Historical Events In 1991

Jan 01   5% sales tax on consumer goods and services comes into force in USSR.   

Jan 01   Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak.   

Jan 02   Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78   

Jan 03   Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.   

Jan 03   Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders   

Jan 04   AT"T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable everyone wonders what happened.   

Jan 04   Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78.   

Jan 04   Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th.   

Jan 04   Jan Krzystof Bielecki is recorded as becoming premier of Poland   

Jan 05   John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82.   

Jan 06   Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64   

Jan 06   Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds)   

Jan 07   Haiti coup defeated   

Jan 07   Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics   

Jan 07   The TV series Blossom debuts.   

Jan 08   Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame.   

Jan 09   Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis   

Jan 09   Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame.   

Jan 10   Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans   

Jan 10   US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis   

Jan 11   Ben Johnson inaugural race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd.   

Jan 11   Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq   

Jan 11   In this year, Ric Flair claims NWA/WCW wrestling title   

Jan 11   Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49.   

Jan 11   Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence   

Jan 12   Congress gives the go-ahead to U.S. military action against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.   

Jan 12   Key Luke, movie and TV actor best known as "Number One Son" in numerous Charlie Chan movies, dies of a stroke at age 86.   

Jan 12   Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86   

Jan 12   Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 meter butterfly (1 55.69).   

Jan 12   US Congress authorises military strikes against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait.   

Jan 13   42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa   

Jan 13   President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected   

Jan 13   Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die.   

Jan 13   UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1991 charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83   

Jan 02   In the year 1991 renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78   

Jan 04   Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 in the year 1991.   

Jan 06   Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64 on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30 in the year 1991.   

Jan 10   On this day in history dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62