WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened January to September 1991

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

Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. (24. May 1991)

Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. (25. August 1991)

The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. (15. February 1991)

The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. (15. March 1991)

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

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

Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system. (15. January 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)

Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. (16. February 1991)

Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. (20. August 1991)

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

Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah. (26. February 1991)

Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. (19. January 1991)

Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. (31. May 1991)

The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded. (25. February 1991)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. (16. May 1991)

An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard. (5. April 1991)

Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. (17. January 1991)

Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union. (1. September 1991)