February 13 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided bombs destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing 314 Iraqis including 130 children. United States military intelligence claims the structure was transmitting military signals but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.[1]
February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
February 25 – Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single most devastating attack on U.S. forces during the war.
February 26 – Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War IIoccupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
June 17 – 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, who died 141 years earlier in 1850, is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.[5][6]
June 23 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in the United States. Nearly one million copies were sold in the United States by Christmas 1991, and nearly 2 million copies were sold worldwide by the end of 1991.
June 27 – Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement from the Supreme Court due to declining health. In his retirement press conference on the following day, he expressed his view that race should not be the basis in selecting his successor.
Serial killerJeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of eleven men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in six more murders.
October 11–13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
October 16 – George Hennard guns down 24 people in a restaurant in Killeen, Texas before committing suicide. It would be the largest mass shooting by a single person in the United States until 2007.
October 20 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 people and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
November 1 – University of Iowa shooting: Former alumnus Gang Lu kills five people before committing suicide.
November 5 – David Duke, a white separatist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin despite winning the majority of the white vote.
December 4 – Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
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^Rosenthal, Andrew (February 28, 1991). "WAR IN THE GULF: The President; BUSH HALTS OFFENSIVE COMBAT; KUWAIT FREED, IRAQIS CRUSHED". The New York Times.
^Brueck, Dana (2011-05-03). "20 Years Ago Today: Central Storage & Warehouse Fire". NBC15. Archived from the original on 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
^Zenko, Micah (3 August 2010). Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World. Stanford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8047-7190-0.
^Ronnie Hillman, Super Bowl champion with Denver Broncos, dies aged 31
^Guy A. Marco (1993). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States. Garland Pub. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8240-4782-5.
^Deborah Andrews (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Press. p. 601. ISBN 978-1-55862-175-6.
^John Kirkpatrick Is Dead at 86; A Pianist Who Popularized Ives
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