WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened May to December 1991

Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, rendering the country fully independent. (8. October 1991)

The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence (25. August 1991)

A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. (5. May 1991)

Sonic the Hedgehog , the first game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series is released for the Sega Genesis in North America. (23. June 1991)

Moldova declares independence from the USSR. (27. August 1991)

Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. (29. August 1991)

The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. (28. May 1991)

Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (7. July 1991)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. (22. September 1991)

History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. (25. October 1991)

Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport, ending 64 years of Pan Am operations. (4. December 1991)

The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. (20. June 1991)

The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. (18. October 1991)

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. (29. August 1991)

The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. (17. September 1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (24. August 1991)

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. (21. August 1991)

Kazakhstan gains its independence from the Soviet Union. (16. December 1991)

Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767, crashes in an area of western Thailand after a thrust reverser malfunction. All 223 people aboard are killed. (26. May 1991)

The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (27. August 1991)