Today in History for January 1991

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 100

1st - 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
1st - Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak
1st - Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
2nd - Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
3rd - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
3rd - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
4th - AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
4th - Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
4th - Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
4th - Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
5th - "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
5th - Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title
5th - Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
6th - "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
6th - "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
6th - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
6th - Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
7th - "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
8th - "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
8th - Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
8th - Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
8th - Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
9th - Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
9th - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
9th - Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
10th - Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
10th - US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
11th - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
11th - Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
11th - Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
11th - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
12th - Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
12th - Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
US President George H. W. Bush 12th - US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
13th - 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards
13th - 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
13th - Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
13th - Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
13th - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
13th - UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
14th - "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
14th - Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala
14th - Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys Calif
14th - Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
15th - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
15th - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
16th - 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
16th - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)
17th - Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
17th - Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
17th - Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq
17th - Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
17th - Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
18th - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
18th - US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
18th - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
18th - Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
18th - Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
19th - 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
19th - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves
19th - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
19th - Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
19th - Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
20th - "Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
20th - "Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA
20th - "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances
20th - "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs
20th - 13th UCP Telethon
20th - Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
20th - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
20th - US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
20th - Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title
20th - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
21st - CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
22nd - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld 23rd - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
23rd - World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
24th - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
25th - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
25th - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
25th - Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
25th - Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
26th - "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
26th - 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
26th - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
26th - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
26th - Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
26th - NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
27th - 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
27th - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
27th - Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
27th - Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
28th - "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
Singer Janet Jackson 28th - 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson
28th - Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide
28th - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
29th - "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
29th - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
31st - Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
31st - Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 8 of 8

1st - Kathleen Herles, American voice actor
4th - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
6th - Nikola Saric , Danish footballer
7th - Max Morrow, Canadian actor
8th - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
19th - Erin Sanders, American child actress
29th - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
30th - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 44 of 44

1st - Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
1st - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81
2nd - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78
4th - Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
4th - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
4th - Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57
5th - John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
5th - Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
5th - Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
6th - Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
7th - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
8th - Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
10th - Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62
11th - Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49
11th - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 85
12th - Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
12th - Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
14th - Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
14th - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
Nobel Laureat Physicist Carl David Anderson (11th) 17th - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
18th - Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
18th - Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
18th - Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
19th - Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
19th - Glenn Langan, actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73
19th - John Russell, actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
19th - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
20th - Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
20th - Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
21st - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
21st - Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
21st - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74
22nd - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
23rd - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
24th - George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71
24th - Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Phila Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
24th - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
25th - Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
26th - Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
28th - Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66
29th - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies
30th - John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
30th - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
30th - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)