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1992 Oct 1, Texas
billionaire Ross Perot jumped back into the presidential race.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1992 Oct 1, The U.S. Senate voted
93-to-6 to approve the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1992 Oct 1, Petra Kelly (b.1947),
founder of the German Green Party, was shot dead in Bonn.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kelly)
1992 Oct 2, The campaigns of
President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton agreed to hold three
presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1992 Oct 2, In Brazil Col.
Ubiratan Guimaraes led the "Carandiru massacre," where 111 inmates
where killed during a raid to quell a prison riot. At the Carandiru
prison in Sao Paulo 102 prisoners were killed by troops under Col.
Ubiratan Guimaraes. Guimaraes was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to
632 years in prison, but awaited a 2nd trial. In 2006 Guimaraes
(63) was murdered at his apartment in Sao Paulo.
(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A14)(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A18)(AP,
9/11/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.48)
1992 Oct 3, President Bush vetoed
a measure to re-regulate cable television. Congress overrode the veto
two days later.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1992 Oct 3, Sinead O'Connor, Irish
rock singer, ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night
Live.
(www.notbored.org/sinead.html)
1992 Oct 3, William Gates, the
college-dropout founder of Microsoft, headed the Forbes magazine 400
list of the richest Americans with a net worth of 6.3 billion dollars.
His assets reached 51 billion in 2005.
(http://tinyurl.com/8ex5w)(www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/BH69.html)
1992 Oct 4, In the Netherlands an
Israeli El Al Jumbo Jet transport, enroute from New York to Tel Aviv,
crashed into an Amsterdam apartment complex and killed 43 people. Since
then scores of people complained of unidentified health problems. In
1998 it was revealed that the jet carried 50 gallons of dimethyl
methylphosphonate, a non-poisonous ingredient of sarin nerve gas,
destined for Israel. A report on the crash was released in 1999 and
said that the plane's ballast included carcinogenic depleted uranium.
(AP, 10/4/97)(WSJ, 4/22/99,
A1)(www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.03/990211-cargo.html)
1992 Oct 5, Both houses of
Congress voted to override President Bush's veto of a measure to
re-regulate cable television companies.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1992 Oct 6, President Bush
appointed Mary Fisher to the National Commission on AIDS, replacing
Magic Johnson.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1992 Oct 6, The US Congress
approved HOPE VI, the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere
program. It targeted the worst housing estates and encouraged
mixed-income communities.
(SFC, 10/2/04,
p.B7)(www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/hope6/about/)
1992 Oct 6, The U.N. Security
Council voted unanimously to establish a war crimes commission for
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1992 Oct 7, Trade representatives
of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American
Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas.
(AP, 10/7/97)
1992 Oct 7, Allan Bloom (62),
psychologist and author (Closing of the American Mind), died.
(www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Bloom.html)
1992 Oct 8, Derek Walcott
(b.1930), West Indies born poet (Saint Lucia), was named winner of the
Nobel Prize in literature.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1992 Oct 8, Iraqi police seized at
gunpoint American bomb disposal expert Chad Hall, who was working in a
disputed and ill-defined border area between Iraq and Kuwait. He was
released two days later. [see Oct 10]
(AP, 10/8/02)
1992 Oct 8, Willy Brandt (78),
former West German Chancellor (1969-74) and Nobel Peace Prize winner
(1971), died in Unkel, Germany.
(AP,
10/8/97)(http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1971/brandt-cv.html)
1992 Oct 9, The US 102nd Congress
adjourned.
(AP, 10/9/97)
1992 Oct 9, To protect the US food
airlift, the first American forces arrived in Somalia.
(HNQ, 1/1/00)
1992 Oct 9, A great Peekskill
Meteorite was seen from Kentucky to NY.
(http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/peekskill.htm)
1992 Oct 9, In Alabama Jack
Trawick abducted and killed college student Stephanie Gach (21) in
Birmingham. Trawick (62), a serial murderer, was executed in 2009.
(SFC, 6/12/09,
p.A6)(www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/09/jun09.htm)
1992 Oct 9, The U.N. Security
Council voted to ban all military flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 10/9/97)
1992 Oct 10, Iraq released U.S.
munitions expert Clinton Hall, two days after he'd been taken prisoner
in the demilitarized zone separating Iraq and Kuwait.
(AP, 10/10/97)
1992 Oct 11, President Bush,
Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot met for the
first of three debates, this one held at Washington University in St.
