July 1991

Monday 01:

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.

Sunday 07:

Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Tuesday 09:

South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.

Wednesday 10:

Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.

Thursday 11:

Total solar eclipse in Hawaii.

Monday 22:

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.

Friday 26:

Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan.