WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened June to September 1991

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

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

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

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

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. (5. September 1991)

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

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (24. 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 Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. (8. September 1991)

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

Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état). (29. September 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)

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)

The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (27. August 1991)

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

32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas. (30. June 1991)

Tajikstan declares independence from the Soviet Union. (9. September 1991)

In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die. (15. June 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)