23 January 1991
Environmental Warfare
The spill creates a major wartime environmental disaster.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Persian Gulf in Iraq. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The spill creates a major wartime environmental disaster.
The action creates a severe Gulf environmental disaster.
Iraqi forces release large quantities of oil from Kuwaiti facilities.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Iraq and Persian Gulf. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
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