Timeline 1992 thru September
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1992 Jan 1,
President Bush became the first American leader to address the
Australian Parliament, telling lawmakers the United States would
continue to subsidize its agricultural exports, despite protests by
Australia's farmers.
(AP, 1/1/02)
1992 Jan 1, Altaf Hussain
(b.1953), leader of Pakistan’s MQM party, fled to Saudi Arabia and
after a month to London. PM Nawaz Sharif soon deployed the army to
Karachi for a massive anti-MQM operation and the city descended into an
undeclared civil war.
(WSJ, 12/5/07,
p.A22)(www.elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=6881)
1992 Jan 1, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar as secretary-general of the United
Nations.
(AP, 1/1/02)
1992 Jan 2, Military commanders in
Croatia agreed to a cease-fire accord, the 15th attempt at a truce.
(AP, 1/2/02)
1992 Jan 2, Russian shoppers
experienced their first day of "sticker shock" after President Boris
Yeltsin lifted price controls to stimulate production.
(AP, 1/2/02)
1992 Jan 3, In California, police
pursued a driver who had killed another motorist along Interstate 5 for
more than 300 miles until the car ran out of gas in Westminster; the
driver was shot to death after officers said he pointed a shotgun at
them.
(AP, 1/3/02)
1992 Jan 3, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above 3,200 for the first time, ending the
day at 3,201.48.
(AP, 1/3/02)
1992 Jan 3, The UN, led by US Sec.
of State Cyrus Vance, brokered a cease-fire between the Croatian
government and rebel Serbs. Following subsequent breaches the UN
Protection Force (UNPROFOR) put 14,000 peacekeeping troops into
Croatia. The European Community (EC) recognized the independence of
Croatia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jan 4, President Bush,
visiting Singapore as part of a Pacific trade tour, announced plans to
shift to Singapore the Navy logistics command that was being evicted
from the Philippines.
(AP, 1/4/02)
1992 Jan 5, President Bush arrived
in Seoul, South Korea, on the third stop of a 12-day tour focusing on
international trade issues.
(AP, 1/5/02)
1992 Jan 6, The United States
joined the U.N. Security Council in condemning Israel's planned
deportation of 12 Palestinians.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 6, The US Food and Drug
Administration called on surgeons to stop using silicone gel breast
implants because of safety questions, but stopped short of an outright
ban.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 6, After two weeks of
fighting, ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled the
capital, Tbilisi.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 7, Pitchers Tom Seaver
and Rollie Fingers were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, President Bush arrived
in Japan on a tough-talk trade mission.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, Serb forces shot down
a European Community helicopter in Croatia, killing five truce
observers.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 8, President Bush
collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo; White House officials said
Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
(AP, 1/8/02)
1992 Jan 9, President Bush
declared his trade visit to Japan a success, saying Japanese officials
had agreed to increase imports of American cars, auto parts, computers
and other goods. However, U.S. auto executives traveling with Bush
sounded less enthusiastic.
(AP, 1/9/02)
1992 Jan 10, President Bush
returned home from his grueling 12-day journey to Australia, Singapore,
South Korea and Japan, boasting of "dramatic progress" on trade issues.
(AP, 1/10/02)
1992 Jan 10, In Algeria an army
coup cancelled elections that were running strongly in favor of the
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). France supported the move which led to a
bloody struggle between the Algerian army and Algerian fundamentalist
(Armed Islamic Group, GIA) guerillas that by 1995 claimed nearly 40,000
lives and numerous bomb attacks in France.
(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-22)(SFC, 11/14/96, p.A12)(SFC,
1/8/96, p.A7)
1992 Jan 11, The president of
Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid) resigned, two weeks after Muslim
fundamentalists had defeated his ruling party in legislative elections.
(AP, 1/11/02)
1992 Jan 12, The Washington
Redskins won the NFC championship, defeating the Detroit Lions 41 to
10; the Buffalo Bills won the AFC title, beating the Denver Broncos 10
to 7.
(AP, 1/12/02)
1992 Jan 12, HAL, the
Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, from the 1968 Arthur C.
Clark and Stanley Kubrick movie and book, “became operational” at the
HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. [1997 article claimed 1/12/97 as
birthdate] The book "HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and
Reality" was published in 1997 by MIT Press. The birthday in the movie
was 1/12/92.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C14)(SFC, 1/25/97,
p.E1)(SFEC, 3/16/97, Par p.31)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)
1992 Jan 12, One day after the
surprise resignation of Algeria's president, Chadli Bendjedid, the
army-backed Algerian government canceled parliamentary elections to
prevent fundamentalist Muslims from winning power.
(AP, 1/12/02)
1992 Jan 13, US serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer in a pretrial hearing pleaded guilty but insane in
fifteen of the seventeen murders he confessed to committing.
(www.courttv.com/trials/taped/dahmer.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992)
1992 Jan 13, Israeli, Palestinian
and Jordanian negotiators began talks in Washington on Palestinian
autonomy.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1992 Jan 13, Japan apologized for
forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for
Japanese soldiers during World War II.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1992 Jan 14, Historic Mideast
peace talks continued in Washington, with Israel and Jordan holding
their first-ever formal negotiations, and the Israelis continuing
exchanges with Palestinian representatives.
(AP, 1/14/02)
1992 Jan 15, The Yugoslav
federation, founded in 1918, effectively collapsed as the European
Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
(AP, 1/15/98)
1992 Jan 16, Officials of the
government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico
City ending 12 years of civil war that had left at least 75,000 people
dead.
(AP, 1/16/98)
1992 Jan 17, President Bush laid a
wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.
(AP, 1/17/02)
1992 Jan 17, IBM announced a
nearly $5B loss for 1991.
(www.iht.com/articles/1992/01/17/ibm_.php)
1992 Jan 17, Celeste Carrington
(30), a former janitor of from East Palo Alto, Ca., shot and killed
Victor Esparza (34) in San Carlos during a robbery. 2 months later she
shot and killed Caroline Gleason (36), a property manager, during a
robbery in Palo Alto. 5 days later she wounded a 3rd person in an
attempted robbery. She was later convicted and sentenced to death. In
2009 the California Supreme court upheld her death sentence.
(SFC, 7/28/09,
p.C2)(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S043628.PDF)
1992 Jan 17, Eight Protestant
laborers were killed in an IRA bombing in Northern Ireland.
(AP, 1/17/02)
1992 Jan 18, The Hollywood Foreign
Press Association presented its Golden Globe awards, considered a
forerunner of the Academy Awards; no clear favorite emerged as the Walt
Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast," "Bugsy," "JFK" and "The
Prince of Tides" were honored.
(AP, 1/18/02)
1992 Jan 19, "City of Angels"
closed at Virginia Theater in NYC after 878 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0351)
1992 Jan 19, Arkansas Governor
Bill Clinton drew fire from fellow Democratic presidential candidates
during a debate in Manchester, N.H.
(AP, 1/19/02)
1992 Jan 19, German government and
Jewish officials dedicated a Holocaust memorial at the villa where the
notorious Wannsee Conference had taken place.
(AP, 1/19/02)
1992 Jan 20, A French Airbus A-320
crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87 people.
(AP, 1/20/98)
1992 Jan 20, A German court
convicted two former East German border guards of the last killing at
the Berlin Wall.
(AP, 1/20/02)
1992 Jan 21, The Supreme Court
agreed to review a Pennsylvania law imposing waiting periods and other
restrictions on abortions. The court later upheld most of the
restrictions while reaffirming women's constitutional right to abortion.
(AP, 1/21/02)
1992 Jan 21, William T "Champion
Jack" Dupree (81), US boxer, pianist, died in Germany.
(www.john-meekings.co.uk/wtdupree.html)
1992 Jan 22, President Bush named
Andrew H. Card Jr. to be transportation secretary.
(AP, 1/22/02)
1992 Jan 22-30, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off with seven astronauts. Roberta Bondar was the
first Canadian woman in space. She rode the shuttle Discovery and
performed life and material-science experiments.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.14A)(AP, 1/22/02)
1992 Jan 23, Forty-seven nations,
including the United States, agreed on a massive global humanitarian
effort to rescue millions of hungry people in the former Soviet Union.
(AP, 1/23/02)
1992 Jan 24, The state of Arkansas
executed convicted cop-killer Rickey Ray Rector after Gov. Bill Clinton
refused to intervene.
(AP, 1/24/02)
1992 Jan 24, A judge in El
Salvador sentenced an army colonel and a lieutenant to 30 years in
prison for their part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their
housekeeper and her daughter.
(AP, 1/24/02)
1992 Jan 25, Finance ministers
from the Group of Seven nations met in Garden City, N.Y., agreeing to
intensify their cooperation to stimulate the world's sluggish economy,
while leaving it to each country to decide how.
(AP, 1/25/02)
1992 Jan 25, Mahmoud Riad
(b.1917), Egyptian diplomat and sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9390991?hook=795127)
1992 Jan 26, The Washington
Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI, defeating the Buffalo Bills 37-24.
(AP, 1/26/02)
1992 Jan 26, On CBS' "60 Minutes,"
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing with his
wife, Hillary, acknowledged "causing pain in my marriage," but said
past problems were not relevant to the campaign.
(AP, 1/26/02)
1992 Jan 26, Jose Ferrer (b.1909),
Puerto Rico born film actor, died in Coral Gables, Fla.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer)
1992 Jan 27, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers accused each
other of lying in a renewed dispute over her assertion that they'd had
a 12-year affair.
(AP, 1/27/02)
1992 Jan 27, Boxer Mike Tyson went
on trial for rape. On Feb 10 he was found guilty.
(http://slam.canoe.ca/BoxingTysonHolyfield/tyson_chronology.html)
1992 Jan 27, Aileen Wuornos, a
Florida prostitute, was convicted of slaying the first of seven men
she'd admitted killing, claiming self-defense.
(AP, 1/27/02)
1992 Jan 27, Pres. Mugabe’s wife,
Sally (b.1932), died. Some dated the collapse of Zimbabwe and Mugabe’s
misrule to her death.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.28)
1992 Jan 28, President George H.W.
Bush, in his State of the Union address, proposed tax breaks and
business incentives to revive the economy, and announced dramatic cuts
in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
(AP, 1/28/02)
1992 Jan 28, A multinational
Middle East peace conference opened in Moscow.
(AP, 1/28/02)
1992 Jan 29, President Bush
presented a $1.2 trillion budget plan.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 29, Willie Dixon (76),
blues composer (Backdoor Man), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0229006/)
1992 Jan 29, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin unveiled an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons
spending and said his republic's weapons would no longer be aimed at
any U.S. targets.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 29, A multinational
Middle East peace conference ended in Moscow with participants sounding
upbeat.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 30, President George H.W.
Bush and other world leaders gathered for an unprecedented U.N.
Security Council summit to coordinate policy on peacekeeping,
disarmament and quelling aggression.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, The space shuttle
Discovery landed in California, ending an eight-day mission.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, Irish PM Charles
Haughey (1926-2006) announced his resignation. The 8-year rule by PM
Haughey ended. Later allegations arose that he had accepted cash from
Dunnes Stores while in office. There were also allegations that Dunnes
had given members of Parliament more than $5 million over 10 years. New
evidence also showed that he had authorized the 1982 phone-tapping.
(SFC, 4/23/97, p.A5)(AP, 1/30/02)(AP, 6/13/06)
1992 Jan 31, Leaders of the U.N.
Security Council's member states held an unprecedented summit, after
which they issued a declaration on collective security, arms control
and nuclear non-proliferation.
(AP, 1/31/02)
1992 Jan, Sportscaster Howard
Cosell (1918-1995) retired.
(www.uncwil.edu/com/rohler/kbt.htm)
1992 Jan, In Iraq 80 military
officers accused of planning a coup were executed along with 76
anti-regime activists.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1992 Jan-1992 Feb, In China Deng
Xiaoping toured the southern provinces and urged more economic reforms.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A5)
1992 Feb 1, President George H.W.
Bush and Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin met at Camp David.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 1, Ron Carey was sworn in
as the first Teamsters president elected by the union's rank-and-file.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 1, US Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman (81), who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to
death, died in New York.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 2, The U.S. Coast Guard
shipped home 250 more Haitian refugees from the Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base in Cuba, a day after repatriating a shipload of about 150 Haitians.
(AP, 2/2/02)
1992 Feb 2, Longtime "Miss
America" emcee Bert Parks died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 77.
(AP, 2/2/02)
1992 Feb 3, President George H.W.
Bush got into a testy exchange with Democratic governors over his
economic-revival plan.
(AP, 2/3/02)
1992 Feb 3, Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sparked controversy by saying American workers
were losing the drive "to live by the sweat of their brow."
(AP, 2/3/02)
1992 Feb 4, President George H.W.
Bush defended his economic recovery plan before a National Grocers
Association meeting in Orlando, Fla. During his visit, Bush appeared
intrigued by an electronic checkout machine, leaving reporters
wondering if he'd ever seen such a device before.
(AP, 2/4/02)
1992 Feb 4, In Caracas, Venezuela,
there was a coup attempt but Lt. Col. Chavez failed to capture the
presidential Palace and was forced to surrender. He served 2 years in
prison.
(WSJ, 6/12/03, p.A10)
1992 Feb 5, The US House of
Representatives authorized an investigation into whether the 1980
Reagan-Bush campaign conspired with Iran to delay release of the
American hostages. The task force investigating the "October Surprise"
allegations later said it found no credible evidence of such a
conspiracy.
(AP, 2/5/02)
1992 Feb 5, In Northern
Ireland Protestant guerrillas shot and killed 5 Catholic men in the
Sean Graham betting shop on the Lower Ormeau Road.
(www.nuzhound.com/articles/Irelandclick/arts2002/bookies2-1-02.htm)
1992 Feb 6, President George H.W.
Bush unveiled a health care plan for most Americans.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton denied he'd tried to avoid the
Vietnam draft, saying he gave up a draft deferment in the fall of 1969
because he "didn't think it was right" to keep it.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Sixteen people were
killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville, Ind.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 7, Former heavyweight
boxing champion Mike Tyson testified at his rape trial in Indianapolis
that his accuser, a Miss Black America contestant, had consented to
having sex with him.
(AP, 2/7/02)
1992 Feb 7, The Treaty on the
European Union was signed in Maastricht by the Foreign and Finance
Ministers of the Member States.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Feb 7, Russian President
Boris N. Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand signed a
cooperation treaty in Paris.
