1992 - What happened in 1992 ?

January 1992

Saturday 11:

Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

Sunday 12:

A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by referendum in Mali.

Wednesday 15:

The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Friday 17:

Punk rock band Green Day releases their second full-length album, Kerplunk.

Monday 27:

Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.

February 1992

Saturday 01:

The 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.

Friday 07:

The European Union is formed.

Monday 10:

In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black America contestant named Desiree Washington.

Sunday 23:

The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.

Wednesday 26:

Xocali slaughter. More than 600 people of the town of Xocali, Azerbaijan, are killed by Armenian forces during war in Karabakh.

March 1992

Monday 02:

Moldova joins the UN

Friday 06:

The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers.

Tuesday 17:

A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wednesday 25:

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

Tuesday 31:

The television news program Dateline NBC premieres.

April 1992

Thursday 09:

John Major wins the UK general election.

Sunday 12:

EuroDisney opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France.

Saturday 18:

General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

Monday 20:

An all-star concert in memory of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London.

Tuesday 21:

U.S. death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.

May 1992

Saturday 09:

In Malmö, Sweden, Linda Martin wins the thirty-seventh Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "Why Me".

Friday 15:

The Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in Genoa, Italy.

Saturday 16:

STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.

Sunday 17:

In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops, equipped with M-16 rifles, open fire.

Sunday 24:

The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.

June 1992

Monday 08:

The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Saturday 13:

The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the San Antonio Force, 50-0.

Monday 15:

The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries. No reciprocal right is recognized for the reverse to happen in the USA.

Wednesday 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).

Tuesday 23:

Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections..

July 1992

Thursday 09:

Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Al Gore will be his running mate.

Tuesday 14:

A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.

Monday 20:

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.

Tuesday 28:

Mary J. Blige releases her album What's the 411?. It is considered the album that started the new subgenre, hip-hop soul (also see 1992 in music).

Friday 31:

A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.

August 1992

Monday 03:

The Los Angeles Dodgers win their 3000th game since moving to Los Angeles.

Wednesday 12:

Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Tuesday 18:

NBA basketball player Larry Bird announces his retirement after winning an Olympic gold medal as a member of the U.S. Dream Team.

Monday 24:

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida

Monday 31:

Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multiparty presidential election, ending a long history of one-party oppressive rule under the Congolese Workers Party.

September 1992

Friday 11:

Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricane in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.

Saturday 12:

Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.

Wednesday 16:

Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.

Friday 18:

Nine formerly pro-Albanian marxist-leninist parties hold a conference in Strassburg, Germany.

Tuesday 29:

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.

October 1992

Friday 09:

A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.

Thursday 15:

In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.

Saturday 17:

The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.

Saturday 24:

The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-US team to win the World Series. This is also known as the first real "World" Series.

Sunday 25:

Latvia establishes its first post-Soviet constitution

November 1992

Thursday 05:

In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.

Wednesday 11:

The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Thursday 12:

Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.

Wednesday 25:

The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993.

Sunday 29:

Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

December 1992

Thursday 03:

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.

Saturday 05:

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.

Sunday 06:

In Ayodhya, India, Hindus belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party demolish the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.

Wednesday 09:

US Marines land in Somalia

Tuesday 29:

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.