January 1992

Wednesday 01:

George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States of America to address the Australian Parliament.

Thursday 02:

Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Monday 06:

The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

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.

Sunday 12:

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

Monday 13:

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

Wednesday 15:

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

Thursday 16:

El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.

Friday 17:

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

Wednesday 22:

STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.

Sunday 26:

Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.

Monday 27:

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