January 1991 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1991 Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
• 02 Jan 1991 Colorado wins its first AP national title poll.
• 03 Jan 1991 Israel reopens consulate in the USSR after 23 years
• 04 Jan 1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
• 05 Jan 1991 Oh, Kay! closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
• 06 Jan 1991 Gypsy closes at St. James Theater NYC after 477 performances
• 07 Jan 1991 Nia Peeples Party Machine premieres on TV
• 08 Jan 1991 Davis Rules, with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
• 09 Jan 1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
• 10 Jan 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans.
• 11 Jan 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
• 12 Jan 1991 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520).
• 13 Jan 1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
• 14 Jan 1991 Barbara DeAngelis Show premieres on CBS-TV
• 15 Jan 1991 Sean Lennon's remake of his father's "Give Peace A Chance" is released to coincide with the United Nation's midnight deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. The lyrics were updated to reflect concerns of the 1990's.
• 16 Jan 1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
• 17 Jan 1991 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
• 18 Jan 1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
• 19 Jan 1991 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves.
• 20 Jan 1991 Black & Blue closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
• 21 Jan 1991 Richard Bolling, American politician (Representative-Democrat-Missouri)/US civil-rights leader, dies at age 74.
• 22 Jan 1991 Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 23 Jan 1991 Seinfeld debuts on NBC-TV
• 24 Jan 1991 Les Miserables, opens at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal
• 25 Jan 1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government.
• 26 Jan 1991 Few Good Men closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
• 27 Jan 1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
• 28 Jan 1991 A Closer Look with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
• 29 Jan 1991 Piano Lesson closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 performances
• 31 Jan 1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude

Famous Birthday

• Pixie Lott

  English singer.

• Eden Hazard

  Belgian international footballer who plays for English club Chelsea in the Premier League and the Belgium national team.

• Kayla Radomski
• Amy Jackson

  Model.

• Caster Semenya

  South African runner.

• Britt McKillip

  Canadian singer and actress (One More Girl).

• Clément Grenier
• Lily LaBeau
• Calum Worthy

  Canadian actor and musician.

• Jeanine Mason
• Goo Hara

  Pop Singer.

• Craig Roberts

  Welsh actor and director.

• Craig Roberts

  Welsh actor and director.

• Danny Miller (actor)
• Erin Sanders

  TV Actress.

• Ayeza Khan

  Movie Actress.

• Andrea Bertolacci

  Italian footballer.

• Olivia Tennet

  New Zealand actress.

• Stefan Savic
• Álvaro Soler
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Famous Deaths

• Louis Seigner

  French actor and stage comedian, Emmanuelle and Mathilde's grandfather.

• Vasco Pratolini

  Italian writer, a novelist and short story writer who won a number of prizes.

• John McIntire

  Spokane, Washington -- Actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian).

• Steve Clark

  English guitarist (Def Leppard - "Hysteria"), dies at age 30 (born 1960).

• Joe Hicks

  Baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64.

• John Eckhardt

  Actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82.

• Harry Krimer

  Actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94.

• Berry Kroeger

  Actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78.

• Yvonne Waegemans

  Flemish Author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81.

• Stanley Brock

  Actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59.

• Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V

  King of Norway (1957).

• Lillian Bond

  Actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83.

• Nita Krebs

  Actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85.

• Lawrence Lott

  Actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40.

• John M Kelly

  Irish politician and academic (Born 1931).

• Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad]

  Co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated.

• Don Beddoe

  Actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87.

• Leo N Wright

  US saxophonist ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco"), dies at age 57.

• Jason Christmas

  dies of gunshot wound during robbery in New York at age 49.

• Dale Long

  Hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Madonna - Justify My Love
2. Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do (Without You)
3. Surface - The First Time
4. Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song)
5. C & C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
2. Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter
3. Enigma - Sadness Part 1
4. Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me
5. Seal - Crazy