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Year '''1992''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXCII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display full 1992 [[Gregorian calendar]]).
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== Events of 1992 ==
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=== January ===
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* [[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 U.S. President to address the [[Australian Parliament]].
* [[January 6]] - [[Bosnian Serbs]] declare their own republic within [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], in protest of 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 of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Kiichi Miyazawa]] and fainting.
* [[January 11]] - Singer [[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 [[Korea]]n women into sexual slavery during [[World War II]].
* [[January 15]] - The [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] begins 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]] ending a 12-year [[El Salvador Civil War|civil war]] that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
* [[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 [[Canada|Canadian]] woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]''.
* [[January 26]] - [[Boris Yeltsin]] announces that [[Russia]] will stop targeting [[United States]] cities with [[nuclear weapon]]s.
* [[January 26]] - The [[Washington Redskins]] defeat the [[Buffalo Bills]] 37-24 in [[Super Bowl XXVI]] at the [[Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome]] in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]].

=== February ===
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* [[February 1]] - Chief Judicial Magistrate of [[Bhopal]] Court declares [[Warren Anderson (chairman)|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 8]] - The opening ceremony for the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] is held in [[Albertville]], [[France]].
* [[February 10]] - In [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], boxer [[Mike Tyson]] is convicted of raping [[Desiree Washington]].
* [[February 10]] - [[Tom Harkin]] wins the [[Iowa]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Caucus.
* [[February 11]] - An [[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 18]] - In [[New Hampshire]], U.S. President [[George H.W. Bush]] defeats [[Pat Buchanan]] in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] primary; [[Paul Tsongas]] leads the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidates.
* [[February 20]] - The English [[FA Premier League]] is officially formed. The first games will be played at the beginning of the [[1992-93 in English football|new football season]] on [[15 August]], and its founder members will be the teams who finish in the top 19 places of [[1991-92 in English football|this season's]] [[Football League First Division]] and the 3 teams who win promotion from the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]].
* [[February 21]] - The [[United Nations Security Council]] approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a [[UNPROFOR]] peacekeeping force to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[February 23]] - The closing ceremony of the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] were held in [[Albertville]].
* [[February 25]]-[[February 26]] - Massacre of 613 [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] civilians in [[Khojaly]].
* [[February 26]] - The [[Supreme Court of Ireland]] rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to [[England]] to have an abortion.

=== March ===
* [[March 1]] - After a majority of the [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] and [[Bosnian Croat]] communities vote for [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] independence, [[Serb]] snipers fire on civilians.
* [[March 3]] - 263 die in [[Turkey]]'s worst [[coal mine]] disaster near [[Zonguldak]].
* [[March 9]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] ratifies the [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]].
* [[March 10]] - On 'Super Tuesday', U.S. President [[George H.W. Bush]] and Arkansas Governor [[Bill Clinton]] win most of the primaries held.
* [[March 12]] - [[Mauritius]] becomes a [[republic]] while remaining a member of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* [[March 12]] - A [[tram]]-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]]; 13 are killed and several injured.
* [[March 13]] - In eastern [[Turkey]], an [[earthquake]] registering 6.8 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] kills over 500.
* [[March 17]] - A suicide car-bomb goes off in the [[Israel]]i Embassy in [[Buenos Aires]], killing 29 and injuring 242.
* [[March 18]] - On [[CNN]]'s ''[[Larry King Live]]'', Texas billionaire [[H. Ross Perot]] announces that he will run for U.S. President as an independent, if volunteers put him on the ballot in all 50 states.
* [[March 18]] - [[Windows 3.1]] released.
* [[March 30]] - The [[64th Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Billy Crystal]], are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], with ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].

