Events That Happened in 1991

1991 Events

1991 Castle & Cooke Officially Becomes Dole Food Company
At the annual shareholders' meeting, a resolution is approved to change the name of Castle & Cooke to Dole Food Company, Inc. Dole is now the world's largest producer and marketer of fres...
1991 Dole Launches 5 A Day Program to Encourage Healthy Eating
Dole launches Dole 5 A Day Program to encourage young children and their families to eat five or more daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
1991 Elena Kagan Becomes Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Law School
Kagan became an assistant professor at the U of C Law School in 1991, and rose to become a tenured professor four years later. She remained on the faculty until 1997. Her time at the ...
1991 Lance Armstrong becomes U.S. National Amateur Champion
Soon, Armstrong chose to focus on cycling, his strongest event as well as his favorite. During his senior year in high school, the U.S. Olympic development team invited him to train with ...
1991 Lauryn Hill Featured on As the World Turns
Hill began her acting career at a young age, appearing on the soap opera As The World Turns as Kira Johnson.
1991 NASD Releases Report Finding No Legal Basis for Restricting Madoff's "Pay for Order Flow" Business Model
[Madoff developed] a solid, but sometimes controversial, reputation as a market maker. During the [90's], his market-making operation was handling trades equaling 9 percent of all trading...
1991 Nissan Bluebird U13 is First Produced
The U13 series was launched in Japan in September 1991 as a four-door sedan and four-door hardtop. The two models were visually distinct: the four-door sedan had curves where its U12 pred...
1991 Nissan Figaro is First Produced
The Nissan Figaro is a small retro car manufactured by Nissan. The car was originally sold only in Japan. Despite this, the Nissan Figaro has become popular with owners in the UK and Irel...
1991 Nissan NX1600/2000 is First Produced
The Nissan NX is a car produced by Nissan Motors. The Nissan NX was essentially a B13 platform Nissan Sentra or Sunny with a different body shell. The NX was, loosely, an evolution of the...
1991 N.W.A Releases Single "Appetite for Destruction"
Niggaz4Life (also known as Efil4zaggin), was the third and final studio album by Gangsta rap group N.W.A, released in 1991. It was their final album, as the group disbanded later the same...
1991 "On a Friday" reforms, record Manic Hedgehog
Although Yorke, O'Brien, Selway, and Colin Greenwood had left Abingdon by 1987 to attend university, the band continued to rehearse often on weekends and holidays. In 1991, when all the m...
1991 Rage Against the Machine is formed
Rage Against the Machine (often shortened to RATM) is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1991. The band's lineup, unchanged since its formation, consists of vo...
1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. It was released in 1991 by Paramount Pictures, and is the last of the Star Tre...
1991 The Action 52 is released for the NES
Not just the 52 worst NES games ever. Looking deeper reveals a history of cartridges overheating inside of consoles and even melting, tales of merchandising blitzes based off of one of th...
1991 The Bouncing Souls release Ugly Bill
Ugly Bill was the first EP released by the New Jersey punk rock band The Bouncing Souls. It was recorded in 1991 at Ocean Studios. One of the songs, "P.M.R.C.", was re-released on the 200...
1991 The Fugees is Formed
The Fugees were an American hip hop group who rose to fame in the mid-1990s. Their repertoire included elements of Hip hop, soul and Caribbean music, particularly reggae. The members of t...
1991 The Offspring sign to Epitaph Records
In 1991, The Offspring teamed up with Wilson again to produce the Baghdad 7" EP. This EP was instrumental to the band's signing with Epitaph Records. Wilson had been trying to get The Off...
1991 The Vandals release Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live
Sweatin' to the Oldies is a live album and video by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, originally released in 1991 by Triple X Records. It consists of a live concert reco...
1991 Jan 8 Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies of a drug overdose
At the time of his death, Clark was on a six-month leave of absence from Def Leppard. On January 8, 1991, Clark was found dead on his couch by his girlfriend Janie Dean. He was 30 year...
1991 Jan 12 US Congress Authorizes the Use of Force to Expel Iraqi Troops from Kuwait
On 12 January 1991 the United States Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. The votes were 52-47 in the US Senate and 250-183 in the US House of Repres...
1991 Jan 16 Operation Desert Storm
In 1991 The American President, then George H. Bush, took the mission from protecting Saudi Arabia from expelling Iraq from Kuwait. America had been building in for the war since the inva...
1991 Jan 16 The Gulf War Begins
The origins of the Gulf War began many years before the US officially declared it early in 1991. Iraq and Kuwait had tensions that traced back to the 1930s, and the two countries had been...
1991 Jan 16 The War in Kuwait Begins
After Saddam Hussein attacks Kuwait, the United States Army teams up with Saudi forces to defeat Saddam Hussein. This is the start of the war in Kuwait, where there was extensive looting,...
1991 Jan 17
2:38AM
 Operation Instant Thunder, the Coalition Air Campaign Against Iraqi Forces, Begins
A day after the deadline set in Resolution, the coalition launched a massive air campaign which began the general offensive codenamed Operation Desert Storm with more than 1,000 sorties l...
