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*[[Mae Jemison]] becomes the first black woman in space during the [[STS-47]] mission; 
*the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the [[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|'Dream Team']], win gold at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]]; 
*Paul Keating [[Redfern Park Speech|acknowledges the crimes]] committed against [[Indigenous Australians]] since the [[History of Australia (1788–1850)|European settlement of Australia]] and calls for [[Reconciliation in Australia|reconciliation]], shocking millions; 
*[[1992 famine in Somalia|a famine occurs]] in Somalia as a result of [[Somali Civil War|civil war]], prompting the creation of [[United Nations Operation in Somalia I|UNOSOM I]]; 
*Azerbaijani refugees during the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]], which intensified during 1992; 
*the Bosnian Parliament burns during the [[Siege of Sarajevo]] at the start of the [[Yugoslav Wars]]; 
*the beating of [[Rodney King]] by police officers prompts [[1992 Los Angeles riots|widespread rioting]] in [[Los Angeles]];
*Kabul [[Battle of Kabul (1992–1996)|in ruins]] during the [[Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)|Afghan Civil War]]; 
*[[Thai Airways International Flight 311]] crashed into mountain during approach killing 113 people on board. 
*The streets of [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]] after the [[1992 Algerian coup d'état]]
*[[El Al Flight 1862]] an [[Boeing 747]], suffered an engine separation and crashed into two apartment complexes in [[Bijlmermeer]], [[Amsterdam]], killing 4 people onboard as well as 43 people on ground
*Inside garden of the Tbilisi Parliament building during the [[1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état|1991-1992 coup d’etat]]
*A sequence of satellite images depicting [[Hurricane Andrew]] (from right to left) on August 23–25. The powerful Category 5 hurricane made landfall near [[Homestead, Florida]], becoming the costliest tropical cyclone on record at the time.
*Mural of the peace agreement in a museum [[San Salvador]], depicting guerilla leader Schafik Handal leader of the FMLN and the president of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani shaking hands, ending the [[Salvadoran Civil War]]
*[[Cartoon Network]], the first [[cable television]] [[Television channel|channel]] dedicated to [[animation]], is launched on October 1.
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1992 was designated as [[International Space Year]] by the [[United Nations]].
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==Events==
===January===
* [[January 1]] – [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]] of [[Egypt]] replaces [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] of [[Peru]] as [[United Nations Secretary-General]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/boutros-boutros-ghali|title=Boutros Boutros-Ghali|date=August 4, 2016 |publisher=United Nations|access-date=11 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 6]]
** The [[Republic of Artsakh|Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]] is proclaimed by the [[Armenians]] of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bill Frelick|title=Faultlines of Nationality Conflict: Refugees and Displaced Persons from Armenia and Azerbaijan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIQjAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=U.S. Committee for Refugees|page=15}}</ref>
** [[1991–92 Georgian coup d'état]]: President of Georgia [[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]] flees the country as a result of the military coup.<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: Soviet Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=12onwpEz2HAC|year=1992|publisher=The Service|pages=78–81}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing]]: A Yugoslav Air Force [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21]] attacks two Italian Army [[Bell 206|Agusta-Bell AB-206L LongRanger]] helicopters carrying observers from the [[European Community Monitor Mission]]. One crashes, killing five people on board. The other helicopter crash-lands, but its occupants survive.<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: East Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxcUAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=The Service|pages=16–18}}</ref>
* [[January 9]]
** [[Bosnian Serbs]] declare their [[Republika Srpska (1992–95)|own republic]] within [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], in protest at the decision by [[Bosniaks]] and [[Bosnian Croats]] to seek recognition by the European Communities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zakon o praznicima Republike Srpske |series=Zakoni |publisher=[[People's Assembly of Republika Srpska]] |language=sr |date=27 July 2005 |url=http://www.narodnaskupstinars.net/lat/zakoni/zakon.php?id_zakona=110 |access-date=10 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611050556/http://www.narodnaskupstinars.net/lat/zakoni/zakon.php?id_zakona=110 |archive-date=11 June 2009}}</ref>
** First confirmed detection of [[exoplanet]]s with announcement of the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar [[PSR B1257+12]], by radio astronomers [[Aleksander Wolszczan]] and [[Dale Frail]] working in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wolszczan|first1=A.|bibcode=1992Natur.355..145W|last2=Frail|first2=D. A.|doi=10.1038/355145a0|title=A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=355|issue=6356|pages=145–7|year=1992|s2cid=4260368|issn=0028-0836 }}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – The [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] begins to break up; [[Slovenia]] and [[Croatia]] gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
* [[January 16]] – [[El Salvador]] officials and rebel leaders sign the [[Chapultepec Peace Accords]] in Mexico City, ending the 12-year [[Salvadoran Civil War]] that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
* [[January 19]]
**In the [[1992 Bulgarian presidential election|Bulgarian presidential election]], the first held by direct vote, [[Zhelyu Zhelev]], leader of the [[Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)|Union of Democratic Forces]], retains office.<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p369 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref>
** [[Paramount Leader]] of China [[Deng Xiaoping]] speaks in Shenzhen during his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march towards [[free market]] economics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campanella|first=Thomas J.|title=The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlAk43g92g4C&pg=PA36|year=2012|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-1-56898-948-8|page=36}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] – [[Air Inter Flight 148]], an [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A320-111]], crashes in the [[Vosges Mountains]] near [[Barr, Bas-Rhin|Barr]], France, while circling to land at [[Strasbourg]], France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board. Facing tough competition from French high-speed [[TGV]] trains, [[Air Inter]] had encouraged its pilots to fly at high speeds at low altitudes, and had not installed [[ground proximity warning system]]s on its airliners because such systems generated too many nuisance alarms during high-speed, low-altitude flight.
