WHAT HAPPENED IN 1991.
Look what happened the 1991.

Kazakhstan gains its independence from the Soviet Union. (16. December 1991)

A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. (20. December 1991)

Paul Keating sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia after defeating Bob Hawke in a leadership ballot of the Australian Labor Party. (20. December 1991)

Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia. (22. December 1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. (25. December 1991)

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. (26. December 1991)

All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. (31. December 1991)