July 1991 1. Stipe Mesi , Croatia's representative in the SFRJ collective presidency, is finally elected president. His term would have started already on 15 May had it not been opposed by Serb representatives. The SFRJ presidency meets on the islands of Brijuni. Also present are the federal prime minister, the president of the Republic of Croatia, the president of the Republic of Slovenia and three representatives of the European Council of Ministers.
Serb terrorists burst into the eastern Slavonian village of elije.
Houses are pillaged and burned and the villagers are forced to flee. JNA jets attack a Zbor narodne garde barracks in Ilok. Throughout western Srijem, Slavonia, Baranja, Banija, Kordun, Lika and northern Dalmatia Serb terrorists and the Serbicized JNA openly collaborate. War rages in Croatia. The Serbian expansionist aggressor attacks not only Croatian police stations and Zbor narodne garde barracks but also Croatian villages and towns.