April 1991 in History

Events in History

Historic Publication

Apr 5 Kitty Kelley publishes an unauthorized biography of former US First Lady Nancy Reagan

Apr 5 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
Apr 5 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Apr 5 US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
Apr 6 NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giants Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
Apr 6 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
Apr 7 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
Apr 7 George Washington Bridge (connecting New York City with Fort Lee, New Jersey, over the Hudson River) raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
Apr 9 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
Apr 10 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
Apr 10 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
Apr 10 Rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; first to be documented by satellites
Apr 11 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Apr 11 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
Apr 12 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
Apr 12 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
Apr 13 BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
Apr 15 Dutch checker Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
Apr 15 East-Europe Bank forms in London
Apr 15 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
Apr 15 New York State raises maximum unemployment benefits to $280 per week
Apr 17 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
Apr 17 Railroad workers go on strike in US
Apr 18 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
Apr 18 US Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
Apr 19 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
Apr 20 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
Apr 20 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
Apr 21 French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the San Diego, Dutch galleon sunk in 1600 off Fortune Island in the Philippines
Apr 21 Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th
Apr 22 Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95

i486SX Released

Apr 22 Intel releases the lower-cost i486SX microprocessor

Semiconductor Pioneer and CEO of Intel Andrew Grove

Apr 23 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
Apr 24 Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
Apr 25 Iraq announces it expects to resume crude oil and product exports by July
Apr 26 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
Apr 27 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
Apr 28 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
Apr 29 Cyclone strikes the Chittagong district in Bangladesh, killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless
Apr 29 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100

Birthdays in History

Apr 13 Dylan Francis Penn, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright, born in Los Angeles, California

Jacob Blake (32 years old)

Apr 30 African-American man shot multiple times in the back and seriously injured by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha, Wisconsin, born in Evanston, Illinois

Divorces in History

Apr 25 American fashion designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce from Kohie Yohannan (23)

Deaths in History

Apr 1 Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (President of the Independent Democratic Union), dies at 44
Apr 1 Martha Graham, American choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
Apr 1 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Apr 3 English novelist (Brighton Rock, Our man in Havana, The Power and the Glory) and journalist, dies of leukemia at 86

Apr 4 John Heinz, American businessman and Republican politician (Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-1991), dies in a plane crash at 52
Apr 4 Max Frisch, Swiss writer and playwright (I'm Not Stiller, Firebugs), dies at 79
Apr 5 John Tower, American politician (US Senator (R)-Texas), dies in a plane crash at 65
Apr 5 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
Apr 12 James Schuyler, American poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
Apr 17 Jack Yellen, American poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
Apr 20 Sean O'Faolain [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
Apr 20 Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician (Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (President), 1974-84; Prime Minister, 1952-74; General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party, 1940-54), dies at 74
Apr 21 Richard Bolling, American politician (Rep-D-Missouri 1949-83), dies at 74
Apr 23 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
Apr 24 J. de Graaf, Dutch ethicist, president church & peace, dies at 79
Apr 26 Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (26th Premier of New Brunswick), dies at 60
Apr 27 Marcus Heeresma, Dutch author (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies at 55
Apr 28 Floyd McKissick, American lawyer & civil rights activist, dies at 69
Apr 28 Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive, dies at 85
Apr 29 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
Apr 30 George Sperti, American inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91