WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1991
Find out what all happened February to April 1991

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

A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. (10. April 1991)

Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. (13. February 1991)

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

A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters. (20. February 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)

The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress . (4. April 1991)

Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. (2. April 1991)

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

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

Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union (9. April 1991)

Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War. (2. March 1991)

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

Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. (26. March 1991)

Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. (16. February 1991)

Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved. (26. 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)

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