* [[January 22]] – Rebel forces occupy [[Zaire]]'s national radio station in [[Kinshasa]] and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.<ref>{{cite book|author=E. O'Ballance|title=The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960–98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfCADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=2 November 1999|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-28648-1|pages=144}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – China and [[Israel]] establish diplomatic relations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Israel_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China |url=https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/gjhdq_665435/2675_665437/2828_663646/ |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=www.fmprc.gov.cn}}</ref>
* [[January 26]]
** [[Boris Yeltsin]] announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and its allies with [[nuclear weapon]]s. In return President [[George H. W. Bush]] announces that the United States and its allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining [[Communism|communist]] states with nuclear weapons.
**In [[Mauritania]], security forces open fire on violent extremist opponents of President of Mauritania [[Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya]], allegedly killing at least four people. 
* [[January 27]] – [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]: in the disputed territory of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]], fighting between [[Armenians]] and [[Azerbaijani people|Azeris]] leaves at least 60 people dead.
* [[January 30]] – [[North Korea]] signs an accord with the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] allowing for international inspections of [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|North Korea's nuclear power plants]].

===February===
* [[February 1]] – President of the United States [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]] meets with President of Russia [[Boris Yeltsin]] at [[Camp David]], where they formally declare that the [[Cold War]] is over.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/02/world/bush-and-yeltsin-declare-formal-end-to-cold-war-agree-to-exchange-visits.html|title=Bush and Yeltsin declare formal end to Cold War|date=February 2, 1992|website=The New York Times|author=Michael Wines|access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – South African State President [[F.W. de Klerk]] and [[Nelson Mandela]], [[African National Congress]] leader, are jointly awarded the [[Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize]] at the [[UNESCO]] headquarters in Paris.
* [[February 4]] – In [[Venezuela]], [[Hugo Chávez]] leads [[1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts|an unsuccessful coup attempt]] against President of Venezuela [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]].<ref>[[BBC]], Thursday, 5 December 2002, 21:30 GMT, Profile: Hugo Chavez, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1925236.stm [https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/1925236.stm]</ref>
* [[February 6]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the United Kingdom and other [[Commonwealth realm]]s celebrates her [[Ruby Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Ruby Jubilee]], marking 40 years since her accession to the thrones of the [[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19930603&id=BdUdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a8cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4337,242916|title=Times Daily - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] – The [[Maastricht Treaty]] is signed, founding the [[European Union]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Founding agreements |url=https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/principles-and-values/founding-agreements_en |access-date=2022-02-05 |website=European Union}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – The opening ceremony for the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] is held in [[Albertville]], France.<ref>{{cite book|title=The World Factbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkQfwA30aY4C&pg=PA406|year=1992|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|pages=406}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – [[Algerian Civil War]]: The government of [[Algeria]] declares a [[state of emergency]] and begins a crackdown on the [[Islamic Salvation Front]].<ref name="Committee1991">{{cite book|author=United Nations. Human Rights Committee|title=Official Records of the Human Rights Committee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAaK5jvA0pgC|year=1991|publisher=United Nations|pages=162–168}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] – [[Ukraine]] and four other nations in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] reject Russia's proposal to maintain unified armed forces. Ukraine, [[Moldova]] and [[Azerbaijan]] announce they will go ahead with plans to create their own military forces.
* [[February 16]] – In [[Lebanon]], [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli]] helicopter gunships assassinate [[Abbas al-Musawi]], the leader of [[Hezbollah]], and his son, in retaliation for a February 14 raid that killed three Israeli soldiers.
* [[February 18]] – [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: The Executive Chairman of [[UNSCOM]] details [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]]'s refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
* [[February 21]] – The [[United Nations Security Council]] approves [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 743|Resolution 743]] to send a [[UNPROFOR]] peacekeeping force to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[February 25]]–[[February 26|26]] – 613 [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] civilians are [[Khojaly Massacre|massacred in Khojaly]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smolowe |first=Jill |url=http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,975096,00.html |title=TIME Magazine – Tragedy Massacre in Khojaly |magazine=Time |date=16 March 1992 |access-date=28 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050228104647/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,975096,00.html |archive-date=28 February 2005  }}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – The [[Supreme Court of Ireland]] [[X Case|rules]] that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to the United Kingdom to have an abortion.
* [[February 28]] – Ownership of the port town of [[Walvis Bay]] is transferred from South Africa to [[Namibia]].

