1991
1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- February 4 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
- February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
- February 7
- February 9 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in the Hague, Netherlands.
- February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis. 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.
- February 16 - Gulf War: American and British war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
- February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian proposed cease fire agreement. The US rejects the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours.
- February 23
- February 25 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines.
- February 26
- February 27 - Gulf War: Kuwait 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.
- April 1 - The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times report that Selene Walters had verified her claim that then SAG President Ronald Reagan raped her in her home in 1952
- April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution called for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6
- 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 14 - 20 paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam but found 35 minutes later in an abandoned car
- April 17 - After flirting with 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 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq 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 26 - Tornadoes break out in the central United States. The most notable tornado of the day was the one that hit in Andover, Kansas. The outbreak of nearly seventy tornadoes killed 17 people in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The tornado that hit Andover was the only F5 of the year. (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado)
- April 29 - A cyclone kills 138,000 people in Bangladesh.
Undated events
Year in Topic
Births
Deaths
January-February
- January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet
- January 8 - Steve Clark, Rock guitarist for Def Leppard (b.1960)
- January 17 - HM King Olav V of Norway
- January 18 - Leo Hurwitz , documentary film producer
- January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
- January 30
- February 5 - Dean Jagger, actor
- February 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, comedian, actor
- February 11 - Oscar Nitzchke , German architect
- February 14 - John McCone, former Director of Central Intelligence
- February 21 - Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
- February 24
- February 28 - Derek Smith, Swimmer
March-May
- March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer
- March 3 - Arthur Murray, dancer, dance instructor
- March 14
- March 29 - Lee Atwater, Republican advisor
- April 1 - Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer
- April 3 - Graham Greene, writer
- April 4
- April 10 - Natalie Schafer, actress
- April 26
- Carmine Coppola , composer, conductor
- William Andrew Paton , accountant and economist
- April 28 - Ken Curtis, actor
- May 8
- May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
- May 22 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, mathematician
- May 24 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (b. 1895)
- May 27 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist
July-December
- July 1 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
- July 4 - Victor Chang, Australian doctor, pioneer in heart transplantation (murdered) (b. 1936)
- July 15 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (brain tumor) (b. 1933)
- July 16 - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1915)
- July 18 - André Cools, Belgian politician (assassinated) (b. 1927)
- August 5 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
- August 13 - James Roosevelt, American businessman, politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1907)
- August 14 - Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
- August 30 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
- September 3 - Frank Capra, Italian-born American movie director (b. 1897)
- September 17 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- September 24 - Dr. Seuss, American children's author (b. 1904)
- September 26 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
- October 24 - Gene Roddenberry, TV producer, creator of Star Trek (b. 1921)
- November 24
- December 15 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper, World War II hero (b. 1915)
- December 16 - Horatio Luro, Argentine-born racehorse trainer (b. 1901)
- December 18 - George Abecassis, English Formula One driver (b. 1913)
- Edward Goldsmith, Narmada Bachao Andolan , Bengt & Marie-Thérèse Danielsson and senator Jeton Anjain and the people of Rongelap and MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra) and CPT (Commissao Pastoral da Terra)
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