(AP, 2/7/02)
1992 Feb 8, The 16th Olympic
Winter Games opened in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/8/02)
1992 Feb 9, Magic Johnson returned
to professional basketball by playing in the NBA All-Star game. Johnson
was named most valuable player as his side, the Western Conference,
defeated the Eastern Conference 153-to-113.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, The government of
Algeria declared a state of emergency to quell spreading Muslim
fundamentalist unrest.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, An Air Senegal flight
chartered by Club Med crashed and 30 people were killed. In 2000 a
French court convicted Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano and his son,
Serge, for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/7/00,
p.D6)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=6V)
1992 Feb 10, In the Iowa caucus
favorite son Tom Harkin won with 76% of the vote. The rest went to
“Uncommitted” (12%), Paul Tsongas (4%), Bill Clinton (3%), Bob Kerrey
(2%), and Jerry Brown (2%). Clinton ended up winning the Democratic
nomination and the presidency.
(http://correntewire.com/post_iowa_perspective)
1992 Feb 10, Boxer Mike Tyson was
convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black
America contestant. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(AP, 2/10/97)(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A13)
1992 Feb 10, Alex Haley, author of
"Roots" and co-writer of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," died in
Seattle at age 70. Much of his work was donated to the Univ. of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.C15)(AP, 2/10/97)
1992 Feb 11, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, on a tour of six former Soviet republics, visited
Armenia, where he heard an appeal from the republic's president for
U.S. help in resolving a bloody feud with neighboring Azerbaijan.
(AP, 2/11/02)
1992 Feb 12, President Bush
formally announced his bid for re-election.
(AP, 2/12/02)
1992 Feb 12, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton released a letter he'd written as a
student in 1969 in which he said he had decided to give up a draft
deferment in order to "maintain my political viability."
(AP, 2/12/02)
1992 Feb 13, Donna Weinbrecht of
the United States won the gold medal in women's freestyle skiing moguls
at the Olympic games in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/13/02)
1992 Feb 14, American speed skater
Bonnie Blair won her second gold medal of the Albertville Olympics, in
the 1,000 meters event.
(AP, 2/14/02)
1992 Feb 14, The former Soviet
republics of Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan rejected a proposal for a
unified army, sharply rebuffing Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin.
(AP, 2/14/02)
1992 Feb 15, 100th episode of
"Cops" aired on the Fox network.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1992 Feb 15, A Milwaukee jury
found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men
and boys.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)(AP, 2/15/02)
1992 Feb 15, Benjamin L. Hooks
announced plans to retire as executive director of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(AP, 2/15/98)
1992 Feb 15, Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer William Schuman died in New York at age 81.
(AP, 2/15/02)
1992 Feb 16, Two days before the
New Hampshire primary, five Democratic presidential candidates debated
on CNN, directing most of their criticism at President George H.W. Bush.
(AP, 2/16/02)
1992 Feb 16, Israeli helicopters
attacked a convoy in Sidon, Lebanon, killing Sheik Abbas Musawi, leader
of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (b.1960)
took over Hezbollah after the Israeli assassination of Sheik Abbas
Musawi. He has led the group since, controlling its operational
activities.
(AP, 2/16/02)(AP, 6/3/06)
1992 Feb 17, Serial killer Jeffrey
Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. He was beaten to
death in prison in November 1994.
(AP, 2/17/98)
1992 Feb 17, Italian police
arrested Mario Chiesa, the first one to be picked up in what would
become Italy's massive corruption scandals. This date became considered
a watershed moment in recent Italian history. Italy’s "Clean Hands"
corruption scandal originated in Milan. A series of bribery cases led
to the conviction and flight of Socialist Bettino Craxi.
(AP, 3/31/09)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.T11)(Econ, 11/26/05,
Survey p.10)
1992 Feb 18, Republican Pres.
George H.W. Bush won the New Hampshire primary over Pat Buchanon, 58.6
to 41.4%. Democrat Paul Tsongas won over Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Tom
Harkin and Jerry Brown 38 to 28.3 to 12.7 to 11.6 to 9.3%.
(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)
1992 Feb 18, John Frohnmayer
announced his resignation as US chairman of the National Endowment for
the Arts.
(AP, 2/21/02)
1992 Feb 19, "Crazy For You"
opened at Shubert Theater in NYC for 1622 performances.
(http://www.musicals101.com/1990s.htm)
1992 Feb 19, The US Labor
Department reported consumer prices rose by just 0.1 percent in January.
(AP, 2/19/02)
1992 Feb 19, Peter Collins of
Boulder, Colo., discovered Nova Cygni 1992.
(www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/v1974cyg.shtml)
1992 Feb 19, Former Irish
Republican Army member Joseph Doherty was deported from the United
States to Northern Ireland following a 10-year battle for political
asylum.
(AP, 2/19/02)
1992 Feb 20, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot told CNN's "Larry King Live" he would run for president if
his name were placed on the ballot in all 50 states.
(AP, 2/20/02)
1992 Feb 20, Dick York (b.1928),
actor (Bewitched), died of emphysema.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3135)
1992 Feb 21, Kristi Yamaguchi of
the United States won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the
Albertville Olympics; Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy
Kerrigan of the United States the bronze.
(AP, 2/21/98)
1992 Feb 22, President Bush
renewed his attack on a Democratic tax plan, saying in a radio address
that congressional Democrats were choosing "politics over duty."
(AP, 2/22/02)
1992 Feb 22, At the Winter
Olympics in Albertville, France, American speedskater Cathy Turner won
the women's 500-meter race.
(AP, 2/22/02)
1992 Feb 23, The XVI Winter
Olympic Games ended in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 23, Paul Tsongas won a
narrow victory over Jerry Brown in the Maine Democratic caucuses.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 23, In Moscow, thousands
of pro-communist demonstrators, some shouting, "Down with the Russian
government!," clashed with police.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 24, Secretary of State
James A. Baker III told a House subcommittee that Israel should stop
building settlements in the occupied territories, or forfeit $10
billion in U.S. loan guarantees. A fourth round of Mideast peace talks
began in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 2/24/02)
1992 Feb 24, General Motors
reported a record $4.5 billion loss for 1991.
(AP, 2/24/02)
1992 Feb 25, Natalie Cole won
seven awards at the 34th annual Grammys, including best album for
"Unforgettable."
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 25, President Bush won
the South Dakota Republican primary, Bob Kerrey the Democratic primary.
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled prison guards who use unnecessary force against inmates may be
violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment even
if they inflict no serious injuries.
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 26, "Search and Destroy"
opened at the Circle in the Square Theater in NYC for 46 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0415)
1992 Feb 26, The US Supreme Court
ruled unanimously that sexually harassed students may sue to collect
monetary damages from their schools and school officials.
(AP, 2/26/02)
1992 Feb 26, The Supreme Court of
Ireland cleared the way for a 14-year-old girl to leave the country for
an abortion.
(AP, 2/26/02)
1992 Feb 27, Tiger Woods (16)
became the youngest PGA golfer in 35 years.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/pga/features/tiger/timeline/)
1992 Feb 27, William Aramony
resigned as president of United Way of America amid charges of
financial mismanagement and lavish spending. Aramony was later
convicted and spent 7 years in Federal Prison Camp at Seymour Johnson
Air Force Base, near Goldsboro, NC.
(AP,
2/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aramony)
1992 Feb 27, Former Sen. S.I.
Hayakawa (b.1906) died in San Francisco at age 85.
(AP,
2/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa)
1992 Feb 28, Twenty-eight people
were injured when an IRA bomb exploded at London Bridge train station.
(AP, 2/28/02)
1992 Feb 29, La Lupe (53), Cuban
singer, died of a heart attack in the Bronx.
(www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/salsa/artists/lalupe.html)
1992 Feb 29, Bosnia-Herzegovina
voted overwhelmingly for independence. The Muslim-led Bosnian
government declared independence.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)
1992 Mar 1, "Little Hotel on the
Side" closed at Belasco in NYC after 41 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0405)
1992 Mar 1, "Visit" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0426)
1992 Mar 1, Sen. Brock Adams
abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a
Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
(AP, 3/1/02)
1992 Mar 1, Bosnian Serbs began
sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Moslems voted for Bosnian
independence.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1992 Mar 2, A jury was seated in
Simi Valley, Calif., in the assault trial of four Los Angeles police
officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, Actress Sandy Dennis
died in Westport, Conn., at age 54.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, The 47th session of
the UN General Assembly welcomed eight former Soviet republics and San
Marino as its newest members. Kazakhstan’s Pres. Nursultan Nazarbayev
proposed to the UN General Assembly an annual reduction of military
budgets by 1% and using the money to fund and strengthen UN peace
projects.
(AP, 3/2/02)(Econ, 12/16/06, p.81)
1992 Mar 3, President Bush
apologized for raising taxes after pledging not to.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, In so-called "Junior
Tuesday" political contests, Democrat Paul Tsongas won primaries in
Maryland and Utah; Bill Clinton won in Georgia, Jerry Brown in
Colorado. Among Republicans, President George H.W. Bush swept Georgia,
Maryland and Colorado.
(AP, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Charges were filed in
Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight
Gooden for rape. They were dropped in April.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Bosnia’s Muslims and
Croats voted for independence in a referendum boycotted by Serbs.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Mar 3, An underground coal
mine explosion in Kozlu, (Zonguldak), Turkey, claimed 270 lives.
(AP, 3/3/02)(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 4, Another round of
Middle East peace negotiations concluded in Washington, D.C., with
Israel rejecting a plan for Palestinian elections.
(AP, 3/4/02)
1992 Mar 4, Arthur Babbitt (84),
Disney animator (Mr. Magoo, Goofy), died of heart failure.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1992 Mar 5, Nebraska Sen. Bob
Kerrey dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
(AP, 3/5/02)
1992 Mar 5, The trial of four Los
Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King
opened in Simi Valley, Calif.
(AP, 3/5/02)
1992 Mar 5, In Copenhagen the
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, in the presence
of the representative from the European Commission, opened a 2-day
meeting and decided to establish a Council of the Baltic Sea States to
serve as a forum for guidance and overall coordination among the
participating states. Iceland joined the CBSS in 1995
(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.63)(www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/European-policy/baltic-market.html)
1992 Mar 6, Personal computer
users braced for a virus known as "Michelangelo," set to trigger on
March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported. The
Michelangelo computer virus threatened computer systems around the
world. It was designed to lodge itself into a corner of the system and
infect any floppies put into the system, and to eventually mangle the
hard drive.
(Sp., 5/96, p.68)(AP, 3/6/02)
1992 Mar 7, Democrat Bill Clinton
picked up additional victories in the South Carolina primary and the
Wyoming caucuses, while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the Arizona
caucuses. President George H.W. Bush won the Republican primary in
South Carolina.
(AP, 3/7/02)
1992 Mar 7, An Israeli security
chief was killed in a car bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey. Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1992 Mar 8, President George H.W.
Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton headed toward "Super Tuesday" claiming
big boosts from weekend victories.
(AP, 3/8/02)
1992 Mar 8, Ninety people were
killed when a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine collided
with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand.
(AP, 3/8/02)
1992 Mar 9, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin
dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
(AP, 3/9/02)
1992 Mar 9, Menachem Begin, former
Israeli Prime Minister (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979) died in Tel Aviv at
age 78. In 1987 Amos Perlmutter (d.2001 at 69) authored "The Life and
Times of Menachim Begin."
(AP, 3/9/98)(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A27)
1992 Mar 10, Democrat Bill Clinton
claimed front-runner status as he won a series of Southern landslides
on "Super Tuesday." President George H.W. Bush swept all the Republican
contests.
(AP, 3/10/02)
1992 Mar 11, Members of the U.N.
Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of "cheat and retreat"
from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human rights;
Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying his country
was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1992 Mar 11, Manuel De Dios Unanue
(48), US anti-drug journalist and former editor of El Diario-La Prensa,
was murdered by two bullets to the head in a restaurant in the Jackson
Heights section of the borough of Queens, New York City. His death was
linked to his writing critically about the Colombian Drug Cartel.
(http://tinyurl.com/2f3c4x)
1992 Mar 12, This issue of Rolling
Stone magazine contained an article by Tom Curtis that outlined a
theory for the origin of AIDS based on the Wister vaccine developed by
Hilary Koprowski and given to some 300,000 people in the Belgian Congo
between 1957-1960.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A14)
1992 Mar 12, Efraim Banaca
Velasquez, a guerilla leader in Guatemala married to an American lawyer
(Jennifer Harbury), disappeared and was later murdered. Secret US
government files later disclosed that the Guatemalan colonel, Julio
Roberto Alpirez, oversaw the interrogation and debriefing and that he
was on CIA payroll. A suit filed by Harbury in 1995 against a list of
US officials was dismissed in 1999 and reinstated in 2000 on appeal.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-6)(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C13)(SFC,
3/18/97, p.A10)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A4)
1992 Mar 13, The U.N. Security
Council stood firm in its demand that Iraq comply totally with Gulf War
cease-fire resolutions, rebuffing an appeal for leniency from Saddam
Hussein's special envoy, deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1992 Mar 13, Some 498 died in an
earthquake at Erzincan, Turkey.
(www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geosciences/qketour/qkexampl/qk990817.html)
1992 Mar 14, The Associated Press
obtained the names of 22 of 24 of the worst offenders in the check
overdraft scandal at the House bank; topping the list were former Rep.
Tommy Robinson of Arkansas and Rep. Bob Mrazek of New York, both
Democrats.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1992 Mar 14, Soviet newspaper
"Pravda" suspended publication.
(www.hightowertrail.com/VanguardMar05.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Steven Brian Pennell
(34), serial killer, was executed. This was the 1st execution in
Delaware in 45 years.
(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/pennell.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Jean Poiret (65),
French actor, writer (La Cage aux Folles), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001144)
1992 Mar 15, Democratic
presidential candidates debated in Chicago, criticizing President
George H.W. Bush's handling of the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath,
and clashing over economic issues.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1992 Mar 15, The United Nations
officially embarked on its largest peacekeeping operation with the
arrival of a diplomat in Cambodia.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1992 Mar 16, Robert J. Eaton, head
of General Motors' profitable European operations, joined Chrysler
Corp. as Chairman Lee Iacocca's future successor.
(AP, 3/16/97)
1992 Mar 17, Democrat Bill
Clinton scored big primary victories in Illinois and Michigan. In
Illinois, Sen. Alan Dixon was defeated in his primary re-election bid
by Carol Moseley-Braun, who went on to become the first black woman in
the U.S. Senate.
(AP, 3/17/97)
1992 Mar 17, Three of President
George Bush's cabinet secretaries disclosed that they had overdrawn
their accounts at the scandal-ridden House of Representatives bank when
they were in Congress.
(www.iht.com/articles/1992/03/18/hous_3.php)
1992 Mar 17, Grace Stafford Lantz
(87), cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0821282/)
1992 Mar 17, A truck bombing
at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killed 29 people.
Iran denied any role. Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh was suspected of
involvement. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(AP, 3/17/97)(WSJ, 11/24/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/19/01,
p.A14)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1992 Mar 17, White South Africans
approved constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks.
(HN, 3/17/99)
1992 Mar 18, US National Football
League owners voted to drop the use of instant videotape replays to
settle disputed calls during games. Instant replay was brought back in
1999.
(AP, 3/18/02)
1992 Mar 18, Leona Helmsley was
sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion.
(http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10611F63B580C718EDDAA0894DA494D81)
1992 Mar 18, South African
President F.W. de Klerk claimed victory for his reforms a day after a
whites-only referendum on whether to end apartheid.
(AP, 3/18/97)
1992 Mar 19, Democrat Paul Tsongas
pulled out of the presidential race, leaving Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton
the favorite to capture their party's nomination. Tsongas had won the
New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary.
(AP, 3/19/97)(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)
1992 Mar 19, British Prince Andrew
and Princess Sarah Ferguson announced separation.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/19/newsid_2543000/2543667.stm)
1992 Mar 19, Soviet Commonwealth
leaders open their 4th summit with hopes of solving military disputes
and stopping ethnic fighting.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1992 Mar 20, The US Congress
passed, and President Bush immediately vetoed, a Democratic tax cut for
the middle class that would have been funded by a tax hike on the rich.
(AP, 3/20/97)
1992 Mar 21, During a debate in
Buffalo, N.Y., Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton sought
to turn the tables on rival Jerry Brown by accusing the former
California governor of hypocrisy on the issue of campaign contributions.
(AP, 3/21/97)
1992 Mar 21, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met at Camp David, Md.
(AP, 3/21/97)
1992 Mar 22, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrapped up a weekend of informal talks by
reiterating their resolve to break a deadlock on global trade talks.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 22, The show
"Conversations with My Father" opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC for
462 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4669)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven people
were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New York's La
Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Mar 22, France's governing
Socialist Party was rebuffed in regional elections.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 23, The president of the
U.N. Security Council announced that Libya had offered to surrender two
men suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League.
Libya reversed itself two days later; however, the suspects surrendered
for trial seven years later. One was subsequently convicted, the other
found innocent.
(AP, 3/23/02)
1992 Mar 23, Friedrich A. von
Hayek (92), British economist, Nobel winner (1974), died. His books
included Road to Serfdom (1944) and “The Constitution of Liberty”
(1960). In 2004 Bruce Caldwell authored “Hayek’s Challenge: An
Intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek.”
(SS, 3/23/02)(Econ, 3/6/04, p.74)
1992 Mar 24, Democrat Jerry Brown
upset front-runner Bill Clinton in the Connecticut presidential primary.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1992 Mar 24 The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts on the first shuttle mission
devoted to the environment.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1992 Mar 25, Libyan leader Col.
Moammar Gadhafi backed away from an offer to turn over two suspects in
the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1992 Mar 25, Soviet cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev, who'd spent 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space
station, thereby missing the upheaval in his homeland, finally returned
to Earth.
{Libya, Arab League}
(AP, 3/25/97)
1992 Mar 26, A judge in
Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to
six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant. Tyson
ended up serving three years.
(AP, 3/26/02)
1992 Mar 27, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton, campaigning in New York,
apologized for recently golfing at an all-white club.
(AP, 3/27/97)
1992 Mar 27, German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl met with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Munich, a
meeting denounced by Jewish groups because of Waldheim's alleged
involvement with Nazi persecution during World War II.
(AP, 3/27/97)
1992 Mar 27, Lang Hancock
(b.1909), pioneer Pilbara tycoon, died. He was famous for discovering
the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the
richest men in Australia,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock)(Econ,
4/19/08, p.53)
1992 Mar 28, Democrats Bill
Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed over Brown's flat-tax proposal, with
Clinton charging the plan would hurt the poor, and Brown accusing
Clinton of inventing "another big lie."
(AP, 3/28/97)
1992 Mar 28, In Jamaica Prime
Minister Michael Manley stepped down from office. He was succeeded by
P.J. Patterson.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A21)
1992 Mar 29, The film Hudson Hawk
won the 12th Golden Raspberry Award as worst picture.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Razzie_Awards/1992)
1992 Mar 29, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with
marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford University, adding, "I
didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."
(AP, 3/29/97)
1992 Mar 29, Earl Spencer (68),
father of Lady Diana, died.
(http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/spencer.htm)
1992 Mar 29, Paul [G J von]
Henreid (84), Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), died.
(www.pgtw.bc.ca/histor3.htm)
1992 Mar 30, "The Silence of the
Lambs" won five Oscars at the 64th annual Academy Awards, including
best picture, best actress for Jodie Foster and best actor for Anthony
Hopkins.
(AP, 3/30/97)
1992 Mar 30, Walter Mickens Jr.
robbed, attempted sodomy, and stabbed Timothy Hall (17) 143 times in
Newport News, Va. Mickens was convicted of murder in 1993 and was
executed in 2002.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A3)(SFC, 6/13/02, p.A5)
1992 Mar 31, The Battleship USS
Missouri was decommissioned. This was the ship on which Japan signed
its WWII surrender. In 1996 Paul Stillwell authored “Battleship
Missouri: An Illustrated History.”
(www.battleship.org/html/Articles/Features/stillwell.htm)
1992 Mar, In Albania the
Democratic party of Sali Berisha was elected with 92 of a 140 seats in
the legislature in the midst of economic freefall and social chaos.
Restoration of the economy and political system was a major task and
foreign assistance was required to maintain the food supply. Berisha, a
cardiologist, was elected president.
(CO, Grolier’s / Albania)(USAT, 2/11/97, p.A1)(www,
Albania, 1998)
1992 Mar, Chechnya adopted a
constitution that defined it as a secular state. Pres. Dzhokhar Dudayev
led the independence movement.
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A11)
1992 Mar, Elections were held in
Kosova; the Democratic League of Kosova won the majority of votes; the
elections were called illegal by the Serbian regime.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1992 Mar, In Belgrade 30,000
people turned out in protest over Milosevic’s war policy.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Mar, Dusan Tadic was granted
power by Serb authorities who occupied his predominantly Muslim
community in the spring of this year. He use it to launch a frenzy of
violence in three detention camps, Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje near
his home village of Kozarac. Milojica Kos, a commander at the Omarska
camp, was detained by NATO troops in 1998. In 2002 Dusan Knezevic, a
Bosnian Serb accused of atrocities in the camps, gave himself up to the
Hague tribunal.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D4)
1992 Mar, The Tarcin camp for
holding Serbs began operating in Bosnia about this time. It was not
shut down until Jan, 1996.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A10)
1992 Mar, In Finland the US signed
the Open Skies Treaty with 26 other nations to promote openness by
allowing countries to gather information about each other through
unarmed observation flights.
(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A2)
1992 Mar, In Thailand the military
Junta formed a party with politicians it had investigated in 1991 to
contest the elections.
(WSJ, 12/11/96, p.A16)
1992 Mar, Uzbek Pres. Karimov
banned Adolat. Authorities arrested hundreds and closed down mosques
and religious schools. Namangani and Yuldash fled to Tajikistan; both
later ended up in Afghanistan. Jumaboi Khojiyev, former Soviet soldier,
fled the country. Tahir Yuldash fled the country as Uzbek authorities
sought to arrest him. In 1996 they founded the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan (IMU) operating out of Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.D2)(AP, 3/30/04)(WSJ, 5/3/01,
p.A8)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A19)
1992 Apr 1,
President Bush pledged the United States would help finance a $24
billion international aid fund for the former Soviet Union.
(AP, 4/1/97)
1992 Apr 1, The US House ethics
committee publicly identified 22 current and former lawmakers as the
worst offenders in the House bank overdraft controversy.
(AP, 4/1/97)
1992 Apr 1, NHL players began the
first strike in the 75-year history of the NHL.
(OTD)
1992 Apr 2, John Gotti (d.2002),
Mafia boss, was convicted in New York City of 5 murders and
racketeering. Underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano provided testimony.
The murders included the 1985 hit on Paul Castellano, head of the
Gambino family. He was sentenced to life in prison on June 23.
(AP, 4/2/98)(USAT, 9/24/98, p.11A)(SFC, 6/11/02,
p.A2)(SSFC, 8/11/02, Par p.4)
1992 Apr 2, The space shuttle
Atlantis returned from a nine-day mission.
(AP, 4/2/02)
1992 Apr 2, French Premier Edith
Cresson, who had served 10 turbulent months as France's first woman
prime minister, resigned after election setbacks for the ruling
Socialists.
(AP, 4/2/02)
1992 Apr 3, President Bush,
speaking in Philadelphia, said members of Congress should shorten their
annual sessions and retire after 12 years, calling for changes in "a
failed status quo"; Democratic leaders accused Bush of "scapegoating."
(AP, 4/3/97)
1992 Apr 4, His campaign
acknowledged that Bill Clinton had received an induction notice in
April 1969 while attending college in Oxford, England; Clinton said the
notice arrived after he was due to report, and that his local draft
board had told him he could complete the school term.
(AP, 4/4/97)
1992 Apr 5, In Washington, D.C., a
crowd estimated by authorities at half a million marched in support of
abortion rights.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Wal-Mart founder Sam
Walton died in Little Rock, Ark., at age 74. In 1999 Bob Ortega
authored the biography "In Sam We Trust."
(AP, 4/5/97)(SFEC, 4/18/99, BR p.9)
1992 Apr 5, A medical student
(Suada Dilberovic) became the first fatality of war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina as Serb nationalists began forcibly opposing the
republic's secession from Yugoslavia.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Pres. Fujimori seized
dictatorial power by sending tanks to shut down Peru's Congress and
judiciary. Former president Alan Garcia fled Peru to avoid arrest by
the Fujimori regime. In 2008 Peru's Cabinet chief testified at the
trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that security forces
attempted to assassinate Garcia following the shut down of Congress.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D4)(AP, 1/18/08)
1992 Apr 6, Oriole Park at Camden
Yards opened and Baltimore beat Cleveland 2-0.
(www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/oriole.htm)
1992 Apr 6, The US Supreme Court
limited some undercover sting operations as it ruled that a Nebraska
farmer had been entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child
pornography.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1992 Apr 6, Microsoft released
Windows 3.1.
(www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/poole.mspx)
1992 Apr 6, Molly Picon (b.1898),
Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey), died of Alzheimer's.
(http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/picon/mp25.html)
1992 Apr 6,
Isaac Asimov (72), science fiction author, died in New York. He had
authored 467 books.
(AP, 4/6/97)(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.D1)
1992 Apr 6, Alija Izetbegovic
declared independence for Bosnia. The European Community recognized the
former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state.
(AP, 4/6/02)(SFC, 10/20/03, p.A18)
1992 Apr 6, War broke out in
northern Bosnia between the Bosnian government and local Serbs who
began to lay siege to the capital Serajevo. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic, a psychiatrist, began the war in Bosnia with the help of
Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic, who ruled Yugoslavia and the old
Yugoslav People’s Army.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-11)(WP. 6/29/96,
p.A20)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Apr 6, In Peru journalist
Gustavo Gorriti was kidnapped hours after Fujimori seized dictatorial
powers, announcing over television that he was closing Congress because
it was sabotaging his war against the rebels. Gorriti was released the
next day after an intense campaign by international journalist
associations and human rights groups for his freedom. Pres. Fujimori
closed Congress and the judiciary and ruled by decree for the rest of
the year.
(SFE, 9/17/96, p.A11)(AP, 1/5/08)
1992 Apr 7, Democrat Bill Clinton
swept the New York, Kansas and Wisconsin primaries.
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat survived the crash landing of his plane in the Libyan desert;
three crew members were killed.
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, The Sacramento Bee,
The New York Times and Newsday won two Pulitzer prizes each; playwright
Robert Schenkkan was honored for "The Kentucky Cycle," novelist Jane
Smiley for "A Thousand Acres."
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, Suchinda Kraprayoon,
leader of a military coup, became PM of Thailand he served until 24 May
1992.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchinda_Kraprayoon)(Econ, 6/17/06, p.49)
1992 Apr 8, "Five Guys Named Moe"
opened at Eugene O'Neill Theater in NYC for 445 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=3583)
1992 Apr 8, Tennis great Arthur
Ashe announced at a New York news conference that he had AIDS, saying
he was forced to go public because a newspaper had inquired about his
health. Ashe died February, 1993, of AIDS-related pneumonia at age 49.
(AP, 4/8/97)
1992 Apr 8, Britain's "Punch
Magazine" ran its final issue after 151 years.
(http://tinyurl.com/c3n3a)
1992 Apr 9,
Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of eight
drug and racketeering charges; he is serving a 30-year prison sentence.
(AP, 4/9/02)
1992 Apr 9, Barbara Muszalski
disappeared from her Livermore, Ca., goat ranch. Her slashed body was
found 2 days later at the SF airport parking garage. Benjamin Pedro
Gonzales, who had stayed at the ranch for odd jobs, was arrested in San
Diego for the murder. He was also accused of the murder of a Los
Angeles college student and a New York stripper.
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.A15,19)
1992 Apr
9, Britain's Conservatives came from behind to become the first British
political party to win four straight elections this century. John Major
(C) was elected PM of England.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, Financier Charles
Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for
swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. He had
acquired Lincoln Savings in 1984 through his Phoenix-based American
Continental. The convictions were later overturned.
(AP, 4/10/97)(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A3)
1992 Apr 10, Comedian Sam Kinison
(38) was killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, The IRA bombed the
London financial district killing 3 with 91 injured.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A11)
1992 Apr 11, The Russian Congress
of People's Deputies rejected an appeal by President Boris Yeltsin for
another six months to carry out his reforms, ordering him to select a
new Cabinet by July; a compromise was worked out a few days later.
(AP, 4/11/97)
1992 Apr 12, After five years in
the making, Euro Disneyland, a theme park costing $4 billion, opened in
Marne-La-Vallee, France, amid controversy as French intellectuals
bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture.
