Events in History in 1991 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 508 of 508

• Oct 5 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
• Oct 7 Child star Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) arrested for stealing hypodermics

• Oct 9 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
• Oct 9 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Oct 10 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
• Oct 10 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
• Oct 10 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
• Oct 11 Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her
• Oct 11 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
• Oct 12 Professional wrestler Rip is Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
• Oct 12 Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN

• Oct 15 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
• Oct 16 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
• Oct 16 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
• Oct 16 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
• Oct 17 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discussing her having a disformed baby
• Oct 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 20 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
• Oct 20 Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
• Oct 21 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

• Oct 21 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
• Oct 22 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
• Oct 23 Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

• Oct 30 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
• Oct 30 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
• Oct 31 Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid
• Nov 1 Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by Canadian well control team "SafetyBOSS"
• Nov 1 New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
• Nov 1 Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
• Nov 2 Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople, head of 300 million followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church

• Nov 4 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
• Nov 5 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
• Nov 5 Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA
• Nov 6 Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
• Nov 6 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
• Nov 6 Maximus 2.0 BBS released
• Nov 6 Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA

• Nov 9 Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
• Nov 10 Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30
• Nov 10 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
• Nov 12 Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of protesters in Dili, East Timor, killing at least 250
• Nov 13 Bomb destroys Dutch Labour party politician Aad Kosto's house in a failed assassination attempt, he survives and in a famous image finds and cuddles his cat

• Nov 15 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
• Nov 18 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
• Nov 18 Muslim Shi'ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
• Nov 18 The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege
• Nov 21 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
• Nov 24 1st international flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
• Nov 24 Rachmon Nabijev elected president of Tadzjikistan
• Nov 24 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
• Nov 26 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
• Nov 27 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
• Nov 30 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
• Nov 30 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli Vanilli attempts suicide
• Nov 30 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
• Dec 1 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election

• Dec 1 Ukrainian people vote for independence
• Dec 1 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
• Dec 2 Muslim Shi'ites release American hostage Joseph Cicippio held in Lebanon
• Dec 3 Muslim Shi'ites in Beirut, Lebanon release US political hostage Alann Steen [1]
• Dec 3 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
• Dec 4 Muslim Shi'ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
• Dec 4 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
• Dec 4 Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
• Dec 5 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
• Dec 5 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
• Dec 7 A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
• Dec 8 Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
• Dec 8 The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
• Dec 10 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
• Dec 11 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
• Dec 12 Abuja replaces Lagos as the capital city of Nigeria
• Dec 12 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
• Dec 13 Both North and South Korea sign an accord calling for reconciliation
• Dec 13 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
• Dec 14 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed
• Dec 16 Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• Dec 16 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
• Dec 17 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
• Dec 18 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
• Dec 19 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
• Dec 19 Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin
• Dec 20 Missouri court sentences Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the "honor killing" of their teenaged daughter Palestina in St. Louis; he dies of diabetes complications before execution, she dies of natural causes while in prison

• Dec 21 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
• Dec 21 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
• Dec 21 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
• Dec 23 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
• Dec 25 Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala

• Dec 26 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
• Dec 28 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

• Dec 31 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland - last day of existence
• Dec 31 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83

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