Louis.
(AP, 10/11/97)
1992 Oct 12, In Texas Mike Piperis
(46), co-owner of U&I Restaurant in Corpus Christi, and Anthony
Staton (31), a cook, were murdered. Martin E. Gurule was convicted for
the murder and sentenced to death. Gurule’s girlfriend, Malisa Smith,
was also convicted, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(SFC, 11/28/98, p.A8)
1992 Oct 12, Arecibo radio
telescope in Puerto Rico began a microwave search for occupied planets.
(www.planetary.org/explore/topics/seti/seti_history_12.html)
1992 Oct 12, A 5.8 earthquake hit
Cairo and at least 510 people died.
(AP,
10/12/97)(http://io.ingrm.it/amminist/annali/elenean433.htm)
1992 Oct 13, Vice President Dan
Quayle, Senator Al Gore and retired admiral James B. Stockdale clashed
in a freewheeling vice-presidential debate in Atlanta.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1992 Oct 14, The Nobel Prize for
chemistry went to American Rudolph A. Marcus; the prize for physics
went to George Charpak of France.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1992 Oct 14, Russia's worst serial
killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was convicted of mutilating and killing 52
women and children. He was executed in 1994.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1992 Oct 15, The US State
Department acknowledged that it had improperly handled requests for the
passport file of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1992 Oct 15, NYC Subway motorman
Robert Ray was convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he
fell asleep drunk while in control of train on Aug 28, 1991.
(http://tinyurl.com/bk4uq)
1992 Oct 16, The Nobel Peace prize
was awarded to Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian who spoke on
behalf of indigenous people and victims of government repression. In
1999 David Stoll published "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor
Guatemalans," in which he contradicts material in Menchu's book "I
Rigoberta Menchu."
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/16/97)(SFEC, 3/7/99,
BR p.4)
1992 Oct 17, The Atlanta Braves
defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in game one of the World Series, 3-to-1.
(AP, 10/17/97)
1992 Oct 17, Japanese exchange
student Yoshi Hattori, 16, was shot and killed by Rodney Peairs in
Center, La., after Hattori and his American host mistakenly knocked on
Peairs' door while looking for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted
of manslaughter, but in a civil trial was ordered to pay more than
$650,000 in damages to Hattori's family.
(AP, 10/17/97)
1992 Oct 18, The visiting Toronto
Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves in game two of the World Series,
5-to-4, evening the series at one game apiece. The pre-game ceremony
was marred by a U.S. Marine Corps color guard that mistakenly presented
the Canadian flag upside-down.
(AP, 10/18/97)
1992 Oct 19, President Bush,
Democrat Bill Clinton and independent Ross Perot met in their third and
final campaign debate, in East Lansing, Mich.
(AP, 10/19/97)
1992 Oct 19, Maurice le Roux,
French conductor and composer (Contes immoraux), died.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/10_19/7)
1992 Oct 20, The host Toronto Blue
Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves, 3-2 in game three of the World
Series, taking a two-games-to-one lead. This was the first World Series
game to be played outside the U.S. During the pre-game ceremony, a
Marine color guard presented the Canadian flag correctly, two days
after another guard held the banner upside-down before game two.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1992 Oct 20, Jackson Weaver
(b.1920), voice of Smokey the Bear, died of diabetes.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-we.htm)
1992 Oct 20, In Malawi Orton
Chirwa, a lawyer who helped establish the country’s independence, died
in prison. He was Malawi’s first Minister of Justice.
(SFEC, 1/19/96, Par
p.5)(www.hrw.org/reports/1993/WR93/Afw-04.htm)
1992 Oct 21, Singer Madonna's book
"Sex" was released.
(AP, 10/21/97)
1992 Oct 21, The Toronto Blue Jays
won game four of the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 2-1.
(AP, 10/21/97)
1992 Oct 21, A report prepared for
the Los Angeles police commission found that the city was unprepared to
handle the rioting that broke out the previous spring, and had
responded inadequately.
(AP, 10/21/97)
1992 Oct 21, Shirley Booth,
actress (Hazel), died at 94.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095804/)
1992 Oct 21, Jim Garrison,
Louisiana DA who investigated the JFK assassination, died at 70.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Garrison)
1992 Oct 21, In Egypt a British
nurse died in a bus attack by Islamic extremists in Dairu.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1992 Oct 22, Wendy Wasserstein's
"Sisters Rosensweig," opened in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/cwtnr)
1992 Oct 22, The Atlanta Braves
beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-2, in game five of the World Series.
