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1991 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
•  February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  March 13, 1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
•  June 30, 1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
•  July 1, 1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
•  August 21, 1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
•  August 25, 1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
•  August 29, 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
•  October 5, 1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
•  November 18, 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

•  January 18, 1991 – Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
•  February 18, 1991 – Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009)
•  February 25, 1991 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
•  March 6, 1991 – Nicole Fox, American model
•  March 18, 1991 – Constantinos Hilas, Greek director and actor
•  June 20, 1991 – Rick ten Voorde, Dutch soccer player
•  August 4, 1991 – Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
•  August 17, 1991 – Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian beauty queen, Puteri Indonesia 2009
•  August 22, 1991 – Brayden Schenn, Canadian hockey player
•  October 12, 1991 – Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer