WHAT HAPPENED IN 1991.
Look what happened the 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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. (14. April 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)

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)

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

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

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)

Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. (19. May 1991)

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

   
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