The Hunt for Blue August
From Wikipedia's timeline for 1991—
- August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
- August 13 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
- August 19 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
- August 20 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
- August 21 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- August 24 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 25 – Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
- August 25 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 27 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 31 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.
September
- September 2 – The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
- September 5–7 – At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
- September 6 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
- September 6 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
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