(AP, 4/12/97)
1992 Apr 13, The Great Chicago
Flood took place as the city's century-old tunnel system and adjacent
basements filled with water from the Chicago River.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.B2)(AP, 4/13/97)
1992 Apr 13, The opera "Life With
an Idiot" by Alfred Schnittke had its world premier at the Netherlands
Music Theater in Amsterdam.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A17)
1992 Apr 13, Crystal Pepsi began
test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas.
(http://crystalpepsi.captainmike.org/)
1992 Apr 13, Wallace Stegner
(b.1909), novelist (Pulitzer 1972), died in New Mexico.
(http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/main/envir/wsbio.htm)
1992 Apr 13, An earthquake rocked
Germany and the Netherlands.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/sig_1992.html)
1992 Apr 13, Nelson Mandela
announced he would seek a divorce from Winnie.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/etc/cron.html)
1992 Apr 14, "Guys and Dolls"
opened at Martin Beck Theater in NYC for 1143 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4679)
1992 Apr 14, Libya cut itself off
from the world for 24 hours to mark the sixth anniversary of the U.S.
air raid, the same day the World Court rejected Libya's appeal to
prevent sanctions against it for refusing to turn over suspects in the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
(AP, 4/14/97)
1992 Apr 15, Hotel magnate Leona
Helmsley began serving a prison sentence for tax evasion. She was
released from prison after 18 months.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1992 Apr 15, A US court threw out
Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft.
(www.abo.fi/~adeheer/students/itlekt1e.)
1992 Apr 15, On April 15-16 the
Mujahedeen overthrew the Communist government led by Pres. Najibullah
in Kabul. The Mujahideen took Kabul and liberated Afghanistan,
Najibullah was protected by the UN. The Mujahideen formed an Islamic
State, Islamic Jihad Council, and scheduled elections.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)(SFC, 9/27/96,
p.A12)(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1992 Apr 15, Countries barred
Libyan jets from their airspace and ordered diplomats to go home
because of Libya's refusal to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan
Am Flight 103. U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on arms sales
and air travel against Libya to prod Gadhafi into surrendering two
suspects wanted in the Pan Am 103.
(AP, 4/15/97)(AP, 12/19/03)
1992 Apr 15, Russia's deeply
divided Congress of People's Deputies formally endorsed President Boris
Yeltsin's economic reforms.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1992 Apr 16, The US House ethics
committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn
their House bank accounts.
(AP, 4/16/97)
1992 Apr 16, Neville Brand, actor
(Stalag 17), died of emphysema.
(www.nndb.com/people/246/000088979/)
1992 Apr 17, US Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee the modest
pace of economic expansion wasn't adequate, a remark interpreted as a
signal he might cut interest rates further.
(AP, 4/17/97)
1992 Apr 18, Democrat Jerry Brown
met with black leaders in Philadelphia while front-runner Bill Clinton
visited a Phillies-Pirates ballgame as the two courted Pennsylvania
primary voters.
(AP, 4/18/97)
1992 Apr 18, Serbia issued a
protest to the United States, accusing Washington of siding with
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia in the Yugoslav crisis.
(AP, 4/18/97)
1992 Apr 19, After six days,
engineers plugged the tunnel leak under the Chicago River that caused
an underground flood that had virtually shut down business in the heart
of the city.
(AP, 4/19/97)
1992 Apr 20, Defending champion
Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya became the sixth three-time winner of the
Boston Marathon, while Russia's Olga Markova won the women's division.
(AP, 4/20/97)
1992 Apr 20, The Russian congress
adopted a resolution affirming Russia's membership in the Commonwealth
of Independent States in a victory for President Boris Yeltsin.
(AP, 4/20/97)
1992 Apr 21, Robert Alton Harris
became the first person executed at San Quentin by the state of
California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for
the 1978 murder of two San Diego teen-age boys. Harris left some art
that was later put on sale at Expressions Art Gallery in Oakland.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C17)(AP, 4/21/97)(SFC, 2/6/99,
p.A13)
1992 Apr 22, The US Supreme Court
heard arguments on Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law. The court
upheld most of the law's provisions the following June, but also
reaffirmed a woman's basic right to an abortion.
(AP, 4/22/97)
1992 Apr 22, A 6.0 Joshua Tree
earthquake hit California.
(www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/joshuatr.html)
1992 Apr 22, In Guadalajara,
Mexico, more than 200 people were killed by a series of sewer
explosions.
(AP, 4/22/97)
1992 Apr 23, Marion Berry, former
mayor of Wash DC, was let out of prison.
(www.washtimes.com/metro/20040613-111808-1902r.htm)
1992 Apr 23, McDonald's opened its
first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
(AP, 4/23/97)
1992 Apr 23, In Burma Gen’l. Saw
Maung stepped down as chairman of SLORC because of illness. He was
replaced by Gen’l. Than Shwe.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A18)
1992 Apr 23, Fighting erupted in
the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo just hours after the warring parties
signed a truce amid sniper fire.
(AP, 4/23/97)
1992 Apr 23, Satyajit Ray
(b.1921), Indian director (Distant Thunder, Agantuk), died.
(http://www.satyajitray.org/bio/index.htm)
1992 Apr 24, President Bush and
Democratic challenger Bill Clinton made long-distance back-to-back
appearances via satellite hookups before the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
(AP, 4/24/97)
1992 Apr 25, The Ms. Foundation
began its "Take Our Daughters to Work Day."
(SFC, 4/24/02, p.A1)
1992 Apr 25, An earthquake
measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale shook northern California.
(AP, 4/25/97)
1992 Apr 25, Islamic forces in
Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the
collapse of the Communist government.
(AP, 4/25/97)
1992 Apr 26, The musical "Grand
Hotel" closed at the Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,017 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4254)
1992 Apr 26, Finance officials
from the Group of Seven nations, meeting in Washington, endorsed the
broad outlines of an economic assistance package for the former Soviet
Union.
(AP, 4/26/02)
1992 Apr 26, Worshippers
celebrated the first Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 years.
(AP, 4/26/02)
1992 Apr 27, Olivier Messiaen
(b.1908), French composer, died. His work included the 1983 opera "St.
Francis d’Assise."
(WSJ, 10/3/02,
p.D6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen)
1992 Apr 27, The Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and
its lone ally, Montenegro.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1992 Apr 27, Russia and 12 other
former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1992 Apr 28, President Bush and
Bill Clinton won the Pennsylvania presidential primary.
(AP, 4/28/97)
1992 Apr 28, The US Agriculture
Department unveiled its pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart that had
cost nearly $1 million to develop.
(AP, 4/28/97)
1992 Apr 29, "Falsettos" opened at
John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4686)
1992 Apr 29, Exxon executive
Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, N.J., home by
Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security official, and Seale's wife,
Irene, and held for ransom; Reso died in captivity. Arthur Seale is
serving a 95-year prison term, while his wife is serving a 20-year
sentence.
(AP, 4/29/02)
1992 Apr 29, Deadly rioting
erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four
Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the
videotaped beating of Rodney King. White truck driver Reginald Denny
was beaten by a mob in south Central LA angered by the acquittal of 4
police officers caught on video tape in the beating of black motorist
Rodney King. Three days of violence ensued with 55 people killed, 2,300
injured and an estimated $1 billion [$717 million] in property damages.
Rioters tore through the city following the not guilty verdicts on
state charges for Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Stacey C. Koon
and officer Laurence M. Powell for beating Rodney King. 1093 buildings
were damaged or destroyed. Of these, 764 retail stores were owned by
Koreans. The US Congress later authorized $1 billion to revitalize
south central Los Angeles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A4)(SFC,
1/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.CA1)(AP,
4/29/98)(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A3)
1992 Apr 30, As rioting in Los
Angeles entered its second day, President Bush condemned the violence
and said the Justice Department would intensify its investigation of
police conduct in the beating of Rodney King.
(AP, 4/30/97)
1992 Apr, The EC recognized
Bosnia-Herzegovina and the US followed and also recognized Slovenia and
Croatia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Apr, In Bosnia Dragan Gagovic
became the police chief of Foca. He oversaw the detention of Muslims
held in a local sports hall. His men regularly beat and gang-raped
female detainees and he personally participated. He was later indicted
for war crimes and was killed during an arrest attempt in 1999.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A17)
1992 Apr, In Bosnia Janko "Tuta"
Janjic, car mechanic, became a sub-commander and was responsible for
the rape and enslavement of dozens of Muslim women. In 2000
Janjic killed himself with a grenade when NATO troops came to arrest
him.
(SFC, 10/14/00,
p.A10)(www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/foc-ii960626e.htm)
1992 Apr, The Iranian Mujahedeen-e
Khalq (MEK), a militant opposition group, attacked Iranian assets in 13
countries simultaneously.
(WSJ, 7/11/96,
p.A10)(http://complete911timeline.org/entity.jsp?entity=mujahedeen-e_khalq)
1992 May 1, On the 3rd day
of the Los Angeles riots, beaten motorist Rodney King appeared in
public to appeal for calm, asking, "Can we all get along?" President
Bush delivered a nationally broadcast address in which he vowed to "use
whatever force is necessary" to restore order.
(AP, 5/1/97)
1992 May 1, It was reported that a
new study indicated that peptic ulcers were caused by a bacterium
called Helicobacter pylori.
(WSJ, 10/24/05, p.A15)
1992 May 1, Serbian forces began
to shell Serajevo.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 May 2, Los Angeles began to
recover from rioting that had erupted in the wake of the Rodney
King-taped beating acquittals; about 2,800 National Guard troops
patrolled the city while 3,200 stood by.
(AP, 5/2/97)
1992 May 2, Former US House Ways
and Means Chairman Wilbur D. Mills died in Searcy, Ark., at age 82.
(AP, 5/2/97)
1992 May 3, In Los Angeles,
soldiers continued to patrol streets and guard fire-gutted and
ransacked stores in the wake of rioting that erupted following the
Rodney King-taped beating acquittals.
(AP, 5/3/97)
1992 May 3, Hollywood
song-and-dance-man-turned-politician George Murphy died at age 89.
(AP, 5/3/97)
1992 May 3, In Bosnia armed men
cruised into Doboj and began a process of ethnic cleansing that pushed
62,000 non-Serbs from their homes in the surrounding area.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A22)
1992 May 3, Yugoslav Army seized
Bosnian Pres. Alija Izetbegovic on his return from peace talks in
Lisbon. He was released the next day.
(www.nytimes.com/specials/bosnia/context/apchrono.html)
1992 May 4, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton toured riot-ravaged Los Angeles
streets, blaming the destruction on what he called 12 years of
Republican neglect.
(AP, 5/4/97)
1992 May 4, India and Russia sign
a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation.
(www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048779)
1992 May 5, President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton picked up primary victories in Indiana, North
Carolina and the District of Columbia.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1992 May 5, The Basel Convention,
which curbed the trade of toxic materials, came into force after being
ratified by 20 nations. By 2008 170 nations had signed the convention.
(www.ec.gc.ca/wmd-dgd/default.asp?lang=En&n=AE05D309-1)(SSFC,
7/6/08, p.A2)
1992 May 6, Former Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev delivered a speech at Westminster College in
Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill had spoken of the Iron Curtain;
Gorbachev said the world was still divided, between north and south and
rich and poor.
1992 May 6, Actress Marlene
Dietrich (b.1901), film star and singer, died at her Paris home at age
90. She was buried in Germany on May 16.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.D-2)(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 7, President Bush visited
riot-scarred Los Angeles.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, The space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off on its maiden voyage.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, A 203-year-old
proposed constitutional amendment barring the US Congress from giving
itself a midterm pay raise received enough votes for ratification as
Michigan became the 38th state to approve it.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, The Russian Federation
applied to join the Council of Europe. It acceded to the council on Feb
28, 1996.
(http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/AdoptedText/TA96/Eopi193.htm)
1992 May 8, President Bush wound
up two emotional days in riot-ravaged Los Angeles, promising to work
harder in Washington to enact a "common-sense agenda" of conservative
proposals to help urban America.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1992 May 9, Final episode of
"Golden Girls" aired on NBC-TV.
(www.tv.com/golden-girls/show/131/summary.html)
1992 May 9, President Bush, back
in Washington after a visit to riot-torn Los Angeles, promised in a
radio speech that he would work with the Democrat-controlled Congress
on proposals to help American cities.
(AP, 5/9/97)
1992 May 10, Astronaut Pierre
Thuot tried but failed to snag a wayward satellite during a spacewalk
outside the shuttle Endeavour. A trio of astronauts succeeded in
capturing the Intelsat-Six three days later.
(AP, 5/10/97)
1992 May 11, Leaders of 12
European countries recalled their ambassadors from Serb-dominated
Yugoslavia to protest Serb involvement in Bosnia's ethnic war.
(AP, 5/11/97)
1992 May 11, Carlos Herrera (90),
drink inventor (Margarita), died.
(http://home.flash.net/~whaugen/margarita.htm)
1992 May 12, Four suspects were
arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the
Los Angeles riots.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 12, President Bush
announced he would travel to the Earth Summit in Brazil.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 12, Actor Robert Reed
(59) of TV's "The Brady Bunch" died in Pasadena, Calif.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 13, A trio of astronauts
from the space shuttle Endeavour captured a wayward Intelsat-6
communications satellite during the first-ever three-person spacewalk.
(AP, 5/13/97)
1992 May 13, President Bush
announced a $600 million loan package to help rebuild riot-scarred Los
Angeles.
(AP, 5/13/02)
1992 May 14, Former Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress,
appealing to them to pass a bill aiding the people of the former Soviet
Union.
(AP, 5/14/97)
1992 May 14, A US press briefing
on Serajevo by State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutweiler
indicated concerns of ethnic cleansing by Serb forces.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 May 14, Lyle Alzado (43),
former football player, died in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 5/14/97)
1992 May 15, A judge in Los
Angeles ordered police officer Laurence Powell retried on a charge of
excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. The charge was
eventually dropped.
(AP, 5/15/97)
1992 May 16, America3, skippered
by Bill Koch, won the 28th defense of the America's Cup.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 16, The space shuttle
Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the
California desert.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 17, Pro-democracy
protests began in Thailand; in four days of clashes with troops, 44
people reportedly were killed, although activists charged that hundreds
died.
(AP, 5/17/97)
1992 May 17, Lawrence Welk (89),
conductor and accordionist, died in Santa Monica, Calif.
(AP, 5/17/97)(SFC, 8/19/99, p.E2)
1992 May 18, The US Supreme Court
ruled that states may not force mentally unstable criminal defendants
to take anti-psychotic drugs while on trial unless a good reason is
shown to require the medication.