=== April ===
* [[April 2]] - In [[New York]], [[Mafia]] boss [[John Gotti]] is convicted of the [[murder]] of mob boss [[Paul Castellano]] and of [[racketeering]], and is later sentenced to life in prison.
* [[April 5]] - The Assembly of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (without the presence of [[Serbian]] political delegates) proclaims independence from the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].
** [[Bosnian War]]: Serb 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 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 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 12]] - [[Disneyland Paris]] officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
* [[April 13]] - The Great [[Chicago Flood]] happened on this day.
* [[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]], [[Spain]]'s 6-month Universal Exhibition, called [[Seville Expo '92]], opens.
* [[April 20]] - The [[Freddie Mercury]] Tribute Concert, held at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]], is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for [[AIDS]] research.
* [[April 21]] - The death of [[Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia|Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia]] results in a succession dispute between [[Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia]] and Vladimir's daughter [[Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia|Maria]] for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.
* [[April 22]] - Fuel that has leaked into a [[sewer]] [[1992 explosion in Guadalajara|explodes]] in [[Guadalajara, Jalisco|Guadalajara]], [[Mexico]]; 215 are killed, 1500 injured.
* [[April 27]] - [[Betty Boothroyd]] becomes the first woman elected [[Speaker of the British House of Commons]].
* [[April 28]] - The two remaining [[Constituent state|constituent republics]] of the former [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] - [[Serbia]] and [[Montenegro]] - form a new state, named the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (after [[2003]], [[Serbia and Montenegro]]), bringing to an end the official 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]], a jury acquits four [[LAPD]] police officers accused of excessive force in the videotaped beating of black motorist [[Rodney King]], causing the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] and leading to 53 deaths and $1 billion in damage.

=== May ===
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* [[May 1]] - Eric Houston of [[Yuba County]] kills 4, injures 9, and holds many others hostage at [[Lindhurst High School]], [[Olivehurst, California]].
* [[May 5]] - [[Alabama]] ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] making the [[27th Amendment to the United States Constitution|27th Amendment]] law. This amendment bars the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise.
* [[May 5]] - [[Russia]]n leaders in [[Crimea]] declare their separation from [[Ukraine]] as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on [[May 10]].
* [[May 10]] - [[Swedish national men's ice hockey team|Sweden]] wins the [[Ice Hockey World Championships]] in [[Prague]].

* [[May 13]] - [[Falun Gong]] introduced by [[Li Hongzhi]].
* [[May 15]] - The [[Genoa Expo '92]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]].
* [[May 16]] - ''[[STS-49]]'': Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
* [[May 19]] - In [[Massapequa]], [[New York]], [[Amy Fisher]] shoots [[Mary Jo Buttafuoco]].
* [[May 19]] - In [[San Francisco]], U.S. Vice President [[Dan Quayle]] gives his famous ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' speech.
* [[May 23]] - A [[Mafia]] bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge [[Giovanni Falcone]].
* [[May 25]] - [[Jay Leno]] becomes the new host of NBC's Tonight Show, following the retirement of [[Johnny Carson]].
* [[May 25]] - In Australia, [[Lindy Chamberlain]] receives compensation for wrongful conviction on murder charges.
* [[May 26]] - [[Charles Geschke]], President of [[Adobe Systems]], is kidnapped from his company parking lot. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended.

=== June ===
* [[June 1]] - [[Kentucky]] celebrates its [[1792|bicentennial]] statehood.
* [[June 1]] - Venezuelan revolutionary [[Ilich Ramírez Sánchez|Carlos (the Jackal)]] is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[June 3]] - Four [[nuclear missiles]] are launched into the Pacific Ocean.
* [[June 8]] - The first [[World Ocean Day]] is celebrated, coinciding with the [[Earth Summit]] held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].
* [[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'', 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 [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] (this is later codified in [[START II]]).
* [[June 20]] - In [[Estonia]], [[Estonian kroon|kroon]] replaces [[Soviet ruble]].
* [[June 22]] - Two skeletons excavated in [[Yekaterinburg]] are identified as Czar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and [[Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Tsarina Alexandra]].
* [[June 23]] - [[Mafia]] boss [[John Gotti]] is sentenced to life in [[prison]], after being found guilty of [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] to commit [[murder]] and [[racketeering]] on [[April 2]].
* [[June 26]] - [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]] beats [[Germany national football team|Germany]] 2-0 to win the [[1992 UEFA European Football Championship]] at [[Ullevi]] Stadium in [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]].
* [[June 28]] - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes [[Landers, California]], followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8km south-east of [[Big Bear Lake, California]].
* [[June 28]] - [[Estonia]] holds a referendum on its [[Constitution of Estonia|constitution]].
* [[June 29]] - A bodyguard assassinates President [[Muhammad Boudiaf]] of [[Algeria]].
* [[June 30]] - Retired general and Defense Secretary [[Fidel Ramos]] is sworn in as the 12th President of the [[Philippines]], having won elections held the previous month.

