1992
1992 (
MCMXCII) was a
leap year starting on Wednesday.
January
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January 1 -
Boutros Boutros-Ghali of
Egypt replaces
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of
Peru as
United Nations Secretary-General*
January 1 -
George H. W. Bush becomes the first
President of the United States to address the
Australian Parliament.
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January 8 -
Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within
Bosnia and Herzegovina in protest to the decision by
Bosniaks and
Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition.
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January 8 -
George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
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January 11 -
Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour
South Africa after the end of the
cultural boycott.
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January 12 - The second round of
Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the
Islamic Salvation Front.
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January 13 -
Japan apologizes for forcing
Korean women into sexual slavery during
World War II.
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January 13 -
Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.
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January 15 - The
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begin to break up.
Slovenia and
Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
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January 16 -
El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in
Mexico City that ends a 12 year
civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
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January 22 - Rebel forces occupy
Zaire's national radio station in
Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation
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January 22 -
STS-42: Dr.
Roberta Bondar becomes the first
Canadian woman in space.
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January 26 -
Boris Yeltsin announces that
Russia is going to stop targeting
United States cities with
nuclear weapons.[
1]
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January 26 - The
Washington Redskins defeat the
Buffalo Bills, 37-24, in
Super Bowl XXVI.
February
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February 1 - 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, and orders the Indian government to press for an
extradition from
United States.
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February 7 - Signing of the
Maastricht treaty, which founded the
European Union.
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February 10 - In
Indianapolis, Indiana boxer
Mike Tyson is convicted of raping
Desiree Washington.
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February 11 -
F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of
Hengelo, the
Netherlands. No casualties are reported.
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February 17 - A court in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
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February 18 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details
Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
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February 20 - The English
FA Premier League is officially formed.
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February 21 -
United Nations Security Council approves
United Nations Resolution 743 and decides to send
UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to the
Yugoslavia.
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February 25-
February 26 - Massacre of 613
Azerbaijani civilians in
Khojaly. Among them are 106 women and 83 children. 56 people are killed especially brutally. 8 families are totally exterminated. 25 children are totally, and 130 children partly orphaned. 476 people (of which 76 children) become disabled. 1275 people are taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the
Armenian forces.
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February 26 -
Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to
England to have an abortion.
March
* March - Boxer
Mike Tyson is given a 6 year sentence for raping
Desiree Washington.
*
March 1 - After a majority of the
Bosniak and
Bosnian Croat communities vote for
Bosnian independence,
Serb snipers fire on civilians.
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March 12 -
Mauritius becomes a
republic while remaining a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations.
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March 12 - 13 are killed and several injured when a
tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at
Vasaplatsen in
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
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March 13 - In eastern
Turkey, an
earthquake registering 6.8 on the
Richter scale kills over 500.
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March 17 - 29 are killed and 242 injured when a suicide car-bomb goes off in the
Israeli embassy in
Buenos Aires.
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March 25 - Cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the
Mir space station.
April
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April 2 - In
New York,
Mafia boss
John Gotti is convicted of
murder of mob boss
Paul Castellano and
racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
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April 6 - Assembly of the Socialist Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of
Serbian political delegates) proclaims the independence from
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia*
April 6 -
Robert Schumann (record-breaker) becomes the youngest person to visit the
North Pole.
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April 6 -
Serbian troops, as a result of a mass rebellion of
Serbs in
Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from
Yugoslavia, besiege the city of
Sarajevo (the beginning of the
Bosnian War).
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April 8 -
Punch magazine publishes its final issue.
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April 9 - A Miami jury convicts former Panamanian ruler
Manuel Noriega of assisting
Colombia's cocaine cartel.
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April 9 -
United Kingdom general election -
John Major unexpectedly re-elected.
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April 10 -
IRA bomb explodes in the
Baltic Exchange in the
City of London - 3 dead, 91 injured.
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April 13 -
Roermond in the
Netherlands is rocked by an
earthquake along the
Peel Fault.
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April 14-
October 15 - The trial of the
Russian
serial killer Andrei Chikatilo - he is sentenced to death.
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April 15 -
National Assembly of Vietnam adopts 1992
Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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April 20 - Seville's six month Universal Exhibition opens, called
Seville Expo '92 ,in the city of
Seville, Spain.
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April 20 -
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at
Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over one billion people and raises thousands of dollars for AIDS research.
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April 21 -
Maria Vladimirovna of Russia succeeds her father as Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, and Titular Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias.
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April 22 - Fuel that has leaked into
sewer explodes in
Guadalajara,
Mexico - 215 dead, 1500 injured.