(AP, 5/18/97)
1992 May 18, Skip Stephenson (52)
comedian (Real People), died of heart attack.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0827323/)
1992 May 18, Marshall Thompson
(65), TV and movie actor and writer, died of congestive heart failure
in Royal Oak, Michigan. He played Dr. Marsh Tracy, the veterinarian, on
“Daktari.” He was born November 27, 1925 in Peoria, Illinois.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0860471/)
1992 May 19, The 27th Amendment to
the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself mid-term
pay raises, went into effect as it was certified by the archivist of
the United States, two centuries after it was first proposed by James
Madison. It actually became part of the constitution on May 7, 1992,
when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify the amendment.
(AP, 5/19/97)
1992 May 19, In San Francisco,
Vice President Dan Quayle denounced what he called the "poverty of
values" in America's inner cities, and criticized the TV show "Murphy
Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of
wedlock.
(AP, 5/19/97)
1992 May 19, In Massapequa, New
York, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by teen-ager
Amy Fisher (17), who claimed to be having an affair with Mrs.
Buttafuoco's husband, Joey, an allegation the Buttafuoco's denied. Joey
later pleaded guilty to 3rd degree rape and admitted to the affair. In
1998 Mr. Buttafuoco planned to premier a TV show on public cable access
for "people jammed up in the media."
(AP, 5/19/97)(SFC, 3/31/98, p.A6)
1992 May 20, Proclaiming his
innocence to the end, Roger Keith Coleman was executed in Virginia's
electric chair for the 1981 rape-murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda
McCoy. In 2006 DNA evidence confirmed that Coleman was guilty.
(AP, 5/20/97)(AP, 1/13/06)
1992 May 20, Thailand's
much-revered monarch (King Bhumibol Adulyadej) called for an end to
violent clashes between troops and pro-democracy protesters.
(AP, 5/20/02)
1992 May 21, The US Coast Guard
announced that high-seas interdiction of Haitian refugees was being
drastically scaled back because refugee camps at the U.S. naval base at
Guantanamo, Cuba, were filled.
(AP, 5/21/97)
1992 May 22, Johnny Carson hosted
NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after a reign lasting nearly 30
years, telling his audience: "I bid you a very heartfelt good night."
Carson was succeeded by Jay Leno.
(AP, 5/22/97)
1992 May 22, Bosnia, Croatia and
Slovenia joined the UN.
(SFC, 6/11/96,
p.A14)(www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html)
1992 May 23, Pres. Bush issued
Executive Order 12807 authorizing the repatriation of Haitian refugees
interdicted by the Coast Guard.
(http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/nov91.htm)
1992 May 23, The United States and
four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal,
to implement the START missile-reduction treaty that had been agreed to
by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
(AP, 5/23/97)
1992 May 23, In Sicily anti-Mafia
investigator Giovannii Falcone was murdered on a highway outside
Palermo. Falcone’s wife and 3 bodyguards were also killed. Sicilian
politician Salvo Lima was also murdered. Anti-Mafia investigator Paolo
Borsellino was killed in another blast some months later. In 1997
Pietro Aglieri, aka "U Signurinu" (The Little Gentleman), was arrested
for involvement in all three murders. 24 mobsters were convicted in the
murder in 1997, including Leoluca Bagarella.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 6/7/98,
p.A23)(http://giovanni-falcone.foosquare.com/)
1992 May 24, Al Unser Jr. became
the first second-generation winner of the Indianapolis 500; his father,
four-time winner Al Unser, finished third.
(AP, 5/24/97)
1992 May 24, Kosovo Albanians held
unofficial elections for an assembly and president. Ibrahim Rugova won
an overwhelming majority and was elected President of Kosovo.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/yugoslavia/)
1992 May 24, Thailand protests,
supported by numerous political movements, climaxed with the
resignation of PM Suchinda. Deputy PM Meechai Ruchuphan took office for
a transitional period until the new government was assigned. He was
succeeded by Anand Panyarachun.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchinda_Kraprayoon)
1992 May 24-1992 Aug 30, In Bosnia
Serbian forces confined over 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats in
inhuman conditions at the Keraterm prison camp. Damir Dosen served as a
shift commander at the Keraterm prison camp in northwestern Bosnia.
Detainees were killed, sexually assaulted and beaten. In 1999 Dragan
Kulundzija, a former shift commander at Keraterm, was arrested on
charges of killing and torturing prisoners. In 1999 Dosen, a Bosnian
Serb, was arrested for war crimes and flown to the Hague for trial.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/26/99, p.A1)(SFC,
11/9/99, p.A14)
1992 May 25, The NBC "Jay Leno
Show" began following the end of the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
It was initially produced by Helen Kushnick (1945-1996).
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.C3)(AP, 5/25/98)
1992 May 25, A 7.0 earthquake on
the Caribbean Plate hit Cuba.
(WSJ, 1/21/97,
p.A18)(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/sig_1992.html)
1992 May 25, Philip Habib (72),
career US diplomat, died in Puligny-Montrachet, France.
(AP, 5/25/97)
1992 May 25, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
was elected President of Italy.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Johan B.W. Polak (63)
publisher, publicist (Bloom of Décadence), died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Nancy Walker (71),
actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), died of cancer.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Viktor Grishin (78),
hardline soviet communist, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25-1992 Aug 30, Dragoljub
Prcac, a Bosnian Serb, served as the deputy commander of the Omarska
prison camp in Bosnia. He was arrested by NATO peacekeepers for war
crimes in 2000. In 2001 Prcac and 3 others received sentences of 5-20
years. Zoran Zigic was sentenced to 25 years for his acts of violence.
(SFC, 3/6/00, p.A12)(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
1992 May 26, President Bush and
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won primaries in Kentucky, Arkansas and
Idaho.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1992 May 26, The White House
announced that the Coast Guard was returning a group of Haitian
refugees picked up at sea to their homeland under a new executive order
signed by Bush.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1992 May 27, The 12-nation
European Community imposed trade sanctions on Serbia to stop its
interference in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 5/27/97)
1992 May 27, Tony "Big Tuna"
Accardo (86), mobster (heir to the late Al Capone), died.
(www.ipsn.org/characters/accardo.html)
1992 May 28, The US House of
Representatives voted to lift a ban on using aborted fetuses for tissue
transplantation research, but the tally fell short of a veto-proof
majority.
(AP, 5/28/97)
1992 May 28, The United States
offered $9 million in aid to victims of the fighting in former
Yugoslavia.
(AP, 5/28/97)\
1992 May 29, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot held a rally in Orlando, Fla., that
was carried by two-way television satellite to five other states.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1992 May 29, Bill Beyers (37),
actor (Capitol), died of AIDS.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0079964/)
1992 May 29, Peter John "Ollie"
Halsall (43), English born guitarist, died of a heart attack in Spain.
(www.philbrodieband.com/muso_ollie_halsall.htm)
1992 May 29, Pippa Steele (44),
German born actress (Vampire Lovers), died of cancer in London.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0824448/)
1992 May 30, President Bush
ordered the seizure of Yugoslav government assets in the United States
after the United Nations imposed sanctions in an effort to force
Yugoslavia to observe a cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 5/30/97)
1992 May 31, "Crazy for You" was
named Broadway's best musical at the Tony Awards; "Dancing at Lughnasa"
was named best play.
(AP, 5/31/97)
1992 May 31, An estimated 50,000
people demonstrated in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, against
Communist-organized elections.
(AP, 5/31/97)
1992 May, The UN security council
approved new commercial sanctions against Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia, for
backing rebel Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 May, In Bosnia local Muslim
forces attacked the Serb village of Bjelovcina in the Konjic district.
Serb prisoners suffered at the Celebici camp. In 1997 Mirko Babic
testifies that he was forced to drink urine, lick his captor’s boots
and had his leg set on fire with gasoline.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1992 May, Ilija Jurisic, a Bosnian
security officer, ordered an attack on a Yugoslav army convoy that
killed at least 50 soldiers. In 2009 Jurisic was found guilty of
ordering the attack against the Serb-led army convoy consisting of
dozens of army trucks carrying some 100 soldiers withdrawing from the
predominantly Muslim Bosnian town of Tuzla. The Serbian court sentenced
him to 12 years in prison.
(AP, 9/28/09)
1992 May, The Luka prisoner camp
in Brcko was commanded by Goran Jelisic. He was later indicted by the
UN for killing 16 Muslims and countless detainees. He was picked up by
UN troops in 1998. In 1998 Jelisic, who called himself "the Serb
Adolf," pleaded guilty to the murder of 12 Muslims and Croats. Jelisic
was acquitted of genocide but convicted of 31 accounts of torture and
murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.E2)(SFC, 10/30/98, p.A16)(SFC,
10/20/99, p.B2)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.A16)
1992 May, In Mexico a 2nd meeting
took place between Ms. Amy Elliot of Citibank and Raul Salinas, this
time in Mexico City, to establish an investment program that would move
funds of Mr. Salinas outside of Mexico.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A6)
1992 May-1992 Oct, In Bosnia
Dragan Nikolic commanded the Susica detention camp near Vlasenica. He
was arrested in 2000 for war crimes at the camp where an estimated
8,000 Muslims were held.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C17)
1992 May-1992 Dec, At least 14 of
250 detainees were killed, tortured, raped or beaten over this period
at the Celibici Camp in central Bosnia. In 1998 a UN tribunal
convicted a Bosnian Croat and 2 Muslims for the crimes at Celebici.
Hazimn Delic, deputy commander, received a 20 year sentence; Zdravko
Mucic, camp warden received 7 years; and Esad Landzo received 15 years.
(SFC, 11/17/98, p.A14)
1992 Jun 1, The US Treasury
Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze an
estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav government.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The Pittsburgh
Penguins completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks to win
hockey's Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The E-Bulb Lamp, a
20-year light bulb, was introduced by Pierre Villere.
(www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/Futures/LF-Electrodeless/index.asp)
1992 Jun 1, In Kljuc, Bosnia,
local Serbs rounded up Muslims and shot them. About 200 bodies were
buried at the cave at Laniste and uncovered in 1996.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A10)
1992 Jun 2, Bill Clinton
officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination as he won
the six final primaries of the campaign.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1992 Jun 2, In California,
Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were nominated to twin
U.S. Senate seats. California became the first state to have 2 women in
the US Senate.
(AP, 6/2/97)(SFC, 12/24/99, p.A19)
1992 Jun 2, Danish voters rejected
the Maastricht union treaty.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1992 Jun 3, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot announced he'd hired Hamilton Jordan
and Edward Rollins to help steer his campaign. Democrat Bill Clinton
appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show."
(AP, 6/3/97)
1992 Jun 3, Actor Robert Morley
died in Reading, England, at age 84.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1992 Jun 3, William Gaines (70),
MAD magazine publisher died in New York.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1992 Jun 4, President Bush held a
news conference in which he said he understood Americans' fascination
with Ross Perot, but predicted that voters would eventually ask, "How
are you going to do it?"
(AP, 6/4/97)
1992 Jun 4, The U.S. Postal
Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis Presley
stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis" design.
(AP, 6/4/97)
1992 Jun 5, The US government
announced the nation's unemployment rate had jumped to 7.5 percent the
month before, the highest level in nearly eight years.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1992 Jun 6, A.P. Indy won the
124th running of the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/6/97)
1992 Jun 7, President Bush, who
met with British Prime Minister John Major at Camp David, Md., voiced
confidence he would win re-election, but embraced the role of underdog,
saying, "I do better when I'm coming from behind."
(AP, 6/7/97)
1992 Jun 8, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev met in
Washington to try to pave the way for a new round of strategic arms
cuts.
(AP, 6/8/97)
1992 Jun 8, In Egypt two masked
gunmen shot and killed writer Farag Foda.
(WSJ, 2/20/98,
p.A16)(www.tkb.org/MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=EG&year=1992)
1992 Jun 9, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III concluded two days of arms talks with Russian
Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev without an agreement on deep cuts in
long-range missiles.
(AP, 6/9/97)
1992 Jun 9, Vice President Dan
Quayle, addressing Southern Baptists in Indianapolis, condemned the
"media elite," saying, "I wear their scorn as a badge of honor."
(AP, 6/9/02)
1992 Jun 10, President Bush
dropped Secretary of State James A. Baker III from his trip to the
Earth Summit in Brazil, instructing him to step up negotiations for a
new agreement with Russia to reduce long-range nuclear missile
stockpiles.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1992 Jun 10, In Panama US Sgt. Zak
Hernandez (22) was killed by gunfire from a passing car that sprayed
the military vehicle in which he was riding. Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, son
of a Gerardo Gonzalez who is the President of Congress and leader of
the PRD, was arrested and charged along with two others for the
killing. They were found not guilty in 1997.
(SFEC,11/2/97,
p.A19)(www.forusa.org/programs/panama/archives/1297-1.htm)
1992 Jun 11, President Bush's
stopover in Panama en route to the Earth Summit in Brazil was disrupted
when riot police fired tear gas at protesters, preventing Bush from
speaking at a rally praising the revival of democracy in Panama.
(AP, 6/11/97)
1992 Jun 11, Baseball owners
approved the sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Seattle_Mariners.stm)
1992 Jun 11, Marjorie Newell Robb
(103), oldest living survivor of Titanic, died.
(www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography/216/)
1992 Jun 12, President Bush,
addressing the Earth Summit in Brazil, declared America's environmental
record "second to none."
(AP, 6/12/97)
1992 Jun 12, In a letter to U.S.
senators, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said the Soviet Union had
shot down nine U.S. planes in the early 1950's and held 12 American
survivors.
(AP, 6/12/97)
1992 Jun 13, Democrat Bill Clinton
stirred controversy during an appearance before the Rainbow Coalition
by criticizing rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks that he
said were "filled with hatred" toward whites.
(AP, 6/13/97)
1992 Jun 14, Chicago Bulls won the
NBA championship, beating the Portland Trail Blazers in Game Six,
97-93.
(AP, 6/14/97)
1992 Jun 14, Mona Van Duyn
(1921-2004) became the first woman to be named America's poet laureate
by the Library of Congress.
(AP, 6/14/97)(SFC, 12/4/04, p.B7)
1992 Jun 14, The Earth Summit
concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The world’s industrial nations
reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By 1996 it was clear that the
goals were not being met.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 7/11/96, p.A10)(AP,
6/14/97)(Econ, 12/5/09, SR p.3)
1992 Jun 14, In Sokolina, Bosnia,
a massacre occurred that later yielded 47 bodies from a mass grave.
Survivors later said that Serbs blew up a busload of Muslim men who had
been told that they were on their way to a prisoner exchange.