(AP, 10/22/97)
1992 Oct 22, The space shuttle
Columbia was launched on a 10-day mission that included deployment of
an Italian satellite.
(AP, 10/22/97)
1992 Oct 22, Red Barber (84),
sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), died.
(www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/redbarber.html)
1992 Oct 22, Cleavon Little (53),
actor (Blazing Saddles), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001476/)
1992 Oct 23, President Bush
announced that Vietnam had agreed to turn over all materials in its
possession related to U.S. personnel in the Vietnam War.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1992 Oct 23, Japanese Emperor
Akihito began a visit to China, the first by a Japanese monarch.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1992 Oct 23, A French court
convicted three former health officials of charges they knowingly
allowed blood tainted with the AIDS virus to be used in transfusions.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1992 Oct 24, The Toronto Blue Jays
became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series as they defeated
the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, in game six.
(AP, 10/24/97)
1992 Oct 25, Independent
presidential candidate Ross Perot, explaining why he had abandoned his
White House bid in July, publicly accused the Republican Party of
plotting to disrupt his business operations and his daughter's wedding.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called the charges "loony" and
"crazy."
(AP, 10/25/97)
1992 Oct 25, Singer-songwriter
Roger Miller (56) died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 10/25/02)
1992 Oct 26, Pres. Bush signed an
act requiring the release of nearly all government files concerning the
assassination of President Kennedy.
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov22.html)
1992 Oct 26, Robert C. Stempel
resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors
Corp.
(AP, 10/26/97)
1992 Oct 26, Voters in Canada
rejected a constitutional reform package known as the Charlottetown
Accord.
(AP, 10/26/97)
1992 Oct 27, The government
reported that the U.S. gross domestic product grew at an
inflation-adjusted annual rate of 2.7 percent in the third quarter of
1992.
(AP, 10/27/97)
1992 Oct 27, In Oil City,
Pennsylvania, Shauna Howe (11) was kidnapped while walking home from a
pre-Halloween party. Her battered body was found 3 days later. For
every year afterward, the City Council voted to allow trick-or-treating
in the afternoon only. In 2004 a witness came forward and police turned
to DNA evidence. Two brothers were arrested and convicted of murder and
sexual assault. A third man pleaded guilty to murder. In 2008 the city
council voted to allow Halloween back to night hours.
(AP, 10/30/08)
1992 Oct 27, Friends of Queen
Elizabeth II staged an elaborate celebration for the 40th anniversary
of her ascension to the British throne.
(AP, 10/27/97)
1992 Oct 28, Less than a week
before Election Day, President Bush continued to emphasize that voters
could not trust Bill Clinton in the White House; for his part, Clinton
accused Bush of abusing the powers of the presidency.
(AP, 10/28/97)
1992 Oct 29, A New York City jury
acquitted 17-year-old Lemrick Nelson of murdering Yankel Rosenbaum, an
Australian Hasidic scholar who was killed in rioting that erupted in
the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in August 1991 following the
traffic death of a black child who was hit by a Hasidic driver. In
February 1997, a jury convicted Nelson and Charles Price of violating
Rosenbaum's civil rights.
(AP, 10/29/97)
1992 Oct 30, Iran-Contra special
prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh released an excerpt of notes taken by
former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in January 1986 which
suggested then-Vice President Bush was fully aware of the Reagan
administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. (Bush said despite
the notes, he was not aware until December 1986 that the arrangement
was an actual arms-for-hostages swap.)
(AP, 10/30/97)
1992 Oct 31, Roman Catholic church
rehabilitated Galileo Galilei after 359 years. Galileo was tortured and
imprisoned by the Holy Office during the Inquisition, and was forced to
recant his heretical views that the earth and planets revolve around
the Sun. Pope John Paul II acknowledged that the church had erred in
condemning Galileo. [see 1984]
(www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html)
1992 Oct 31, It was announced that
five American nuns in Liberia had been shot to death near the capital
Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.
(AP, 10/31/97)
1992 Oct, The International UFO
Museum and research Center opened in Roswell, New Mexico.
