WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1991
Find out what all happened June to August 1991

The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other. (31. July 1991)

The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. (8. August 1991)

The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends. (19. June 1991)

Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union (25. August 1991)

Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. (25. June 1991)

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. (1. July 1991)

1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. (12. June 1991)

Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union. (21. August 1991)

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. (6. August 1991)

Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment. (22. July 1991)

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

Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. (31. August 1991)

Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. (25. August 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 United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles. (31. July 1991)

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia. (10. July 1991)

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. (6. August 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)

Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. (19. August 1991)

Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. (3. June 1991)