WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1991
Find out what all happened March to May 1991

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

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

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

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

A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. (29. April 1991)

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

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

Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end. (21. May 1991)

A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. (5. May 1991)

The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. (15. March 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)

Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. (31. May 1991)

Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record. (1. May 1991)

Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. (21. May 1991)

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

The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. (28. May 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)

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)

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