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.

Tuesday 09:

Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

Wednesday 17:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46.

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.