WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1991
Find out what all happened June to October 1991

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. (17. September 1991)

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

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

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

Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. (9. October 1991)

The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. (4. August 1991)

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

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

Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. (16. October 1991)

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

An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. (5. October 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)

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)

Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War. (27. June 1991)

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. (21. 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)

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)

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. (6. August 1991)

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

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