Unix Timestamp: 670636800
Wednesday, April 3. 1991, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.

STS-37: Space Shuttle \'\'Atlantis\'\' is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle launched an observatory to study gamma rays before returning to Earth on April 11.

Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.

Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The Resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km and production facilities and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.

William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.

STS-37: Space Shuttle "Atlantis" is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle launched an observatory to study gamma rays before returning to Earth on April 11.