(SFC, 6/23/96, p.T7)
1992 Oct, An explosion at the
Texaco facility near Los Angeles harbor sent 16 people to the hospital
and spawned 4,500 property damage claims.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A9)
1992 Oct, Four members of the
Avengers, a Serbian paramilitary force, abducted 16 Muslims from a bus
in Serbia and took them to Bosnia where they were tortured and
executed. In 2005 a Serbian court 4 convicted former Avengers for the
murders. 2 men in custody, Djordje Sevic and Dragutin Dragicevic were
sentenced to 15 and 20 years respectively. Two others, Milan Lukic and
Oliver Krsmanovic, were tried in absentia and received 20-year jail
terms.
(AP, 7/16/05)
1992 Nov 1, The space shuttle
Columbia landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a 10-day mission that
included the deployment of an Italian satellite.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1992 Nov 2, On Election Day eve
1992, President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton stumped at
a furious pace in several states.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1992 Nov 2, Movie producer Hal
Roach died in Los Angeles at age 100.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1992 Nov 2, The 1st test flight of
Airbus A330 was flown by engineering test pilots Etienne Tarnowski and
Udo Günzel.
(http://events.airbus.com/a380/seeing/learnandplay/history.asp#a330)
1992 Nov 3, Bill Clinton, governor
of Arkansas, was elected as the 42nd president of the United States,
defeating President Bush, who won 38% of the popular vote. Clinton won
Ohio by 2 percentage points.
(AP, 11/3/97)(HN, 11/3/98)(SSFC, 4/29/01,
p.D1)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)
1992 Nov 3, Ross Perot listened to
the American people and won 19% of the vote. His running mate was
Admiral James B. Stockdale.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 4/9/96, p.B8)
1992 Nov 3, In Illinois Democrat
Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S.
Senate. She lost her Senate seat in 1998.
(AP, 11/3/97)(HN, 11/4/98)
1992 Nov 4, Carol Moseley Braun
became the first African American women to be elected to the U.S.
Senate. She lost her Illinois Senate seat in 1998.
(HN, 11/4/98)
1992 Nov 4, Iran's Islamic
Republic News Agency announced the arrest of American businessman
Milton Meier, who had lived in Iran for 17 years, on charges of illegal
business dealings and espionage.
(AP, 11/4/97)
1992 Nov 5, Bobby Fischer beat
Boris Spassky to win Chess title in Belgrade. Fischer received $3.5
million for his win, but violated UN sanctions and an embargo on doing
business in Yugoslavia. In 2004 he was arrested in Japan for traveling
on a revoked USD passport.
(www.ishipress.com/bobby-in.htm)(SFC, 7/17/04, p.A2)
1992 Nov 5, Malice Green (35), a
black motorist, died when he was beaten by Detroit police officers
outside a suspected crack house. Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were
convicted of second-degree murder, but the Michigan Supreme Court
ordered a new trial for Budzyn, saying jurors were improperly
influenced. Their convictions were overturned. Budzyn was retried and
convicted in 1998 and then sentenced to time served. Nevers was retried
in 2000 and convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Nevers was sentenced
to 15 years in prison.
(AP, 11/5/97)(SFC, 3/28/00, p.A5)(SFC, 4/19/00,
p.A8)(SFC, 5/17/00, p.A8)
1992 Nov 6, President-elect Bill
Clinton asked Vernon Jordan and Warren Christopher to lead the White
House transition team.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1992 Nov 7, Richard Yates
(b.1926), US author, died in Birmingham, Ala. His books included
"Revolutionary Road" (1961), and "Disturbing the Peace" (1975). In 2003
Blake Bailey authored "Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard
Yates."
(WSJ, 7/3/03,
p.D8)(www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3460)
1992 Nov 7, Alexander Dubcek
(b.1921), former Czechoslovak leader (1968-1969), died in a car crash.
His 1968 failed attempt to loosen the Communist grip became known as
the Prague Spring.
(AP,
11/7/97)(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/dubcek)
1992 Nov 8, Volunteers began
reading aloud the 58,183 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C., as part of a tribute marking the 10th anniversary of
the monument.
(AP, 11/8/97)
1992 Nov 8, Some 350,000 people
rallied in Berlin against racist violence.
(AP, 11/8/97)
1992 Nov 9, Visiting London,
Russian President Boris Yeltsin appealed for help in rescheduling his
country's debt, and urged British businesses to invest.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1992 Nov 9, Charles Fraser-Smith,
English inventor, died. He was the gadget-designing genius on whom the
character "Q" in the James Bond novels and movies was modeled.
