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| 1992 |
| January 1st |
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaced Javier Pérez
de Cuéllar of Peru as the United Nations Secretary-General. |
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| January 8th |
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The Bosnian Serbs declared their own republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina
in protest to the decision by the Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats
to seek EC recognition. |
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| January 8th |
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US President George H. W. Bush Snr. fell violently ill at a
banquet attended by the Prime Minister of Japan. |
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| January 13th |
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Homosexual serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty, but
insane, to the murders of 15 young men and boys. |
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| January 15th |
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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, established in
1948, ceased to exist. Slovenia and Croatia gained independence. |
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| January 16th |
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El Salvador officials and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico
City that ended a 12 year civil war that claimed nearly 75,000
lives. |
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| January 22nd |
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Dr.
Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space during
NASA's Space Shuttle 'Discovery' mission STS-42. The mission
was related to the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1).
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| January 26th |
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Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia was going to cease in targeting
the United States and its cities with nuclear weapons. |
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| January 28th |
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In
the United States, President Bush Snr. announced 'the Cold War
won' in his State of the Union address in Washington D.C. |
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| February
10th |
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In Indianapolis, Indiana, boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of
raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. |
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| February
17th |
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A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sentenced homosexual serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison. |
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| February
20th |
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The English Football Association (FA) Premier League was officially
formed. |
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| February
21st |
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The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 743
and decided to send a peacekeeping force (UNPROFOR) to Yugoslavia. |
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| February
26th |
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The Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that a 14-year-old rape victim
may travel to England to obtain an abortion, which is illegal
in Ireland. |
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| March 1st |
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After a majority of the Muslim Bosnian and Bosnian Croat communities
voted for Bosnian independence, Serbian snipers targeted civilians. |
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| March 17th |
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In
Argentina, 29 people were killed and 242 injured when a suicide
car-bomb exploded in the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. |
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| March 25th |
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Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after he completed
a 10-month stay on board the Mir space station. |
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| April 2nd |
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In New York, the Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of murder
of mob boss Paul Castellano and of racketeering. Gotti was later
sentenced to life in prison. |
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| April 6th |
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Serbian army artillery began to bombard the city of Sarajevo
in response to the majority vote for Bosnian independence. |
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| April 6th |
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The Russian-born science-fiction author and visionary, Isaac
Asimov, died. Asimov developed the three laws of Robotics in
his novel 'I Robot'. |
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| April 8th |
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The long established British satirical magazine 'Punch' published
its final issue. |
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| April 9th |
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In Florida a Miami jury convicted the former Panamanian ruler
Manuel Noriega of assisting the Colombian drug cartel. |
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| April 9th |
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The
Conservative party won and John Major was re-elected as Prime
Minister in the general election in the United Kingdom. |
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| April 10th |
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The Irish terror group, the IRA, exploded a bomb in the Baltic
Exchange in the City of London. The bomb killed 3 and injured
91 people. |
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| April 14th |
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The trial of the Russian serial sex killer Andrew Chikatilo
began. Chikatilo was accused of mudering 52 women and children. |
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| April 27th |
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In Britain MP Betty Boothroyd was elected as the first woman
to be the 'Speaker of the House of Commons'. |
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| April 29th |
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In Los Angeles, California, the LAPD officiers that were accused
of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, were
found "not guilty". The verdict outraged the black
communiy and resulted in the eruption of riots in Los Angeles
and other cities in America. |
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| April - May. |
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Riots
broke out in south central Los Angeles following the acquittal
of four LAPD policemen videotaped while brutally beating African-American
motorist Rodney King. 52 dead; property damage $1 billion. |
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| May 5th |
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Russian
leaders in the Crimea declared their separation from Ukraine
as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10th. |
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| May 16th |
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The
Space Shuttle 'Endeavour' landed safely after a successful maiden
voyage on mission STS-49. |
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| June 15th |
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At a New Jersey elementary school, in front of the media, U.S.
Vice President Dan Quayle mistakenly corrected a student's spelling
of the word potato, and suggested that it should have an e on
the end. |
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| June 22nd |
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Two skeletons excavated in the woods at Yekaterinburg, Russia,
were identified as the remains of Czar Nicholas II and his tsarina,
executed in 1918 by Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries. |
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| June 23rd |
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Mafia boss John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison after
being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering
on April 2nd. |
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| July 10th |
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In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was
sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. |
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| July 13th |
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Britain's former executioner Albert Pierrepoint died. Pierrepoint
was the official 'hangman' when capital punishment was law
in Britain.
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| July 20th |
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Czech dramatist, politician and human rights activist Václav
Havel resigned as president of Czechoslovakia. |
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| July 22nd |
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In
Columbia, near Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped
from his self-imprisioned luxury prison fearing extradiction
to the United States. |
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| August 10th |
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The British government banned the UDA (Ulster Defence Association),
a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for
twenty years. |
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| August 24th |
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Hurricane
Andrew hit South Florida and caused devastating destruction. |
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| August 28th |
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Hurricane Andrew dissipated over the Tennessee valley when it
merged with another storm system. Twenty-three were killed. |
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| September
12th |
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Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to travel
to space, on board the Space Shuttle 'Endeavour'. |
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| October 15th |
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In
Russia, the serial sex killer Andrei Chikatilo who was found
guilty of murdering 52 women and children in July, was sentenced
to death. Sentence was carried out with a bullet to the back
of the head on February 14th 1994. |
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| November
3rd |
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Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR) defeated President George Bush
Snr. and Ross Perot in the presidential elections and became
the new President of the United States. |
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| November
11th |
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In Britain the Church of England voted for the first time to
allow women to become priests. |
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| November
20th |
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In England, a devasting fire broke out in the chapel of Windsor
Castle. The fire caused serious damage, and was started when
a workman's lamp ignited a nearby curtain. The fire caused outrage
when it was suggested that the repairs would be paid for by
the British taxpayer. The incident led to a change regarding
tax laws related to the Queen. |
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November 24th
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In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines
domestic flight crashed, 141 passengers killed.
|
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| November
24th |
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The British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II described 1992 as an
'Annus Horribilis' (horrible year) due to various scandals damaging
the image of the Royal Family. |
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| November
25th |
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The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly voted to split the country
into the Czech Republic and Slovakia Republic, as of January
1st 1993. |
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| December
3rd |
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The UN Security Council unanimously agreed and passed Resolution
794. The resolution approved a coalition of UN peacekeepers
led by the United States to form UNITAF, to supply and distribute
humanitarian aid and establish peace in war torn Somalia, Africa. |
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| December
4th |
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In response to the passed UN resolution 794, US military forces
invaded Somalia. |
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| December
6th |
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Hindu activists destroyed the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India,
which triggered religious violence around the country killing
a 1000 people. |
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