1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- January 5, 1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- January 22, 1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
- January 29, 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
- February 9, 1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- February 13, 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
- February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- March 4, 1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq’s invasion.
- May 21, 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- June 12, 1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
- June 30, 1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
- July 31, 1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
- August 6, 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- August 28, 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- September 6, 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
- September 22, 1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- October 1, 1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins
- October 5, 1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- December 26, 1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
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