=== July ===
* [[July 6]]-[[July 29]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains 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 [[Panama]]nian leader [[Manuel Noriega]] is sentenced to 40 years in prison for [[recreational drug use|drug]] and [[racketeering]] violations.
* [[July 16]] - Arkansas Governor [[Bill Clinton]] is nominated for U.S. President and Tennessee Senator [[Al Gore]] for Vice President, at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[New York City]].
* [[July 20]] - [[Václav Havel]] resigns as president of [[Czechoslovakia]].
* [[July 22]] - Near [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]]n drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]] escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the [[United States]].
* [[July 25]] - [[August 9]] - The [[1992 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Barcelona, Spain]].
* [[July 31]] - The ex-Soviet [[Republic of Georgia]] becomes the 179th member of the [[United Nations]].

=== August ===
* [[August 10]] - The UK government bans the [[Ulster Defence Association]], a [[Ulster loyalism|loyalist]] [[paramilitary]] organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
* [[August 11]] - The largest shopping mall in the US, [[Minnesota]]'s [[Mall of America]] is constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m²).
* [[August 20]] - [[Kristiansund]]'s connection to the main land of [[Norway]], [[Krifast]], opens.
* [[August 20]] - 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.

=== September ===
* [[September 11]] - [[Hurricane Iniki]] hits the [[Hawaiian Islands]], [[Kauai]] and [[Oahu]].
* [[September 12]] - ''[[STS-47]]'': Dr. [[Mae Jemison]] becomes the first [[African-American]] woman to travel into space, 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]] - The [[Pound Sterling]] and the [[Lira|Italian Lira]] are forced out of the [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]] ([[Black Wednesday]]).
* [[September 17]] - Two [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] opposition leaders are assassinated by the [[Iran]]ian Kazem Darabi and the [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] Abbas Rhayel.
* [[September 23]] - A large [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] 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 state and the nation will eventually rule the same way .

=== October ===
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* [[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 [[US Airways|USAir]] and an upgrade from the older [[Pittsburgh International Airport]] facility.
* [[October 2]] - A riot breaks out in the [[Carandiru Penitentiary|Carandiru]] prison system in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]], resulting in the [[Carandiru Massacre]].
* [[October 3]] - After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, [[Sinéad O'Connor]] rips up a photo of [[Pope John Paul II]] on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.
* [[October 4]] - The [[Bijlmerramp]] disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in [[Amsterdam]], the [[Netherlands]]; 43 are killed, many more injured.
* [[October 6]] - [[Lennart Meri]] becomes the first [[President of Estonia|president]] of re-independent [[Estonia]].
* [[October 9]] - A 13-kilogram (29-pound) [[meteorite]] lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in [[Peekskill, New York]], destroying the family's car. It becomes known as the [[Peekskill Meteorite]].
* [[October 9]] - The [[Chief of Naval Operations]] adopts the [[US Navy]]'s core values: [[Honor]],[[Courage]] and [[Personal commitment|Commitment]].
* [[October 12]] - In [[Dominican Republic]], [[Pope John Paul II]] congregates to celebrate the 500th anniversary on the meeting of 2 cultures.
* [[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, becoming the first Canadian team to win.
* [[October 25]] - [[Lithuania]] holds [[Referendum in Lithuania|a referendum]] on [[constitution of Lithuania|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]].