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April 27 -
Betty Boothroyd elected the first woman to be
Speaker of the
British House of Commons.
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April 28 - Two last remained countries of the former
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the
Republic of Serbia and the
Republic of Montenegro formed a new state under name - the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after
2003,
Serbia and Montenegro) and ceased the existence of the union state of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from
1918 (with the exception of the period during
World War II).
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April 29 - In
Simi Valley, California, the
LAPD police officers that were accused of excessive force in their severe beating of
Rodney King, were found "not guilty". The verdict resulted in
several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
May
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May 5 -
Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the
United States Constitution making the
27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the
U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise.
*
May 5 -
Russian leaders in
Crimea declare their separation from
Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on
May 10.
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May 10 - Team of
Sweden wins the
Ice Hockey World Championships in
Prague.
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May 15 - The
Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in
Genoa,
Italy*
May 16 -
STS-49:
Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
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May 19 -
Amy Fisher shoots at
Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
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May 23 -
Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-mafia judge
Giovanni Falcone.
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May 26 -
Charles Geschke, President of
Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company car park. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended.
June
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June 1 -
Kentucky celebrates its
bicentennial statehood.
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June 1 - Terrorist
Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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June 1 - The
Pittsburgh Penguins sweep the
Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games in the
1992 Stanley Cup Finals.
*
June 8 - The first
World Ocean Day celebrated, coinciding with the
Earth Summit held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
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June 12 - Medical doctor
Pravin Thakkar is sentenced for 16 years for
aborting fetuses of two of his former lovers without their permission.
*
June 15 - During a
spelling bee at a
Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President
Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's
spelling of the word
potato by indicating it should have an
e at the end.
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June 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). [
2]
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June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in
Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar
Nicholas II and his tsarina
*
June 23 -
Mafia boss
John Gotti is sentenced to life in
prison, after being found guilty of
conspiracy to commit
murder and
racketeering on
April 2. [
3]
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June 26 -
Denmark beat
Germany 2-0 to win
Euro 92 at
Ullevi Stadium in
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
*
June 29 -
Bodyguard assassinates president
Muhammad Boudiaf of
Algeria.
July
*
July 6-
July 29 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claimed that it had reliable information that the site contained archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
*
July 10 - In
Miami, Florida, former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for
drug and
racketeering violations.
*
July 13 - Britain's former executioner
Albert Pierrepoint dies.
*
July 20 -
Václav Havel resigns as president of
Czechoslovakia*
July 22 - Near
Medellín,
Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the
United States.
August
*
August 10 - The UK government bans the
Ulster Defence Association, a
loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
*
August 17 - US Marshalls start the siege of
Ruby Ridge.
*
August 18 -
Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy
*
August 20 -
Kristiansund's connection to the main land of
Norway,
Krifast, opens.
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August 21 - At the
Republican National Convention in
Houston, Texas, U.S. President
George H.W. Bush and Vice President
Dan Quayle are renominated.
Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, creates controversy during his convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
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August 24-
August 28 -
Hurricane Andrew hits South
Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system. Twenty-three were killed.
September
*
September 11 -
Hurricane Iniki hits the
Hawaiian Islands,
Kauai and
Oahu.
*
September 12 -
STS-47: Dr.
Mae Jemison becomes the first
African-American woman to travel into space, going into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle
Endeavour.
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September 15 "
Mihkel Mathiesen assumes presidency of the pre-WW II Republic of Estonia, in exile, and appoints a new government in pursuit to avoid abolition of the
government in exile.
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September 16 -
Pound Sterling and
Italian Lira forced out of the
European Exchange Rate Mechanism (
Black Wednesday).
*
17 September - Two
Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated by the
Iranian Kazem Darabi and the
Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
*
September 23 - A large
IRA bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in
Belfast.
*
September 24 - The
Kentucky Supreme Court in
Kentucky v. Wasson holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional, and accurately predicts that other states and the nation will eventually rule the same way.
*
September 30 -
José Eduardo dos Santos wins the first democratically-held elections in
Angola, defeating
Jonas Savimbi.
October
*
October 1 -
Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The new terminals were built as an expansion for US Air and an upgrade from the older
Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
*
October 2 - Riot in the
Carandiru prison system in
São Paulo,
Brazil, which leads up to the events known as the
Carandiru Massacre.
*
October 4 - Plane crash in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands, known as the
Bijlmerramp.
*
October 7 - In
Turkey, the farmer
Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of the
Ubykh language, dies.
*
October 9 - A 13-
kilogram (29-
pound)
meteorite landed in the driveway of the Knapp residence in
Peekskill, New York destroying the family's 1980
Chevrolet Malibu.
