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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday.
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[edit] January
[edit] 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 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
- February 10 - In Indianapolis, Indiana, boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping Desiree Washington.
- February 10 - Tom Harkin wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus.
- February 11 - An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.
- February 11 - In New York City, rapper Jim Jones is convicted of assaulting a police officer after she refused to have sex with him.
- 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 18 - In New Hampshire, U.S. President George H.W. Bush defeats Pat Buchanan in the Republican primary; Paul Tsongas leads the Democratic candidates.
- February 20 - The English FA Premier League is officially formed. The first games will be played at the beginning of the new football season on 15 August, and its founder members will be the teams who finish in the top 19 places of this season's Football League First Division and the 3 teams who win promotion from the Second Division.
- February 21 - The United Nations Security Council approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia.
- February 25-February 26 - Massacre of 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Khojaly. Among them are 106 women and 83 children. 56 people are killed especially brutally. 8 families are totally exterminated. 25 children are totally, and 130 children partly orphaned. 476 people (of which 76 are children) become disabled. 1,275 people are taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages are released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the Armenian forces.
- February 26 - The Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.
- April 2 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of the murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and racketeering, and is later sentenced to life in prison.
- April 6 - The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serbian political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- April 6 - Robert Schumann, 10, becomes the youngest person to visit the North Pole.
- April 6 - Bosnian War: Serbian troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
- April 8 - Punch magazine publishes its final issue.
- April 9 - A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.
- April 9 - United Kingdom general election, 1992: the Conservative Party, led by John Major, is unexpectedly re-elected.
- April 10 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.
- April 13 - Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
- April 15 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- April 20 - Seville's 6-month Universal Exhibition opens, called Seville Expo '92, in the city of Seville, Spain.
- April 20 - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 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 a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1500 injured.
- April 27 - Betty Boothroyd is elected the first woman to be Speaker of the British House of Commons.
- April 28 - The 2 remaining countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro - form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the union 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 accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
- 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 is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- June 12 - Medical doctor Pravin Thakkar is sentenced to 16 years for aborting the fetuses of 2 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 is later codified in START II). [2]
- June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
- 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. [3]
- June 26 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- June 28 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Landers, California, followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8km southeast of Big Bear Lake, California.
- June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates president Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.
[edit] August
- August 10 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
- August 17 - U.S. Marshalls start the siege of Ruby Ridge.
- August 18 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
- August 20 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
- August 21 - The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
- August 21-August 22 - Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
- August 24-August 28 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.
[edit] September
[edit] October
- October 1 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for U.S. Air and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
- October 1 - H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
- October 2 - A riot breaks out in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru Massacre.
- October 3 - Liberal Party's Jeff Kennett replaces Labor's Joan Kirner as Vic Premier.
- October 4 - The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
- October 9 - A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands 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 dead after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan.
- October 24 - The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series in 6 games, making them the first Canadian team to win.
- October 25 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
- 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 the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.
[edit] November
- November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George H.W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot.
- 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 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 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 - The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).
[edit] 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 - U.S. military forces land in 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 U.S. Senator ever to have held 2 seats on the same day.
- December 6 - Hindu extremists demolish Babri Masjid (a 16th century mosque) in Ayodhya, India.
- December 8 - The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
- December 20 - The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
- December 21 - A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport (Portugal), killing 56 people.
- December 29 - Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello resigns, following charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government and impeachment proceedings.
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[edit] Births
For more 1992 births see Category:1992 births
[edit] January-April
- January 10 - Eric & Brandon Billings, twin American actors
- January 12 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
- January 19 - Logan Lerman, American actor
- January 21 - Logan O'Brien, American actor
- January 27 - Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
- January 30 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
- February 11 - Taylor Lautner, American actor
- February 14 - Freddie Highmore, British actor
- February 16 - Steffani Brass, American actress
- March 3 - Madison Cross, American singer and actress
- March 4 - Jazmin Grace Rotolo, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- March 8 - Charlie Ray, American actress
- 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
- March 26 - Haley Ramm, American actress
- April 4 - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
- April 15 - Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
- April 15 - Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder and actor
- April 25 - Kyousuke Ikeda, Japanese voice actor
[edit] May-August
- May 4 - Courtney Jines, American actress
- 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 7 - Will Reeve, son of Christopher Reeve
- 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 Neo-Nazi musicians
- July 1 - Andrew and Steven Cavarno, twin American actors
- July 13 - Dylan Patton, American actor and model
- July 15 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer
- July 22 - Selena Gomez, American actress
- August 4 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, twin actors
- August 18 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
- August 25 - Masha Allen, internet crime victim
[edit] September-December
- September 14 - Holly Jones, Canadian murder victim
- September 19 - Gavin Fink, American actor
- September 28 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
- October 9 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
- October 12 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
- October 13 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (d. 2003)
- October 13 - Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor
- October 15 - Vincent Martella, American actor
- October 17 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer/performer
- October 22 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
- October 30 - Tequan Richmond, American actor
- November 12 - Macey Cruthird, American actress
- November 12 - Shelbie Bruce, American actress
- November 17 - Darian Weiss, American actor
- November 23 - Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
- November 25 - Zack Shada, American actor
- November 26 - Louis Ducruet, British noble
- November 28 - Kianna Underwood, American actress
- November 28 - Adam Hicks, American actor
- November 30 - Dylan Smith, American actor
- December 3 - Joseph McManners, British stage actor
- December 14 - Victoria Kelly, American actress
- December 17 - Thomas Law, British actor
- December 21 - Haylee Wanstall, American actress
- December 23 - Spencer Daniels, American actor
- December 24 - Melissa Suffield, British actress
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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. 1907)
- 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)
[edit] April-June
- 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 6 - Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918)
- April 7 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
- 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 11 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
- 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 25 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965)
- 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, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
- June 22 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
- June 25 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
[edit] July-December
- July 13 - Albert Pierrepoint, British Chief Executioner (b. 1905)/pound
- 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 16 - Mark Heard, American singer (b. 1951)
- September 2 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
- October 5 - Eddie Kendricks, American Singer, The Temptations
- 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 5 - Malice Green, black motorist in Detroit, Michigan who died in the custody of white police officers
- November 7 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
- November 22 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
- December 6 - Mimi Smith, Maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- 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)
- December 22 - Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author (b. 1914)
- December 25 - Ted Croker, English former football official (b. 1924)
- December 25 - Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915)
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