George H. W. Bush becomes the first U.S. President to address the Australian Parliament.
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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.
Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
Superbowl XXVI was won by the Washington Redskins against the Buffalo Bills. (37-24)
The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.
The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
The Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.
The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale, kills over 500.
White South Africans vote in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid regime and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.
The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore comes into force.
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Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
Fuel that leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1,500 injured.
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons.
Los Angeles riots. A six day riot left 53 dead and over $1 Billion in proprty damage
Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for a lost Space Shuttle.(STS-49)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain receives compensation for wrongful conviction on murder charges
Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot. The kidnappers demand $650,000 ransom; they are later apprehended.
Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment
The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.
Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) founded
A bodyguard assassinates President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria.
In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
A Thai Airways Flight 311 operated by Airbus A310-300 crashed into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 peoples on board.
The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for 20 years
Kristiansund's connection to the mainland of Norway, Krifast, opens.
Hurricane Andrew attains Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and at 2100 UTC hits Eleuthera and the Bahama Banks
An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people
Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu.
STS-47: Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru Massacre.
The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
Lennart Meri becomes the first president of newly independent Estonia.
Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.
United States presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin releases the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets in 1983.
In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, causing over £50 million worth of damage.
Miley Cyrus was born
U.S. military forces land in Somalia.
An earthquake hits Flores, Indonesia, leaving 2,500 dead.
A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government.
