Historical Events in 1991 (Part 3)

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• May 30 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling 'antipyretic'
• May 30 Mexican-American Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance, covering 21.101 km; record broken in 2007
• May 30 US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable (Burns v, Reed)

• May 31 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
• Jun 2 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" (play) & "The Will Rogers Follies" (musical) win
• Jun 2 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
• Jun 2 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
• Jun 2 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
• Jun 3 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
• Jun 3 MLB Draft: East Carteret HS pitcher Brien Taylor first pick by New York Yankees
• Jun 3 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history

• Jun 4 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania

• Jun 4 Robert S Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
• Jun 5 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

• Jun 5 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
• Jun 6 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
• Jun 6 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store

• Jun 6 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
• Jun 7 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
• Jun 8 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
• Jun 8 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
• Jun 8 Victory parade following success in the Gulf War is held in Washington, D.C.
• Jun 8 Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
• Jun 9 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI

• Jun 10 Mother of All Parades - NYC welcomes desert storm troops
• Jun 10 South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
• Jun 11 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

• Jun 13 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
• Jun 13 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication

• Jun 14 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
• Jun 14 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
• Jun 15 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
• Jun 15 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
• Jun 16 -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
• Jun 16 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
• Jun 16 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
• Jun 16 With 3 runs in 9th, Baltimore Orioles end Minnesota Twins 15 game winning streak, with 6-5 win
• Jun 17 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
• Jun 17 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

• Jun 18 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
• Jun 18 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
• Jun 18 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
• Jun 18 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays

• Jun 19 NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
• Jun 19 Two of actress Mia Farrow's daughters are arrested for shoplifting lingerie
• Jun 20 The Bundestag (German parliament) decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin
• Jun 21 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia

• Jun 22 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in the Philippines
• Jun 23 "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
• Jun 23 A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa
• Jun 24 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute
• Jun 25 Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa

• Jun 25 Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa

• Jun 26 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jun 26 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
• Jun 28 South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• Jun 29 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
• Jun 30 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)

• Jul 3 Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
• Jul 5 American jockey Ray Sibille wins his 3,000th career race, aboard Sporting Surf at Pleasanton, California
• Jul 5 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 5 MLB owners approve Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins as new NL franchises to start play in 1993
• Jul 8 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
• Jul 8 Pitts Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins
• Jul 9 South Africa re-admitted to Olympics
• Jul 10 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation
• Jul 10 Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa
• Jul 10 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
• Jul 11 Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
• Jul 11 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
• Jul 13 Bob Milacki & 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
• Jul 14 Failed military coup in Mali
• Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 15 Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit
• Jul 15 US troops leave northern Iraq
• Jul 15 World's first off-shore wind farm begins generating electricity off the coast of Vindeby, Denmark [1]
• Jul 18 Florida Marlins' logo unveiled

• Jul 19 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
• Jul 19 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
• Jul 20 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

• Jul 21 Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America

• Jul 23 James Farentino of "Dynasty" arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
• Jul 23 Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
• Jul 24 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
• Jul 24 Universityof Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
• Jul 25 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
• Jul 25 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
• Jul 25 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
• Jul 26 Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) is arrested for exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida
• Jul 26 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
• Jul 26 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
• Jul 27 TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
• Jul 28 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley

• Jul 29 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)

• Jul 30 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
• Jul 30 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
• Jul 31 Russia and US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
• Jul 31 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
• Jul 31 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other

• Aug 2 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
• Aug 2 Pan Am games open in Havana
• Aug 2 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
• Aug 3 Giant Victory driven by Jack Moiseyev wins Hambletonian, 2nd $1m purse in 22 days for Moiseyev after winning Meadowlands Pace
• Aug 4 The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa
• Aug 5 Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union breaks his own world pole vault record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden
• Aug 6 American softball pitcher Debbie Doom strikes out 17 in her 2nd consecutive perfect game at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba; beats Nicaragua, 8-0

• Aug 7 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes

• Aug 8 Shi'ite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy

• Aug 8 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• Aug 8 With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
• Aug 9 British radio show "On the Hour" debuts on BBC Radio 4 with first appearance of Alan Partridge character
• Aug 10 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
• Aug 11 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
• Aug 11 Shiite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
• Aug 11 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
• Aug 11 Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
• Aug 12 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan

• Aug 13 American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) at the World Championships in Fort Lauderale, Florida
• Aug 13 US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association

• Aug 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 16 Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants

• Aug 17 ArenaBowl V, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Tampa Bay Storm beats Detroit Drive 48-42, Stevie Thomas MVP
• Aug 17 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
• Aug 18 Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
• Aug 18 Pan American games close in Havana
• Aug 19 -20] Hurricane Bob hits US
• Aug 19 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état

• Aug 20 Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR
• Aug 20 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
• Aug 20 The United Democratic Front, one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, civic and student organisations, dissolves
• Aug 21 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
• Aug 21 Latvia declares its independence from USSR
• Aug 22 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100m backstroke (1:00.31)
• Aug 24 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
• Aug 24 Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
• Aug 24 Ukraine declares independence from USSR
• Aug 25 43rd Emmy Awards: "LA Law", "Cheers", Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig win
• Aug 25 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
• Aug 25 Carl Lewis runs 100m in a world record 9.86 seconds
• Aug 25 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
• Aug 25 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)

• Aug 25 Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics
• Aug 25 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
• Aug 25 White-Russia declares its independence
• Aug 26 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
• Aug 27 Moldavia declares independence from USSR

• Aug 28 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
• Aug 28 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martínez both perfect game pitcher
• Aug 29 JFK Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney

• Aug 29 USSR suspends Communist Party activities
• Aug 30 Dan O'Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
• Aug 30 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
• Aug 30 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
• Aug 31 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
• Aug 31 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Aug 31 Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning

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