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1992
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
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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.
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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
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December 4 - US military forces invade Somalia.
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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.
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December 6 - Hindu activists destroy the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, triggering religious violence around the country.
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December 8 - Last blast fired in Falu Copper Mine in Sweden. The end of a millennium of continuous operation.
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December 20 - The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
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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.
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Year in topic
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1992 in art
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1992 in film
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March 13 - My Cousin Vinny starring Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, and Fred Gwynne
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May 15 - Lethal Weapon 3 starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci
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May 22 - Alien3 starring Sigourney Weaver
- May 22 - Far and Away starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
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June 5 - Patriot Games starring Harrison Ford
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October 2 - Hero starring Dustin Hoffman
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November 20 - Home Alone 2: Lost In New York starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern
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December 11 - A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore
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Unforgiven starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. Eastwood also directed.
- Scent of a Woman
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1992 in literature
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1992 in music
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1992 in sports
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1992 in television
- 1992 in video games and computing
Deaths
January-April
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January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
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January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor
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January 26 - José Ferrer, actor
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January 27 - Allan Jones, actor, singer (b. 1908)
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January 29 - Willie Dixon, composer, blues musician
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February 2 - Bert Parks, game show host, Miss America host
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February 10 - Alex Haley, author
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February 11 - Ray Danton , US actor/director.
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February 20 - Dick York, actor
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March 2 - Sandy Dennis, actress
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March 8 - Red Callender , composer
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March 9 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
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March 29 - Paul Henreid, actor
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April 6 - Isaac Asimov, author
- April 6 - Molly Picon, actress
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April 18 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor
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April 21 - His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia, Titular Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias
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April 23 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker
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April 27 - Olivier Messiaen, composer
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April 28 - Francis Bacon, painter (b. 1909)
May-December
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May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress
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May 12 - Robert Reed, actor
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May 17 - Lawrence Welk, American musician
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May 22 - Tony Accardo, Chicago mob figure
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May 23 - Giovanni Falcone, judge
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June 21 - Yoshiko Uchida , Japanese-American writer (b. 1921)
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June 26 - John Jacob Astor V, member of the Astor family
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July 15 - Hammer DeRoburt, founding president of Nauru (b. 1922)
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August 5 - Jeff Porcaro, American musician
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August 12 - John Cage, American composer
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August - Mark Heard, American singer
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October 7 - Tevfik Esenç, last speaker of the Ubykh language
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October 19 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
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December 7 - David Astor, British newspaper publisher
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December 18 - Mark Goodson, game show producer
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December 21 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1903)
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December 22 - Albert King, blues musician (born 1930) December - Pierre Culliford, a.k.a. "Peyo". Belgian Creator of Smurfs
- Finnish Village Action Movement , Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury , Helen Mack , John Gofman and Alla Yaroshinskaya
Last updated: 10-17-2005 14:52:25
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