1992: Encyclopedia II - 1992 - Events

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 1 - Leanne Ellison was born in Detriot Michigan (famous hockey player)
• January 8 - Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina in protest to the decision by Bosniaks 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 Moslem Bosnian 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 Commonwealth of Nations
• 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
• March 28 - Erin Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan (famous singer)

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 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.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki