WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1991
Find out what all happened July to August 1991

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

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 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)

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)

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

Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union. (21. August 1991)

Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. (28. August 1991)

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

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)

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 Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. (8. August 1991)

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

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

Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment. (22. July 1991)

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