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Events from the year 1991 in the United States . The Cold War ended during this year as the USSR was dissolved in December.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : H. Guy Hunt (Republican )
Governor of Alaska : Wally Hickel (Alaskan Independence )/(Republican )
Governor of Arizona : Rose Mofford (Democratic ) (until March 6), Fife Symington III (Republican ) (starting March 6)
Governor of Arkansas : Bill Clinton (Democratic )
Governor of California : George Deukmejian (Republican ) (until January 7), Pete Wilson (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Colorado : Roy Romer (Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut : William A O'Neill (Democratic ) (until January 9), Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (A Connecticut ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Delaware : Michael Castle (Republican )
Governor of Florida : Bob Martinez (Republican ) (until January 8), Lawton Chiles (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Georgia : Joe Frank Harris (Democratic ) (until January 14), Zell Miller (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Hawaii : John D. Waihee III (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : Cecil D. Andrus (Democratic )
Governor of Illinois : James R. Thompson (Republican ) (until January 14), Jim Edgar (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Indiana : Evan Bayh (Democratic )
Governor of Iowa : Terry E. Branstad (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Mike Hayden (Republican ) (until January 14), Joan Finney (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Kentucky : Wallace G. Wilkinson (Democratic ) (until December 10), Brereton Jones (Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Louisiana : Buddy Roemer (Democratic )/(Republican )
Governor of Maine : John R. McKernan Jr. (Republican )
Governor of Maryland : William Donald Schaefer (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Michael Dukakis (Democratic ) (until January 3), William F. Weld (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Michigan : James Blanchard (Democratic ) (until January 1), John Engler (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota : Rudy Perpich (Democratic ) (until January 7), Arne H. Carlson (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi : Ray Mabus (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : John Ashcroft (Republican )
Governor of Montana : Stan Stephens (Republican )
Governor of Nebraska : Kay A. Orr (Republican ) (until January 9), Ben Nelson (Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Nevada : Bob Miller (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Judd Gregg (Republican )
Governor of New Jersey : James Florio (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : Garrey Carruthers (Republican ) (until January 1), Bruce King (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New York : Mario Cuomo (Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina : James G. Martin (Republican )
Governor of North Dakota : George A. Sinner (Democratic )
Governor of Ohio : Dick Celeste (Democratic ) (until January 14), George Voinovich (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Oklahoma : Henry Bellmon (Republican ) (until January 14), David Walters (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Oregon : Neil Goldschmidt (Democratic ) (until January 14), Barbara Roberts (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Pennsylvania : Robert P. Casey (Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island : Edward D. DiPrete (Republican ) (until January 1), Bruce Sundlun (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of South Carolina : Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (Republican )
Governor of South Dakota : George S. Mickelson (Republican )
Governor of Tennessee : Ned McWherter (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Bill Clements (Republican ) (until January 15), Ann Richards (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Utah : Norman H. Bangerter (Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Governor of Virginia : Douglas Wilder (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Booth Gardner (Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia : Gaston Caperton (Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin : Tommy Thompson (Republican )
Governor of Wyoming : Mike Sullivan (Democratic )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Jim Folsom Jr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Alaska : Jack Coghill (Alaskan Independence )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Winston Bryant (Democratic ) (until January 15), Jim Guy Tucker (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of California : Leo T. McCarthy (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Mike Callihan (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Joseph J. Fauliso (Democratic ) (until January 9), Eunice Groark (A Connecticut ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Dale E. Wolf (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Florida : Bobby Brantley (Republican ) (until January 8), Buddy MacKay (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Zell Miller (Democratic ) (until January 13), Pierre Howard (Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii : Ben Cayetano (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Butch Otter (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : George H. Ryan (Republican ) (until January 14), Bob Kustra (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Frank O'Bannon (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Jo Ann Zimmerman (Democratic ) (until January), Joy Corning (Republican ) (starting January)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jack D. Walker (Republican ) (until January 14), Jim Francisco (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Brereton Jones (Democratic ) (until December 10), Paul E. Patton (Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Paul Hardy (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland : Melvin A. Steinberg (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Evelyn Murphy (Democratic ) (until January 3), Paul Cellucci (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Martha W. Griffiths (Democratic ) (until January 1), Connie Binsfeld (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Marlene Johnson (Democratic ) (until January 7), Joanell Dyrstad (Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Brad Dye (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Mel Carnahan (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Allen Kolstad (Republican ) (until January 20), Denny Rehberg (Republican ) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : William E. Nichol (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Maxine Moul (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : vacant (until January 7), Sue Wagner (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Jack L. Stahl (Republican ) (until January 1), Casey Luna (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Stan Lundine (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : James Carson Gardner (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Lloyd Omdahl (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul R. Leonard (Democratic ) (until January 14), Mike DeWine (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Robert S. Kerr III (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Jack Mildren (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Mark Singel (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Roger N. Begin (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Nick Theodore (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Walter Dale Miller (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : John S. Wilder (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : William P. Hobby Jr. (Democratic ) (until January 15), Bob Bullock (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Utah : W. Val Oveson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Howard Dean (Democratic ) (until August 13), vacant (starting August 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Don Beyer (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Joel Pritchard (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Scott McCallum (Republican )
Events
January
January 17: First air strikes on Iraq in the Gulf War
January 2 – Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of the District of Columbia , thus becoming the first African-American woman to be mayor of a major U.S. city.
