Events in History in 1991 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 508

• Apr 29 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
• May 1 Angolan civil war ends

• May 1 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC

• May 3 The Declaration of Windhoek (on press freedom) signed by African journalists
• May 4 Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
• May 4 US politician Mo Udall, Representative for Arizona (1961-91), resigns due to Parkinson disease

• May 5 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after Salvadoran man is shot by police
• May 6 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
• May 7 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• May 12 A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
• May 13 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
• May 14 42 die in a train collision in Japan
• May 14 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

• May 14 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs

• May 15 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
• May 15 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
• May 16 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (fictional Superman character)

• May 18 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 18 Republic of Somaliland declares independence from Somalia
• May 18 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
• May 20 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
• May 21 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
• May 22 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
• May 23 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
• May 23 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
• May 25 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
• May 27 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
• May 28 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
• May 30 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
• May 30 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
• May 30 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
• May 31 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
• Jun 2 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
• Jun 2 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
• Jun 3 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
• Jun 3 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
• Jun 4 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
• Jun 4 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
• Jun 4 Robert S Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
• Jun 5 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

• Jun 5 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
• Jun 6 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
• Jun 6 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
• Jun 7 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
• Jun 8 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
• Jun 8 Victory parade following success in the Gulf War is held in Washington, D.C.
• Jun 8 Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
• Jun 9 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
• Jun 10 Mother of All Parades - NYC welcomes desert storm troops
• Jun 10 South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
• Jun 11 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
• Jun 12 Boris Yelstin elected President of Russian Federation

• Jun 14 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
• Jun 14 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
• Jun 15 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
• Jun 15 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
• Jun 16 -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
• Jun 16 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
• Jun 17 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
• Jun 17 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

• Jun 18 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
• Jun 18 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
• Jun 19 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie

• Jun 20 The Bundestag (German parliament) decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin
• Jun 21 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia
• Jun 21 P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of a Congress Party minority government
• Jun 22 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in the Philippines
• Jun 23 "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
• Jun 23 A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa
• Jun 25 Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa
• Jun 25 Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa

• Jun 26 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss

• Jun 28 South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• Jun 29 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
• Jun 30 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)
• Jul 5 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 10 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation
• Jul 10 Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa
• Jul 10 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
• Jul 11 Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
• Jul 11 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
• Jul 14 Failed military coup in Mali
• Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 15 US troops leave northern Iraq
• Jul 21 Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America

• Jul 23 James Farentino of "Dynasty" arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
• Jul 24 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
• Jul 24 Universityof Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
• Jul 25 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
• Jul 27 TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
• Jul 31 Russia and US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
• Jul 31 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
• Jul 31 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other
• Aug 2 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
• Aug 2 Pan Am games open in Havana
• Aug 2 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
• Aug 3 Giant Victory driven by Jack Moiseyev wins Hambletonian, 2nd $1m purse in 22 days for Moiseyev after winning Meadowlands Pace
• Aug 4 The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa

• Aug 7 Courts rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
• Aug 7 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
• Aug 8 Shi'ite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy
• Aug 8 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• Aug 9 British radio show "On the Hour" debuts on BBC Radio 4 with first appearance of Alan Partridge character
• Aug 11 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
• Aug 11 Shiite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
• Aug 11 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
• Aug 11 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
• Aug 12 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
• Aug 13 US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association
• Aug 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 16 Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants

• Aug 16 US President George H. W. Bush declares recession is near an end
• Aug 17 ArenaBowl V, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Tampa Bay Storm beats Detroit Drive 48-42, Stevie Thomas MVP
• Aug 18 Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
• Aug 18 Pan American games close in Havana
• Aug 19 -20] Hurricane Bob hits US
• Aug 19 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état
• Aug 20 Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR
• Aug 20 The United Democratic Front, one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, civic and student organisations, dissolves
• Aug 21 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
• Aug 21 Latvia declares its independence from USSR
• Aug 24 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
• Aug 24 Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
• Aug 24 Ukraine declares independence from USSR
• Aug 25 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges

• Aug 25 Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics
• Aug 25 White-Russia declares its independence
• Aug 27 Moldavia declares independence from USSR

• Aug 28 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
• Aug 29 JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney

• Aug 29 USSR suspends Communist Party activities
• Aug 30 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
• Aug 31 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Aug 31 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
• Aug 31 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union following the failed coup in Moscow
• Aug 31 William H. Webster ends term as 14th director of CIA
• Sep 1 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
• Sep 2 US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
• Sep 4 Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
• Sep 5 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress
• Sep 6 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
• Sep 6 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• Sep 6 USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
• Sep 7 Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
• Sep 8 Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia

• Sep 11 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
• Sep 11 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
• Sep 12 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
• Sep 13 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
• Sep 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 15 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
• Sep 16 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
• Sep 16 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
• Sep 16 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
• Sep 17 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
• Sep 17 UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia
• Sep 18 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
• Sep 18 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
• Sep 19 Colt Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug at Delaware, Ohio
• Sep 19 Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps
• Sep 20 Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
• Sep 21 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
• Sep 22 ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
• Sep 22 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
• Sep 22 Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500
• Sep 24 After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West
• Sep 24 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
• Sep 25 Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
• Sep 26 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
• Sep 27 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
• Sep 28 "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
• Sep 28 UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
• Sep 30 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti
• Oct 1 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
• Oct 1 New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
• Oct 1 Soviet Union suspends petroleum product exports as its fuel shortages grow
• Oct 4 Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
• Oct 4 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• Oct 4 Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
• Oct 5 Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
• Oct 5 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.

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