Editing 1991 (section)

===May===
* [[May 1]] – Angolan Civil War: The [[MPLA]] and [[UNITA]] agree to the [[Bicesse Accords]], which are formally signed on May 31 in [[Lisbon]].<ref name="terms">Wright, George. ''The Destruction of a Nation: United States' Policy Towards Angola Since 1945'', 1997. Page 159.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=PA-X: Peace Agreements Database|url=https://www.peaceagreements.org/view/207|access-date=2021-06-12|website=peaceagreements.org|archive-date=June 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613002021/https://www.peaceagreements.org/view/207|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – In the [[U.S.]], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine publishes "[[The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power]]," an article highly critical of the [[Scientology]] movement.<ref>{{cite news|last=Behar|first=Richard|title=Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=May 6, 1991|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220082505/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 20, 2007|access-date=March 20, 2014|pages=50–57}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Nepal]] holds its first multiparty [[1991 Nepalese legislative election|legislative election]] since [[1959 Nepalese legislative election|1959]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 19, 2018|title=Nepal profile – Timeline|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12499391|access-date=June 12, 2021|archive-date=June 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605194152/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12499391|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Édith Cresson]] becomes France's first female [[Prime Minister of France|prime minister]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith Cresson {{!}} premier of France|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edith-Cresson|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|archive-date=February 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220120641/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edith-Cresson|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Drozdiak|first=William|date=May 18, 1991|title=France The Female Prime Minister|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/05/18/france-the-female-prime-minister/6124e5d4-3baa-4eb3-9067-aa7ba3cbc8c3/|access-date=June 12, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241125093132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/05/18/france-the-female-prime-minister/6124e5d4-3baa-4eb3-9067-aa7ba3cbc8c3/|archive-date=November 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – [[Elizabeth II]] becomes the first [[British Monarch|British monarch]] to address the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] during a 13-day royal visit in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Address by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to a Joint Meeting of the United States Congress {{!}} US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|url=https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2013/2013-135-050/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=history.house.gov|archive-date=May 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516161309/https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2013/2013-135-050/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Eaton|first=William J.|date=May 17, 1991|title=Queen Addresses Joint Congress Session|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-17-mn-1884-story.html|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512215804/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-17-mn-1884-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – [[Somaliland]] secedes from [[Somalia]]; its independence is [[List of states with limited recognition|not recognised]] by the [[international community]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=20 Years After Secession, Somaliland Still Seeks Recognition|url=https://www.voanews.com/africa/20-years-after-secession-somaliland-still-seeks-recognition|access-date=2021-06-12|publisher=Voice of America|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723183603/https://www.voanews.com/africa/20-years-after-secession-somaliland-still-seeks-recognition|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Somaliland Wants To Make One Thing Clear: It Is NOT Somalia|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/30/530703639/somaliland-wants-to-make-one-thing-clear-it-is-not-somalia|access-date=2021-06-12|publisher=NPR|date=May 30, 2017|last1=Beaubien|first1=Jason|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415055609/https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/30/530703639/somaliland-wants-to-make-one-thing-clear-it-is-not-somalia|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] – Dissolution of Yugoslavia: In the [[1991 Croatian independence referendum|Croatian independence referendum]], voters in the [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]] vote to leave [[SFR Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sudetic|first=Chuck|date=May 20, 1991|title=Croatia Votes for Sovereignty and Confederation|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/20/world/croatia-votes-for-sovereignty-and-confederation.html|access-date=2021-06-12|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124201026/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/20/world/croatia-votes-for-sovereignty-and-confederation.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 21]]
**At [[Sriperumbudur]], India, a suicide bomber from [[LTTE]] attacks a political meeting, [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi|killing former Prime Minister]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]] and at least 14 others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/nation/2018/may/21/a-look-back-at-rajiv-gandhi-assassination-rare-images-from-the-past-101515.html|title=A look back at Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Rare images from the past|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=May 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514210449/http://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/nation/2018/may/21/a-look-back-at-rajiv-gandhi-assassination-rare-images-from-the-past-101515.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
**Ethiopian Civil War: [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]], president of the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]], flees [[Ethiopia]] to [[Zimbabwe]], effectively bringing the [[Ethiopian Civil War]] to an end.<ref>{{cite book|title=The World Factbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkQfwA30aY4C&pg=PA107|year=1992|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|pages=107|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207102945/https://books.google.com/books?id=JkQfwA30aY4C&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] – Acting [[Prime Minister of South Korea]] [[Ro Jai-bong]] resigns in the wake of rioting following the beating to death of a student by police on April 26. He is succeeded by [[Chung Won-shik]] two days later.<ref>{{cite book|author1=World Book, Inc|author2=World Book Encyclopedia|title=The World Book Year Book, 1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YIovVAHq-CkC|date=February 1992|publisher=World Book, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7166-0492-1|page=22|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207101931/https://books.google.com/books?id=YIovVAHq-CkC|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – Following authorisation by [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Yitzhak Shamir]], [[Operation Solomon]] commences to airlift most of the remaining [[Beta Israel]] community from [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] to Israel.<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=Spector|title=Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_6JuMlIHH4C&pg=PA232|date=March 15, 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-983910-0|pages=232|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207101919/https://books.google.com/books?id=g_6JuMlIHH4C&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 25]] – The [[1991 Surinamese general election|Surinamese general election]] is won by the military-backed [[New Front for Democracy and Development]].{{sfn|Nohlen|2005|pp=614–615}}
* [[May 26]] – [[Lauda Air Flight 004|Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes]] near [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], killing all 223 people on board.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jay Levinson|author2=Hayim Granot|title=Transportation Disaster Response Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jQIn-0hAbMC&pg=PA57|year=2002|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-445486-6|pages=57|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207101931/https://books.google.com/books?id=0jQIn-0hAbMC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – Ethiopian Civil War: The forces of the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] seize the capital [[Addis Ababa]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Krauss|first=Clifford|date=May 28, 1991|title=Ethiopian rebels storm the capital and seize control|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/28/world/ethiopian-rebels-storm-the-capital-and-seize-control.html|access-date=2021-06-12|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310123923/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/28/world/ethiopian-rebels-storm-the-capital-and-seize-control.html|url-status=live}}</ref>