1992 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1992?
- February 1, 1992 – 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.
- February 4, 1992 – A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
- February 7, 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
- April 7, 1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
- April 13, 1992 – The Great Chicago Flood.
- April 18, 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- May 22, 1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
- July 23, 1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
- July 31, 1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
- August 22, 1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- September 6, 1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 mi west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
- September 11, 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
- September 17, 1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- September 29, 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- October 2, 1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
- November 13, 1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
- November 24, 1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People’s Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
- December 3, 1992 – UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
- December 4, 1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
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