What happened in 1991

“(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”

Bryan Adams · 7 weeks at #1 in 1991

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1. Jan 5Justify My LoveMadonna2 wks
2. Jan 19Love Will Never Do (Without You)Janet Jackson1 wk
3. Jan 26The First TimeSurface2 wks
4. Feb 9Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)C+C Music Factory2 wks
5. Feb 23All The Man That I NeedWhitney Houston2 wks
6. Mar 9SomedayMariah Carey2 wks
7. Mar 23One More TryTimmy T.1 wk
8. Mar 30Coming Out Of The DarkGloria Estefan2 wks
9. Apr 13I've Been Thinking About YouLondonbeat1 wk
10. Apr 20You're In LoveWilson Phillips1 wk
11. Apr 27Baby BabyAmy Grant2 wks
12. May 11JoyrideRoxette1 wk
13. May 18I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)Hi-Five1 wk
14. May 25I Don't Wanna CryMariah Carey2 wks
15. Jun 8More Than WordsExtreme1 wk
16. Jun 15Rush RushPaula Abdul5 wks
17. Jul 20UnbelievableEMF1 wk
18. Jul 27(Everything I Do) I Do It For YouBryan Adams7 wks
19. Sep 14The Promise Of A New DayPaula Abdul1 wk
20. Sep 21I Adore Mi AmorColor Me Badd2 wks
21. Oct 5Good VibrationsMarky Mark & The Funky Bunch Featuring Loleatta Holloway1 wk
22. Oct 12EmotionsMariah Carey3 wks
23. Nov 2RomanticKaryn White1 wk
24. Nov 9CreamPrince And The N.P.G.2 wks
25. Nov 23When A Man Loves A WomanMichael Bolton1 wk
26. Nov 30Set Adrift On Memory BlissP.M. Dawn1 wk
27. Dec 7Black Or WhiteMichael Jackson4 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1991; weeks count only those in 1991.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 12Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
2. Jan 16Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
3. Feb 13Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
4. Feb 24Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
5. Apr 9Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
6. May 16Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
7. Jul 22American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after police discovered human remains in his apartment.
8. Aug 25Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
9. Sep 29The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
10. Oct 16A man drove his vehicle through the window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before fatally shooting himself.
11. Oct 18The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
12. Dec 2Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
13. Dec 4Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
14. Dec 26The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George H. W. Bush

• UK Prime Minister

  John Major

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Brian Mulroney

• President of France

  François Mitterrand

• German Chancellor

  Helmut Kohl

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Toshiki Kaifu → Kiichi Miyazawa

• Soviet / Russian leader

  Mikhail Gorbachev → Boris Yeltsin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1991, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Charles MeltonAmerican actor · Jan 4
• Raquel RodriguezAmerican wrestler · Jan 12
• Willa FitzgeraldAmerican actress · Jan 17
• Trevor BauerAmerican baseball player · Jan 17
• Emma RobertsAmerican actress · Feb 10
• Jeremy Allen WhiteAmerican actor · Feb 17
• O'Shea Jackson Jr.American actor and rapper · Feb 24
• Tylerthe Creator, American rapper · Mar 6
• Wolfgang Van HalenAmerican bassist · Mar 16
• Ramy YoussefAmerican actor and comedian · Mar 26

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.