=== 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 Vietnam]]ese accused of murdering 24 [[North Vietnam]]ese 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 [[Petroleum|oil]] tanker ''[[Aegean Sea (ship)|Aegean Sea]]'', carrying 80,000 tonnes of [[crude oil]], runs aground in a storm while on approach to [[A Coruña (province)|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 12]] - An [[earthquake]] hits [[Flores]], [[Indonesia]], leaving 2,500 dead.
* [[December 20]] - The [[Folies Bergere]] music hall in [[Paris]], [[France]] closes.
* [[December 21]] - A [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[DC-10]], flight [[Martinair MP 495]], crashes at [[Faro Airport (Portugal)]], killing 56 people.
* [[December 29]] - [[Brazil]]'s president [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for eight years.

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* [[Deng Xiaoping]] accelerates market reforms to establish a [[socialist market economy]] in the [[People's Republic of China]].
* Queensland introduces Freedom Of Information Laws.
* The [[Council for National Academic Awards]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] is wound up.
* Amalgamation of the Hospital Chaplains' Fellowship and the National Association of Whole Time Hospital Chaplains to form the [[College of Health Care Chaplains]] in the [[UK]].

=== Ongoing ===
* [[Computer Age]]

== Fictional ==
The following are references to year 1992 in fiction: [[Khan Noonian Singh]] rises to power
[[Star Trek]] events of [[Captain Proton]]

=== Television ===
:* The events of ''[[The X-Files]]'' [[Pilot (The X-Files)|pilot episode]] take place in 1992 between [[March 6]] and [[March 22]].

=== Computer/video games ===
:*Set in 1992: ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' (2004).

=== Film ===
:*''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (1968): On [[January 12]], the computer [[HAL 9000]] becomes operational (1997 in [[2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|the novel]]).

{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Heisei]] 4}}

== Births ==
:''For more 1992 births, see: [[:Category:1992 births]]''
=== January-April ===
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*[[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 5]] - [[Shannon Rae]], Australian Writer
*[[February 7]] - [[Maimi Yajima]], Japanese singer
*[[February 11]] - [[Taylor Lautner]], American actor
*[[February 14]] - [[Freddie Highmore]], British actor
*[[February 16]] - [[Danielle Catanzariti]], Australian actress
*[[February 16]] - [[Steffani Brass]], American actress
*[[february 17]] - [[Meaghan Jette Martin]] American actress
*[[March 3]] - [[Madison Cross]], American singer and actress
*[[March 4]] - [[Jazmin Grace Grimaldi]], daughter of [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]
*[[March 6]] - [[Momoko Tsugunaga]], Japanese singer
*[[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 26]] - [[Haley Ramm]], American actress
*[[April 4]] - [[Alexa Nikolas]], American actress
*[[April 15]] - [[Amy Diamond]], Swedish pop singer
*[[April 15]] - [[Richard Sandrak]], Ukrainian bodybuilder
*[[April 16]] - [[Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg]], Prince of Luxembourg
*[[April 25]] - [[Kyousuke Ikeda]], Japanese voice actor

