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serial	19710
year	1991
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day	4
event	"Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal"
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1/1 - 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR

1/1 - Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak

1/1 - "Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide"

1/2 - Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll

1/3 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders

1/3 - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years

1/4 - AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable

1/4 - "Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal"

1/4 - Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th

1/4 - Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland

1/5 - Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts

1/5 - Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title

1/5 - "Oh, Kay! closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances"

1/6 - Gypsy closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances

1/6 - Real Life With Jane Pauley premieres on NBC-TV

1/6 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala

1/6 - Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)

1/7 - Nia Peeples Party Machine premieres on TV

1/8 - "Davis Rules, with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV"

1/8 - "Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame"

1/8 - Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try

1/8 - Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)

1/9 - Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games

1/9 - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1/9 - Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva:: talks fail to defuse gulf crisis

1/10 - Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans

1/10 - US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis

1/11 - "Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd"

1/11 - Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence

1/11 - Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title

1/11 - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

1/12 - "Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)"

1/12 - Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)

1/13 - UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam

1/13 - "Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die"

1/13 - Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected

1/13 - Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open

1/13 - "42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa"

1/13 - 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards

1/14 - Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR

1/14 - "Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, Calif"

1/14 - Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala

1/14 - Barbara DeAngelis Show premieres on CBS-TV

1/15 - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup

1/15 - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)

1/16 - 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins

1/16 - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)

1/17 - "Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V."

1/17 - Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

1/17 - Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq

1/17 - Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title

1/17 - Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel

1/18 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel

1/18 - "US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career"

1/18 - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights

1/18 - "Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins"

1/18 - "Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems."

1/19 - Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt

1/19 - Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title

1/19 - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation

1/19 - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves

1/19 - 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago

1/20 - "Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south."

1/20 - "Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title"

1/20 - US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles

1/20 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1/20 - Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title

1/20 - 13th UCP Telethon

1/20 - Shogun - The Musical closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs

1/20 - Peter Pan closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances

1/20 - "Les Miserables, opens at Pantages Theatre, LA"

1/20 - Black & Blue closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances

1/21 - CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf

1/22 - "Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks."

1/23 - "World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait"

1/24 - "Les Miserables, opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal"

1/25 - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)

1/25 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government

1/25 - "Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide"

1/25 - "Soap opera ""Generation's"" last episode after a 2ﾂｽ year run"

1/26 - NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)

1/26 - Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame

1/26 - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter

1/26 - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church

1/26 - 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)

1/26 - Few Good Men closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances

1/27 - "79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (1-6, 6-4. 6-4, 6-4)"

1/27 - Dutch Pacifist Socialistic Party disbands

1/27 - Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU

1/27 - "Super Bowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB"

1/28 - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule

1/28 - "Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide"

1/28 - A Closer Look with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV

1/29 - Piano Lesson closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs

1/29 - Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years

1/31 - Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double

1/31 - "Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude"

1991-1-4

"Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal"