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1992

1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday.

1992 - Events

1992 - January

• January 1 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General
• January 1 - George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to address the Australian Parliament.
• January 8 - Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina in protest to the decision by Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.
• January 8 - George H. W. Bush falls violently ill in the presence of the Prime Minister of Japan.
• January 11 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
• January 12 - The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front.
• January 13 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• January 13 - Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.
• January 15 - The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ceases to exist. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence.
• January 16 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City that ends a 12 year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
• January 22 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation
• January 22 - STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
• January 26 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

1992 - February

• February 1 - Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from United States
• February 7 - Signing of the Maastricht treaty, which founded the European Union.
• February 10 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black America contestant named Desiree Washington
• February 11 - F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands. No casualties are reported.
• February 17 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison
• February 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
• February 20 - The English FA Premier League was officially formed
• February 21 - United Nations Security Council approves Resolution 743 and decides to send UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia
• February 26 - Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to get an abortion

1992 - March

• March - Boxer Mike Tyson is given a 6 year sentence for raping an 18 year old Miss Black America contestant, Desiree Washington
• March 1 - After a majority of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence, Serb snipers fire on civilians
• March 12 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth
• March 12 - 13 are killed and several injured when a tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• March 13 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.
• March 17 - 29 are killed and 242 injured when a suicide car-bomb goes off in the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
• March 25 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station

1992 - April

• April - Bosnia and Herzegovina secedes from Yugoslavia.
• April 2 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison
• April 6 - Barney & Friends airs on PBS, starring the famous purple dinosaur himself
• April 6 - Robert Schumann (record-breaker) becomes the youngest person to visit the north pole
• April 6 - Serbian troops begin to bombard Sarajevo
• April 8 - Punch magazine publishes its final issue
• April 9 - A Miami jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel
• April 9 - United Kingdom general election - John Major unexpectedly re-elected.
• April 10 - IRA bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London - 3 dead, 91 injured
• April 13 - Flooding in downtown Chicago, Illinois
• April 13 - Roermond in the Netherlands is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
• April 14-October 15 - The trial of the Russian serial killer Andrew Chikatilo - he is sentenced to death
• April 21 - Maria Vladimirovna of Russia succeeds her father as Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and Titular Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias.
• April 22 - Fuel that has leaked into sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico - 215 dead, 1500 injured
• April 27 - Betty Boothroyd elected the first woman to be Speaker of the British House of Commons.
• April 29 - In Los Angeles, California, the police officers that were accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, were found "not guilty". The verdict resulted in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.

1992 - May

• May 5 - Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise
• May 5 - Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10
• May 10 - Team of Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague
• May 15 - The Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in Genoa, Italy
• May 16 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage
• May 19 - Amy Fisher shoots at Mary Jo Buttafuoco
• May 23 - Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone
• May 26 - Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems is kidnapped from his company car park. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended

1992 - June

• June 1 - Terrorist Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment
• June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
• June 1 - The Pittsburgh Penguins sweep the Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games in the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals.
• June 8 - The first World Ocean Day celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• June 12 - Medical doctor Pravin Thakkar is sentenced for 16 years for aborting fetuses of two of his former lovers without their permission
• June 15 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato by indicating it should have an e at the end.
• June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). [1]
• June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and his tsarina
• June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2 [2]
• June 26 - Denmark beat Germany 2-0 to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• June 29 - Bodyguard assassinates president Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria

1992 - July

• July 6-July 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claimed that it had reliable information that the site contained archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers
• July 10 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations
• July 13 - Britain's former executioner Albert Pierrepoint dies
• July 20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia
• July 22 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradiction to the United States.
• July 25 - Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

1992 - August

• August 7 - Buckingham Palace opened to the public for the first time
• August 10 - The UK government bans Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
• August 17 - US Marshalls start Siege of Ruby Ridge
• August 18 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy
• August 20 - Kristiansunds connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
• August 24 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
• August 28 - Hurricane Andrew dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system. Twenty-three were killed.

1992 - September

• September 11 - Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu
• September 16 - Pound Sterling and Italian Lira forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (Black Wednesday)
• September 23 - A large IRA bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast
• September 24 - The Kentucky Supreme Court in Kentucky v. Wasson holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional, and accurately predicts that other states and the nation will eventually rule the same way.

