Topic summary
December 1991
Extracted from the Wikipedia article 1991.
December
- December 1 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
- December 4
- Lebanon hostage crisis: Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years of captivity as a hostage in Beirut – the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
- John Leonard Orr, one of the most prolific serial arsonists of the 20th century, is arrested in California.
- Pan Am is officially dissolved after 64 years of operation