WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened March to September 1991

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

The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad since 1924. (6. September 1991)

A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. (29. April 1991)

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. (3. March 1991)

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

Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. (4. April 1991)

A Nationair Douglas DC-8 on Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes soon after takeoff from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 on board. (11. July 1991)

Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic. (12. June 1991)

Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. (9. March 1991)

The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. (13. March 1991)

Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. (26. June 1991)

The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. (8. September 1991)

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

Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion. (4. March 1991)

Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. (26. March 1991)

Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood. (20. August 1991)

Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. (21. May 1991)

Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India (24. July 1991)

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

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