===March===
* [[March 1]] – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb bridegroom's father and an Orthodox priest in [[Sarajevo wedding attack|a Sarajevo shooting]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline of the War in Bosnia|url=http://cranepsych.com/Travel/Bosnia/War_Timeline.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619213617/http://cranepsych.com/Travel/Bosnia/War_Timeline.html|archive-date=June 19, 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=June 23, 2009}}</ref> In the [[1992 Bosnian independence referendum|Bosnian independence referendum]], held from February 29 to March 1 and boycotted by [[Bosnian Serbs]], the majority of the [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] and [[Bosnian Croat]] communities have voted for [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]]'s independence.
* [[March 2]] – In [[Dubăsari]], Moldova, escalating tensions turn into open hostilities and the beginning of the [[Transnistria War]].
* [[March 4]] – The Supreme Court of Algeria bans the [[Islamic Salvation Front]], which is poised to win control of the [[Parliament of Algeria]] in runoff elections.
* [[March 12]] – [[Mauritius]] becomes a [[republic]] while remaining a member of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* [[March 13]] – The 6.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1992 Erzincan earthquake|Erzincan earthquake]] affects eastern [[Turkey]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 498–652 and injuring around 2,000.
* [[March 18]] – [[White South African]]s [[1992 South African apartheid referendum|vote in favour of political reforms]] which will end the [[apartheid]] regime and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_2524000/2524695.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=1992: South Africa votes for change | date=March 18, 1992}}</ref>
* [[March 22]]
**In [[1992 French regional elections|French regional elections]], the conservative [[Rally for the Republic]] and the centre-right [[Union for French Democracy]] win in a landslide, capturing 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies.
** [[STS-45]]: [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] takes off from [[Cape Canaveral]] carrying instruments designed to study [[global warming]].
* [[March 24]] – The [[Treaty on Open Skies]] is signed in Helsinki, Finland, to establish a program of unarmed surveillance flights over the 34 member states. It went into effect on January 1, 2002.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Analysis and Basic Documents, 1972-1993|publisher=Springer Netherlands|year=1993|page=78}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – The [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] orders [[Iraq]] to destroy an industrial complex at [[Al Atheer]] that is being used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
* [[March 31]] – The [[Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act]] of [[Singapore]] comes into force.<ref>{{citation |author=Tey Tsun Hang |title=Excluding Religion from Politics and Enforcing Religious Harmony – Singapore-Style |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/sjls2008&div=8 |journal=Singapore Journal of Legal Studies |volume=2008 |pages=118–142 |year=2008 |author-link=Tey Tsun Hang}}</ref>

===April===
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* [[April 5]]
**The Assembly of [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (without the presence of [[Serbs|Serb]] political delegates) proclaims independence from the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].
** [[Bosnian War]]: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] against the Bosnian declaration of independence from [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], besiege the city of [[Sarajevo]].
** President of Peru [[Alberto Fujimori]] issues [[Decree Law 25418]], dissolving the [[Congress of the Republic of Peru]], imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the [[1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis]].
* [[April 6]] – The [[Republic of Ilirida]] is proclaimed by [[Albanians|Albanian]] Macedonian activists in [[Struga]], [[Republic of Macedonia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Geert-Hinrich Ahrens|title=Diplomacy on the Edge: Containment of Ethnic Conflict and the Minorities Working Group of the Conferences on Yugoslavia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3fLRcHYSVAC&pg=PA399|year=2007|publisher=Woodrow Wilson Center Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8557-0|page=399}}</ref>
** [[Windows 3.1]] is released to manufacturing by [[Microsoft]].
* [[April 7]] – The United States recognizes the independence of [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], and [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. The [[European Communities]] also recognizes [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]].
* [[April 9]]
**A jury in [[Miami]], Florida, convicts former Panamanian ruler [[Manuel Noriega]] of assisting [[Colombia]]'s cocaine cartel.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Rohter| first = Larry| title = The Noriega Verdict; U.S. Jury Convicts Noriega of Drug-Trafficking Role as the Leader of Panama| work = The New York Times| access-date = September 28, 2017| date = April 10, 1992| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/10/us/noriega-verdict-us-jury-convicts-noriega-drug-trafficking-role-leader-panama.html}}</ref>
**In the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election]] the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [[John Major]] narrowly retains power.
* [[April 10]]
** [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]: [[Maraga massacre]] – At least 43 [[Armenians|Armenian]] civilians are killed as their village of [[Maraga, Azerbaijan]], is captured and destroyed by the [[Azerbaijani Armed Forces]]. 
**A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bomb [[Baltic Exchange bombing|explodes]] at the [[Baltic Exchange]] in the [[City of London]]; three are killed, 91 injured.
* [[April 13]] – The 5.3 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1992 Roermond earthquake|Roermond earthquake]] affects the [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VII (''Very strong'').
* [[April 15]] – The [[National Assembly of Vietnam]] adopts the 1992 [[Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam]].
* [[April 16]] – President of Afghanistan [[Mohammad Najibullah]] is ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards [[Kabul]], setting the stage for the [[civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96)]].
* [[April 20]] – [[The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]], held at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]], London, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of dollars for [[AIDS]] research.
* [[April 21]] – The death of [[Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia]] results in a succession dispute between [[Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia]] and Vladimir's daughter [[Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia|Maria]] for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.