(WSJ, 6/25/96, p.A1)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)
1992 Jun 15, Russian President
Boris N. Yeltsin arrived in the United States for his summit with
President Bush.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 15, The US Supreme Court
ruled the government may kidnap criminal suspects from a foreign
country for prosecution.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 15, Vice President Dan
Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed a
Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell "potato" as "potatoe"
during a spelling bee.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 16, President George H.W.
Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin capped the first day of their
Washington summit by announcing their countries had agreed to slash
their long-range nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
(AP, 6/16/02)
1992 Jun 16, Former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on 5-count felony charges in
connection with the Iran-Contra affair. He was later pardoned by Bush.
In 2001 Weinberger authored "In the Arena," an account of his ordeal.
(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A16)(AP, 6/16/02)
1992 Jun 17, President Bush and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a breakthrough arms-reduction
agreement. Addressing Congress, Yeltsin pledged to find any American
prisoners of war still being held in Russia.
(AP, 6/17/97)
1992 Jun 17, Two German relief
workers, the last of Western hostages held in Lebanon, were released.
(AP, 6/17/97)
1992 Jun 18, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Democrat Bill Clinton in Washington before
flying on to Kansas and then Canada.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, The US Supreme Court
ruled criminal defendants may not use race as a basis for excluding
potential jurors from their trials.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, Entertainer Peter
Allen (48) died in San Diego County, Calif., of complication from
AIDS.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, Ireland’s voters
overwhelmingly approving a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty for a
European union.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/ireland.htm)
1992 Jun 19, "Batman Returns",
Motion Picture, opened with $47.7 million for the weekend with a record
breaking $16.8 million in its first day. It starred Michael Keaton,
Danny Devito, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1992 Jun 19, "A Perfect Score" TV
Game Show debut on CBS.
(www.televisionheaven.co.uk/atozp.htm)
1992 Jun 19, "The Hollywood Game"
(TV Game Show) debut on CBS.
(http://tinyurl.com/b8ayd)
1992 Jun 19, In NYC a botched
kidnapping attempt left Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels,
critically wounded from a pair of gunshots. John Gotti Jr. was later
indicted on racketeering charges and for ordering the attack on Sliwa.
In 2006 a deadlocked federal jury led to a mistrial for Gotti.
(SFC, 3/11/06, p.A2)
1992 Jun 19, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin addressed the Canadian Parliament, saying his country had
abandoned totalitarianism for democracy.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1992 Jun 20, An enraged mob forced
South African President F.W. de Klerk to cut short a visit to the black
township of Boipatong, the scene of a massacre three days earlier.
(AP, 6/20/97)
1992 Jun 21, Democrat Bill Clinton
unveiled an economic blueprint calling for substantially higher taxes
on the rich.
(AP, 6/21/02)
1992 Jun 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin returned home from his North America tour.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1992 Jun 22, The US Supreme Court
unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and
similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
(AP, 6/22/97)
1992 Jun 22, M.F.K. Fisher
(b.1908), cook book author, died of Parkinson Disease. In 2004 Joan
Reardon authored “Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of MFK
Fisher.
(www.foodreference.com/html/html/june22.html)(SFC,
11/16/04, p.D1)
1992 Jun 22, In Trnovace, Bosnia,
14 Muslims were massacred. In 1997 Novislav Djajic, member of a Bosnian
Serb military unit, was convicted and sentenced to 5 years for
participating.
(SFC, 5/24/97, p.C1)
1992 Jun 22, Anastasia, a daughter
of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, was identified as one of
the skeletons excavated in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
(www.peterkurth.com/RUSSIAN%20FORENSICS%20TEAM.htm)
1992 Jun 23, Israel's Labor Party
upset the hard-line Likud bloc in parliamentary elections. Israeli
voters elected the Labor Party’s Yitzhak Rabin as prime minister.
(AP, 6/23/97)(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A17)
1992 Jun 23, John Gotti (d.2002),
Mafia boss nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from
several trials during the 1980s, was convicted on 14 accounts of
conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering and sentenced in New York
to life in prison. His son John Gotti Jr. succeeded him as head of the
Gambino crime family and was arrested in 1998.
(AP, 6/23/97)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A8)
1992 Jun 24, The US Supreme Court
voted 5-4 to strengthen its 30-year ban on officially sponsored
worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation
ceremonies.
(AP, 6/24/97)
1992 Jun 25, Both houses of
Congress rushed to pass a back-to-work order ending a national rail
strike; President Bush signed it June 26.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1992 Jun 25, The space shuttle
Columbia, carrying seven astronauts, blasted off on a two-week mission.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1992 Jun 26, Navy Secretary H.
Lawrence Garrett III resigned, accepting responsibility for a
"leadership failure" that resulted in the Tailhook sex-abuse scandal.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1992 Jun 26, The US Supreme Court
ruled that fund soliciting can be banned at airports.
(http://fact.trib.com/1st.91.92supr.html)
1992 Jun 26, Willie L. Williams
was sworn in as Los Angeles police chief, succeeding Daryl Gates.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1992 Jun 27, Authorities found the
body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso buried in a makeshift
grave in Bass River State Park in New Jersey. Arthur and Irene Seale,
were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the crime.
(AP, 6/27/97)
1992 Jun 28, The 7.3 Landers
earthquake hit Southern California. One person was killed and 402
injured.
(AP,
6/28/97)(www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/landersq.html)
1992 Jun 28, A 35-year-old man at
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center became the first recipient
of a baboon liver transplant; he lived 10 more weeks.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1992 Jun 28, In Afghanistan rebel
leader Burhanuddin Rabbani became president, but factional fighting
continued. Iranian and Pakistani interference increased, and more
fighting followed.
(WA, 1997,p.737)(www.afghan, 5/25/98)
1992 Jun 28, French President
Francois Mitterrand was cheered as he visited war-torn Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1992 Jun 29, A divided US Supreme
Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the
justices also weakened the right as defined by the Roe vs. Wade
decision.
(AP, 6/29/97)
1992 Jun 29, Mohammad Boudiaf
(73), the president of Algeria, was assassinated by his body guard
during his first public appearance, in Annaba. A few seconds after the
president Mohammed Boudiaf spoke the words “We are all going to die,”
an assassin in uniform raised his submachine gun and killed the
Algerian head of state. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he
took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and
panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and
grenades. Boudiaf was succeeded by army officer Liamine Zeroual.
(http://tinyurl.com/pdcmb)(www.therace.ws/facts007.html)
1992 Jun 29, The remains of Polish
statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski, interred for five decades in the
United States, were returned to his homeland in keeping with his wish
to be buried only in a free Poland.
(AP, 6/28/02)
1992 Jun 29, The Serbs yielded
Serajevo airport to the UN.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jun 30, Planes loaded with
food and medicine arrived at the airport in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, as part of an international relief effort.
(AP, 6/30/97)
1992 Jun 30, Fidel Ramos was sworn
in as the new president of the Philippines. Joseph Estrada was elected
vice-president with twice as many votes in a separate race.
(AP, 6/30/97)(SFEC,11/23/97, p.A25)
1992 Jun, In Washington DC Latrena
Denise Pixley, annoyed with the wailing of her 6-week-old 3rd child,
smothered her with a blanket and tossed her in the trash.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1992 Jun, Some 140 Muslims were
imprisoned and burned alive and others summarily shoot in some of the
cruelest ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian war. In 2008 Bosnian Serb
cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic faced charges of murder, extermination
and cruel treatment at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for
violence in and around the historic south-eastern Bosnian town of
Visegrad.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1992 Jun, From Mexico the first
deposit to Mr. Raul Salinas’ Citibank Trocca account came from Mr.
Hank. The amount was for $2 million that Mr. Hank supposedly owed Mr.
Salinas after a cellular-phone business deal did not work out.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A6)
1992 Jul 1, California issued its
first state IOU's since the Great Depression as a budget standoff left
the state cashless on the first day of its fiscal year.
(AP, 7/1/97)
1992 Jul 2, President Bush vetoed
the so-called "motor-voter" registration bill; President Clinton later
signed a revised version into law.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 2, The US Labor
Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate the previous
month had risen to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to 7.5
percent in May.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 3, The president of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, was voted out of office as lawmakers from
Slovakia blocked his re-election in parliament.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1992 Jul 3, Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum,
the only Jew to attend Vatican II, died.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/7_3/9/)
1992 Jul 4, Steffi Graf won her
fourth Wimbledon title, defeating Monica Seles in a 5 1/2-hour match
interrupted three times by rain.
(AP, 7/4/97)
1992 Jul 5, Leaders of the world's
seven richest nations gathered in Munich, Germany, for their 18th
annual economic summit. President Bush, en route to the summit, told
cheering Poles in Warsaw that "America shares Poland's dream."
(AP, 7/5/97)
1992 Jul 5, Andre Agassi won his
first Grand Slam title, defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1992 Jul 6, The Group of Seven
industrial nations opened their 18th annual economic summit in Munich,
Germany.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1992 Jul 7, Group of Seven leaders
meeting in Munich, Germany, condemned the carnage in former Yugoslavia
and warned Serb-led troops that U.N. military force would be used if
needed to keep relief operations going.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1992 Jul 8, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Group of Seven leaders holding their economic
summit in Munich, Germany, where he offered a startling proposal to
swap factories, energy resources and other properties for Russian debt.
(AP, 7/8/97)
1992 Jul 9, Poet Adrienne Rich
rejected the US government National Medal for the Arts award due to
radical disparities of wealth and power in America.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1992 Jul 9, Democrat Bill Clinton
tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 The space shuttle
Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 Eric Sevareid (79), CBS
news commentator, died in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 10, A federal judge in
Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted of
drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. However, a
judge in March, 1998, cut Noriega's sentence by ten years,
meaning he could be eligible for parole in 2000.
(WSJ, 3/28/96,p.A-1)(AP, 7/10/99)
1992 Jul 10, A New York jury found
Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist bomb to destroy Flight 103
in 1988, killing 270 people.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1992 Jul 10, The European Space
Agency photographed the nucleus of Haley’s Comet.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1992 Jul 11, Undeclared
presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in
Nashville, Tenn., startled and offended his listeners by referring to
the predominantly black audience as "you people."
(AP, 7/11/97)
1992 Jul 11, In Bosnia it was
later alleged on Dutch TV that Dutch troops deliberately drove an
armored vehicle into a Muslim blockade on this day and killed as many
as 30 people.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.A14)
1992 Jul 12, In an emotional
farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing executive director of the
NAACP, urged the group's convention in Nashville, Tenn., to show the
world that it remained vital.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1992 Jul 12, Albert Pierrepont,
last British hangman (433 men and 17 women), died.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1992.shtml)
1992 Jul 13, Democrats opened
their 41st national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden with
speakers who taunted George H.W. Bush as a failed president ripe for
defeat in November.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1992 Jul 14, The American League
won the All-Star game, defeating the National League team 13-6 at Jack
Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1992 Jul 14, The second day of the
Democratic National Convention heard from speakers who included former
President Carter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and AIDS activist Elizabeth
Glaser.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1992 Jul 15, Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's
convention in New York City.
(AP, 7/15/97)
1992 Jul 16, Bill Clinton
delivered his acceptance speech a day after winning the Democratic
presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City. To
the dismay and anger of supporters, Ross Perot announced he would not
run for president. He later changed his mind.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1992 Jul 17, Donna Ferguson (18)
and Todd Rudiger (29) were murdered in Portland, Ore. In 1998 Sebastian
Shaw was indicted for the murders. He pleaded guilty in 2000 and was
sentenced to two life terms. Later, his DNA would be conclusive
evidence that he also killed one Jay Rickbeil in July 1991. He would
receive a third sentence of life in prison. Shaw, born in Vietnam in
1967 as Chau Quong, had been airlifted from the roof of the US Embassy
on the day Saigon fell.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/h5n45)
1992 Jul 17, A historic accord for
deep cuts in tanks and other non-nuclear arms in Europe went into
effect, nearly two years after it was signed by NATO and the Warsaw
Pact.
(AP, 7/17/97)
1992 Jul 17, Slovakia's government
decreed its independence from Czechoslovakia. The independence did not
become official until January 1, 1993.
(www.slovakia.org/society-hungary2.htm)
1992 Jul 18, Britain's opposition
Labor Party chose John Smith as its leader, replacing Neil Kinnock.
(AP, 7/18/97)
1992 Jul 18, In Peru 9 students
and a univ. teacher were killed at La Cantuta Univ. Later retired
Gen’l. Rodolfo Robles charged that an army death squad, the Colina
Group, was responsible. Death squad members were convicted and then
released in a 1995 general amnesty. In 2008 a former general and three
members of a military death squad were found guilty of participating in
the kidnapping and murder.
(SFC, 11/27/96, p.A13)(SFC, 12/2/96, p.A14)(SFC,
8/23/01, p.A8)(AP, 4/9/08)
1992 Jul 19, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy, meeting
in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other
officials.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1992 Jul 19, Paolo Borsellino,
Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by mafia.
(http://paolo-borsellino.biography.ms/)
1992 Jul 20, Vaclav Havel, the
playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, formally
stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia after failing to halt the
country's pending breakup into two entities. He was later elected
president of the Czech Republic.
(AP, 7/20/02)
1992 Jul 21, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, who said afterward that he'd accepted Rabin's invitation to
visit Israel.
(AP, 7/21/97)
1992 Jul 22, Wayne McLaren (51),
model (Marlboro Man), died of lung cancer.
(www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was
slain by security forces in December 1993.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1992 Jul 23, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, touring the Middle East, made a secret visit to
Lebanon.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1992 Jul 24, Members of POW-MIA
families disrupted a speech by President Bush, prompting Bush to snap,
"Would you please shut up and sit down?"
(AP, 7/24/97)
1992 Jul 24, In Bosnia Serb prison
guards at the former ceramics factory of Keraterm fired machine guns
through metal doors of "Room 3" where over 200 prisoners were trapped.
The carnage continued for hours. In 2001 Dusko Sikirica (camp
commander), Dragan Kolundzija and Damir Dosen were tried at the Hague
for their roles in the slaughter. Sikirica was sentenced to 15 years in
prison. Dosen and Kolundzija received 5 and 3 year sentences.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A19)
1992 Jul 25, Opening ceremonies
were held in Barcelona, Spain, for the 25th Summer Olympics.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1992 Jul 25, A 68-foot high Mistos
(Match-Cover) by Claes Oldenburg was built for the Summer Olympics in
Barcelona, Spain, in reference to the Olympic Torch. In the Olympics
the Unified team of the former Soviet Union won 45 gold medals and the
US won 37.
