1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- January 20, 1991 – Sudan’s government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country’s Muslim north and Christian south.
- January 26, 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
- February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- February 25, 1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
- February 27, 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- June 7, 1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km high.
- June 15, 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- June 19, 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
- June 20, 1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
- June 25, 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- June 27, 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
- July 31, 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries’ stockpiles.
- 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 19, 1991 – Crown Heights Riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
- October 30, 1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- November 7, 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- November 27, 1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- December 16, 1991 – Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
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