* [[April 22]] – Fuel leaking into a sewer causes [[1992 Guadalajara explosions|a series of explosions]] in [[Guadalajara]], Mexico; 215 are killed, 1,500 injured.
* [[April 27]] – [[Betty Boothroyd]] becomes the first woman elected [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom]].
* [[April 28]] – The two remaining constituent republics of the former [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] – [[Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)|Serbia]] and [[Republic of Montenegro (1992–2006)|Montenegro]] – form a new state, named the [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (which in [[2003]] becomes [[Serbia and Montenegro]]), bringing to an end the official state union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosniaks and Macedonians that has existed since [[1918]] (with the exception of a brief occupation period during [[World War II]]).
* [[April 29]]
** [[1992 Los Angeles riots|Los Angeles riots]]: The acquittal of four policemen in the [[Rodney King]] beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book|author=GregAlan Williams|title=A Gathering of Heroes: A Personal Memoir of the Los Angeles Riots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=admPlAMT1bsC|date=February 1996|publisher=Chicago Review Press, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-89733-425-9|page=103}}</ref> The riots will last for six days resulting in 63 deaths and over $1&nbsp;billion in damages before order is restored by the military.
**In [[Sierra Leone]], a group of young soldiers launch a military coup that sends president [[Joseph Saidu Momoh]] into exile in [[Guinea]], and the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) is established with 25-year-old Captain [[Valentine Strasser]] as its chairman and Head of State of the country.<ref>{{cite book|title=The World Factbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OejepBlUe4kC&pg=PA306|year=1992|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|pages=306}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Brčko bridge massacre]]: around 100 Croat and Bosniak civilians are blown up while crossing the bridge across the [[Sava]] in [[Brčko]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Lithuania]] introduces a new temporary currency, the [[talonas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lb.lt/en_about_history|title=Bank of Lithuania : History|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906121335/http://www.lb.lt/en_about_history|archive-date=September 6, 2016}}</ref>
* [[May 5]]
**Russian leaders in [[Crimea]] declare their separation from [[Ukraine]] as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on [[May 10]].
** [[Armand Césari Stadium disaster]] in [[Bastia]] on [[Corsica]]: 18 people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between [[SC Bastia]] and [[Olympique de Marseille]].
* [[May 7]]
**''[[STS-49]]'': [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].<ref>{{cite report |author=Robert W. Fricke |date=July 1992 |title=STS-49: Space shuttle mission report |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/52710703/STS-49-Space-Shuttle-Mission-Report |publisher=[[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] |page=17 |id=NASA-TM-108104 |access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref>
**In the [[Sydney River McDonald's murders]] in [[Nova Scotia]], Canada, three McDonald's employees are killed and a fourth is left permanently disabled during a botched robbery.
* [[May 9]]
** The [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]] is adopted in New York.<ref>{{citation|title=Status of Ratification of the Convention|publisher= United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |url= https://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/status_of_ratification/items/2631.php |access-date= 10 May 2015}}</ref>
** The [[Westray Mine]] in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, explodes, killing all 26 miners working the night shift.<ref>{{cite news|title=Did You Know|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/natural-resources/natural-resources-general/the-westray-mining-disaster.html|access-date=May 6, 2012|publisher=CBC News|date=January 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517013145/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/natural-resources/natural-resources-general/the-westray-mining-disaster.html|archive-date=May 17, 2012|location=Toronto|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[May 10]] – [[Sweden men's national ice hockey team|Sweden]] wins the [[Ice Hockey World Championships]] in [[Czechoslovakia]] defeating [[Finland men's national ice hockey team|Finland]], 5–2, in the final game in [[Prague]].
* [[May 13]] – [[Falun Gong]] is introduced by [[Li Hongzhi]] in China.
* [[May 15]] – The [[Collective Security Treaty Organization]] is established by six post-Soviet states belonging to the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (effective April 20, 1994).<ref>{{cite book|editor=Arbatov, Alexei G.|title=Russia and the West: the 21st century security environment|year=1999|publisher=Sharpe|location=Armonk, NY|isbn=978-0765604323|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rHYZk-t7dI0C&pg=PA62|access-date=2015-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823191049/https://books.google.com/books?id=rHYZk-t7dI0C&pg=PA62|archive-date=2019-08-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 16]]–[[May 17|17]] – [[Bosnian War]]: [[United Nations peacekeeping|U.N. peacekeepers]] withdraw from [[Sarajevo]].
*[[May 17]] – Protests begin in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], against the government of General [[Suchinda Kraprayoon]], sparking a [[Black May (1992)|bloody crackdown]].
*[[May 23]] – [[Capaci bombing]]: A [[Sicilian Mafia|Mafia]] bomb on the autostrada in Sicily kills five people, including Italian anti-Mafia judge [[Giovanni Falcone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2012/03/08/borsellino.shtml|title=New Arrests for Via D'Amelio Bomb Attack|work=Corriere della Sera|date=8 March 2012|access-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013204755/http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2012/03/08/borsellino.shtml|archive-date=13 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 24]]
**In [[Thailand]], [[Suchinda Kraprayoon]] agrees to resign.<ref>{{cite book|author=Derbyshire|title=Encyclopedia of World Political Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-47156-1|pages=266}}</ref>
**[[1992 Burkinabé parliamentary election|Parliamentary election]] held in [[Burkina Faso]], for the first time since 1978.
