• The United States enacts Operation Desert Storm, destroying the Iraqi army and ending
the Gulf War in a few short weeks.
• IRA forces attack the residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain with mortars.
• 6 Irish nationals are released from prison after 16 years when a court of appeals ruled
that police officers and officials involved in the IRA bombing case fabricated evidence in order to get the original convictions.
• French citizens elect their first ever female premier, Edith Cresson.
• The first apartheid legislation is finally struck from the books in South Africa, marking the
beginning of the end for racial segregation in that country.
• The Warsaw Pact, the European Communist version of NATO, ceases to exist as all
parties involved voluntarily withdraw from the treaty holding them together.
• Boris Yeltsin is elected as president of Russia in the first ever public vote held in the
formerly Soviet nation.
• Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest makes sensational headlines as the
details of his gruesome acts are revealed.
• A video is released of driver Rodney King being beaten by L.A. police officers following a
traffic stop, igniting a national controversy.
• Communist elements within Russia attempt a coup to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's and
Boris Yeltsin's policies of reform, but they were defeated by an overwhelming show of support from the Russian people for their change-inducing leaders. This event would catalyze the dissolution of the old Soviet Union over the next few months.
• Pan American World Airways, better known as Pan Am, declares bankruptcy.
• The Dead Sea Scrolls, an important historical document detailing the same period of time
as the Bible's Old Testament, are exhibited to the public.
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide is deposed as President of Haiti.
• Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines, killing over 300 people in one of the largest
volcanic events ever recorded.
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