March 1991

Sunday 03:

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

Tuesday 05:

Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners

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.

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.

Thursday 14:

After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.

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.