(Smith., Aug. 1995, p.81)(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.4)
1992 Jul 25, Greg Spiers created
the Lithuanian Basketball Team’s tie-died shirt featuring the Grateful
Dead’s skeleton slam-dunking. He later sued for a share of the profits
on the shirts.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, DB p.44)
1992 Jul 25, Actor-singer Alfred
Drake died in New York at age 78.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1992 Jul 26, Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect.
(http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/misc/summada.htm)
1992 Jul 26, Miguel Indurain of
Spain won cycling's Tour de France for the second year in a row.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26,
Singer Mary Wells died in Los Angeles at age 49.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Iraq agreed to permit
weapons inspectors to search the Agriculture Ministry in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Muhamed Cehajic,
mayor of Prijedor, Bosnia, disappeared and was believed killed. Milomar
Stakic became mayor and was later accused of direct involvement in
establishing concentration camps at Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje.
Momcilo Radanovic was later accused of leading a brigade that carried
out numerous massacres and extortion of money from non-Serbs. Stakic
was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison in 2003. In 2005
Isabelle Wesselingh and Arnaud Vaulerin authored “Raw Memory: Prijedor,
Laboratory of Ethnic Cleansing.”
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A12)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
8/1/03, p.A3)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.72)
1992 Jul 27, President Bush's
aides attacked Democratic nominee Bill Clinton's foreign policy
credentials and judgment.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1992 Jul 27, At the Summer
Olympics in Barcelona, the U.S. men's volleyball team was stripped of
its victory over Japan the day before in an opening-round game.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1992 Jul 28, Democrats
counterattacked a day after aides to President Bush had accused
Democrat Bill Clinton of lacking foreign policy expertise.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, Iraq opened its
Agricultural Ministry to U.N. weapons experts after a three-week
standoff.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, At the Barcelona
Olympics, the U.S. women's 400-meter freestyle relay team won the gold
medal.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 29, The
U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team won the gold medal at the Barcelona
Summer Olympics.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1992 Jul 29, Former East German
leader Erich Honecker was arrested on his return to his homeland and
charged with manslaughter; he was later permitted to leave after he was
diagnosed with terminal cancer.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1992 Jul 29, Newsday published
reports of death camps for Muslims and Croats run by the Serbian Army
in northern Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jul 30, At the Barcelona
Summer Olympics, Shannon Miller won the silver medal in the women's
all-around gymnastics event.
(AP, 7/30/97)
1992 Jul 30, A TWA Lockheed L-1011
caught fire during takeoff from New York City's Kennedy International
Airport; all 292 people aboard survived.
(AP, 7/30/97)
1992 Jul 31, Summer Sanders became
the first American athlete to win four medals at the Barcelona Olympics
as she won the gold in the women's 200-meter butterfly.
(AP, 7/31/97)
1992 Jul 31, The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a problem-plagued
scientific mission. The Atlantis space shuttle carried with it a Silver
Bullet II yo-yo designed by Dr. Tom Kuhn. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman
played with it in zero gravity.
(AP, 7/31/97)(SFEM, 7/21/96, p.15)
1992 Jul 31, In Italy the scala
mobile wage index, which maintained a rigid link between Italian wages
and prices, was scrapped after a long struggle.
(www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/ITALY/SLIDINGSCALEMECHANISM-IT.htm)(Econ,
6/13/09, SR p.9)
1992 Jul, The children’s book
series "Goosebumps" was launched.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p. B1)
1992 Jul, Dennis Kozlowski became
CEO of Tyco Corp. with $3 billion in annual sales.
(WSJ, 4/5/04, p.A8)
1992 Jul, In Iraq 42 merchants
were arrested from Baghdad's wholesale markets and charged with
manipulating food supplies to drive up prices as many Iraqis were
suffering economically. All 42 were executed hours later following a
quick trial. In 2008 Tariq Aziz (72), former deputy prime minister,
went on trial as one of 8 defendants charged with the executions.
(AP, 4/29/08)
1992 Jul, South Ossetia and
Georgia agreed to a cease-fire.
(SFC, 9/1/98, p.A10)
1992 Jul, Yugoslavia was suspended
from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for
fomenting war in Bosnia.
(SFC, 3/28/98,
p.A8)(www.hrw.org/wr2k1/europe/yugoslavia3.html)
1992 Aug 1, The US Supreme Court
permitted the Bush administration to continue returning Haitians
intercepted at sea to their Caribbean homeland.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1992 Aug 2, At
the Barcelona Summer Olympics, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee repeated
as heptathlon champion.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1992 Aug 2, The Bush campaign,
accused by Bill Clinton of mudslinging, responded with a vitriolic
press release that referred to "sniveling hypocritical Democrats."
President Bush later disavowed the release.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1992 Aug 2, A "No-fly" zone was
imposed over southern Iraq to stop air attacks on Shiite Muslim rebels.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)
1992 Aug 3, The US Senate voted to
sharply restrict and eventually end U.S. testing of nuclear weapons.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1992 Aug 3, Millions of South
African blacks joined a nationwide strike against white-led rule.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1992 Aug 4, The crew of the space
shuttle Atlantis encountered difficulties as they tried to reel out a
satellite attached to miles of thin cord as part of an
electricity-producing experiment.
(AP, 8/4/97)
1992 Aug 5, Federal civil rights
charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted
of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were
later convicted.
(AP, 8/5/97)
1992 Aug 5, Acting Secretary of
State Lawrence Eagleburger called for a war crimes investigation in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 8/5/97)
1992 Aug 6, Americans led by Carl
Lewis swept the long jump at the Barcelona Summer Olympics, while Kevin
Young won the 400-meter hurdles and Mike Marsh the 200 meters.
(AP, 8/6/97)
1992 Aug 6, President Bush granted
full diplomatic recognition to the former Yugoslav republics of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Croatia, the same day Britain's
Independent Television News showed videotape of emaciated detainees at
a pair of Serb prison camps.
(AP, 8/6/97)
1992 Aug 7, Jennifer Capriati won
the gold medal in tennis at the Barcelona Olympics, beating Steffi Graf.
(AP, 8/7/02)
1992 Aug 7, The luxury liner Queen
Elizabeth 2 ran aground off Massachusetts.
(AP, 8/7/97)
1992 Aug 7, The 39-nation
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva produced the final draft of a
treaty to ban chemical weapons, ending 24 years of talks.
(AP, 8/7/97)
1992 Aug 8, The U.S. basketball
"Dream Team" clinched the gold at the Barcelona Summer Olympics,
defeating Croatia 117-85.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 8, The space shuttle
Atlantis returned from a problem-plagued mission.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 8, AIDS activist Alison
Gertz died in New York at age 26.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 9, Closing ceremonies
were held for the Barcelona Summer Olympics, with the Unified Team of
former Soviet republics winning 112 medals to 108 for the United
States.
(AP, 8/9/97)
1992 Aug 10, President Bush met at
his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace talks would
resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1992 Aug 10, Sixto Duran Ballen
(b.1921), US-born architect, began serving as president of Ecuador. His
term lasted to 1996.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Dur%C3%A1n_Ball%C3%A9n)
1992 Aug 11, In Washington,
D.C., negotiators for the United States, Canada and Mexico continued to
work out final details of the proposed North American Free Trade
Agreement.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1992 Aug 11, The Mall of America,
the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minn.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1992 Aug 12, The North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was announced in Washington, D.C. after 14
months of negotiations between the United States, Mexico and Canada. It
created the world's wealthiest trading bloc. [see Jan 1, 1994]
(AP, 8/12/97)(HN, 8/12/02)
1992 Aug 12, Avant-garde composer
John Cage (b.1912) died in New York at age 79.
(WSJ, 5/8/96, p.A-12)(AP, 8/12/97)
1992 Aug 13, "Real Inspector
Hound" opened at Criterion in NYC for 61 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4691)
1992 Aug 13, President Bush
announced that Secretary of State James A. Baker III was leaving his
diplomatic post to be White House chief of staff in a shake-up designed
to energize Bush's re-election campaign.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1992 Aug 13, Comedian, actor and
director Woody Allen began legal action against actress Mia Farrow to
win custody of their three children. A judge later ruled against Allen.
(AP, 8/13/02)
1992 Aug 14, Pres. Bush ordered
the Pentagon to begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia which was
suffering from severe famine and factional warfare.
(AP, 8/14/97)(HNQ, 1/1/00)
1992 Aug 14, Federal Judge John J.
Sirica, who had presided over the Watergate trials of the 1970s, died
in Washington, D.C., at age 88.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1992 Aug 15, While Republicans
gathered in Houston for their national convention, President Bush spent
the weekend at Camp David, his renomination secure.
(AP, 8/15/97)
1992 Aug 15, Giorgio Perlasca,
Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_)
1992 Aug 16, On the eve of the
Republican National Convention in Houston, President Bush and party
officials heatedly denied a report in The New York Times that a
confrontation with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was motivated by
political concerns.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1992 Aug 17, Actor-director Woody
Allen admitted being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn, the
adopted daughter of Allen's longtime companion, actress Mia Farrow.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1992 Aug 17, The US Republican
convention was held in Houston. The Christian coalition sponsored a
rally that featured VP Dan Quayle. In 1996 the book: "Active Faith: How
Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics" by Ralph Reed
was published.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1992 Aug 17, President Bush
arrived in Houston for the opening of the Republican National
Convention, which featured an address by former President Reagan.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1992 Aug 18, Basketball star Larry
Bird announced his retirement after 13 years with the Boston Celtics.
(AP, 8/18/97)
1992 Aug 18, On the second night
of the Republican National Convention in Houston, U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm,
R-Texas, delivered the keynote address, denouncing Bill Clinton's
economic program as "worse than sleaze."
(AP, 8/18/97)
1992 Aug 18, John Sturges (82),
director (Gunfight at OK Corral), died of emphysema.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0836328/)
1992 Aug 19, The third night of
the Republican National Convention in Houston, billed as "family values
night," featured first lady Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle, wife of
Vice President Quayle, as speakers.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1992 Aug 20, In the early hours of
Aug. 20, the Republican National Convention in Houston renominated
President Bush and Vice President Quayle. On the evening of the 20th,
Bush delivered a hard-hitting speech in which he attacked the Democrats
and promised to seek across-the-board tax cuts if re-elected.
(AP, 8/20/97)
1992 Aug 21, The day after the
close of the Republican National Convention in Houston, the two major
party candidates traded hard blows, with President Bush deriding Bill
Clinton as a "wishy-washy" leader, and Clinton lashing back at Bush as
a "great fearmonger."
(AP, 8/21/97)
1992 Aug 21, US marshals moved
onto the property of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho and began a
shoot out where Mr. Weaver’s 14-year old son, Sammy, was killed as well
as Marshall Bill Degan. Federal agents were than held at bay for 11
days and before it ended Weaver’s wife was shot dead. The FBI, in an
attempt to serve an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver on weapons charges,
killed Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Kevin Harris was
acquitted of federal charges in 1993. In 1995 the government awarded
Weaver family $3.1 mil for wrongful-death claims. In 1996 criminal
charges were filed against Michael Kahoe, chief of the Violent Crimes
and Major Offenders Section of the FBI, for destroying a report
critical of the FBI. He was sentenced and fined in 1997. In 1997 Kevin
Harris was charged with the murder of Bill Degan and FBI agent Lon
Horiuchi was charged with the murder of Vicki Weaver. State murder
charges against Kevin Harris were dropped in 1997. State manslaughter
charges were filed against sharpshooter Horiuchi in 1998.
(WSJ,3/13/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(WSJ,
8/16/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A19)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A1)(SFC,
10/11/97, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)
1992 Aug 21, Serbian soldiers
separated over 200 men, mostly Croats and Muslims, from a convoy of
civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in Bosnia. The captives
were taken to a wooded ravine at Mount Vlasic and shot dead. In
2003 Darko Mrdja, commander of a special police unit, admitted to a
court in the Hague of playing a role in the slaughter. In 2009 Bosnian
forensic experts found the remains of at least 60 Muslims and Croats in
the ravine.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A8)(AP, 8/26/09)
1992 Aug 22, President Bush told
an evangelical gathering in Dallas that the Democrats had left "three
simple letters" out of their platform: "G-o-d." Democrat Bill Clinton
said Bush was trying to divert attention from the economy.
(AP, 8/22/02)
1992 Aug 22, Neo-Nazi violence
against foreigners erupted in Rostock, Germany.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1992 Aug 23, James A. Baker III
bowed out as secretary of state after three-and-a-half years to become
White House chief of staff.
(AP, 8/23/97)
1992 Aug 23, Hurricane Andrew
slammed into the Bahamas with 120 mph winds.
(AP, 8/23/97)
1992 Aug 24, Hurricane Andrew
smashed into Florida causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida,
Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm. It swept across
Coral Gables, Florida, and destroyed two-thirds of the Fairchild
Tropical Garden. It cost $15.5 bil in insured losses and was the most
expensive natural disaster in US history. Insurance losses in the US
and Bahamas totaled $21.5 billion.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A11)(AP, 8/24/97)(Econ, 8/21/04,
p.62)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.73)
1992 Aug 24, China and South Korea
established diplomatic ties.
(AP, 8/24/97)
1992 Aug 25, President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton appeared separately before the American Legion in
Chicago; Bush cited his World War II military service while Clinton
sought to bury the controversy over his Vietnam-era draft status.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1992 Aug 25, Hurricane Andrew
thrashed the Louisiana coast.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1992 Aug 26, A federal judge
declared a mistrial in the Iran-Contra cover-up trial of former CIA spy
chief Clair George. George was convicted of perjury in a retrial, but
was then pardoned by President H.W. Bush.
(AP, 8/26/97)
1992 Aug 26, The United States,
Britain and France imposed a 2nd no-fly zone south of the 32nd
parallel, the southern one-third of Iraq aimed at protecting Iraqi
Shiite Muslims.
(AP, 8/26/97)(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1992 Aug 26, Arthur Leigh Allen
(b.1933) of Vallejo, a convicted child molester and alleged Zodiac
killer, died in Vallejo, Ca. In 1985 Robert Graysmith authored "Zodiac"
in which he identified the killer with the pseudonym of "Robert Starr."
