Date | Event |
1991 |
Rosalina Abejo Died |
1991 |
Leo Arnaud Died |
1991 |
Eugène Bozza Died |
1991 |
Carmine Coppola Died |
1991 |
Simon Gjoni Died |
1991 |
Jay Greenberg Was Born |
1991 |
Gunnar Johansen Died |
1991 |
Ernst Krenek Died |
1991 |
Jean Langlais Died |
1991 |
Gaston Litaize Died |
1991 |
Julián Orbón Died |
October
27
1991 |
Andrzej Panufnik Died |
1991 |
Doc Pomus Died |
January
06
1991 |
Ahmed Adnan Saygun Died |
1991 |
Elie Siegmeister Died |
1991 |
Christopher Steel Died |
1991 |
Tom Anderson Died |
1991 |
Xiao Shuxian Died |
January
05
1991 |
Georgia Invaded Itself In 1991 |
January
05
1991 |
U.S. Embassy (Somalia) Evacuated Due To War |
January
07
1991 |
Roger Lafontant Attempts Coup D'etat |
January
09
1991 |
Iraq Invades Kuwait |
January
12
1991 |
U.S. Congress Authorizes Military Force In Kuwait |
January
13
1991 |
Soviet Union Attack In Vilnius Injures Many |
January
15
1991 |
The U.N. Starts Operation Desert Storm |
January
15
1991 |
Australia Institutes Victoria Cross, Under QEII |
January
16
1991 |
Coalition Forces To To War With Iraq |
January
17
1991 |
Iraq Attacks Israel In Operation Desert Storm |
January
17
1991 |
King Of Norvey - Harald V After Olav V Died |
January
19
1991 |
Gulf War: Iraq Injures 15 Israelis In Missile Attack |
January
20
1991 |
Sudan Imposes Islamic Law Nationwide |
January
22
1991 |
Missiles Injure 96 In Israel |
January
26
1991 |
Barre Removed In Somolia, Succeeded By Mahdi |
January
29
1991 |
Gulf War Battle Of Khafji Begins |
February
01
1991 |
Los Angeles International Airport Collision |
February
07
1991 |
Aristide Sworn In As Haiti President |
February
09
1991 |
Voters In Lithuania Vote For Independence |
February
13
1991 |
Gulf War: The Amiriyah Shelter In Baghdad |
February
15
1991 |
Hungary And Poland Move Toward Free-market Systems |
February
16
1991 |
Nicaraguan Contras Leader Assassinated In Managua |
February
18
1991 |
IRA Explodes Bombs In London |
February
20
1991 |
Protesters Brought Down Statue Of Hoxha |
February
23
1991 |
Ground Troops Cross Saudi Border Starting Ground Phase Of War |
February
23
1991 |
Kongsompong Leads Bloodless Coup Deposing Choonhavan |
February
25
1991 |
The Warsaw Pact Is Declared Disbanded |
February
25
1991 |
Iraqi Missile Hits 28 U.S. Army Reservists |
February
26
1991 |
Gulf War: US Army Captures Town Of Al Busayyah |
February
27
1991 |
President Bush (Sr.) Announces Kuwait Is Liberated |
February
28
1991 |
The First Gulf War Ends |
March
02
1991 |
Battle At Rumaila Ends Gulf War |
March
03
1991 |
Video Capture Police Beating Rodney King |
March
03
1991 |
Voting In Latvia And Estonia For Independence |
March
03
1991 |
United Airlines Flight 585 Crash Kills 25 |
March
04
1991 |
Prime Minister Of Kuwait, Returns Kuwait |
March
09
1991 |
Demonstrations Held Against Milosevic In Belgrade |
March
13
1991 |
Exxon Commits Money To Its Alaskan Oil Spill |
March
15
1991 |
Treaty On Final Settlement On Effect |
March
23
1991 |
Liberia, Rebels Invade Sierra Leone |
March
26
1991 |
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay Sign Treaty |
March
26
1991 |
Frog Boys Disappear And Are Later Murdered |
March
26
1991 |
South Korea Local Self-government Restored |
March
31
1991 |
Georgian Voters Want Independence From Russia |
April
02
1991 |
Johnston Becomes First Female Canadian Premier |
April
04
1991 |
John Heinz Killed In Airplane And Helicopter Collision |
April
04
1991 |
Hong Kong Flag Adopted During Congress |
April
05
1991 |
Airplane Crashes, Killing 23 |
April
09
1991 |
