WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1991
Find out what all happened July to October 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 Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. (22. September 1991)

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

An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. (5. October 1991)

Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union. (21. August 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)

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)

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

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

The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released. (5. October 1991)

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

The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (6. September 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)

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. (1. July 1991)

Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man. (19. August 1991)

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

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

Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. (24. August 1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (24. August 1991)