1991 in the United States

← → Events from the year 1991 in the United States.

January 17: First air strikes on Iraq in the Gulf War
c. February: Gulf War : Retreating Iraqi forces set the Kuwaiti oil fires
July 31: START I
October 15: The Senate confirms Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court
December 25: The resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev marked one of the final acts in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union