=== May-August ===
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*[[May 3]] - [[Melissa Wu]], Australian Diver
*[[May 4]] - [[Courtney Jines]], American actress
*[[May 12]] - [[Malcolm David Kelley]], American actor
*[[May 18]] - [[Spencer Breslin]], American actor
*[[May 21]] - [[Thomas Gordon]], American Archaeologist
*[[May 22]] - [[Chinami Tokunaga]], Japanese singer
*[[May 30]] - [[Liam Mower]], British stage actor
*[[June 4]] - [[Dino Jelusić]], Croatian singer
*[[June 12]] - [[Allie DiMeco]], American actress
*[[June 12]] - [[Ryan Malgarini]], American actor
*[[June 14]] - [[Daryl Sabara]], American voice actor
*[[June 14]] - [[Evan Sabara]], American actor
*[[June 17]] - [[James Martin (actor)|James Martin]], British actor
*[[June 26]] - [[Jennette McCurdy]], American actress
*[[June 29]] - [[Adam G. Sevani]], Armenian-American actor and dancer
*[[June 30]] - [[Prussian Blue (American duo)|Lynx and Lamb Gaede]], twin American Neo-Nazi musicians
*[[July 1]] - [[Andrew and Steven Cavarno]], twin American actors
*[[July 3]] - [[Maasa Sudou]], Japanese singer
*[[July 7]] - [[Nathalia Ramos]], Spanish actress
*[[July 8]] - [[Benjamin Grosvenor]], Pianist
*[[July 13]] - [[Dylan Patton]], American actor and model
*[[July 20]] - [[Paige Hurd]], American actress
*[[July 15]] - [[Koharu Kusumi]], Japanese singer
*[[July 22]] - [[Selena Gomez]], American actress
*[[August 4]] - [[Dylan and Cole Sprouse]], twin American actors
*[[August 13]] - [[Katharine Close]], [[Scripps National Spelling Bee]] winner
*[[August 10]] - [[Ko Ah-seong]], South Korean actress
*[[August 18]] - [[Frances Bean Cobain]], daughter of [[Kurt Cobain]] and [[Courtney Love]]
*[[August 20]] - [[Demi Lovato]], American actress
*[[August 25]] - [[Miyabi Natsuyaki]], Japanese singer

=== September-December ===
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*[[September 16]] - [[Nicholas Jonas]], American singer/songwriter and actor
*[[September 19]] - [[Gavin Fink]], American actor
*[[September 28]] - [[Skye McCole Bartusiak]], American actress
*[[October 1]] - [[Gauri Shankar]], Indian chess prodigy
*[[October 9]] - [[Juliet Holland-Rose]], English/American actress
*[[October 9]] - [[Tyler James Williams]], American actor
*[[October 12]] - [[Taylor Horn]], American singer and actress
*[[October 13]] - [[John John Florence]], American surfer
*[[October 13]] - [[Sarah Payne]], British murder victim (d. [[2000]])
*[[October 13]] - [[Aaron Dismuke]], American voice actor
*[[October 15]] - [[Vincent Martella]], American actor
*[[October 22]] - [[Sofia Vassilieva]], American actress
*[[October 30]] - [[Tequan Richmond]], American actor

*[[November 11]] - [[Trey Smith]], American actor
*[[November 12]] - [[Macey Cruthird]], American actress
*[[November 12]] - [[Shelbie Bruce]], American actress
*[[November 17]] - [[Darian Weiss]], American actor
*[[November 18]] - [[Nathan Kress]], American actor
*[[November 23]] - [[Miley Cyrus]], American actress and singer
*[[November 25]] - [[Zack Shada]], American actor
*[[November 27]] - [[Tola Szlagowska]], Polish singer
*[[November 28]] - [[Kianna Underwood]], American actress
*[[November 28]] - [[Adam Hicks]], American actor
*[[November 30]] - [[Dylan Smith (actor)|Dylan Smith]], American actor
*[[December 3]] - [[Joseph McManners]], British stage actor
*[[December 14]] - [[Tori 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

== Deaths ==
=== January-March ===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Grace Hopper]], American computer scientist (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 3]] - Dame [[Judith Anderson]], Australian actress (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 7]] - [[Richard Hunt (puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]], Muppet performer (b. [[1951]])
* [[January 9]] - [[Bill Naughton]], British playwright (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 17]] - [[Frank Pullen]], English buissness person and racehorse owner (b. [[1915]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Freddie Bartholomew]], Irish actor (b. [[1924]])
* [[January 26]] - [[José Ferrer]], Puerto Rican actor (b. [[1912]])
* [[January 27]] - [[Allan Jones (actor)|Allan Jones]], American actor and singer (b. [[1907]])
* [[January 27]] - [[Sally Hayfron|Sally Mugabe (nee Hayfron)]], Wife of [[Robert Mugabe]] and first lady of [[Zimbabwe]] (b. [[1933]])
* [[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. [[1937]])
* [[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 21]] - [[Natalie Sleeth]], American composer (b. [[1930]])
* [[March 23]] - [[Friedrich Hayek]], Austrian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1899]])
* [[March 29]] - [[Paul Henreid]], Austrian-born actor (b. [[1908]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Manolis Andronikos]], Greek archaeologist (b. [[1919]])

