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1991 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
•  February 15, 1991 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  May 24, 1991 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
•  May 28, 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
•  July 31, 1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
•  August 20, 1991 – Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood.
•  August 24, 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
•  October 27, 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
•  December 4, 1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.
•  December 16, 1991 – Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.

•  January 28, 1991 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
•  March 11, 1991 – Jack Rodwell, English footballer
•  March 18, 1991 – Constantinos Hilas, Greek director and actor
•  May 5, 1991 – Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
•  July 10, 1991 – María Chacón, Mexican actress
•  July 22, 1991 – Matthew James, English footballer
•  July 30, 1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer and stage actress
•  August 2, 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player
•  October 16, 1991 – John and Edward Grimes, Irish singers