1992 - October

• October 1 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The new terminal's were built as an expansion for US Air and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
• October 2 - Riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil, which leads up to the events known as the Carandiru Massacre.
• October 4 - Plane crash in Amsterdam, Netherlands, known as the Bijlmerramp.
• October 7 - In Turkey, the farmer Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language, dies.
• October 9 - A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite landed in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
• October 15 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.
• October 17 - Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student mistakes from an address to a party, and is shot after knocking on the wrong door in Louisiana, United States. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is acquitted by Jury causing an outrage in Japan.
• October 24 - Toronto Blue Jays win World Series in 6 games. Marking the first Canadian team to win.
• October 26 - In Canada, the Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national referendum.
• October 29 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.

1992 - November

• November 3 - Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. president George H. W. Bush and H. Ross Perot in the U.S. presidential election
• November 5 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle (the officers were later convicted and sentenced to prison)
• November 11 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
• November 20 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
• November 24 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board
• November 24 - Queen Elizabeth II describes this year as an Annus Horribilis (horrible year) due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family
• November 25 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993
• November 30 - A murder trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murder of 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994)

1992 - December

• December 3 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
• December 3 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo
• December 4 - US military forces invade Somalia.
• December 5 - Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
• December 6 - Hindu activists destroy the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, triggering religious violence around the country.
• December 8 - Last blast fired in Falu Copper Mine in Sweden. The end of a millennium of continuous operation.
• December 20 - The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
• December 29 - Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello resigns, following charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government and impeachment precedings.

1992 - Unknown Dates

• The Council for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up.
• Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of Inquisition against Galileo Galilei
• The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed spanning 78 acres (316,000 m²)
• Carsington Reservoir opened in England after nearly 20 years planning and construction.
• Image Comics is founded by a number of former Marvel artists, seeking to create a company where creators were given exclusive ownership of their creations.

1992 - Fictional Events

• January 12 HAL 9000 is purported to become operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois.
• The events of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? take place.

1992 - Births

For more 1992 births see Category:1992 births

• January 10 - Eric & Brandon Billings, Twin American actors
• January 19 - Logan Lerman, American actor
• January 21 - Logan O'Brien, American actor
• February 14 - Freddie Highmore, British actor
• March 15 - Sosie Bacon, American actress
• March 21 - Bobby Preston, American actor
• April 15 - Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
• April 15 - Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder and actor
• May 18 - Spencer Breslin, American actor
• May 19 - Rachel Appleton, Canadian actress
• June 7 - Jordan Fry, American Actor
• June 12 - Ryan Malgarini, American actor
• June 14 - Daryl Sabara, American voice actor
• June 14 - Evan Sabara, American actor
• June 30 - Lynx and Lamb Gaede, Twin American musicians
• July 13 - Dylan Patton, American actor and model
• August 4 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Twin child actors
• September 19 - Gavin Fink, American actor
• September 28 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
• October 9 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
• October 15 - Vincent Martella, American actor
• October 30 - Tequan Richmond, American actor
• November 17 - Darian Weiss, American actor
• November 25 - Zack Shada, American actor
• November 30 - Dylan Smith, American actor
• December 23 - Spencer Daniels, American actor

1992 - Deaths

1992 - January-April

• January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• January 9 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
• January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
• January 26 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
• January 27 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• January 29 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
• February 2 - Bert Parks, American game show host (b. 1914)
• February 4 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
• February 10 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
• February 12 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
• February 20 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
• March 2 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1939)
• March 9 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
• March 23 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• March 29 - Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b. 1908)
• April 5 - Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
• April 6 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
• April 8 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
• April 18 - Benny Hill, British comedian and actor
• April 21 - Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia (b. 1917)
• April 23 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
• April 27 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
• April 28 - Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b. 1909)

1992 - May-December

• May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
• May 12 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932
• May 14 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
• May 17 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
• May 22 - Tony Accardo, American gangster (b. 1906)
• May 23 - Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
• June 22 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
• July 15 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• August 5 - Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
• August 12 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
• August - Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951)
• September 2 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
• October 7 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
• October 8 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
• October 17 - Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student (b. 1975)
• October 19 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920)
• October 25 - Roger Miller, American singer (b. 1936)
• October 27 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
• November 7 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
• November 22 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
• December 18 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
• December 21 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b. 1903)
• December 22 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1930)

1992 - Unknown date

• E. Harold Munn, American activist (b. 1903)

1992 - Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Georges Charpak
• Chemistry - Rudolph A. Marcus
• Medicine - Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
• Literature - Derek Walcott
• Peace - Rigoberta Menchu Tum

1992 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

• Gary Becker

1992 - Templeton Prize

• Kyung-Chik Han

1992 - Alternative

• Finnish Village Action Movement, Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury, Helen Mack, John Gofman and Alla Yaroshinskaya

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