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.
- March 31, 1991 – The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
- April 14, 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 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 19, 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
- May 24, 1991 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
- May 31, 1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations’ UNAVEM II mission.
- June 12, 1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
- June 27, 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
- 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.
- 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 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
- August 24, 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- August 25, 1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence
- August 29, 1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- September 8, 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- September 16, 1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- October 9, 1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- November 18, 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
- December 31, 1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
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