January 7 – United States Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney cancels the $57,000,000,000 order for the McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II .
January 8 – Pan American World Airways files for bankruptcy protection.
January 9 – United States Secretary of State James Baker meets with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz , but fails to produce a plan for Iraq to withdraw its troops from Kuwait .
January 12 – Gulf War : The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait .
January 16 – U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
January 17 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with airstrikes against Iraq.
January 18 – Eastern Air Lines ceases operations after flying for two years under bankruptcy protection.
January 25 – President George H. W. Bush names Rep. Edward Rell Madigan as United States Secretary of Agriculture , replacing Clayton Keith Yeutter , who had been elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee .
January 26 – In Washington, D.C. , tens of thousands of people rally against the Persian Gulf War .
January 27 – Super Bowl XXV : The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20–19 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa , Florida .
January 29 – The first attempt to cure cancer by gene therapy takes place at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland .
February
c. February: Gulf War : Retreating Iraqi forces set the Kuwaiti oil fires
February – The early 1990s recession ends.
February 1 – A USAir Boeing 737-300 , Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner , Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport , killing 34 people.
February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides .
February 7 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
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 23 – The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills three firefighters and destroys eight floors of the building.
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 that 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.
February 27 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".[2]
February 28 – Impostor James Hogue is exposed at Princeton University .
March
April
May
June
July
July 31: START I
August
September
October
October 15: The Senate confirms Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court
November
December
December 25: The resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev marked one of the final acts in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Ongoing
Births
January 1 – Darius Slay , American football player
January 4 – Charles Melton , actor and model
January 12 – Alex Wood , baseball player
January 14
January 17 – Willa Fitzgerald , actress
January 19 – Erin Sanders , actress
January 20 – Ciara Hanna , actress and model
January 22 – Marcus Canty , singer and dancer
January 27 – Daniel Hemric , race car driver
February 3 – Glenn McCuen , actor, model and gymnast
February 10
February 11 – Christofer Drew , singer
February 12 – Casey Abrams , singer
February 16 – Micah Stephen Williams , actor
February 18 – Jeremy Allen White , actor
February 19
February 22 – Khalil Mack , American football player
February 24 – Emily DiDonato , model
February 25
March 4 – Diandra Newlin , actress, singer, and fashion model
March 6
March 7 – Ian Clark , basketball player
March 8 – Devon Werkheiser , actor, singer-songwriter, and musician
March 16 – Reggie Bullock , basketball player
March 18 – Travis Frederick , American football player
March 19 – Garrett Clayton , actor, dancer and singer
March 28
March 29 – Hayley McFarland , actress
March 30 – Mia Carruthers , singer-songwriter
April 4
April 10
April 11 – Telvin Smith , American football player
April 12 – Jack Cooley , basketball player
April 20 – Allie Will , tennis player
April 23 – Caleb Johnson , singer
April 25 – Alex Shibutani , ice dancer
May 1
May 7 – Rueben Randle , American football player
May 16 – Joey Graceffa , Internet personality, actor and author
May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee , actor, comedian, and rapper
May 19
May 26 – Julianna Rose Mauriello , stage actress
May 27 – Zeke Upshaw , basketball player (died 2018 )
June 4
June 19 – Jake Heaps , footballer quarterback
June 20 – Alexis Haines , television personality and model
June 24 – Dexter Darden , actor
