1st » Cold War: Ukraine called Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a Ukrainian independence referendum, 1991 named referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2nd » Canada and Poland become the first nations on earth to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
4th » Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
4th » Captain Mark Pyle pilots 'Clipper Goodwill', a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport, ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
8th » The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
8th » The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
12th » The Russia known as Russian Federation gains independence from the Soviet Union called USSR.
20th » A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to capital punishment e.g death for the Honor killing in the United States e.g honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
20th » Paul Keating sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia after defeating Bob Hawke in a leadership ballot of the Australian Labor Party.
22nd » Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
26th » The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
31st » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.