Historical Events In 1991

Dec 12 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection

Aug 12 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan

Aug 03 Pan Am games open in Havana

Aug 19 Coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev

Aug 28 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher

Aug 21 Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin

Aug 05 Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record in Malmo Sweden

Aug 02 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges

Aug 16 Pres Bush declares the recession is near an end

Aug 25 Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds

Aug 26 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0

Aug 24 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party

Aug 18 Pan Am games closes in Havana

Aug 29 The Soviet Communist Party was formally suspended as leader of USSR

Aug 02 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA

Aug 30 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points

Aug 28 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident

Aug 21 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days

Aug 01 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida

Aug 19 A coup attempts to remove President Gorbachev from power in the Soviet Union

Aug 29 John F Kennedy Jr wins his first law case

Aug 24 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR

Aug 06 Harry Reasoner newscaster (Host on 60 Minutes), dies at 68

Aug 30 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«

Aug 01 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched

Aug 15 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park

Aug 01 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA

Aug 29 The Communist Party ends 75 years of power in the USSR.

Aug 17 Wade Frankum runs amok with automatic rifle and knife at Strathfield in Sydney, killing seven people and himself.

Oct 06 Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)

Oct 23 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women

Oct 04 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier

Oct 22 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

Oct 10 A former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey

Oct 21 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

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