July 1 – Michael Wacha , baseball player
July 5 – Jason Dolley , actor
July 9 – Mitchel Musso , actor
July 12
July 16 – Alexandra Shipp , actress
July 18 – Karina Pasian , singer and pianist
July 20 – Alec Burks , basketball player
July 23 – Terron Armstead , American football player
July 29 – Maestro Harrell , actor
August 2 – Skyler Day , actress and singer
August 5 – Brooke Marie Bridges , actress
August 12 – Lakeith Stanfield , actor
August 16
August 17 – Austin Butler , actor
August 26 – Dylan O'Brien , actor
August 28
September 6 – Joe Harris , basketball player
September 9 – Kelsey Chow , actress
September 10 – Hannah Hodson , actress[6]
September 14 – Shayne Topp , actor and comedian
September 23 – Melanie Oudin , tennis player
October 4 – Cole Hawkins , actor
October 5 – Jackson Rogow , actor
October 6 – Roshon Fegan , actor
October 19 – Christopher Gerse , actor
October 20 – Kirsten Olson , figure skater and actress
October 23 – Sophie Oda , Japanese-American actress
October 27 – Bryan Craig , actor
October 29 – Marcus Lattimore , American football player
October 30 – Paulina Olszynski , actress
October 31 – Kenny Hilliard , American football player
November 4 – Adriana Chechik , pornographic actress
November 6 – Pierson Fodé , actor and model
November 8 – Riker Lynch , singer and actor
November 13 – Matt Bennett , actor and singer
November 15 – Shailene Woodley , actress
November 24 – Lacey Baker , skateboarder
November 25 – Jamie Grace , musician and actress
December 1 – Rakeem Christmas , basketball player
December 2 – Charlie Puth , singer
December 4 – Reality Winner , American intelligence specialist convicted of espionage[7]
December 10 – Eric Reid , American football player
December 12
December 13 – Jay Greenberg , composer
December 19 – Edwin Jackson , American football player (d. 2018 )
December 20 – Hunter Gomez , actor
December 24 – Vincent Caso , actor and entrepreneur
December 26 – Jackson Jeffcoat , American football player
Deaths
January
Carl David Anderson
February
Danny Thomas
March
Vilma Bánky
Lee Atwater
April
Forrest Towns
April 1 – Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894 )
April 3 – Charles Goren , American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901 )
April 4 – John Heinz , American politician (b. 1938 )
April 5
April 7 – Ruth Page , American ballerina and choreographer (b. 1899 )
April 9 – Forrest Towns , American Olympic athlete (b. 1914 )
April 10
April 11 – Dick Manning , Russian-born American songwriter (b. 1912 )
April 20 – Don Siegel , American film director (b. 1912 )
April 23 – Johnny Thunders , American musician (b. 1952 )
April 26
April 28
May
June
Jean Arthur
June 1 – David Ruffin , American singer (b. 1941 )
June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne , English-born actress (b. 1899 )
June 4 – MC Trouble , American rapper (b. 1970 )
June 5
June 6 – Stan Getz , American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927 )
June 8 – Bertice Reading , American actress and singer (b. 1933 )
June 9 – Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903 )
June 15 – Happy Chandler , 2nd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1898 )
June 18 – Joan Caulfield , American actress (b. 1922 )
June 19 – Jean Arthur , American actress (b. 1900 )
June 25 – Michael Heidelberger , American immunologist (b. 1888 )
July
Michael Landon
August
James Irwin
Colleen Dewhurst
September
Frank Capra
Dr. Seuss
Miles Davis
September 3 – Frank Capra , Italian-born American film director (b. 1897 )
September 4
September 6 – Donald Henry Gaskins , American serial killer (b. 1933 )
September 7 – Edwin McMillan , American chemist (b. 1917 )
September 8
September 12 – Chris Von Erich , American professional wrestler (b. 1969 )
September 13 – Joe Pasternak , Hungarian-born film director (b. 1901 )
September 14
September 15 – John Hoyt , American actor (b. 1905 )
September 17 – Frank H. Netter , American artist, physician, and medical illustrator (b. 1906 )
September 24 – Dr. Seuss , American author (b. 1904 )
September 25 – Barbara Rose Johns , American civil rights activist (b. 1935 )
September 28 – Miles Davis , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926 )
September 29 – Grace Zaring Stone , American writer (b. 1891 )
October
Gene Roddenberry
November
Gene Tierney
Ralph Bellamy
December
Richard Speck
See also
References
External links
1991 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories