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Top Song(s)
• Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do it For You
• Michael Jackson - Black Or White
• REM - Losing My Religion
• Roxette - Joyride
• Enigma - Sadeness
Top Film(s)
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Barton Fink
• Raise the Red Lantern
• The Double Life of Veronique
Best Selling Book(s)
• Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
• The Firm - Robin Waterfield
• Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
• Needful Things - Stephen King
• Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Famous Deaths
• January 17 - Olav V, King of Norway (1957-91)
• January 30 - John Bardeen, American physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics)
• February 5 - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Jesuit priest (1st responder after the bombing of Hiroshima)
• March 3 - William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atomic bomb)
• April 5 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33)
• May 9 - James L. Reinsch, American broadcasting executive, presidential media adviser
• June 15 - William Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist (1979 Nobel Prize in Economics
• July 17 – Arthur Raymond Brooks, American World War I fighter ace
• August 24 - Bernard Castro, American inventor of the patented convertible couch
• September 17 – Frank H. Netter, American artist, physician, and medical illustrator
Medical/Science/Technology
• Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space, flying with the Soyuz TM-12 mission.
• Asteroid 6859 Datemasamune is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
• Carbon nanotubes discovered in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods.
• Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb (the first web browser), and a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
• The first website goes online at CERN.
• Apple releases the PowerBook laptop computer.
• Asteroid 11514 Tsunenaga is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy first studied.
• World's first GSM telephone call made in Finland.
• The Ames crater impact structure is identified in Major County, Oklahoma.
Political
• January 7 – United States Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney cancels the $57,000,000,000 order for the McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II.
• January 9 – United States Secretary of State James Baker meets with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz.
• January 12 – The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
• January 25 – President George H. W. Bush names Rep. Edward Rell Madigan as United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• January 29 - George H. W. Bush delivers his second State of the Union Address.
• March 1 – Clayton Keith Yeutter leaves his position as the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• March 3 - The first presidential election in the history of Sao Tomé and Príncipe is won by Miguel Trovoada.
• May 12 – Nepal holds its first multiparty legislative election since 1959.
• May 16 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
• October 2 – Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
National
• January 8 – Pan American World Airways files for bankruptcy protection.
• February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
• March 15 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the March 3 beating of Rodney King during an arrest.
• April 5 – Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia.
• June 13 – A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
• September 11 – Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Texas.
• September 16 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
• October 20 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 people and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
• November 30 – The United States win the first ever FIFA Women's World Cup in China against Norway in the Final.
• December 7 – The 50th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Worldwide
• January 16 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
• February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is formed in The Hague, Netherlands.
• March 13 - The Acid Rain Treaty of 1991 is signed between the American and Canadian governments.
• April 2 – Government-imposed prices increase double or triple the cost of consumer goods in the Soviet Union.
• May 18 – Somaliland secedes from Somalia; its independence is not recognized by the international community.
• June 3 – Mount Unzen in Japan erupts, killing 46 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
• July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
• August 23 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Russia restores the white-blue-red tricolor as its national flag.
• September 22 – The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
• December 15 – The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450 people.