*[[May 30]] – [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 757]] imposes economic [[sanctions on Yugoslavia]] in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

===June===
* [[June 2]] – In a [[1992 Danish Maastricht Treaty referendum|national referendum]] Denmark rejects the [[Maastricht Treaty]] by a narrow margin.
* [[June 3]]–[[June 14|14]] – The [[Earth Summit]] is held in [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992|title=United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992|first=United|last=Nations|publisher=United Nations}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] – The first [[World Oceans Day]] is celebrated, coinciding with the [[Earth Summit]] held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].
*[[June 10]]–[[June 26|26]] – [[Sweden]] hosts the [[UEFA Euro 1992]] football tournament, which is won by [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]].
*[[June 16]] – A "Joint Understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] and Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] (this is later codified in [[START II]]).<ref>{{cite book | last = Young | first = John | title = The Longman companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941–1998 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | location = Hoboken | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781317878872 | page=146}}</ref>
*[[June 17]]
** Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are handed over to the German authorities after their release; they are the last Western hostages in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Beirut Review: A Journal on Lebanon and the Middle East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_UMAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Lebanese Center for Policy Studies|pages=231–232}}</ref>
** Violence breaks out between the [[African National Congress]] and the [[Inkatha Freedom Party]] in [[Boipatong, Gauteng|Boipatong]], South Africa, [[Boipatong massacre|leaving 45 dead]].
*[[June 18]] – [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] votes for the [[Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland]] to accept the [[Maastricht Treaty]] with a popular vote of over 69%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Publications/LocalGovernment/Voting/referendum_results_1937-2015.pdf|work=[[Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government]]|title=Referendum Results 1937–2015|page=44|date=23 August 2016|access-date=9 June 2018}}</ref>
*[[June 20]]
** [[Estonia]] adopts the [[Estonian kroon|kroon]] as currency, becoming the first former Soviet Republic to replace the [[Soviet rouble]].
** In [[Paraguay]] the National Constituent Assembly approves the new [[Constitution of Paraguay]].
*[[June 21]] – [[Nelson Mandela]] announces that the [[African National Congress]] will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the [[Boipatong massacre]] of June 17.
*[[June 23]] – The [[1992 Israeli legislative election|Israeli legislative election]] is won by the [[Israeli Labor Party]] under the leadership of [[Yitzhak Rabin]], ousting a [[Likud]] government.
*[[June 25]] – The [[Black Sea Economic Cooperation]] (BSEC) is founded.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BSEC - Black Sea Economic Cooperation |url=https://www.bsec-organization.org/bsec-at-glance |access-date=2025-09-14 |website=www.bsec-organization.org}}</ref>
*[[June 26]] – [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]] beats [[Germany national football team|Germany]] 2–0 in [[UEFA Euro 1992 Final|the final]] to win the [[1992 UEFA European Football Championship]] at [[Ullevi]] Stadium in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden.
*[[June 28]] – [[Estonia]] holds a referendum on its [[Constitution of Estonia|constitution]], which will come into effect on July 3.

===July===
*[[July 6]]–[[July 8|8]] – The [[18th G7 summit]] is held in [[Munich]].
*[[July 6]]–[[July 29|29]] – [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] refuses a UN inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. UN 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]], former [[Panama]]nian dictator [[Manuel Noriega]] is sentenced to 40 years in prison for participating in the [[illegal drug trade]] and [[racketeering]].
**The [[Giotto (spacecraft)|''Giotto'' spacecraft]] flies past Comet [[26P/Grigg–Skjellerup]], gathering measurements about the comet.
*[[July 13]] – [[Yitzhak Rabin]] becomes prime minister of [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Frankel|title=A Restless Mind: Essays in Honor of Amos Perlmutter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkK_j0qz9EgC&pg=PA101|year=1996|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7146-4607-7|pages=101}}</ref>
*[[July 16]] – At the [[1992 Democratic National Convention]], [[Arkansas]] Governor Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the "forgotten middle class".
*[[July 17]] – The Slovak National Council [[Slovak National Council's Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation|declares Slovakia an independent country]], signaling the [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia|breakup of Czechoslovakia]].
*[[July 19]]
**[[Via D'Amelio bombing]]: A car bomb placed by the [[Sicilian Mafia]] (with the collaboration of Italian intelligence) kills judge [[Paolo Borsellino]] and five members of his police escort.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_aprile_22/pentito_stragi_antimafia_bianconi_6cf4e8ee-2efe-11de-89c1-00144f02aabc.shtml | title=Il pentito e le stragi La nuova verità che agita l'antimafia | publisher=RCS | work=[[Il Corriere della Sera]] | access-date=23 May 2012 | last=Bianconi | first=Giovanni | language=it}}</ref>
**The [[Cabinet of Israel]] approves a freeze on new [[Israeli settlement]] in the occupied territories, a move expected to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process.
*[[July 20]] – [[Václav Havel]] resigns as president of [[Czech and Slovak Federative Republic|Czechoslovakia]].
