saturday 09:
Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milo?evi? in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
Sunday 10:
540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
Wednesday 13:
The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Friday 15:
Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
Sunday 31:
The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.
April 1991
Thursday 04:
Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
Friday 05:
ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, killing all 23 aboard.
Wednesday 24:
Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
Friday 26:
Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
Tuesday 30:
A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 138,000 people.
May 1991
Friday 03:
The last episode of the soap opera Dallas airs.
Wednesday 15:
Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
Friday 24:
Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Sunday 26:
Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
Tuesday 28:
The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
June 1991
Monday 03:
At Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, students throw eggs at South Korean prime minister Chung Won Shik.
Sunday 09:
The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
Wednesday 12:
Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
Monday 17:
Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
Thursday 27:
Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
July 1991
Monday 01:
The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
Tuesday 09:
South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
Wednesday 10:
Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
Thursday 11:
Total solar eclipse in Hawaii.
Friday 26:
Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan.
August 1991
Sunday 04:
1991 The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa.
Saturday 17:
Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre.
Saturday 24:
Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
Thursday 29:
Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
Saturday 31:
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
September 1991
Monday 02:
The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Thursday 19:
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
Sunday 22:
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
Thursday 26:
Biosphere 2 opens.
Monday 30:
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
October 1991
Friday 04:
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
Wednesday 16:
George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 19 in Luby's Cafeteria.
Saturday 26:
Lori Keevil-Matthews is killed after a 485-pound umbrella slams her against a boulder in a Christo art installation.
Sunday 27:
Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
Wednesday 30:
The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
November 1991
Sunday 03:
Fifteen people are killed in the Barrios Altos massacre in Lima, Peru.
Thursday 07:
Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he is retiring.
Monday 18:
After the 3-month siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar is invaded by Serbians
Saturday 23:
Queen frontman Freddie Mercury publicly announces that he has AIDS. Freddie dies peacefully the next day.
Wednesday 27:
The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
December 1991
Monday 02:
The first version of QuickTime was released.
Sunday 08:
First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
Monday 16:
United Nations reverses its 1975 resolution that Zionism is racism by a vote of 111-25, with 13 abstentions
Thursday 26:
Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR
Tuesday 31:
1991 - The Soviet Union officially dissolves.
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