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1991 (''' MCMXCI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the Gregorian Calendar .
Events
January
February
'', U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait .]]
- February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in Suicide s.
- February 7 - Haiti 's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide , is sworn in.
- February 7 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
- February 9 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- February 11 - UNPO , the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in the Hague , Netherlands .
- s" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraq is. Iraqi officials claim that the bunker was a Bomb Shelter but United States military intelligence identified it as a military facility.
- February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement , establishing cooperation to move toward Free-market Systems , is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland .
- , injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
- February 18 - The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington Station and Victoria Station in London.
- February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours.
- border and enter Kuwait , thus starting the ground phase of the war.
- leads a bloodless Coup D'état , deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan .
- i Scud Missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran , Saudi Arabia killing 29 and injuring 99 US Soldiers . It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
- radio, Iraq i leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
- is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.
March
- March-April - Iraq i forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran
- March 1 - Ballistic Missile Submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 starts to be Deactivated
- March 1 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture, under the George H. W. Bush administration
- March 3 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- March 3 - Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the Soviet Union
- March 4 - Vermont celebrates its Bicentennial statehood.
- March 4 - Most primitive form of World Wide Web is put online.
- March 4 - In Iraq , Saddam Hussein releases 6 U.S. , 3 British and 1 Italian Prisoner Of War .
- March 4 - Sheik Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah , the Prime Minister Of Kuwait , returned to his country for the first time since Iraq 's invasion.
- March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade . Two people are killed and Tank s are in the streets
- - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf
- March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs killed 49.
- March 13 - The United States Department Of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska .
- March 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.
- March 15 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the Videotape d March 3 , 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
- March 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.
- March 31 - Albania has the first multi-party elections
April
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- April 4 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collided with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania
- April 9 - Supreme Council of the Republic Of Georgia declared the restoration of independence of Georgia
- April 10 - A Rare Tropical Storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola ; the first of its kind to be documented by Satellites .
- April 14 - In the Netherlands , thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam . Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum
- April 17 - After approaching 3,000 in July 1990 , the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, closing at 3,004.46.
- April 17 - First Performance of Nirvana 's " Smells Like Teen Spirit " at the OK Hotel in Seattle , Washington the song that marked the beginning of a new movement in music called Grunge . It managed to turn a crowd calmly seated at tables into a moshpit.
- declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have biological weapons program.
- April 24 Gangland murderer Catherine Huang shot through head
- April 26 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day struck Andover, Kansas . (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak )
- April 29 - A Tropical Cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 138,000 people.
May
June
July
August
, founder of the KGB is torn down in Moscow , signalling the Collapse Of The Soviet Union .]]
September
October
November
December
Undated events
Births
January-May
- January 8 - Asuka Hinoi , Japanese singer
- January 15 - Rubab Raza , Pakistan swimmer
- January 19 - Erin Sanders , American actress
- January 21 - Paige And Ryanne Kettner , American actresses
- January 21 - Brittany Tiplady , Canadian actress
- February 16 - Princess Alexandra Of Luxembourg , British noble
- February 17 - Bonnie Wright , English actress
- February 18 - Malese Jow , American actress
- March 8 - Devon Werkheiser , American actor
- March 23 - George William Carnegie , British noble
- March 26 - Brittney Wilson , Canadian actress
- March 28 - Amy Bruckner , American actress
- April 10 - Sergiusz Zymelka , Polish actor
- April 20 - Thomas Curtis , American actor
- April 27 - Rebecca Ryan , British actress
- May 17 - Daniel Curtis Lee , American actor
- May 21 - Sarah Ramos , American actress
- May 25 - Julianna Rose Mauriello , American stage actress
- May 28 - Kristen Alderson , American actress
June-December
- June 4 - Jordan Hinson , American actress
- June 18 - Willa Holland , American model
- June 27 - Madylin Sweeten , American actress
- July 5 - Jason Dolley , American actor
- July 6 - Victoire Thivisol , French actress
- July 7 - Devon Alan , American actor
- July 12 - Erik Per Sullivan , American actor
- July 14 - Lewis McGibbon , British actor
- August 28 - Kyle Massey , American actor
- August 30 - Lauren Hartley , British actress
- September 4 - Carter Jenkins , American actor
- September 5 - Skandar Keynes , British actor
- September 21 - Zoe Weizenbaum , American actress
- October 19 - Christopher Gerse , American actor
- November 6 - Camila Finn , Brazilian model
- December 9 - Prince Joachim, Archduke Of Austria-Este , Belgian Prince
- December 13 - Jay Greenberg , American music composer
'For musicians born in 1991, see 1991 In Music .''
