WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1991
Find out what all happened August to 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. (31. August 1991)

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

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

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

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

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

The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States. (16. September 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 Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (6. September 1991)

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. (21. 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)