What Happened in January 1991

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• Jan 1 20th Fiesta Bowl: #18 Louisville beats #25 Alabama, 34-7
• Jan 1 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
• Jan 1 57th Orange Bowl: #1 Colorado beats #5 Notre Dame, 10-9

• Jan 1 57th Sugar Bowl: #6 Tennessee beats Virginia, 23-22
• Jan 1 77th Rose Bowl: #8 Washington beats #17 Iowa, 46-34

• Jan 2 University of Colorado, Boulder, coached by Bill McCartney wins its first Associated Press National Championship of College Football poll
• Jan 3 8 Iraqi embassy officials are expelled from the UK
• Jan 3 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years

• Jan 4 12-year-old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia; youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event
• Jan 4 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
• Jan 4 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Goran Prpić beats American David Wheaton 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 for an unassailable 2-0 lead, (ends 2-1) and Yugoslavia's first title
• Jan 4 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
• Jan 4 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
• Jan 5 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-metre springboard diving title
• Jan 5 Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts

• Jan 6 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
• Jan 6 Jorge Serrano Elias elected President of Guatemala
• Jan 6 Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics, 114-111 before a sellout crowd at the Portland Memorial Coliseum; marks the Blazers' 600th consecutive sellout at home
• Jan 6 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)

• Jan 7 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV

• Jan 8 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
• Jan 9 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis

• Jan 9 Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
• Jan 10 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
• Jan 10 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
• Jan 11 Ben Johnson's 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finishes 2nd
• Jan 11 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

• Jan 11 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
• Jan 12 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Women's Basketball game (11,520)
• Jan 12 Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)

• Jan 13 12th ACE Cable Awards: Weather Channel wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the hurricane "Hugo"
• Jan 13 Football fans of the Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates clash in Orkney, South Africa leading to a riot and 42 deaths in the Oppenheimer Stadium disaster

• Jan 13 Soviet troops continue attack on Vilnius, capital of Lithuania; 13 people killed and 140 injured as
• Jan 13 UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
• Jan 14 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
• Jan 14 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala
• Jan 14 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
• Jan 14 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
• Jan 15 Dean Jones (76) and Mark Taylor (71) lead Australia to 7 wicket win over New Zealand in cricket's World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne; win series, 2-0

• Jan 15 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)

• Jan 16 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
• Jan 17 Andy Van Hellemond sets NHL record for most games worked by a referee when he appears in his 1,173rd regular season encounter as the St. Louis Blues host the Montreal Canadiens
• Jan 17 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V
• Jan 17 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
• Jan 17 Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
• Jan 17 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War
• Jan 18 Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
• Jan 18 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel

• Jan 18 WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
• Jan 19 42nd NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Campbell beats Wales, 11-5; Vincent Damphousse, Toronto Maple Leafs, C

• Jan 19 Eastern Airlines shuts down operations
• Jan 19 Iraq files SCUD missiles at Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel during the Gulf War
• Jan 19 Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
• Jan 20 "Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
• Jan 20 13th UCP Telethon
• Jan 20 AFC Championship, Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY: Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders, 51-3
• Jan 20 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers, 15-13
• Jan 20 Paul Chihara and John Driver's musical "Shogun - The Musical", based on James Clavell's novel, closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 72 performances
• Jan 20 Revival of Leigh, Charlap, Styne, Comden and Green's musical "Peter Pan", starring Cathy Rigby, closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 45 performances
• Jan 20 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
• Jan 20 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
• Jan 21 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon and four TV crew captured and held for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf
• Jan 21 Sacramento's Dick Motta coaches in his 1,648th regular season game, a 97-94 Kings' victory over Houston; at the time an NBA record for the most regular-season coaching appearances
• Jan 22 Cholera epidemic begins in Peru with first known sufferer, 300,000 people infected over the next 12 months

• Jan 23 Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
• Jan 23 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
• Jan 25 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
• Jan 25 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
• Jan 25 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run

• Jan 26 "A Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
• Jan 26 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church

• Jan 26 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
• Jan 26 NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winners (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
• Jan 27 7th Sundance Film Festival: "Poison" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Jan 27 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his 1st Australian title; beats Ivan Lendl 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Jan 27 Dutch Pacifist Socialistic Party disbands
• Jan 27 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
• Jan 27 Super Bowl XXV, Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19; MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
• Jan 28 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV

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• Jan 2 Ben Hardy, English actor (X-Men: Apocalypse; Bohemian Rhapsody), born in Bournemouth, England
• Jan 2 Josh Taylor, Scottish boxer (undisputed world light-welterweight title 2021), born in Prestonpans, Scotland
• Jan 4 Charles Melton, American actor (Riverdale), born in Juneau, Alaska
• Jan 4 Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress, born in Auckland, New Zealand
• Jan 6 Nikola Saric, Danish footballer, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Jan 7 (Michaela) "Mj" Rodriguez, American actress and singer, born in Newark, New Jersey
• Jan 7 Caster Semenya, South African athlete (Olympic gold women's 800m 2012, 16; World C'ship gold 2009, 11, 17; testosterone controversy), born in Polokwane, South Africa
• Jan 7 Eden Hazard, Belgian football player (Chelsea, Belgian national team), born in La Louvière, Belgium
• Jan 7 Max Morrow, Canadian actor, born in Toronto, Ontario
• Jan 8 Asuka Hinoi, Japanese J-pop singer, and actress, born in Osaka, Japan
• Jan 15 Ayeza Khan, Pakistani actress (Meray Paas Tum Ho), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• Jan 19 Erin Sanders, American actress, born in Santa Monica, California
• Jan 19 Tommy Fleetwood, British golfer (US Open runner-up 2018; Ryder Cup 2018), born in Southport, England
• Jan 25 Ariana DeBose, American actress and singer (West Side Story), born in North Carolina
• Jan 29 Amberley Snyder, American barrel racer (subject of Netflix film "Walk, Ride. Rodeo), born in California
• Jan 29 Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Grosvenor, English nobleman, and one of UK richest people, born in Westminster, London
• Jan 30 Erik Valdemar Sköld, Swedish contemporary classical composer (Isolation), born in Malmö, Sweden
• Jan 30 Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor, born in Melbourne, Australia
• Jan 30 Rebecca Lovell, American singer and guitarist (Larkin Poe), born in Atlanta, Georgia

• Jan 1 Charles B. Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
• Jan 1 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81
• Jan 2 Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer & adventurer, dies at 85
• Jan 2 Renato Rascel, Italian actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria), dies of heart failure at 78
• Jan 3 Luke Appling, American Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop, (7 x MLB All Star; AL batting champion 1936, 43; Chicago White Sox), dies of abdominal aortic aneurysm at 83
• Jan 4 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
• Jan 4 Harry Krimer, French actor (Napoleon, Les vagabonds magnifiques, La course du flambeau), committed suicide at 94
• Jan 4 Leo Wright, American jazz saxophone and flute player (Dizzy Gillespie; "Blues Shout"; "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"), dies of a heart attack at 57
• Jan 4 Poon Lim, Chinese sailor who survived 133 days adrift at sea, dies at 72
• Jan 4 Richard Maibaum, American screenwriter (Goldfinger), dies at 81
• Jan 5 Johnny Eck [Eckhardt], American sideshow performer, actor (Freaks; Tarzan films), magician, and artist, dies of a heart attack at 79
• Jan 5 Marie Madeline Sullivan, American actress (Elvira, Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
• Jan 5 Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia-Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue), dies at 68
• Jan 6 Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
• Jan 6 Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer, dies at 83
• Jan 7 Charlotte Wynters, American stage and screen actress, dies at 91

• Jan 7 Joe Hicks, American baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
• Jan 8 Steve Clark, English rock guitarist (Def Leppard), dies at 30
• Jan 9 Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
• Jan 10 Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62

• Jan 12 Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (Across the Pacific, Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
• Jan 12 Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
• Jan 14 Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
• Jan 14 Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], Palestine deputy head of the PLO under Arafat, assassinated at 57 or 58
• Jan 16 Cladys "Jabbo" Smith, American jazz trumpet pioneer, dies at 82
• Jan 17 Olav V, King of Norway (1957-91), dies at 87
• Jan 18 Hamilton Fish III, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 102
• Jan 19 Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
• Jan 19 Glenn Langan, American actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies of lymphoma at 73
• Jan 19 John Russell, American actor (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
• Jan 19 Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician, dies at 72
• Jan 20 Bill Riordon, American tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
• Jan 20 Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
• Jan 21 Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
• Jan 22 Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat, dies at 85
• Jan 23 Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
• Jan 24 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
• Jan 24 Jack Schaefer, American author (Shane), dies at 83
• Jan 24 John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
• Jan 24 Lawrence Lott, American actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
• Jan 25 Lillian Bond, English-American actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
• Jan 25 Stanley Brock, American actor (UHF, Hard to Kill, Ivan-He's the Mayor), dies of a heart attack at 59
• Jan 25 Walter "Hoot" Evers, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1948, 50 Detroit Tigers), dies from heart disease at 69
• Jan 26 (Johan) "Johnny" van Doorn, Dutch writer, poet (as Johnny the Selfkicker), and performer (Oorlog & Pap - War & Porridge), dies at 46
• Jan 26 Karen Young, American disco singer ("Hot Shot"), dies at 39
• Jan 26 Orestes López, Cuban band leader and composer (co-inventor of 'mambo' with his brother, Cachao), dies at 82
• Jan 27 Dale Long, American baseball infielder (MLB record 8 HRs in consecutive games 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs), dies of cancer at 64

• Jan 29 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese writer (The Bullfight), dies at 83
• Jan 30 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)

• Jan 30 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), dies of emphysema at 83