*
October 15 - In
Russia,
Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52
serial murders.
*
October 17 -
Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot after knocking on the wrong door in
Louisiana, United States. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking an outrage in
Japan.
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October 24 -
Toronto Blue Jays win
World Series in 6 games, making them the first Canadian team to win.
*
October 26 - In
Canada, the
Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national
referendum.
*
October 29 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves
Depo Provera for use as a
contraceptive in the
United States.
*
October 31 -
Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the
Inquisition against
Galileo Galilei.
November
*
November 3 -
Bill Clinton defeats incumbent
U.S. president
George H. W. Bush and
H. Ross Perot in the
U.S. presidential election.
*
November 5 - In
Detroit, Michigan, black motorist
Malice Green dies after a struggle with white
policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn. The officers were later convicted and sentenced to prison.
*
November 11 - The
Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
*
November 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).
*
November 24 - In the
People's Republic of China, a
China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board
*
November 24 -
Queen Elizabeth II describes this year as an
Annus Horribilis (horrible year) due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire
*
November 25 - The
Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the
Czech Republic and
Slovakia, starting on
January 1,
1993.
*
November 30 - A murder trial of 14
South Vietnamese accused of murder of 24
North Vietnamese begins in
Hong Kong (ends
November 29,
1994)
December
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December 3 -
UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of
United Nations peacekeepers led by the
United States to form
UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in
Somalia.
*
December 3 - 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.
*
December 4 - US military forces invade
Somalia.
*
December 5 -
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.
*
December 6 - Extremist
Hindu activists demolish
Babri Masjid - a 16th century
mosque in
Ayodhya,
India.
*
December 8 - Last blast fired in
Falu Copper Mine in
Falun,
Sweden. The end of a millennium of continuous operation.
*
December 20 - The
Folies Bergere music hall in
Paris,
France closes.
*
December 29 -
Brazil's president
Fernando Collor de Mello resigns, following charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government and impeachment precedings.
Unknown Dates
* The
Council for National Academic Awards,
UK is wound up.
*The largest shopping mall in the US,
Minnesota's
Mall of America is constructed spanning 78 acres (316,000 m²)
*
Carsington Reservoir opened in
England after nearly 20 years planning and construction.
*
Image Comics is founded by a number of former Marvel artists, seeking to create a company where creators were given exclusive ownership of their creations.
*
Great American Bathroom Book published
Fictional Events
*
January 12 HAL 9000 is purported to become operational at the H.A.L. plant in
Urbana,
Illinois.
* The events of the novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? take place.
* The events of the video game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas take place.
For more 1992 births see :Category:1992 birthsJanuary-April
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January 10 -
Eric & Brandon Billings, twin American actors
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January 19 -
Logan Lerman, American actor
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January 21 -
Logan O'Brien, American actor
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January 27 -
Connor Widdows, Canadian actor
*
February 11 -
Taylor Lautner, American actor
*
February 14 -
Freddie Highmore, British actor
*
March 9 -
Luis Armand Garcia, American actor
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March 10 -
Emily Osment, American actress
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March 14 -
Kylie Tyndall, American actress
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March 14 -
Keaton Tyndall, American actress
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March 15 -
Sosie Bacon, American actress
*
March 21 -
Bobby Preston, American actor
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April 4 -
Alexa Nikolas, American actress
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April 15 -
Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer
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April 15 -
Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder and actor
May-August
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May 4 -
Courtney Jines, American actoress
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May 12 -
Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
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May 18 -
Spencer Breslin, American actor
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May 30 -
Liam Mower, British stage actor
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June 4 -
Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
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June 12 -
Ryan Malgarini, American actor
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June 14 -
Daryl Sabara, American voice actor
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June 14 -
Evan Sabara, American actor
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June 17 -
James Martin, American actor
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June 19 -
Mariah Stanley, American singer
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June 30 -
Lynx and Lamb Gaede, twin American musicians
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July 8 -
Benjamin Grosvenor, British musician
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July 13 -
Dylan Patton, American actor and model
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July 15 -
Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer and emalee m
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July 22 -
Morgan McTaggart, Canadian Singer, Dancer, Actor
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August 4 -
Dylan and Cole Sprouse, twin child actors
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August 18 -
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of
Kurt CobainSeptember-December
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September 19 -
Gavin Fink, American actor
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September 28 -
Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
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October 9 -
Tyler James Williams, American actor
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October 12 -
Josh Hutcherson, American actor
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October 15 -
Vincent Martella, American actor
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October 22 -
Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
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October 30 -
Tequan Richmond, American actor
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November 12 -
Macey Cruthird, American actress
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November 17 -
Darian Weiss, American actor
*
November 23 -
Miley Cyrus, American actress
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November 25 -
Zack Shada, American actor
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November 28 -
Kianna Underwood, American actress
*
November 30 -
Dylan Smith, American actor
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December 23 -
Spencer Daniels, American actor
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December 24 -
Melissa Suffield, British actress
January-March
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January 1 -
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b.
