Wednesday 01:
George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States of America to address the Australian Parliament.
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.
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.
Wednesday 22:
STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
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.
Monday 17:
A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
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 13:
In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.
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
Sunday 05:
Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protestor Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
Thursday 09:
John Major wins the UK general election.
Thursday 16:
The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
Monday 20:
An all-star concert in memory of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London.
Wednesday 29:
1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
May 1992
Thursday 07:
Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
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.
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.
Friday 10:
In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
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.
Friday 31:
A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
August 1992
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.
Sunday 23:
Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
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
Sunday 04:
An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
Thursday 15:
In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.
Friday 23:
Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
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.
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.
Thursday 12:
Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.
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).
Tuesday 24:
In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
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.
Friday 04:
President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.
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.
Wednesday 09:
US Marines land in Somalia
Thursday 31:
In the last of the great ITV franchise renewals, Thames Television, Television South West and Television South cease broadcasting, replaced by Carlton Television, Westcountry Television and Meridian Television respectively.
