December 1991 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1991 Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 performances
• 02 Dec 1991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with the New York Mets.
• 03 Dec 1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns.
• 04 Dec 1991 Judds final concert
• 05 Dec 1991 Catskills on Broadway opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 performances
• 06 Dec 1991 Les Miserables opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
• 07 Dec 1991 A J Kitt, American, wins World Skiing Cup.
• 08 Dec 1991 Homecoming closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
• 09 Dec 1991 2nd Billboard Music Awards
• 10 Dec 1991 Crucible opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
• 11 Dec 1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
• 12 Dec 1991 Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community.
• 13 Dec 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle SuperSonics) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games.
• 14 Dec 1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
• 15 Dec 1991 Nick & Nora closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 16 Dec 1991 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
• 17 Dec 1991 Soap opera One Life To Live airs its 6,000th episode
• 18 Dec 1991 DeForest Kelly, (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood.
• 19 Dec 1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
• 20 Dec 1991 Paul Keating installed as Premier of Australia
• 21 Dec 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 Republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
• 22 Dec 1991 Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
• 23 Dec 1991 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns.
• 24 Dec 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
• 25 Dec 1991 Last day of a washout Pakistan versus Sri Lanka at Gujranwala.
• 26 Dec 1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
• 27 Dec 1991 Carol Burnett Show last airs on CBS-TV
• 28 Dec 1991 Ted Turner is named Time magazine Man of the Year.
• 29 Dec 1991 12th United Negro College Fund
• 31 Dec 1991 CPN, Communist Party of the Netherlands, last day of existance

Famous Birthday

• Louis Tomlinson

  English pop singer and songwriter, and actor, known as a member of the boy band One Direction.

• Charlie Puth

  Pop Singer.

• Choi Minho

  South Korean rap artist (SHINee) and TV host.

• Prince Joachim of Belgium Archduke of Austria-Este
• Marisa Siketa
• Catalina Otalvaro
• Chloe Bridges

  American actress.

• Coco Vandeweghe
• Audrey Bastien
• Guam (United States)
• Eden Sher

  TV Actress.

• Anna Bergendahl
• Sofia Black D'Elia
• Amanda Vilanova
• Anna Zayachkivska
• Isabel Durant
• Keiynan Lonsdale

  TV Actor.

• Declan Galbraith

  Pop Singer.

• Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht
• Edward Upcott
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Famous Deaths

• Thomas Newman

  Actor / Composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60.

• Richard Speck

  American homicide, a mass murderer who gained entry to a dorm for student nurses, knifing and strangling eight and raping one on 7/14/1966.

• Simone Beck

  French chef, an impassioned cook, author and teacher.

• Buck Clayton

  American jazz trumpet player who was a leading member of Count Basie’s "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam...

• Ernst Krenek

  Austrian / US Composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91.

• Curt Bois

  Actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90.

• Fred D Scott

  Actor (2 Gun Troubador).

• Robert Q Lewis

  US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at age 70.

• Jill Browne

  Dies at 54.

• Sal Provenza

  Entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45.

• Sam Cresson

  Dies at 73.

• John Morgan Evans

  Actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49.

• W Hudson

  US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg).

• Julia McCarthy

  Dies of cancer at 64.

• Headman Tshabalala

  South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo).

• Aad Mansfield

  soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies.

• Alex Graham

  British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies.

• Fop[pe] I Brouwer

  Biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows).

• Headman Tshabala

  South African musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at age 44.

• Sir Richard Stone

  British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1913).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
2. Michael Jackson - Black Or White
3. Michael Bolton - When A Man Loves A Woman
4. Boyz II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday
5. Color Me Badd - All 4 Love

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives
3. George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
4. 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This
5. Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me