WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1991
Find out what all happened January to October 1991

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

Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000. (13. January 1991)

Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man. (19. August 1991)

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia. (10. July 1991)

The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. (23. March 1991)

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

Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union. (21. September 1991)

The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. (4. August 1991)

Moldova declares independence from the USSR. (27. August 1991)

The Siege of Dubrovnik begins. (1. October 1991)

Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. (16. October 1991)

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

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

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

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

Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. (29. August 1991)

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

Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah. (26. February 1991)

The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. (15. January 1991)

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