1991 Timeline

"This is [pause] something is happening outside....
The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated.
We're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky."
--Bernard Shaw, CNN correspondent at 6:35 p.m.
on January 16, reporting the allied attack on Iraq

Jan. 8, 1997: Lithuanian Government resigns
Jan 16, 1991: Gulf War begins. U.S. begans the air war against Iraq by bombing military sites.
Feb. 24,1991: Ground war in southern Iraq and Kuwait begins. In a brilliant and lightning fast campaign, U.S. and coalition forces smash through Iraq's defenses and deafeat Saddam Hussein's troups in only four days of combat.
Feb. 26, 1991: Allies enter Kuwait City.
Feb. 7, 1991: Liberal priest becomes Haiti's president.
Feb. 25, 1991: Warsaw Pact dissolves military alliance.
March 3, 1991: Allied and Iraq military leaders meet on the battlefield to discuss terms for a formal cease-fire to end the Gulf War. Iraq agrees to abide by all of the U.N. resolutions.
March 4, 1991: The first Allied prisoners of war are released.
April 1, 1991: Supreme Court limits race in trial jury selection.
April 6, 1991: Official cease-fire of the Gulf War is signed.
April 15, 1991: Europeans end sanctions on South Africa.
April 16, 1991: Supreme Court limits death row appeals.
May 13, 1991: Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping incident.
June 4, 1991: Communist government of Albania resigns.
June 4, 1991: Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide.
June 5, 1991: South African parliment repeals apartheid laws.
July 1, 1991: Warsaw Pact disolved.
July 10, 1991: Boris Yeltsin inaugurated as first freely elected president of Russian Republic.
July 31, 1991: Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty.
Aug. 18, 1991: Coup fails to unseat Gorbachev after Soviet hardliners try to take power. Gorbachev credit Yeltsin for rescue.
Aug. 24, 1991: Gorbachev seals the Communist Party doom by resigning as secretary general.
Aug. 25, 1991: 3 Batic states declare independence.
Sept. 2, 1991: Bush recognizes Batic States.
Sept. 6, 1991: New Soviet ruling counsel recognizes the independence of Lithuania, Estonia, and Lativa.
Sept. 15, 1991: Charges against Oliver North's role in Iran Contra are dropped.
Oct. 6, 1991: Professor Anita Hill accuses Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
Oct. 15, 1991: Senate, 52-48 confirms Thomas for Supreme Court after stormy hearings.
Oct. 18, 1991: Israel and Soviets resume relations after 24 years.
Oct. 29, 1991: First photo ever taken of an asteroid in space.
Nov. 15, 1991: U.S. indict 2 Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Nov. 18, 1991: Terry Waite and Thomas M. Sutherland freed by Lebanese.
Dec. 2-4, 1991: Last three U.S. hostages freed in Lebanon.
Dec. 25, 1991: Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonweath of Independent Sates, which U.S. and other nations move to recognize.
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Time Magazine's Man of the Year: Ted Turner - Truly transforming the world into a globbal village

Music of 1991:

Songs
"Enter Sandman" - Metallica
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
"Unbelievable" - EMF
"Gonna Make You Sweat" - C+C Music Factory
"Losing My Religion" - R.E.M.
Album:
Use Your Illusion I and II, by Guns N' Roses, demostrated that even in the increasingly corperate world of pop music, rock is still about telling your parents they can't tell you what to do.

Chronology of the Gulf War