1906)
*
January 3 - Dame
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b.
1897)
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January 9 -
Bill Naughton, British playwright (b.
1910)
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January 23 -
Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b.
1924)
*
January 26 -
José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b.
1912)
*
January 27 -
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b.
1908)
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January 29 -
Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b.
1915)
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February 2 -
Bert Parks, American game show host (b.
1914)
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February 4 -
Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b.
1911)
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February 10 -
Alex Haley, American author (b.
1921)
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February 12 -
Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b.
1907)
*
February 20 -
Dick York, American actor (b.
1928)
*
March 2 -
Sandy Dennis, American actress (b.
1939)
*
March 4 -
Art Babbitt, animator (
Mister Magoo,
Goofy) (b.
1907)
*
March 9 -
Menachem Begin,
Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1913)
*
March 23 -
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
*
March 29 -
Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor (b.
1908)
April-June
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April 5 -
Suada Dilberovic, Bosnian medical student .First casualty of the
Siege of Sarajevo (b.
1968)
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April 5 -
Molly Picon, American actress (b.
1898)
*
April 6 -
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b.
1920)
*
April 7 -
Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b.
1903)
*
April 8 -
Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1907)
*
April 10 -
Sam Kinison, American comedian (b.
1953)
*
April 18 -
Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b.
1924)
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April 21 -
Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia (b.
1917)
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April 23 -
Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b.
1921)
*
April 27 -
Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b.
1908)
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April 28 -
Francis Bacon, Irish-born painter (b.
1909)
*
May 4 -
Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b.
1927)
*
May 6 -
Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b.
1901)
*
May 12 -
Robert Reed, American actor (b.
1932)
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May 13 -
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b.
1909)
*
May 14 -
Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b.
1899)
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May 17 -
Lawrence Welk, American musician (b.
1903)
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May 22 -
Tony Accardo, American gangster (b.
1906)
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May 23 -
Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b.
1939)
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June 18 -
Mordecai Ardon, One of Israel's greatest painters (b.
1896)
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June 22 -
Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b.
1927)
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June 25 -
Jerome Brown, American football player (b.
1965)
July-December
*
July 15 -
Hammer DeRoburt, first
President of Nauru (b.
1922)
*
August 5 -
Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b.
1954)
*
August 12 -
John Cage, American composer (b.
1912)
* August -
Mark Heard, American singer (b.
1951)
*
September 2 -
Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1902)
*
October 6 -
Denholm Elliott, English actor (b.
1922)
*
October 7 -
Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b.
1904)
*
October 8 -
Willy Brandt,
Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1913)
*
October 17 -
Yoshihiro Hattori, Japanese exchange student (b.
1975)
*
October 17 -
Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b.
1912)
*
October 19 -
Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b.
1920)
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October 22 -
Cleavon Little, American actor (b.
1939)
*
October 25 -
Roger Miller, American singer (b.
1936)
*
October 27 -
David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b.
1917)
*
November 7 -
Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b.
1921)
*
November 22 -
Sterling Holloway, American actor (b.
1905)
*
December 18 -
Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b.
1915)
*
December 21 -
Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (b.
1903)
*
December 21 -
Albert King, American musician (b.
1923)
Unknown date
*
E. Harold Munn, American activist (b.
1903)
* Introduction of
Lorenzo's oil*
Physics -
Georges Charpak*
Chemistry -
Rudolph A. Marcus*
Medicine -
Edmond H. Fischer,
Edwin G. Krebs*
Literature -
Derek Walcott*
Peace -
Rigoberta Menchú Tum*
Gary Becker*
Kyung-Chik Han*
Finnish Village Action Movement,
Gonoshasthaya Kendra /
Zafrullah Chowdhury,
Helen Mack,
John Gofman and
Alla YaroshinskayaThe
video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is set in 1992. The city closly resembles Los Angeles, San Fransico and Las Vegas, and riots similar to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots take place close to the end of the game.
* 12 January 1992 is the date that the computer
HAL 9000 reports that he became operational in the film
2001: A Space Odyssey*
1992 House by Bill Frolick - article about 1992 from
The New Yorker magazine
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