(http://tinyurl.com/9aukm)
1992 Nov 10, Major League Baseball
rejected the $115 million deal for Tampa Bay to acquire the SF Giants
and Safeway pres. Peter Magowan led a local group to acquire the team
for $100 million.
(SFEC,12/797, Z1 p.9)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A14)
1992 Nov 10, President Bush
dismissed State Department official Elizabeth Tamposi for her role in a
pre-election search for passport records of his rivals, Democrat Bill
Clinton and Ross Perot.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1992 Nov 11, By letter, Russian
President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators that Americans had been held
in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed,"
but that others were still living in his country voluntarily.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1992 Nov 11,The Anglican Church
and the Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1992 Nov 12, In his first formal
post-election news conference, President-elect Clinton presented a
detailed blueprint for action once he took office, and promised his
administration would have the strictest ethical guidelines in history.
(AP, 11/12/97)
1992 Nov 13, Riddick Bowe won the
undisputed heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas with a unanimous
decision over Evander Holyfield.
(AP, 11/13/97)
1992 Nov 14, As preparations for
the presidential transition continued, President-elect Clinton told
reporters in Little Rock, Ark., that a compromise on a line-item veto
proposed by House Speaker Thomas Foley could prove acceptable.
(AP, 11/14/97)
1992 Nov 15, President-elect
Clinton and his wife, Hillary, hosted a dinner in Little Rock, Ark.,
for Democratic congressional leaders in the first such meeting since
the presidential election.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1992 Nov 16, President-elect
Clinton and Democratic congressional leaders held a news conference in
Little Rock, Ark., in which they pledged a "new era" of action.
(AP, 11/1697)
1992 Nov 16, United Nations
Security Council voted to authorize a naval blockade on the Danube
River and the Adriatic coast to tighten economic sanctions on
Yugoslavia.
(AP, 11/1697)
1992 Nov 17, Senators John Kerry
of Massachusetts, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Hank Brown of
Colorado made an unprecedented tour of Vietnam's military headquarters
but found nothing to substantiate reports of American prisoners sighted
there after the Vietnam War.
(AP, 11/17/97)
1992 Nov 17, Dateline NBC aired a
demonstration that showed a General Motors trucks blowing up on impact.
It was later revealed that NBC rigged the test.
(www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/nbc.)
1992 Nov 18, "Malcolm X" with
Denzel Washington premiered in US.
(www.metacritic.com/video/titles/malcolmx)
1992 Nov 18, President-elect
Clinton began a two-day whirlwind visit to the nation's capital by
meeting with President Bush.
(AP, 11/18/97)
1992 Nov 18, Dorothy Kirsten (82),
US soprano, died in Los Angeles from stroke. Her 1982 autobiography was
titled “A Time to Sing.”
(www.maurice-abravanel.com/kirsten_dorothy.html)
1992 Nov 19, President-elect
Clinton paid a call on Congress.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1992 Nov 19, President Bush's
mother, Dorothy, died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 91.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1992 Nov 20, The United States and
the European Community announced they had resolved a dispute over EC
farm subsidies, but French officials expressed dissatisfaction.
(AP, 11/20/97)
1992 Nov 20, The Windsor Castle,
22 miles west of London on the Thames River, favorite weekend home of
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, caught on fire when curtains ignited due
to a high intensity spotlight. It was the 45th wedding anniversary of
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Nine main rooms were destroyed
and another 100 damaged. The restoration cost $63 million and took 5
years.
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A12)(SFC,11/18/97, p.B1)(AP,
11/20/97)
1992 Nov 21, Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd
made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1992 Nov 22, President-elect Bill
Clinton met in Little Rock, Ark., with sometime-critic Jesse Jackson,
who praised the future chief executive as a leader who could "make the
nation whole."
(AP, 11/22/97)
1992 Nov 22, A Washington Post
story 1st revealed claims by several women that Sen. Bob Packwood,
liberal Oregon Republican, had accosted them with unwanted touching and
kisses.
(www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010716.asp#5)
1992 Nov 22, Sterling Holloway
(b.1905), US actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), died.
