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1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar in the 20th century. It was the second year of the 1990s, and is usually considered the final year of the Cold War that had began in the late 1940s. During the year, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed into fifteen sovereign republics. A U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations foughtagainst Iraq, which had invaded Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War. The year 1991 was the 1991st year of the Common Era, the 991st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 20th century and 2nd in the 1990s.
January
* January 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
* January 11– Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. January Events (Lithuania).
* January 12 – Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
* January 13 – A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the town of Orkneynear Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.
[edit] February
* February 1 – A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
* February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
* February 7
* Haiti's first democratically elected president,Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
* The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
* Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
* February 26 – Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troopsfrom Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
[edit] March
* March–April – Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
* March 1
* The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated.
* Clayton Keith Yeutter ends histerm as United States Secretary of Agriculture.
* March 3
* An amateur video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.
* Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
* United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing all 25 people on board.
* March 9 – Massive demonstrations areheld against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
* March 10 – Gulf War – Operation Phase Echo: 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
* March 11 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa, after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
[edit] April
* April 1 – Comedy Central is launched in its currentformat.
* April 3 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The Resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km andproduction facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
* April 4
* Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
* William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an...