1992 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1992?
- January 6, 1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
- February 4, 1992 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- March 6, 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- March 17, 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
- March 18, 1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
- March 22, 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
- May 7, 1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
- May 22, 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
- June 28, 1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- July 23, 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
- July 31, 1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
- August 12, 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- August 31, 1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- September 12, 1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- September 14, 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- September 16, 1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
- September 17, 1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- October 13, 1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
- November 11, 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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