Unix Timestamp: 664848000
Saturday, January 26. 1991, 12:00:00 AM UTC

In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end the violence that had plagued relations between the two organizations.

A deadly earthquake kills at least 1,200 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A USAirBoeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest AirlinesFairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.

Siad Barre is overthrown. Somalia enters civil war.

Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.