| 1992-06-08
The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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| 1992-11-11
The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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| 1992-10-02
The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
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| 1992-07-14
386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.
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| 1992-09-02
An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people
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| 1992-05-26
Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California and is held hostage for a ransom of $650,000 in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
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| 1992-07-31
Georgia joins the United Nations.
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| 1992-10-04
The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
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| 1992-08-12
Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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| 1992-03-18
White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
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| 1992-01-13
Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II.
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| 1992-06-03
Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
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| 1992-03-31
The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
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| 1992-11-25
The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
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| 1992-09-12
Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
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| 1992-11-27
For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
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| 1992-08-26
Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar signed agreement of split of Czechoslovakia in Brno.
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| 1992-02-23
The Socialist Labour Party is founded in the nation of Georgia.
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| 1992-02-01
The 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.
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| 1992-04-09
John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
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| 1992-04-13
The Great Chicago Flood.
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| 1992-03-12
Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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| 1992-08-21
Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
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| 1992-04-29
1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
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| 1992-01-16
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.
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| 1992-01-12
A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
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| 1992-05-09
Armenian forces capture Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
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| 1992-09-29
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
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| 1992-03-17
Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
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| 1992-05-07
Michigan ratifies a 203-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 mid-term pay raise.
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| 1992-10-25
Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
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| 1992-05-13
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
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| 1992-07-31
A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
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| 1992-04-10
The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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| 1992-08-22
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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| 1992-07-20
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
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| 1992-07-08
The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.
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| 1992-03-06
Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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| 1992-12-03
UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
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| 1992-09-01
The Constitution of Slovakia is ratified
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| 1992-10-09
A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
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| 1992-10-01
Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) crippled causing 27 deaths and injuries, by missiles negligently launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
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| 1992-02-26
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
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| 1992-11-20
In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
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| 1992-02-25
Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
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| 1992-12-29
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
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| 1992-05-18
The Archivist of the United States officially announces the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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| 1992-09-23
A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
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| 1992-04-27
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
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| 1992-05-07
Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
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| 1992-04-18
General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
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| 1992-01-20
Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and 5 crew.
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| 1992-10-13
An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashed near Kiev, Ukraine.
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| 1992-07-22
Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
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| 1992-01-22
Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
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| 1992-03-01
Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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| 1992-08-31
Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo .
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| 1992-04-16
The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
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| 1992-01-26
Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
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| 1992-07-20
The first post-Soviet monetary reform in Latvia ended, as the Soviet rouble lost its status as legal tender.
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| 1992-12-04
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
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| 1992-07-10
In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
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| 1992-04-27
Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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| 1992-10-04
El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
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| 1992-07-23
Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
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| 1992-06-15
The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the USA to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
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| 1992-05-24
The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
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| 1992-12-22
The Archives of Terror are discovered.
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| 1992-05-16
STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
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| 1992-12-03
The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
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| 1992-04-01
Start of the Bosnian war.
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| 1992-06-28
The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
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| 1992-10-27
United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
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| 1992-05-22
After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
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| 1992-04-15
The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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| 1992-06-17
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).
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| 1992-09-12
NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
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| 1992-04-22
In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
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| 1992-03-02
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
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| 1992-10-26
The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Despatch, system which failed.
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| 1992-05-05
Ratification by Alabama brings into effect the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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| 1992-04-05
Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
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| 1992-02-07
The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
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| 1992-07-19
Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, Italy together with five police officers.
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| 1992-09-06
Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
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| 1992-07-23
A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
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| 1992-07-18
The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
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| 1992-02-04
A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
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| 1992-12-21
A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
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| 1992-04-02
In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
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| 1992-04-05
The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic on the Vrbanja Bridge.
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| 1992-03-03
The nation of Bosnia is established.
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| 1992-03-13
An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
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| 1992-08-24
Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.
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| 1992-05-17
Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
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| 1992-04-12
The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
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| 1992-08-16
In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
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| 1992-12-31
Czechoslovakia is dissolved, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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| 1992-04-07
Republika Srpska announces its independence.
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| 1992-11-24
A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
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| 1992-04-27
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
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| 1992-05-22
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
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| 1992-09-16
Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
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| 1992-10-23
Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
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| 1992-06-30
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher.
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| 1992-09-24
USA Networks launches the Sci Fi Channel
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| 1992-04-08
Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
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| 1992-09-17
An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
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| 1992-10-26
The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
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| 1992-01-15
The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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| 1992-12-06
Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India which had been used as a temple since 1949.
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| 1992-03-25
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
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| 1992-08-18
Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
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| 1992-08-24
Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
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| 1992-09-18
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
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| 1992-01-22
Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission – Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
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| 1992-04-09
A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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