Deaths
January-February
- January 5 - Vasko Popa , Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922 )
- January 8 - Steve Clark , English guitarist ( Def Leppard ) (b. 1960 )
- January 11 - Carl David Anderson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )
- January 17 - King Olav V Of Norway (b. 1903 )
- January 29 - Yasushi Inoue , Japanese historian (b. 1907 )
- January 30 - John Bardeen , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908
- January 30 - John McIntire , American actor (b. 1907 )
- February 5 - Dean Jagger , American actor (b. 1903 )
- February 6 - Salvador Luria , Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1912 )
- February 6 - Danny Thomas , American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914 )
- February 21 - John S. Cooper , a U.S. Republican senator
- February 14 - John McCone , American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1902 )
- February 21 - Margot Fonteyn , English ballet dancer (b. 1919 )
- February 24 - John Charles Daly , South Africa n-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914 )
- February 24 - George Gobel , American comedian (b. 1919 )
March-April
- March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg , French singer (b. 1928 )
- March 3 - Arthur Murray , American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895 )
- March 12 - Ragnar Granit , Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1900 )
- March 14 - Howard Ashman , American lyricist (b. 1950 )
- March 14 - Doc Pomus , American composer (b. 1925 )
- March 29 - Lee Atwater , American Presidential advisor (b. 1951 )
- April 1 - Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894 )
- April 3 - Charles Goren , American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901 )
- April 3 - Graham Greene , English writer (b. 1904 )
- April 4 - Max Frisch , Swiss writer (b. 1911 )
- April 4 - H. John Heinz III , U.S. Senator (plane crash) (b. 1938 )
- April 4 - Forrest Towns , American runner (b. 1914 )
- April 8 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin , Vocalist for Mayhem / Morbid (suicide) (b. 1969 )
- April 10 - Natalie Schafer , American actress (b. 1900 )
- April 26 - Carmine Coppola , American composer and conductor (b. 1910 )
- April 28 - Ken Curtis , American actor (b. 1916 )
May-July
- May 8 - Jean Langlais , French composer and organist (b. 1907 )
- May 8 - Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist (b. 1903 )
- May 14 - Jiang Qing , Chinese radical revolutionary (b. 1914 )
- May 15 - Andreas Floer , German mathematician (b. 1956 )
- May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi , Prime Minister Of India (b. 1944 )
- May 22 - Derrick Henry Lehmer , American mathematician (b. 1905 )
- May 24 - Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist (b. 1895 )
- May 27 - Leopold Nowak , Austrian musicologist (b. 1904 )
- June 9 - Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903 )
- June 14 - Peggy Ashcroft , British actress (b. 1907 )
- June 15 - Arthur Lewis , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )
- July 1 - Michael Landon , American actor (b. 1936 )
- July 4 - Victor Chang , Australian physician (murdered) (b. 1936 )
- July 15 - Bert Convy , American game show host, actor, and singer (brain tumor) (b. 1933 )
- July 16 - Robert Motherwell , American painter (b. 1915 )
- July 18 - André Cools , Belgian politician (assassinated) (b. 1927 )
- July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
August-December
- August 1 - Chris Short , American baseball pitcher (b. 1937 )
- August 5 - Paul Brown , American football coach (b. 1908 )
- August 8 - James Irwin , astronaut (b. 1930 )
- August 11 - J.D. McDuffie , American race car driver (b. 1938 )
- August 13 - James Roosevelt , American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
- August 14 - Richard A. Snelling , Governor of Vermont (b. 1927 )
- August 30 - Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925 )
- September 2 - Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911 )
- September 3 - Frank Capra , Italian-born film director (b. 1897 )
- September 7 - Edwin McMillan , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907 )
- September 17 - Zino Francescatti , French violinist (b. 1902 )
- September 24 - Dr. Seuss , American children's author (b. 1904 )
- September 28 - Miles Davis , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926 )
- October 24 - Gene Roddenberry , American television producer (b. 1921 )
- November 5 - Robert Maxwell , Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923 )
- November 24 - Eric Carr , American drummer ( Kiss ) (b. 1950 )
- November 24 - Freddie Mercury , Zanzibar-born singer ( Queen ) (b. 1946 )
- December 1 - George Joseph Stigler , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- December 6 - Richard Stone , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913 )
- December 10 - Greta Kempton , American artist (b. 1901 )
- December 15 - Vasily Zaitsev , Russian World War II hero (b. 1915 )
- December 16 - Horatio Luro , Argentine-born racehorse trainer (b. 1901 )
- December 18 - George Abecassis , English race car driver (b. 1913 )
Nobel prizes
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