Timeline August 1991

Events in August 1991 6

• 1991 Third World Championship gold -- Tokyo 1991 Bubka wins his third consecutive world title at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo. He is now competing for the Soviet Union for the last time -- the USSR dissolves in December 1991, and Bubka subsequently competes for the Unified Team at Barcelona 1992 and then for independent Ukraine. The Tokyo title is the last he wins under the Soviet flag. He clears 5.95m to win, continuing a run of dominance that sees him unbeaten at World Championships for eight years.
• 1991 US Open 1991 Men: Stefan Edberg · Women: Monica Seles
• 1991 Metallica release Metallica The Black Album With Enter Sandman — one of the best-selling albums ever.
• 1991 August Coup Hardline Soviet officials attempt to oust Gorbachev A group of hardline Communist officials attempted to seize power from Mikhail Gorbachev and halt the Soviet Union's reforms. Boris Yeltsin rallied resistance from atop a tank outside the Russian parliament, and the coup collapsed within three days. Its failure accelerated the collapse of Soviet Communist Party authority and hastened the dissolution of the USSR later that year.
• 1991 Linus Torvalds Releases the Linux Kernel Free operating system kernel posted for public use Finnish student Linus Torvalds announced a free Unix-like operating system kernel he had been developing, posting the source code for public collaboration. What began as a hobby project grew into Linux, which underpins most of the world's servers, smartphones, and cloud infrastructure today. It became one of the largest collaborative software projects in history.
• 1991 Pearl Jam release Ten Debut album With Alive, Even Flow and Jeremy — a slow-burning bestseller.