1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
- February 20, 1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania’s long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
- April 4, 1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- May 5, 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
- May 15, 1991 – Edith Cresson becomes France’s first female prime minister.
- June 19, 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
- August 4, 1991 – The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
- 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 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- August 31, 1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- September 17, 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- October 5, 1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
- October 7, 1991 – Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
- October 18, 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- October 29, 1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- November 18, 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
- November 20, 1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
- December 4, 1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
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