1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- January 12, 1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- March 26, 1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
- April 2, 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
- May 5, 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
- May 16, 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
- May 21, 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- June 7, 1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km high.
- June 25, 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- August 8, 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
- August 21, 1991 – Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- August 24, 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- September 16, 1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- September 29, 1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- November 14, 1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
- November 26, 1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
- November 28, 1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
- December 12, 1991 – Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR.
- December 22, 1991 – Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
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