1991 - What happened in 1991 ?
January 1991
Thursday 03:
Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.
Tuesday 15:
The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
Thursday 17:
Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
Sunday 20:
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
Sunday 27:
Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
February 1991
Monday 04:
The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
Tuesday 05:
A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
Thursday 07:
Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
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.
March 1991
Sunday 03:
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Sunday 10:
540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
Monday 11:
A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
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.
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.
Tuesday 09:
Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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.
Sunday 19:
Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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.
Tuesday 04:
Britain's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others – the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
Monday 10:
In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.
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
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.
Monday 22:
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
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.
Tuesday 27:
Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
Thursday 29:
Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
Saturday 31:
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
September 1991
Sunday 01:
Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
Monday 02:
The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Friday 06:
The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
Friday 13:
A concrete beam weighing 55 tons fell in the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada.
Monday 16:
The trial of Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
October 1991
Friday 04:
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
Friday 25:
Rock band Steely Dan reunites
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.
Tuesday 29:
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
November 1991
Saturday 02:
Jermaine Jackson's single "Word to the Badd!", which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
Sunday 03:
Fifteen people are killed in the Barrios Altos massacre in Lima, Peru.
Friday 08:
Sonny Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress; at the same time, Marion Barry is reelected mayor of Washington, D.C..
Thursday 14:
A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide.
Monday 18:
After the 3-month siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar is invaded by Serbians
December 1991
Sunday 01:
Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
Monday 02:
The first version of QuickTime was released.
Sunday 08:
First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
Thursday 26:
Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR
Saturday 28:
Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.
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