*[[July 21]] – The [[Transnistria War]] ends with a ceasefire.
*[[July 22]] – Near [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]]n drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]] escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1992/jul/24/colombia.fromthearchive|title=Escobar escape humiliates Colombian leaders|first=Timothy|last=Ross|date=24 July 1992|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[July 23]] – [[Abkhazia]] declares independence from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].
*[[July 25]]–[[August 9]] – The [[1992 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain.<ref>{{cite book |title=1992 Olympics Official Report. Part IV |url=http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s4p4.pdf <!--|accessdate=October 24, 2012--> |quote=List of participants by NOC's and sport. |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173537/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/35738/rec/59 }}</ref>
*[[July 26]] – [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] agrees to allow UN weapons inspectors to search the Iraqi Agricultural Ministry building in Baghdad. When inspectors arrive on July 28 and 29, they find nothing and voice suspicions that Iraqi records have been removed.
*[[July 31]]
**[[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] becomes the 179th member of the [[United Nations]] after seceding from the [[Soviet Union]] the previous year.
**[[Thai Airways International Flight 311]], an [[Airbus A310-300]], crashes into a mountain north of [[Kathmandu]], [[Nepal]] killing all 113 people on board.
**[[China General Aviation Flight 7552]] bound for [[Xiamen]] crashes soon after taking off from [[Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport]], killing 108 of the 116 people on board.

===August===
*[[August 3]]–[[August 4|4]] – Millions of black South Africans participate in a [[general strike]] called by the [[African National Congress]] to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of State President of South Africa [[F. W. de Klerk]].
*[[August 12]] – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce that a deal has been reached on the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]]; this will be formally signed on December 17.
*[[August 18]] – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [[John Major]] announces the creation of [[Iraqi no-fly zones]] (→ [[Operation Southern Watch]]).
*[[August 24]]
**[[Concordia University massacre]]: [[Valery Fabrikant]] murders four colleagues and seriously wounds another in a shooting at [[Concordia University]], in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].
**[[China]] and [[South Korea]] establish [[China–South Korea relations|diplomatic relations]].
*[[August 24]]–[[August 28|28]] – [[Hurricane Andrew]] hits south [[Florida]] and [[Louisiana]] and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.
*[[August 29]] – In [[Rostock]], Germany, tens of thousands rally to protest [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] attacks on refugees and immigrants begun on August 22.

===September===
*[[September 1]] – In Beijing, police arrest [[Shen Tong]] for his role in organizing the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]].
*[[September 2]] – The 7.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1992 Nicaragua earthquake|Nicaragua earthquake]] affects the west coast of Nicaragua. With a {{M|s}}–{{M|w}} disparity of half a unit, this [[tsunami earthquake]] triggers a tsunami that causes most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Average runup heights are {{convert|3|-|8|m|sp=us}}.
*[[September 7]]
**In [[Ciskei]], members of the [[Ciskei Defence Force]] loyal to dictator [[Oupa Gqozo]] open fire into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the [[African National Congress]], killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.
**President of Tajikistan [[Rahmon Nabiyev]] is forced to resign following weeks of [[Tajikistani Civil War|clan and religious warfare]] that have left nearly 2,000 people dead.
*[[September 12]] – In [[Peru]], police arrest [[Abimael Guzmán]], the leader of the [[Shining Path]] guerilla movement, who has evaded capture for 12 years.
*[[September 16]] – [[Black Wednesday]]: The [[pound sterling]] and the [[Lira|Italian lira]] are forced out of the [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]].
*[[September 20]] – French voters narrowly approve the [[Maastricht Treaty]] in the [[1992 French Maastricht Treaty referendum|French Maastricht Treaty referendum]].
*[[September 21]] – Mexico establishes diplomatic relations with [[Vatican City]], ending a break that has lasted over 130 years.
*[[September 28]] 
**Law enforcement officials in the United States, [[Colombia]] and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on [[money laundering]] charges related to [[cocaine]] trafficking.
**[[Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268]] crashes into a mountain while on approach to [[Tribhuvan International Airport]] in [[Kathmandu]], Nepal. All 167 occupants on board were killed.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=1992-09-29 |title=167 Are Feared Dead in Crash of Airliner in Nepal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/29/world/167-are-feared-dead-in-crash-of-airliner-in-nepal.html |access-date=2024-06-09 |work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The crash of PIA Flight 268 occurred just 2 months after Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into a mountain near Kathmandu under similar circumstances, killing all 113 occupants on board.
*[[September 29]] – The [[Chamber of Deputies of Brazil]] votes to impeach President of Brazil [[Fernando Collor de Mello|Fernando Collor]], the country's first democratically elected leader in 29 years. Vice President [[Itamar Franco]] becomes acting president.

===October===
*[[October 1]] – [[Cartoon Network]], a 24/7 children's television channel, is launched in the United States.
*[[October 2]] – A riot breaks out in the [[Carandiru Penitentiary]] in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]], resulting in the [[Carandiru massacre]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/world/111-killed-when-police-storm-brazilian-prison-during-inmate-riot.html|title=111 Killed When Police Storm Brazilian Prison During Inmate Riot|last=Brooke|first=James|date=1992-10-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[October 3]] – After performing a song protesting against alleged [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases|Catholic Church child sexual abuse]], Irish singer-songwriter [[Sinéad O'Connor]] rips up a photograph of [[Pope John Paul II]] on the US television programme ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', causing huge controversy.
