WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened April to December 1991

The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. (10. July 1991)

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

Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists. (19. September 1991)

Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities. (18. September 1991)

Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. (12. November 1991)

Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union. (21. September 1991)

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

The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. (14. April 1991)

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. (26. December 1991)

Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. (24. 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)

An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan. (20. November 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)

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)

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

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

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

Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon. (4. December 1991)

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