Events
DateEvent
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