1992 - What happened in 1992 ?

January 1992

Thursday 02:

Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Wednesday 08:

President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.

Saturday 11:

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

Monday 13:

Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

Monday 27:

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

February 1992

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.

Thursday 20:

The FA Premier League is formed and takes over as the professional league in England from season 1992–93.

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

Friday 06:

The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers.

Thursday 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.

Friday 13:

In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.

Wednesday 18:

Microsoft ships Windows 3.1.

Wednesday 25:

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

April 1992

Thursday 02:

Pierre Bérégovoy becomes Prime Minister of France

Wednesday 08:

Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces to the world that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.

Sunday 12:

EuroDisney opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France.

Thursday 16:

The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

Monday 27:

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is proclaimed, comprising of Serbia and Montenegro.

May 1992

Tuesday 05:

Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.

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.

Friday 22:

After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.

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.

Saturday 18:

The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.

Wednesday 22:

Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.

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).

August 1992

Monday 03:

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

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.

Saturday 22:

FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

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 02:

The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil.

Sunday 04:

An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp

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.

Sunday 25:

Latvia establishes its first post-Soviet constitution

Thursday 29:

The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.

November 1992

Tuesday 03:

U.S. presidential election: Democratic challenger Bill Clinton defeats incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.

Thursday 05:

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

Saturday 07:

The Party for Socialist Turkey is founded.

Friday 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).

Wednesday 25:

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

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.