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