=== April-June ===
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* [[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 5]] - [[Sam Walton]], founder of [[Wal-Mart]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[April 6]] - [[Isaac Asimov]], Russian-born author (b. [[1920]])
* [[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]], [[Colombia]]n painter (b. [[1920]])
* [[April 19]] - [[Benny Hill]], British comedian and actor (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 21]] - [[Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia|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 (painter)|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 21]] - [[T. B. Ilangaratne]], Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (b. [[1913]])
* [[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 18]] - [[Peter Allen]], Australian singer, songwriter (b. [[1944]])
* [[June 22]] - [[Chuck Mitchell]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[June 25]] - [[Jerome Brown]], American football player (b. [[1965]])

=== July-September ===
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* [[July 13]] - [[Albert Pierrepoint]], [[United Kingdom|British]] Chief [[Executioner]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Hammer DeRoburt]], first [[President of Nauru]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Rosemary Sutcliff]], British author (b. [[1920]])
* [[July 27]] - [[Anthony Salerno]], member of the U.S. La Cosa Nostra and a leader in the Genovese Family (b.[[1911]])
* [[July 31]] - [[Leonard Cheshire]], English war hero and philanthropist (b. [[1917]])
* [[August 4]] - [[Seicho Matsumoto]], Japanese writer and journalist (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Jeff Porcaro]], American musician (b. [[1954]])
* [[August 12]] - [[John Cage]], American composer (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 16]] - [[Mark Heard]], American singer (b. [[1951]])
* [[August 18]] - [[John Sturges]], American director, ''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]'', ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 29]] - [[Teddy Turner]], comedian (b. [[1917]])
* [[September 2]] - [[Barbara McClintock]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Anthony Perkins]], American actor, most noted for his portrayal of [[Norman Bates]] in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s [[1960]] film ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (b. [[1932]])

=== October-December ===
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* [[October 5]] - [[Eddie Kendricks]], American singer ([[The Temptations]]) (b. [[1939]])
* [[October 6]] - [[Denholm Elliott]], English actor (b. [[1922]])
* [[October 7]] - [[Tevfik Esenç]], last known speaker of [[Ubykh language|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 2]] - [[Hal Roach]], American director and producer (b. [[1892]])
* [[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 12]] - [[Suzanne Lilar]], Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 13]] - Ricky Ray, one of the [[Ray brothers]], a hemophiliac teenager diagnosed with HIV (b. [[1977]])
* [[December 18]] - [[Mark Goodson]], American game show producer (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Stella Adler]], American acting teacher (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Nathan Milstein]], Ukrainian-born violinist (b. [[1903]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Albert King]], American musician (b. [[1923]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Frederick William Franz]], a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Ted Willis|Lord Ted Willis]], British television dramatist and author (b. [[1914]])
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* [[December 25]] - [[Ted Croker]], English former football official (b. [[1924]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Monica Dickens]], English author (b. [[1915]])

== Nobel prizes ==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Georges Charpak]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Rudolph A. Marcus]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Edmond H. Fischer]], [[Edwin G. Krebs]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Derek Walcott]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Rigoberta Menchú]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Gary Becker]]

== Templeton Prize ==
* [[Kyung-Chik Han]]

== See also ==
* [[20th century]]
== Notes ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?050117sh_shouts 1992 House by Bill Frolick] - article about 1992 from ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine.
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