Historical Events In 1991

Dec 12 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford

Dec 04 Muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)

Dec 05 New York Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 dec06

Dec 21 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane

Dec 19 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin

Dec 31 The civil war in El Salvador ends

Dec 01 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands

Dec 08 The Soviet Union comes to an end, with the forming of a 'Commonwealth of Independent States'

Dec 14 Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Heisman trophy

Dec 14 476 die when the ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea.

Dec 03 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns

Dec 24 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union

Dec 05 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty

Dec 26 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India

Dec 01 Ukranian people vote for independence

Dec 12 Salman Rushdie faces new death threats, after a paperback edition of 'The Satanic Verses' is published

Dec 28 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year

Dec 13 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation

Dec 03 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

Dec 26 Toronto Ontario Northwest Airlines buys 20 Dash 8 Series 100 aircraft from de Haviland for $190 million; division of Boeing Canada.

Dec 02 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Joseph Cicip

Dec 03 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Alan Steen

Dec 19 6,000th episode of One Life To Live

Dec 28 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

Dec 23 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns

Dec 06 Brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah

Dec 18 DeForest Kelly, who portrayed Dr. "Bones" McCoy on Star Trek, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Dec 13 New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud

Dec 08 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States

Dec 26 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction (the gun used to kill Harvey Oswald)

Dec 06 "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres

Dec 21 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda wed

Dec 24 Mary Kinnear dies at age 93; appointed to the Senate 1967; one of Canada's first female senators.

Dec 16 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote

Dec 21 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)

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