WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1991
Find out what all happened February to May 1991

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

The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. (13. March 1991)

Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. (26. May 1991)

Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. (10. April 1991)

Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. (24. May 1991)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. (16. May 1991)

Édith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister. (15. May 1991)

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

An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard. (5. April 1991)

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

Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community. (18. May 1991)

Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah. (26. February 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)

The first Gulf War ends. (28. February 1991)

Voters in Lithuania vote for independence. (9. February 1991)

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

In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. (23. February 1991)

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

Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war. (23. February 1991)