1992

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

Events

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 and Herzegovina in protest to the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.
January 8 - George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
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 begin to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
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.^*
January 26 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24, in Super Bowl XXVI.

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 25 - February 26 Massacring of 613 Azerbaijani civilians in the city Khojaly Among them were 106 women, 83 children. 56 people were killed with special brutality. 8 families were totally exterminated. 25 children were totally, and 130 children were partly orphaned. 476 people became disabled persons (of them 76 were minors). 1275 people were taken into hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the Armenian forces
February 26 - Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.

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 Bosniak 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

April

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 - Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serbian political delegates) proclaims the independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
April 6 - Robert Schumann (record-breaker) becomes the youngest person to visit the north pole
April 6 - Serbian troops, as a result of mass rebelion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian independence from Yugoslavia, begin to siege the city of Sarajevo. The begin of Bosnian War
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 - Roermond in the Netherlands is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
April 14-October 15 - The trial of the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo - he is sentenced to death
April 15 - National Assembly of Vietnam adopts 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
April 20 - Seville's six month Universal Exhibition opens, called Seville Expo '92 ,in the city of Seville , Spain
April 20 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held at Wembley Stadium televised live to over one billion people and raises thousands of dollars for AIDS research.
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 28 - Two last remained countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro formed a new state under name - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro) and ceased the existence of the union state of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II)
April 29 - In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD 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.

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

June

June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
June 1 - Terrorist Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment
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). ^*
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 ^*
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

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.

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 24-28 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system. Twenty-three were killed.

September

September 11 - Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu
September 12 - Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel to space, going into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
September 15 – Mihkel Mathiesen assumes presidency of the pre-WW II Republic of Estonia, in exile, and appoints a new government in pursuit to avoid abolition of the government in exile
September 16 - Pound Sterling and Italian Lira forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (Black Wednesday)
17 September - Two Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel
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.
September 30 - José Eduardo dos Santos wins the first democratically-held elections in Angola, defeating Jonas Savimbi.

October

October 1 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The new terminals 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 the address of a party and is shot after knocking on the wrong door in Louisiana, United States. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking an outrage in Japan.
October 24 - Toronto Blue Jays win World Series in 6 games, making them 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.
October 31 - Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of Inquisition against Galileo Galilei

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 dies after a struggle with white policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn. 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, as well as the Windsor Castle fire
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)

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 inFalun, 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.

Unknown Dates

The Council for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up.
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.
Great American Bathroom Book published

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.
The events of the video game San Andreas take place.

Births

For more 1992 births see Category:1992 births

January-April

January 10 - Eric & Brandon Billings, twin American actors
January 19 - Logan Lerman, American actor
January 21 - Logan O'Brien, American actor
January 27 - Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
February 11 - Taylor Lautner, American actor
February 14 - Freddie Highmore, British actor
March 9 - Luis Armand Garcia, American actor
March 10 - Emily Osment, American actress
March 14 - Kylie Tyndall, American actress
March 14 - Keaton Tyndall, American actress
March 15 - Sosie Bacon, American actress
March 21 - Bobby Preston, American actor
April 4 - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
April 15 - Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
April 15 - Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder and actor

May-August

May 12 - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
May 18 - Spencer Breslin, American actor
May 30 - Liam Mower, British stage actor

June 4 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
June 12 - Ryan Malgarini, American actor
June 14 - Daryl Sabara, American voice actor
June 14 - Evan Sabara, American actor
June 17 - James Martin, American actor
June 19 - Mariah Stanley, American singer
June 30 - Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American musicians
July 8 - Benjamin Grosvenor, British musician
July 13 - Dylan Patton, American actor and model
July 15 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer and emalee m
August 4 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, twin child actors
August 18 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain

September-December

September 19 - Gavin Fink, American actor
September 23 - Mario Bautista, American news anchor
September 28 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
October 9 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
October 12 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
October 15 - Vincent Martella, American actor
October 22 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
October 30 - Tequan Richmond, American actor
November 17 - Darian Weiss, American actor
November 23 - Miley Cyrus, American actress
November 25 - Zack Shada, American actor
November 28 - Kianna Underwood, American actress
November 30 - Dylan Smith, American actor
December 23 - Spencer Daniels, American actor
December 24 - Melissa Suffield, British actress
December 6 - Riley Hawk, Son of Tony Hawk

Deaths

January-March

January 1 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
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 4 - Art Babbitt, animator (Mister Magoo, Goofy) (b. 1907)
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-June

April 1 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
April 5 - Suada Dilberovic, Bosnian medical student .First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo (b.1968)
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 10 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
April 18 - Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)
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)
May 4 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
May 12 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
May 13 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
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 18 - Mordecai Ardon, One of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
June 22 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
June 25 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)

July-December

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 6 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
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 17 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
October 19 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920)
October 22 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
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 21 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1923)

Unknown date

E. Harold Munn, American activist (b. 1903)
Introduction of Lorenzo's oil

Nobel Prizes

1992 in Fiction

The video game San Andreas is set in 1992. The city closly resembles Los Angeles, San Fransico and Las Vegas, and riots similar to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots take place close to the end of the game.

12 January 1992 is the date that the computer HAL 9000 reports that he became operational in the film A Space Odyssey

External links

1992 House by Bill Frolick - article about 1992 from The New Yorker magazine

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