*[[October 4]]
**The government of [[Mozambique]] signs the [[Rome General Peace Accords]] with leaders of [[RENAMO]], ending the 16-year-old [[Mozambican Civil War]].
**Israeli cargo plane [[El Al Flight 1862]] crashes into residential buildings in Amsterdam's [[Bijlmermeer]], Netherlands, after taking off from [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Schiphol Airport]] and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board and 39 on the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/kennisplein/page_kennisplein.aspx?id=39448&DossierURI=tcm:195-17547-4|title=Aircraft accident report 92-11 : El Al Flight 1862 Boeing 747-258F 4X-AXG Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam 4 October 1992|date=24 February 1994|publisher=[[Nederlands Aviation Safety Board]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626181929/http://verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/kennisplein/uploaded/MIN/2005-07/39448/ElAl_flight_1862.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2008}}</ref>
*[[October 6]] – [[Lennart Meri]] becomes the first [[President of Estonia]] after regaining independence. The [[Estonian Government in Exile]] resigns on the next day.
*[[October 7]] – In [[History of Peru (1980–2000)|Peru]], [[Shining Path]] leader [[Abimael Guzmán]] is convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.
*[[October 11]] – The ''[[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]'' is promulgated by [[Pope John Paul II]] with his [[apostolic constitution]], ''[[Fidei depositum]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_19921011_fidei-depositum_en.html|title=Fidei depositum|access-date=June 14, 2012|date=October 11, 1992|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana}}</ref>
*[[October 12]]
**In the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Pope John Paul II]] celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures.
**The 5.8 {{M|b|link=y}} [[1992 Cairo earthquake|Cairo earthquake]] affects the city with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), leaving 545 dead and 6,512 injured.
*[[October 19]] – The [[Chinese Communist Party]] promotes several market-oriented reformers to the [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]], signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.
*[[October 20]] – The last [[Military of Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslav Army]] troops leave [[Croatia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/18/Last-Yugoslav-army-troops-withdrawing-from-Croatia/7791719380800/|title=Last Yugoslav army troops withdrawing from Croatia|work=United Press International}}</ref>
*[[October 21]] – 150,000 coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of miners.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/150000-marchers-brave-downpour-to-back-miners-1559611.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/150000-marchers-brave-downpour-to-back-miners-1559611.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=150,000 marchers brave downpour to back miners|newspaper=The Independent|date=1992-10-26}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[October 23]] – Emperor of Japan [[Akihito]] begins the first imperial visit to China, telling a Beijing audience he feels deep sorrow for the suffering of the Chinese people during World War II.
*[[October 25]] – [[Lithuania]] holds [[referendums in Lithuania|a referendum]] on [[constitution of Lithuania|its first constitution]] after declaring independence from the [[Soviet Union]] in 1990.
*[[October 26]] – In a [[Referendums in Canada|national referendum]], voters in Canada reject the [[Charlottetown Accord]].
*[[October 28]] – [[Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein]] threatens to dissolve the [[Landtag of Liechtenstein]] and dismiss the government over disagreements regarding a referendum on Liechtenstein's accession to the [[European Economic Area]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Marxer |first=Wilfried |date=31 December 2011 |title=Staatskrise (28.10.1992) |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Staatskrise_(28.10.1992) |access-date=18 February 2024 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref>
*[[October 31]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] issues an apology and lifts the [[1633]] edict of the [[Inquisition]] against [[Galileo Galilei]].<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[New Scientist]] |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460.600-vatican-admits-galileo-was-right-.html |title=Vatican admits Galileo was right |date=1992-11-07 |access-date=2007-08-09 |issue=1846}}.</ref>

===November===
*[[November 3]] – In the [[1992 United States presidential election]], Democratic [[Arkansas]] Governor [[Bill Clinton]] defeats Republican President [[George H. W. Bush]] and Independent [[Ross Perot]].
*[[November 8]] – More than 350,000 people rally in Berlin to protest right-wing violence against immigrants; stones and eggs are thrown at President of Germany [[Richard von Weizsäcker]] and Chancellor of Germany [[Helmut Kohl]].
*[[November 11]] – The [[Church of England]] votes to allow women to become priests.
*[[November 13]]
**The [[government of Peru]] announces it has arrested a small group of army officers who were plotting the assassination of President [[Alberto Fujimori]].
**A report by the [[World Meteorological Organization]] reports an unprecedented level of [[ozone depletion]] in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
* [[November 14]] &ndash;  In poor conditions caused by [[Cyclone Forrest]], [[Vietnam Airlines Flight 474]] crashes near [[Nha Trang]], killing 30.<ref name="HKO">{{cite report|work=Hong Kong Observatory|date=September 1994|access-date=May 24, 2014|title=Tropical Cyclones in 1992|url=http://www.hko.gov.hk/publica/tc/tc1992.pdf|page=17|archive-date=September 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930200121/http://www.hko.gov.hk/publica/tc/tc1992.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=November 16, 1992|title=Typhoon Plane Crashes|page=20}} {{subscription required|via=Lexis Nexis}}</ref><ref name="Crash">{{cite web|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|year=2014|access-date=May 24, 2014|title=Accident description: VN-A449|url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921114-1}}</ref>
*[[November 15]] – The [[1992 Lithuanian parliamentary election|Lithuanian parliamentary election]] sees the Communists of the [[Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania]], led by [[Algirdas Brazauskas]], return to power.
*[[November 18]] – Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] releases the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of [[Korean Air Flight 007]], which was shot down by the Soviets in [[1983]].
*[[November 24]] – In China, [[China Southern Airlines Flight 3943]], a [[China Southern Airlines]] domestic flight, crashes, killing all 141 people on board.
*[[November 25]]
**The [[Czech and Slovak Federative Republic|Czechoslovak]] Federal Assembly votes to split the country into two separate states of the Czech Republic and [[Slovakia]], to take effect on January 1, 1993.
**In [[November 1992 Irish constitutional referendums|a national referendum]] related to [[abortion]], voters in Ireland reject the proposed [[Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1992]] but approve the [[Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland]] and the [[Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland]].
*[[November 27]] – The [[government of Venezuela]] puts down [[November 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt|a coup attempt]] by a group of [[Bolivarian Military Aviation|Air Force]] officers who have bombed the presidential palace.

===December===
*[[December 1]] – [[South Korea]] and [[South Africa]] reestablish diplomatic relations. [[South Korea]] previously had diplomatic relations with South Africa from 1961 to 1978, when they were severed by the former due to the latter's policy of [[apartheid]].
*[[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 that humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in [[Somalia]].
*[[December 4]] – US President George Bush announces the deployment of US troops to Africa as part of the United Task Force (UNITAF); UNITAF troops land at Mogadishu on 9 December.
*[[December 6]] – [[Demolition of Babri Masjid]]: Extremist Hindu activists in India demolish [[Babri Masjid]] – a 16th-century [[mosque]] in [[Ayodhya]] which has been used as a temple since [[1949]] – leading to widespread communal violence, including the [[Bombay riots]], in all killing over 1,500 people.
*[[December 12]] – The 7.8 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami|Flores earthquake]] affects the [[Lesser Sunda Islands]] in [[Indonesia]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') leaving at least 2,500 dead. A destructive tsunami with wave heights of {{convert|25|m|abbr=on}} follows.
*[[December 16]] – The [[Czech National Council]] adopts the [[Constitution of the Czech Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Rett R. Ludwikowski|title=Constitution-making in the Region of Former Soviet Dominance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K-RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA374|year=1996|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-1797-5|pages=374}}</ref>
*[[December 18]] – The [[1992 South Korean presidential election|South Korean presidential election]] is won by [[Kim Young-sam]], the first non-military candidate elected since 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/01361008.pdf|title=Electoral Politics in South Korea|last=Croissant|first=Aurel|publisher=Friedrich Ebert Foundation|page=266}}</ref>
*[[December 21]] – In [[Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslavia]], President of Serbia [[Slobodan Milošević]] defeats [[Milan Panić]] in the [[1992 Serbian general election|Serbian presidential election]].
*[[December 22]] – The [[Archives of Terror]] are discovered by [[Martín Almada]] in Asunción, detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who have been secretly kidnapped, tortured and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in [[Operation Condor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1866517.stm|title=Paraguay's archive of terror|author=Mike Ceaser|date=11 March 2002|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
*[[December 28]] – Actress [[Daniella Perez]] is murdered in [[Rio de Janeiro]], after being stabbed 18 times with scissors by actor Guilherme de Pádua and his then-wife Paula Thomaz. The crime shocked [[Brazil]], due to both the victim and the murderer being romantic partners in the telenovela [[De Corpo e Alma (TV series)|''De Corpo e Alma'']], which aired on [[TV Globo]].<ref>[http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1992/12/30/2/ ''Galã da novela das 8 mata com tesoura atriz Daniela Perez''] (primeira página do 1° caderno), ''[[Folha de S.Paulo]]'' (30 de dezembro de 1992).</ref>
*[[December 29]] – [[List of presidents of Brazil|Brazil's president]] [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32&nbsp;million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for eight years. Collor resigns the presidency hours before the sentence to be passed by the [[Supreme Federal Court]].<ref>[http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1992/12/30/2/ ''Senado mantém o julgamento apesar da renúncia de Collor; Itamar é empossado presidente''] (primeira página do 1° caderno), ''[[Folha de S.Paulo]]'' (30 de dezembro de 1992).</ref>

== Births and deaths ==
{{Main|:Category:1992 births|Deaths in 1992}}

==Nobel Prizes==
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*[[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Georges Charpak]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Rudolph A. Marcus]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Edmond H. Fischer]], [[Edwin G. Krebs]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Derek Walcott]]
*[[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Rigoberta Menchú]]
*[[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]] – [[Gary Becker]]

== References ==
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==Sources==
*[http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?050117sh_shouts 1992 House by Bill Frolick] – article about 1992 from ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine.
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