1991 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1991?
- January 29, 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
- February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 2, 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
- April 10, 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- May 1, 1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
- May 21, 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- May 24, 1991 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
- June 3, 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
- 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 10, 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 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 27, 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- September 8, 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- September 17, 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- September 29, 1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- October 27, 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- December 4, 1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
- December 6, 1991 – In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
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