Historical Events in 1992

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• Jan 1 Bush is 1st US President to address Australian Parliament
• Jan 1 Curacao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education
• Jan 1 Europe breaks down trade barriers
• Jan 1 International Space Year begins
• Jan 1 NYC transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25
• Jan 1 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is renamed the Russian Federation, becoming the successor state to the Soviet Union.

• Jan 3 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
• Jan 3 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores an unbeaten 129 in drawn 3rd Test against India in Sydney; his 11th Test century
• Jan 3 English club Wigan pays Widnes a world record rugby league transfer fee of £440,000 for Great Britain international winger Martin Offiah

• Jan 5 Indian cricket all-rounder Ravi Shastri scores 206 in 3rd Test in Sydney before being Shane Warne's first Test wicket, the first of 708 for Australia
• Jan 6 NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
• Jan 6 Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle" premieres in LA
• Jan 6 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
• Jan 6 The US Government urges doctors to stop using silicone breast implants, outlining the health effects
• Jan 6 Zviad Gamskahurdia, the President of Georgia, flees the country because of the military coup
• Jan 7 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)

• Jan 9 Alison Halford, Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police (Britain's most senior policewoman) is suspended after allegations of misconduct
• Jan 11 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation

• Jan 12 A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
• Jan 12 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
• Jan 12 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Troy State Trojans defeat DeVry Hoyas 258-149 in Troy, Alabama
• Jan 12 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished

• Jan 13 Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
• Jan 13 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II

• Jan 15 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
• Jan 15 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
• Jan 15 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
• Jan 16 Chapultepec Peace Accords are signed in Mexico City which ends the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War

• Jan 17 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
• Jan 18 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
• Jan 19 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $23.5 million
• Jan 19 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
• Jan 20 Score begins selling international soccer cards

• Jan 21 UN serves Libya a resolution to hand over intelligence agents accused of two airliner bombings
• Jan 22 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• Jan 22 Sarah, Duchess of York (aka Fergie) wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
• Jan 22 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
• Jan 24 Chalino Sánchez is attacked and shot while performing at the Plaza Los Arcos restaurant in Coachella, California

• Jan 25 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
• Jan 26 Super Bowl XXVI, Metrodome, Minneapolis, MI: Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24; MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, QB

• Jan 30 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
• Jan 31 MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00

• Feb 2 Australian Kieren Perkins swims 1,500m freestyle short course world record, 14:32.40 at AIS, Canberra, Australia
• Feb 2 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
• Feb 2 David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth

• Feb 3 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
• Feb 3 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week

• Feb 5 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
• Feb 5 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
• Feb 6 "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC
• Feb 6 The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence
• Feb 7 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial

• Feb 8 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
• Feb 8 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
• Feb 8 XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville, France
• Feb 9 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germany
• Feb 9 Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
• Feb 9 Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
• Feb 10 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
• Feb 10 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana

• Feb 11 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo, Netherlands (No deaths)
• Feb 11 Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)

• Feb 13 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
• Feb 14 American sprinter Andre Cason runs world record 60m indoor (6.41s) in Madrid, Spain
• Feb 14 Cease fire in Somalia begins

• Feb 14 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
• Feb 14 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
• Feb 15 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
• Feb 15 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys

• Feb 16 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue

• Feb 18 American amateur astronomer Peter Collins discovers Nova Cygni 1992, observed from Boulder, Colorado
• Feb 19 American porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
• Feb 19 In a blockbuster NHL trade, Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi, Brian Benning & LA's 1st round 1992 pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson, Rick Tocchet & Ken Wregget
• Feb 19 Professional Spring Football League announces end of operations, 10 days before the scheduled season opener; 10 teams had players in camp and practicing, and rosters cut down to 60 players
• Feb 20 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands

• Feb 22 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC

• Feb 22 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
• Feb 23 Cricketer Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut as Zimbabwe lose to Sri Lanka
• Feb 23 The Socialist Labour Party is founded in the eastern European country of Georgia
• Feb 23 XVI Winter Olympic Games close in Albertville, France
• Feb 25 34th Grammy Awards: "Unforgettable";, Marc Cohn win
• Feb 25 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan

• Feb 26 200+ Azerbaijanis, mostly civilians are killed by local Armenian forces and the 366th CIS regiment in the Khojaly massacre in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Feb 26 Irish Supreme Court rules 14-year-old rape victim may get an abortion
• Feb 27 Larry Smith named 9th Commissioner of the CFL

• Mar 1 In a rematch of one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history, Ghana's WBC super featherweight champion Azumah Nelson KOs Australian Jeff Fenech in 8th round in Melbourne
• Mar 1 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record 54.48s at the US Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, IN; passes famous GDR drug tainted record, Kristen Otto 1986 by 0.25s
• Mar 2 American swimmer Anita Nall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis; wins final in 2:25.35
• Mar 2 Moldova joins the United Nations.

• Mar 3 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 263 die

• Mar 3 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
• Mar 3 US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
• Mar 4 Singer-songwriter Paul Simon tapes an acoustic concert performance for "MTV Unplugged" at Kaufman-Astoria Studios in Queens, NYC
• Mar 5 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
• Mar 6 Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
• Mar 6 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to take affect
• Mar 6 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
• Mar 7 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
• Mar 10 "Come and Talk to Me" single released by Jodeci (Billboard Song of the Year 1992)
• Mar 10 Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
• Mar 12 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations

• Mar 13 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
• Mar 13 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)

• Mar 14 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
• Mar 14 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
• Mar 15 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
• Mar 17 Islamic Jihad car bombing of Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 29 [1]
• Mar 17 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit

• Mar 17 South African referendum of white voters on an end to apartheid, over two-thirds vote for an end to the system
• Mar 18 American businesswoman Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes"

• Mar 18 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
• Mar 19 Britain's Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation
• Mar 20 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set

• Mar 21 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup cricket semi
• Mar 22 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
• Mar 23 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
• Mar 24 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space with the 1st Belgium in space onboard, Dirk Frimout
• Mar 24 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
• Mar 25 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
• Mar 25 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

• Mar 25 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
• Mar 26 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
• Mar 26 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years

• Mar 28 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
• Mar 28 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
• Mar 29 Ice Dance Championship in Oakland, California won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
• Mar 29 Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland, California won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
• Mar 29 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Dottie Pepper (Mochrie) wins the first of her 2 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Juli Inkster with par on the 1st extra hole

• Mar 30 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
• Mar 30 Man accidentally backs into Oakland A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
• Mar 30 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Mar 30 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
• Mar 31 Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons guides the Suns to a 128-111 home win over Portland to become the 6th coach in NBA history to record 800 career wins
• Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi (Ajay Sharma 175 in 532) beats Tamil Nadu (449) on 1st innings
• Mar 31 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
• Apr 1 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned
• Apr 1 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation
• Apr 1 NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history; 10 day action earns large playoff bonus increase, more control over licensing of their likenesses and changes to free agency system
• Apr 1 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
• Apr 1 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
• Apr 2 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female prime minister, resigns

• Apr 2 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
• Apr 3 1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
• Apr 4 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
• Apr 4 Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
• Apr 4 Sali Berisha becomes president and Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
• Apr 5 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea

• Apr 5 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare
• Apr 5 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
• Apr 5 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

• Apr 6 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore, Maryland - Orioles beat Cleveland Indians 2-0
• Apr 6 A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.

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