4th » The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Eastern Cape Wild Coast of South Africa.
6th » Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
8th » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
19th » Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Judaism Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn Crown Heights in New York City New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
20th » 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.
21st » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
23rd » Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
24th » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
24th » Ukraine Declaration of Independence of Ukraine e.g declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
25th » Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
25th » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
27th » The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
27th » Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union e.g USSR.
29th » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
29th » Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
31st » Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.