1991 Jan 18 Saddam Hussein Orders the Launch of SCUD Missiles Against Israel
If Iraq was to be forced to obey UN resolutions, the Iraqi government made it no secret that it would respond by attacking Israel, a state that was allowed to ignore them without any acti...
1991 Jan 19 MST3K Ep. 212 - "Godzilla vs. Megalon"
Mutant dinosaur Godzilla and size-changing robot Jet Jaguar battle Seatopian god Megalon and alien cyborg Gigan, bent on razing the planet for the underground civilization of Seatopia.
1991 Jan 21 Iraqi Forces Cause the Gulf War Oil Spill
On January 21, 1991, Iraqi forces opened valves at the Sea Island oil terminal and dumped oil from several tankers into the Persian Gulf. The apparent strategic goal was to foil a potenti...
1991 Jan 23 "The Ex-Girlfriend" - Season 2 Episode 1 of Seinfeld First Airs
"The Ex-Girlfriend" is the sixth episode of Seinfeld. The episode was the first episode for the show's second season. It aired on January 23, 1991. Plot Summary: Jerry begins seeing G...
1991 Jan 27 Super Bowl XXV - Giants 20, Bills 19
Super Bowl XXV was an American football game played on January 27, 1991 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion following the 1990 regular...
1991 Jan 29 Battle of Khafji
On January 29, Iraq attacked and occupied the lightly defended Saudi city of Khafji with tanks and infantry. However, the Battle of Khafji ended when Iraqis were driven back by Saudi and ...
1991 Jan 30 "The Pony Remark" - Season 2 Episode 2 of Seinfeld Premiers
"The Pony Remark" is the seventh episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It was the second episode for the show's second season. It aired on January 30, 1991. Plot Summary: Jerry makes a ...
1991 Jan 30 "The Silence Of The Lambs" Is Released
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological crime/horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald and Br...
1991 Feb 2 MST3K Ep. 213 - "Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster"
Godzilla and giant moth Mothra battle giant shrimp Ebirah.
1991 Feb 4 Boston College defeats Northeastern, 5-3
1991 Feb 4 Boston University defeats Harvard, 8-2
1991 Feb 6 "The Jacket" - Season 2 Episode 3 of Seinfeld First Airs
"The Jacket" is the eighth episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the third episode for the show's second season. It was written by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld and was direc...
1991 Feb 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide Becomes President of Haiti
Following the violence at the abortive national elections of 1987, the 1990 elections were approached with caution. Aristide announced his candidacy for the presidency and following a six...
1991 Feb 11 Boston University defeats Boston College, 8-4
In a remarkable stretch of offensive hockey, Boston University turned the 39th Beanpot Hockey Tournament into another triumphant ride on the Green Line to the Back Bay campus, as a sellou...
1991 Feb 11 Northeastern defeats Harvard, 5-0
1991 Feb 13 "The Phone Message" - Season 2 Episode 4 of Seinfeld Premiers
"The Phone Message" is the ninth episode of Seinfeld, and the fourth for the show's second season. It originally aired on February 13, 1991. Plot Summary: George is concerned when his...
1991 Feb 13 US Air Force Destroys the Amiriyah Blockhouse, Killing 408 Civilians
The Amiriyah shelter massacre was the killing of more than 408 civilians on February 13, 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neigh...
1991 Feb 19 Dark Angel releases Time Does Not Heal
Time Does Not Heal is the fourth and final album by Dark Angel, which was released in 1991. When released it had a sticker reading "9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs!".
1991 Feb 22 Iraq Agrees to a Soviet Proposed Cease-Fire Agreement
On February 22, 1991, Iraq agreed to a Soviet-proposed cease-fire agreement. The agreement called for Iraq to withdraw troops to pre-invasion positions within six weeks following a total ...
1991 Feb 24 Coalition Forces Enter Iraq
Shortly after the SCUD attack which killed 28 US troops in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. VII Corps assembled in full strength and, spearheaded by the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cav...
1991 Feb 25 Iraqi Missile Strike Kills 28 US Reservists
On the evening of February 25, 1991, an Iraqi scud missile plunged into a barracks/warehouse used to house U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 475th Quartermaster Group in Dhahran, Saudi A...
1991 Feb 26 Iraqi Troops Begin Retreating From Kuwait
The Coalition advance was much swifter than US generals had expected. On February 26, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, setting fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they left. A long co...
1991 Feb 26 Motörhead release 1916
1916 is the ninth studio album by the British band Motörhead. It was released on February 26, 1991 on WTG Records. This was their first album recorded for WTG after the legal battle wi...
1991 Feb 28 George H.W. Bush Declares Kuwait Liberated
Exactly 100 hours after to ground campaign began, Iraq retreated from Kuwait City, and US President George H.W. Bush declared an end to offensive combat operations in the Gulf.
1991 Mar Edward Kennedy's Nephew, William Kennedy Smith, is Accused of Rape After Attending Night Club with His Uncle
In 1991, Smith was tried and acquitted on a charge of rape. He was represented by prominent Miami-based criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The trial attracted extensive media coverage b...
1991 Mar Helloween Releases "Pink Bubbles Go Ape"
Pink Bubbles Go Ape is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1991. It marked the departure of guitarist Kai Hansen, with Roland Grapow replacing him. M...