1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- 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.
- February 15, 1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
- 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.
- February 23, 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- February 27, 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- March 3, 1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
- April 5, 1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.
- April 26, 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak’s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year’s only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
- May 26, 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
- June 17, 1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- June 25, 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- July 7, 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- August 20, 1991 – Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood.
- August 27, 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- September 8, 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- October 1, 1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins
- October 7, 1991 – Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
- December 8, 1991 – The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
- December 16, 1991 – Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
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