WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1991
Find out what all happened January to April 1991

Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. (20. January 1991)

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. (3. March 1991)

Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). (26. April 1991)

Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. (19. January 1991)

Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. (4. April 1991)

Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. (31. March 1991)

Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion. (4. March 1991)

Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War. (5. January 1991)

United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25. (3. March 1991)

Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. (7. February 1991)

The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London. (18. February 1991)

Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. (17. January 1991)

Local self-government was revived in 3 decades in South Korea. (26. March 1991)

Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. (29. January 1991)

Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. (9. March 1991)

The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. (15. February 1991)

Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest. (7. January 1991)

Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". (27. February 1991)

The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded. (25. February 1991)

A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others. (1. February 1991)