(http://tinyurl.com/84ep8)
1992 Nov 23, Roy Acuff (b.1903),
country music star, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 89.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1992 Nov 23, In Germany, three
Turks were killed when rightist militants firebombed their homes in
Moelln; in Berlin, hundreds of demonstrators protested in solidarity
with foreigners.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1992 Nov 23, Iran added a
Russian-built submarine to its navy, becoming the first Gulf nation to
field a submarine.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1992 Nov 24, Former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false
statement in the Iran-Contra affair. However, Weinberger was pardoned
by President Bush before the case could come to trial.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1992 Nov 24, The US military
closed the Subic Bay Naval Station and left the Philippines.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.A12)
1992 Nov 24, In China, a domestic
jetliner crashed, killing 141 people.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1992 Nov 25, The Commerce
Department reported that the gross domestic product, the sum of all
goods and services produced within U.S. borders, had advanced at a
brisk 3.9 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate during the third
quarter of 1992.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1992 Nov 26, An aid agency
predicted disaster if the United States sends a large military force to
Somalia.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1992 Nov 26, The British
government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start
paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off
the public payroll.
(AP, 11/26/97)
1992 Nov 27, President-elect
Clinton met for more than an hour with former President Reagan in Los
Angeles.
(AP, 11/27/97)
1992 Nov 27, In Austria part of
the Vienna Hofburg (Imperial Palace) was destroyed by fire.
(http://tinyurl.com/93qvm)
1992 Nov 27, In Venezuela some
15,000 rebel forces under Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez tried but failed to
overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in 10
months. The coup left dozens dead and Chavez was jailed for 2 years and
then pardoned by Pres. Rafael Caldera. Chavez was elected president Dec
6, 1998.
(AP, 11/27/97)(WSJ, 4/27/98, p.A16)(SFC, 12/7/98,
p.A9)
1992 Nov 28, "I Will Always Love
You" by Whitney Houston peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart and
stayed there for 14 weeks. Her song is from the soundtrack of "The
Bodyguard", and singer/songwriter Dolly Parton smiles all the way to
the bank.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 28, "Layla" by Eric
Clapton reentered the chart and peaked at #12 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 28, "Keep The Faith" by
Bon Jovi peaked at #29 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 28, "Wicked" by Ice Cube
peaked at #55 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 28, In
Bosnia-Herzegovina, a breakthrough in the relief effort came with the
delivery of 137 tons of food and supplies to the isolated town of
Srebrenica.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 28, In King William's
Town, South Africa, four people were killed, about 20 injured, when
black militant gunmen attacked a country club.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1992 Nov 29, A refugee center in
western Germany was firebombed as violence against foreigners
continued, despite a police crackdown on neo-Nazis.
(AP, 11/29/97)
1992 Nov 29, Jean-Alexandre-Eugene
Dieudonne b.1906), French mathematician, died. He is known for research
in abstract algebra and functional analysis, and for close involvement
with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and as a historian of
mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and
algebraic topology.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dieudonn%C3%A9)
1992 Nov 29, Emilio Pucci
(b.1914), Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), died in Florence,
Italy. In 2000 his firm was acquired by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis
Vuitton.
(http://tinyurl.com/7ec3n)(WSJ, 8/22/03, p.B1)
1992 Nov 30, The U.S. Supreme
Court sustained women's basic right to abortion, voting 6-3 against
reviving a 1990 Guam law that would have prohibited nearly all such
procedures.
(AP, 11/30/97)
1992 Nov, Xanana Gusmao, East
Timor rebel leader, was arrested at a "safe house" outside Dili for
fighting Indonesian forces. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1993
following a trial in which he was represented by a member of the
Indonesian security service. The sentence was later commuted to 20
years and he was moved to house arrest in 1999.
(SFC, 2/10/99, p.C2)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A14)
1992 Dec 1, In Mineola, N.Y., Amy
Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting and
seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco. Fisher was released in 1999
after serving 7 years.
(AP, 12/1/97)(SFC, 5/11/99, p.A9)
1992 Dec 1, President Boris
Yeltsin survived an impeachment attempt by hard-liners at the opening
of the Russian Congress.
(AP, 12/1/97)
1992 Dec 2, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off with five astronauts and a spy satellite aboard.
(AP, 12/2/97)
1992 Dec 2, Germany's lower house
of parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Maastricht Treaty on
European unity.
(AP, 12/2/97)
1992 Dec 2, Uzbekistan adopted its
first constitution as an independent state.
(AP, 3/30/04)
1992 Dec 3, The U.N. Security
Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help
starving Somalia.
(AP, 12/3/97)
1992 Dec 3, The Greek tanker
Aegean Sea spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil when it ran
aground at La Coruna, Spain.
