In history, year 1991 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1991.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 04 january | Jan Krzystof Bielicki became the premier of Poland. |
| 05 january | Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War. |
| 05 january | The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War. |
| 08 january | On ABC-TV a premier is launched “Davis Rules” with Jonathan winters and Randy Quaid. |
| 09 january | Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
| 12 january | Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. |
| 14 january | Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala. |
| 14 january | USSR decides to launch its new Premier named Valentine Pavlov. |
| 15 january | Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. |
| 16 january | US and its 27 allied countries have attacked for occupying Kuwait. |
| 17 january | Harald V, the current King of Norway, succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father Olav V. |
| 26 january | Factions led by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President of Somalia Siad Barre from office. |
| 28 january | The 18th American music award announced HC Hammer and Janet Jackson lacked the award. |
| 29 january | Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, began. |
| 31 january | The shortest NBA player Nugget's Michael Adams got triple double. |
| 04 february | A new world record was made by Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones who made 467 STAND AGAINST Sri Lanka. |
| 13 february | Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided 'smart bombs' on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians. |
| 14 february | Upon the death of Carrie C. White, French woman Jeanne Calment became the world's oldest living person, and she went on to have the longest confirmed human life span in history, dying in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. |
| 15 february | Troy State Seta NCAA Div II recorded with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute in about 187-117 points. |
| 18 february | Edmonton oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NFL. He was suspended for a long session for substance abuse. On February 18, 1991 he shuts the New Jersey Devils by 4-0. |
| 21 february | US called the plan unacceptable when U.S.S.R Announces that Iraq agrees to proposal to end Persian Gulf War. |
| 26 february | British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor. |
| 03 march | Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles policemen, causing public outrage that increased tensions between the African American community and the police department over the issues of police brutality and social inequalities in the area. |
| 04 march | Iraq released 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW. |
| 08 march | The United States of America has made a nuclear test at ‘Nevada Test Site’ |
| 09 march | 5th American Comedy Awards has been announced. Dennis Wolfberg has been adjudged as the best comedian. |
| 11 march | Amateur wrestler, John Smith, won the wrestling championship and was honoured with ‘James E Sullivan Award’. |
| 14 march | The 'Birmingham Six', wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings in England, were released after sixteen years in prison. |
| 17 march | Nearly 70% of voters in nine Soviet republics agreed that the Soviet Union should be preserved in the Soviet Union referendum. |
| 19 march | Despite a boycott by the local Serb population, voters in Croatia passed a referendum supporting independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 February | Kyle Palmieri / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 01 December | Hilda Melander / Tennis Player / Sweden |
| 02 December | Charlie Puth / Writer / United States of America |
| 02 January | Luis Pedro Cavanda / Footballer / Belgium |
| 08 September | Ignacio González / Footballer / Mexico |
| 12 April | Lionel Carole / Footballer / France |
| 14 February | Daniela Mona Lambin / Footballer / Estonia |
| 15 June | Emily Harman / Tennis Player / United States of America |
| 16 May | Grigor Dimitrov / Tennis Player / Bulgaria |
| 17 September | Justyna Jegiołka / Tennis Player / Poland |
| 18 February | Henry Surtees / Racing Car Driver / United Kingdom |
| 19 November | Marina Marković / Basketball Player / Serbia |
| 21 September | Anastassia Kovalenko / Motorcycle Racer / Estonia |
| 22 April | Jordi Murphy / Rugby Player / Ireland |
| 24 March | Nick Browne / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 25 February | Tony Oller / Actor / United States of America |
| 25 November | Kyler Fackrell / Footballer / United States of America |
| 26 April | Will Heard / Singer / Britain |
| 27 December | Michael Morgan / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 28 March | Marie-Philip Poulin / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |