WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1991
Find out what all happened April to July 1991

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. (1. July 1991)

Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment. (22. July 1991)

Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. (26. June 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)

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

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)

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)

The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. (20. June 1991)

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

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

Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military. (30. June 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)

Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic. (12. June 1991)

Mount Pinatubo exploded, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. (7. June 1991)

Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (7. July 1991)

Sonic the Hedgehog , the first game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series is released for the Sega Genesis in North America. (23. June 1991)

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