Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
Tag: 1991
3 June 1991
Mount Unzen erupts in Ky?sh?, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
4 December 1991
Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
19 May 1991
Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Croatian_independence_referendum’]
3 March 1991
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King’]
28 February 1991
The first Gulf War ends. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War’]
25 February 1991
The Warsaw Pact is abolished. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact’]
16 January 1991
Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War’]