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Here’s what happened in February 1991. You can click on the links to go to Wikipedia for fuller details

• February 1 – A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
• February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
• February 7
  • Haiti‘s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
  • The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
  • Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
• February 9 – Voters in Lithuania support independence.
• February 11 – UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
• February 13 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. States military intelligence claims it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.
• February 15 – The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia,Hungary and Poland.
• February 18 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and station in London.
• February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
• February 23
  • The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
  • In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d’état.
• February 25 – Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
• February 26 – Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.