Georgia Independent From The Soviet Union |
April
10
1991 |
Italian Ferry & Tanker Collide Killing 140 |
April
10
1991 |
A Rare Tropical Storm Develops Near Angola |
April
14
1991 |
Republic Of Georgia Introduces Presidential Post |
April
26
1991 |
Seventy Tornados In Central US., Andover Records F5 |
April
29
1991 |
A Cyclone Devastates Southeastern Bangladesh |
May
01
1991 |
Rickey Henderson Steals 939th Base |
May
05
1991 |
D.C. Police Shooting Results In Riot |
May
15
1991 |
Cresson France's First Female Premier |
May
16
1991 |
British Queen Elizabeth II Addresses U.S. Congress |
May
18
1991 |
Northern Somalia Declares Independance As Somaliland |
May
19
1991 |
Voting By Croatians For Independence |
May
21
1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi Is Assassinated |
May
21
1991 |
Ethiopian Civil War Comes To An End |
May
24
1991 |
Ethiopian Jews Evacuated To Israel |
May
26
1991 |
Gamsakhurdia Elected President Of Republic Of Georgia |
May
26
1991 |
All Dead In Thailand Airliner Crash |
May
28
1991 |
Addis Ababa Is Added To The Ethiopia Region |
May
31
1991 |
Bicesse Accords In Transition To Multi-party Democracy |
June
03
1991 |
Masscre Erupts In Kyushu, Japan |
June
07
1991 |
Mount Pinatubo Covers Phillipinnes In Ash |
June
10
1991 |
Jaycee Dugard Was Kidnapped In California |
June
12
1991 |
Yeltsin Elected Russian President |
June
12
1991 |
152 Civilians Massacred In Kokkadichcolai By Army |
June
15
1991 |
Eruption Of Mount Pinatubo Kills 800 |
June
17
1991 |
Population Registration Act Repealed By Parliament |
June
19
1991 |
The Soviet Occupation Of Hungary Ends |
June
20
1991 |
Bundestag Votes To Move Capital |
June
25
1991 |
Croatia And Slovenia Declare Independence |
June
26
1991 |
Yugoslavia Begins Ten-Day War In Slovenia |
June
27
1991 |
Yugoslavia Takes Slovienia Back By Force |
July
01
1991 |
Prague: Warsaw Pact Dissolved |
July
07
1991 |
Independence War In Slovenia Ends |
July
10
1991 |
South African Cricket Team Reenters International Stage |
July
10
1991 |
Yeltsin Is First Elected Russian President |
July
22
1991 |
Dahmer Arrested In Milwaukee |
July
24
1991 |
Manmohan Singh's Budget Speech Leads To India's Economic Liberalization |
July
31
1991 |
US And USSR Agree To Arms Reductions With START I |
August
04
1991 |
MTS Oceanos Sinks Off South Africa Coast |
August
06
1991 |
Berners-Lee Releases Groundbreaking Idea World Wide |
August
06
1991 |
Doi Becomes Japan's First House Speaker |
August
08
1991 |
The Warsaw Radio Mast Collapsed |
August
19
1991 |
Gorbachev Placed Under House Arrest |
August
19
1991 |
Black Groups Target Hasidic Jews |
August
20
1991 |
Protesting Mikhail Gorbachev |
August
20
1991 |
Estonia Re-establishes Independence From Soviet Union |
August
21
1991 |
Latvia Declares Renewal Of Independence |
August
21
1991 |
Coup Attempt Against Mikhail Gorbachev Collapses |
August
23
1991 |
Berners-Lee Opens WWW |
August
24
1991 |
Gorbachev Resigns As Head Of Communist Party |
August
24
1991 |
Ukraine Becomes Independent |
August
25
1991 |
Belarus Gains Independence From Soviet Union |
August
25
1991 |
Croatian City Seized By JNA |
August
25
1991 |
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux's Predecessor |
August
27
1991 |
European Community Recognizes The Baltic States |
August
27
1991 |
Moldova Declares Independence From USSR |
August
29
1991 |
Supreme Suspend Activities Of Soviet Communist Party |
August
29
1991 |
Italian Businessman, Grassi, Killed By Mafia |
August
31
1991 |
Kyrgyzstan Is Now Independant From Russia |
September
01
1991 |
