December 1991

Sunday 01:

Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

Monday 02:

The first version of QuickTime was released.

Wednesday 04:

1991 - US airline Pan Am ends operations.

Sunday 08:

First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.

Saturday 14:

A rock slide takes off 10 metres of Mount Cook's elevation in New Zealand.

Monday 16:

United Nations reverses its 1975 resolution that Zionism is racism by a vote of 111-25, with 13 abstentions

Wednesday 25:

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).

Thursday 26:

Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR

Saturday 28:

Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.

Tuesday 31:

1991 - The Soviet Union officially dissolves.