Graysmith authored "Zodiac Unmasked" in 2002. In 2009 lawyer Robert
Tarbox said a merchant seaman had identified himself as the Zodiac
killer as a walk-in client at his SF Montgomery Street office in the
early 1970s.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.M6)(SSFC,
7/19/09, p.A18)
1992 Aug 27, President Bush
ordered federal troops to Florida for emergency relief in the wake of
Hurricane Andrew.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1992 Aug 27, The US and its allies
began air patrols following the imposition of a no-fly zone over
southern Iraq to stop air attacks on Shiite Muslim rebels.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1992 Aug 28, The US government
mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water to
hurricane-ravaged Florida.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1992 Aug 28, US cargo planes
landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1992 Aug 29, About 13,000 people
staged an anti-extremist rally in Rostock, Germany, even as
right-wingers continued attacks on immigrants.
(AP, 8/29/97)(HN, 8/29/98)
1992 Aug 29, The U.N. Security
Council agreed to send 3,000 more relief troops to Somalia to guard
food shipments.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1992 Aug 29, Mary Norton
(88), children’s book author (Borrowers), died in England.
(www.sfsite.com/09b/bor41.htm)
1992 Aug 30, Winners in the 44th
Emmy Awards included "Northern Exposure" with six Emmy Awards,
including best drama series, while "Murphy Brown" received three Emmys,
including best comedy series, in a ceremony marked by satirical jabs
directed at Vice President Dan Quayle.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1992 Aug 31, White separatist
Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an
11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife,
son and a deputy U.S. marshal. [see Aug 21]
(AP, 8/31/97)
1992 Aug, The UN Security Council
unanimously condemned Serb ethnic cleansing and with 3 abstentions
voted to authorize military force to protect humanitarian aid.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Aug, Viewers worldwide were
shocked by TV pictures of emaciated Muslim captives in Serb-run prison
camps in Bosnia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Aug, In Belgium Loubna
Benaissa (9) disappeared after going to buy some yogurt at a nearby
store. In 1997 her body was found hidden in the basement of a gas
station and Patrick Derochette was arrested after reportedly confessing
to the killing. He had been accused of assaulting youngsters in 1984.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A12)
1992 Aug, In Nicaragua Norman
Meneses was sentenced to 25 years in prison for possession and
smuggling cocaine. He was released in Nov. 1997.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A10)
1992 Aug, The Serb-run Omarska
camp closed. Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic, former cafe owner and karate
instructor, was later accused of beating, mutilating, and killing
Bosnian Muslims at the concentration camps run by the Serbians at
Omarska and Keraterm. On May 7, 1997, he became the first war criminal
convicted of war crimes in the Bosnian War between the Bosnian Muslims
and the former Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 5/9/96,
p.A-18)(www.bookrags.com/biography-dusan-tadic-cri/)
1992 Sep 1, Defying a U.S.
government warning, Bobby Fischer announced he would play his one-time
rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5 million chess match in Yugoslavia despite
United Nations-imposed sanctions.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1992 Sep 2, On the campaign trail,
President Bush announced nearly $2 billion in new aid for US farmers
and a $6 billion jet fighter sale that would largely benefit Texas.
Democrat Bill Clinton, meanwhile, charged that Bush would short change
middle-class students to finance tax cuts for the rich. Bush announced
the agreement to sell Taiwan 150 F-16 jet fighters at the General
Dynamics factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
(AP,
9/2/97)(www.fas.org/news/taiwan/1992/920903-taiwan-usia2.htm)
1992 Sep 2, Michael Nguyen (9) was
murdered in San Francisco. Two men were later found guilty of murdering
the boy for profit based on insurance claims.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A13)
1992 Sep 3, Baseball owners voted
18-9-1 to ask commissioner Fay Vincent to resign.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1992 Sep 3, An Italian relief
plane was shot down by ground-to-air missiles outside of Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1992 Sep 4, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6 percent
in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened slightly
and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1992 Sep 5, A strike that had
idled nearly 43,000 General Motors Corp. workers ended as members of a
United Auto Workers local in Lordstown, Ohio, approved a new agreement.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1992 Sep 6, An unidentified
35-year-old man who was the recipient of a transplanted baboon liver
died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 10 weeks after
receiving the organ.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1992 Sep 7, Baseball Commissioner
Fay Vincent resigned, four days after a no-confidence vote by club
owners.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1992 Sep 7, Troops in South Africa
fired on African National Congress supporters near the Transkei
homeland, killing 28 and wounding 200. 29 ANC protestors were killed in
the Bisho massacre by troops of the homeland of Ciskei. Major General
Marius Oelschig radioed the "open fire" command. He said that he was
convinced by officers on the seen that they were under danger of
imminent attack.
(WSJ, 9/10/96, p.A1)(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A14)(AP, 9/7/97)
1992 Sep 8, President Bush asked
Congress to provide more than $7.6 billion to help Hurricane Andrew
recovery efforts.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 8, Sen. Quentin Burdick,
D-N.D., died at age 84.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 8, In a case that
prompted federal laws against carjacking, Pam Basu of Savage, Md., was
dragged to her death after being forced from her car.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin called off a trip to Japan in the face of growing
pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the
former Soviet Union in 1945.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1992 Sep 10, Less than two months
before Election Day, President Bush unveiled a repackaged economic
manifesto which included a possible 1 percentage-point across-the-board
tax-rate cut.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1992 Sep 11, President Bush
announced he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi
Arabia.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1992 Sep 11, Hurricane Iniki
struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than 10,000
homes damaged or destroyed. Iniki caused some $1.6 billion in damages
on Kauai.
(Hem., 4/97, p.26)(AP, 9/11/97)(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1992 Sep 12, The space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the
first married couple in space; Mae Jemison, the first black woman in
space; and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly on a U.S.
spaceship.
(AP, 9/12/97)
1992 Sep 12, Actor Anthony Perkins
died from AIDS in Hollywood at age 60.
(AP, 9/12/97)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000578/bio)
1992 Sep 12, Ed Peck, actor (Zoot
Suit, Bullitt), died of heart attack at 75.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0669653/)
1992 Sep 12, In Peru the Shining
Path guerilla leader Abimael Guzman was captured by police chief Ketin
Vidal with help from a CIA operative nick-named “Superman.” Oscar
Ramirez, aka Feliciano, took over the leadership. Guzman, a former
philosophy professor, was tried by a military court and sentenced to
life in jail. The verdict was overturned in Jan 2003.
(SFE, 9/17/96, p.A11)(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)(SFC,
12/8/00, p.A20)(Econ, 10/30/04, p.44)
1992 Sep 13, Stefan Edberg
defeated Pete Sampras to win the U.S. Open title in New York, a day
after Monica Seles beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario to win her seventh
Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1992 Sep 13, Lou Jacobs, US clown
(1966 US postage stamp), died.
(www.clown-ministry.com/History/Lou-Jacobs.html)
1992 Sep 14, The grand dragon of
the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible Empire of Florida announced that he was
moving the group's headquarters from Orlando to Gainesville. He said,
it's "a progressive community, and we think we can fit in."
(www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040906-012530-6093r.htm)
1992 Sep 14, Germany cut key
interest rates for the first time in five years, an action the United
States and European Community nations had been urging to help spur a
world economic recovery.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1992 Sep 14, The Italian Lira was
devalued 7%. This forced Italy to withdraw from the Exchange Rate
Mechanism (ERM), which was necessary to join European Monetary Union.
(http://tinyurl.com/eh943)
1992 Sep 15, Washington state Sen.
Patty Murray defeated former Congressman Don Bonker to win the
Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Brock
Adams.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1992 Sep 15, FBI Director William
S. Sessions promised a new national campaign to stem a recent wave of
carjackings.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1992 Sep 16, A proposed debate
between President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton was canceled after the
Bush campaign's refusal to negotiate with a bipartisan commission.
(AP, 9/16/97)
1992 Sep 16, Former U.S. Rep.
Millicent Fenwick, R-N.J., died at age 82.
(AP, 9/16/97)
1992 Sep 16, Britain under John
Major devalued the pound and the economy soared. The day became known
as “Black Wednesday.” George Soros pocketed $2 billion on his short
sale of $10 billion. The event is documented in Robert Slater's Soros:
"The Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor."
Britain’s Conservative government was forced to withdraw the Pound from
the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) due to pressure by currency
speculators.
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A1)(Econ, 3/25/06,
p.62)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday)
1992 Sep 17, A federal judge
overturned the impeachment of former U.S. District Judge Alcee
Hastings, saying he did not receive a fair trial by the Senate, which
convicted him in 1989 of perjury and conspiracy.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1992 Sep 17, Special prosecutor
Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the
Iran-Contra scandal.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1992 Sep 17, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
(87), actor (King's Whore), died after illness.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0149923/)
1992 Sep 18, Ross Perot's name was
submitted for the 50th state ballot -- Arizona -- on the same day that
Perot hinted on NBC's "Today" show that he might throw his hat into the
presidential ring, after all.
(AP, 9/18/97)
1992 Sep 19, Top finance officials
of the seven largest industrial countries pledged in Washington, D.C.,
to cooperate closely to resolve the worst currency crisis in two
decades.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1992 Sep 20, The space shuttle
Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 20, Leanza Cornett of
Florida was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, N.J.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 20, French voters
narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty on European union.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 21, President Bush
addressed the U.N. General Assembly, offering U.S. support to
strengthen international peacekeeping.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 21, Former defense
secretaries Melvin Laird and James R. Schlesinger told a congressional
committee the Pentagon had known American airmen were alive in Laos at
the end of the Vietnam War and were not returned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 22, President Bush vetoed
a family and medical leave bill. A similar legislation was later
enacted.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, Former US Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger denounced as a "flat-out lie" an
allegation that he and other officials had known American servicemen
were left behind when the war in Southeast Asia ended.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, The U.N. General
Assembly voted to expel Yugoslavia.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 23, Plans for a
presidential debate fell apart, with President Bush continuing to
object to a single-moderator format proposed by a bipartisan
commission; it was the second such cancellation.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1992 Sep 23, Bernice Gera, the 1st
female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League) died at age 61.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1992SEPTEMBER.stm)
1992 Sep 24, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton promised to press for a national
health-care system for all Americans; the Bush campaign countered that
the plan would be too expensive for average Americans.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 24, Acting US Navy
Secretary Sean O'Keefe stripped three admirals of their jobs for
failing to investigate aggressively the Tailhook sex abuse scandal.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 25, A judge in Orlando,
Fla., ruled in favor of Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy seeking a
"divorce" from his biological parents.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Some four dozen San
Francisco bicycle riders began to ride up Market Street in a group
called "Commute Clot." It grew to become Critical Mass bike ride held
on the last Friday of each month.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A25)(SFC,
9/28/07, p.A1)
1992 Sep 25, The Mars
Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet. The
probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 26, A Nigerian military
transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 163 people
aboard.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 26, South African
President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela held their first meeting in three months, during which they
agreed on the urgent need for an interim government.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 27, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot spoke with his supporters in Dallas on the eve of a meeting
with representatives of President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton, both
of whom were hoping Perot would stay on the campaign sidelines.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1992 Sep 27, In Tibet Ogyen
Trinley Dorje (7) was enthroned as the 17th Karmapa under an agreement
with the Chinese government.
(Econ, 12/24/05,
p.56)(www.kagyu.org/karmapa/kar/kar03.html)
1992 Sep 28, Aides to President
Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton met in Dallas with supporters of Ross
Perot, who hinted afterward he might re-enter the presidential race.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1992 Sep 28, Gloria Estefan and a
cavalcade of musicians and comedians raised one-point-three-million
dollars at a hurricane relief concert in Miami.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002065/)
1992 Sep 28, A Pakistani jetliner
crashed in Nepal, killing all 167 people aboard.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1992 Sep 29, Magic Johnson,
infected with the AIDS virus, announced he was returning to basketball.
He scrapped his comeback attempt the following November.
(AP, 9/29/97)
1992 Sep 29, Lawmakers in Brazil
voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello. He
was impeached following allegations of corruption. The proceedings were
largely ignored by the Rede Globo TV network.
(WSJ, 12/4/95, p.A-9)(AP, 9/29/97)
1992 Sep 30, George Brett of the
Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the
California Angels.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, The Bush and Clinton
campaigns opened negotiations for a series of presidential debates.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, Ling-Ling, the giant
panda from China, died at the Washington National Zoo.
(SFC, 4/16/97, p.C14)(HN, 4/16/98)
1992 Sep, Andrew Martinez, the
naked man, organized a “nude-in” on the Berkeley campus to express the
right to free speech. 3 months later he was expelled for violating the
campus code of conduct. In 1997 he was diagnosed as schizophrenic. In
2006 Martinez (33) died from apparent suicide while under custody in
the Santa Rita County Jail in Santa Clara County.
(SSFC, 5/21/06,
p.B1)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100863/)(SFC, 5/19/09, p.B4)
1992 Sep, A US nuclear test in the
Nevada desert was set off. After the test Washington voluntarily gave
up testing as part of the emerging global moratorium.
(SFC, 1/6/97, p.A3)
1992 Sep, The Mini-Museum of Daly
City, operated by the History Guild of Daly City, was dedicated in the
Serramonte Library. It was open every Tuesday afternoon 1-2:30.
(Tat, 1/98)
1992 Sep, In Albania former
President Alia and eighteen other former communist officials, including
Nexhmije Hoxha, wife of late dictator Hoxha, were arrested and charged
with corruption and other offenses.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1992 Sep, In Edmonton, Canada,
Corinne Gustavson (6) was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed. In
2005 Clifford Sleigh was found guilty of her first-degree murder,
aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping and sentenced to prison with
no parole for 25 years.
(AP, 5/27/05)
1992 Sep, The French finance
ministry placed Credit Lyonnais under administrative control. A 1998
bailout of the company ended up costing French taxpayers twice the
bank’s 1991 published capital.
(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey
p.13)(www.erisk.com/Learning/CaseStudies/CreditLyonnais.asp)
1992 Sep, In Germany Sadiq
Sarafkindi and three other exiled Iranian Kurdish dissidents were slain
at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin. In 1997 a German court concluded
that the murders were sponsored by the top political leadership of Iran
and orchestrated by a secretive "Committee for special Operations," and
carried out by the Iranian Vevak security service.
(SFC, 4/11/97, p.A1)
1992 Sep, In Romania Ion Cioaba
(1935-1997), had himself crowned as King of the Gypsies with a 13-pound
crown in front of 5,000 followers.
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.A24)
1992 Sep, In Vietnam Ly Tong
hijacked a Vietnam airlines jet from Thailand and dropped 50,000
anti-government leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City. He parachuted down and
was arrested. He was released in a 1998 amnesty.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A9)
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