Uzbekistan Declares Independence |
September
05
1991 |
The Indigenous Peoples Treaty Originated In 1989 |
September
06
1991 |
Soviet Union Recognizes Baltic Independence |
September
06
1991 |
Leningrad Becomes Saint Petersburg Again |
September
08
1991 |
Republic Of Macedonia Becomes Independent |
September
09
1991 |
Tajikistan Declared Independence |
September
17
1991 |
Estonia And Others Join United Nations |
September
17
1991 |
Linux Kernel First Released To Internet |
September
18
1991 |
Yugoslavia Blockades Adriatic Port Cities |
September
19
1991 |
German Tourists Discover Otzi The Iceman |
September
21
1991 |
Armenia Is Granted Independence |
September
22
1991 |
Dead Sea Scrolls Available To Public |
September
29
1991 |
Military Coup In Haiti |
October
01
1991 |
The Siege Of Dubrovnik Begins |
October
04
1991 |
Antarctic Treaty Opened For Signature |
October
05
1991 |
Indonesian Transport Crashes In Jakarta, 137 Fatalities |
October
05
1991 |
Linux Version 0.02 Is Released |
October
07
1991 |
Bombing Kills Civilian In Banski Dvori, Zagreb |
October
08
1991 |
Croatia Votes To Become Independent Of Yugoslavia |
October
09
1991 |
Ecuador Is A Berne Convention Member |
October
12
1991 |
Kyrgyzstanian President Akayev Elected Uncontestedly |
October
16
1991 |
George Hennard Killed People In Texas |
October
18
1991 |
Azerbaijan Declares Independence From Soviet Union |
October
20
1991 |
$2 Billion In Damages Causes In Firestorm |
October
20
1991 |
Earthquake In India Kills Over 1,000 People |
October
25
1991 |
After Ten-Day War, Last Soldier Leaves |
October
27
1991 |
The Soviet Union Loses Turkmenistan To Independence |
October
29
1991 |
American Galileo Spacecraft Makes Closest Approach |
October
30
1991 |
Madrid Middle East Peace Talks Begin |
November
06
1991 |
Kuwati Oil Field Fires Are Extinguished |
November
07
1991 |
Magic Johnson Retires From NBA, Announcing He Is Infected With HIV |
November
12
1991 |
Indonesian Forces Fire On Student Protesters |
November
14
1991 |
Indictments Issued Against Authorities Pan Am Flight |
November
14
1991 |
Exiled Canbodian Prince Returns To Phnom |
November
14
1991 |
Five Dead In Michigan Shooting Rampage |
November
18
1991 |
Lebanese Shiite Muslim Kidnappers Release Anglican Envoys |
November
18
1991 |
Vukovar Surrenders To Yugoslavs And Serbs |
November
20
1991 |
19 Peacekeepers Downed By Armenian Forces |
November
26
1991 |
Azerbaijan's National Assembly Uses Original Names |
November
27
1991 |
United Nations Security Council Adopts 721 |
November
28
1991 |
South Osettia Declares Independence From Georgia |
December
01
1991 |
Independence Reference Overwhelming Approved By Ukraninans |
December
02
1991 |
Ukraine Independence Recognized By Canada And Poland |
December
04
1991 |
Terry A. Anderson Is Held Hostage In Lebanon |
December
04
1991 |
Captain Pyle Pilots Final Boeing 747 |
December
06
1991 |
Yugoslav Army Bombards Dubrovnik In Siege |
December
08
1991 |
Soviet Union Dissolves Into Independent States |
December
08
1991 |
Romanian Constitution Adopted In Referendum |
December
12
1991 |
Russian Federation Gains Independence |
December
16
1991 |
Kazakhstan Declared Independence From Soviet Union |
December
20
1991 |
Palestinian Militant Death For Honor Killing |
December
22
1991 |
Opposition Launches Military Coup Against President Gamsakhurdia |
December
25
1991 |
Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns |
December
26
1991 |
Supreme Soviet Dissolves Soviet Union |
December
31
1991 |
Soviet Union Is Officially Dissolved |