(AP, 12/3/97)
1992 Dec 4, President Bush ordered
American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia, threatening
military action against warlords and gangs who were blocking food for
starving millions.
(AP, 12/4/97)
1992 Dec 5, Ralph Klein, a
Progressive Conservative, was elected premier of Alberta. He began to
lead Canada in deregulation and privatization. Klein retired at the end
of 2006.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.37)(Econ, 12/2/06, p.44)
1992 Dec 5, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin narrowly kept the power to appoint Cabinet ministers,
defeating a constitutional amendment that would have put his team of
reformers under the control of Russia's Congress.
(AP, 12/5/97)
1992 Dec 6, Bowing to
anti-foreigner sentiment, Germany's main political parties agreed to
tighten postwar asylum laws.
(AP, 12/6/97)
1992 Dec 6, In Uttar Pradesh,
India, thousands of Hindu kar sevaks, soldiers of the Ram Temple
movement, destroyed the Babri Mosque and 4 people were killed. This set
off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000
lives. Attackers set off 13 bomb blasts in Bombay that destroyed
skyscrapers and killed 600 people. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
inspired Hindus to raze a 16th century mosque in the northern town of
Ayodhya. The demolition caused Hindu-Muslim riots across India and
3,000 people were killed. Hindus believe that the site was the
birthplace of the god Ram and that Mogul invaders tore down a temple at
the site to build the Babri Mosque. In 1998 the Congress Party
apologized for the mosque destruction.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-9)(WSJ, 5/7/96, p.A-14)(AP,
12/6/97)(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A20)(MC, 12/6/01)(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A16)
1992 Dec 6, A narrow majority of
Swiss referendum voters rejected the idea of joining the European
Economic Area, a free trade club embracing the EU and Liechtenstein.
(Econ, 5/22/04,
p.46)(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Dec 7, The Supreme Court
rejected a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law that required women
to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their
pregnancies.
(AP, 12/7/97)
1992 Dec 8, Americans got to see
live television coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of
Somalia as Operation Restore Hope began (because of the time
difference, it was early December ninth in Somalia).
(AP, 12/8/97)
1992 Dec 8, NBC announced that
"Cheers" would go off the air in May, 1993.
(www.cheersboston.com/fh_trivia.htm)
1992 Dec 8, William Shawn (85), US
editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001265)
1992 Dec 9, Former CIA spy chief
Clair George was convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra
affair. President Bush pardoned him.
(AP, 12/9/97)
1992 Dec 9, U.S. Marines landed in
Somalia to ensure that food and medicine reach the deprived areas of
that country. The US Operations Restore Hope, Continue Hope and others
began in Somalia and ended Mar 3, 1995. They cost $1.7 billion and left
43 US casualties with 153 wounded.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A8)(HN, 12/999)
1992 Dec 9, Britain's Prince
Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. Their divorce
became final Aug. 28, 1996.
(AP, 12/9/97)
1992 Dec 10, President-elect
Clinton announced his first Cabinet selections, including Lloyd Bentsen
to be treasury secretary and Leon Panetta to be budget director.
(AP, 12/10/97)
1992 Dec 10, Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., apologized for what he called "unwelcome and offensive" actions
toward women, but refused to resign.
(AP, 12/10/97)
1992 Dec 11, President-elect
Clinton tapped Robert Reich to be labor secretary and Donna Shalala to
be secretary of Health and Human Services.
(AP, 12/11/97)
1992 Dec 11, A severe storm
pounded the upper Atlantic coast with snow, rain and high winds.
(AP, 12/11/97)
1992 Dec 11, Portugal ratified the
Treaty on the European Union.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Dec 12, President-elect
Clinton tapped Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty to be his chief of staff and
Democratic national chairman Ron Brown to be commerce secretary.
(AP, 12/12/97)
1992 Dec 12, At least 2,200 people
were killed in an earthquake that struck the Flores Island region of
Indonesia.
(AP, 12/12/97)
1992 Dec 13, An Israeli border
guard was kidnapped near Tel Aviv and later killed by the Hamas
fundamentalist organization. The slaying prompted Israel to expel
hundreds of Palestinians, sending them into Lebanese territory. Abdel
Aziz Rantisi was among the 400 deported members of Hamas.
(AP, 12/13/97)(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.A18)
1992 Dec 14, President-elect
Clinton opened a two-day conference in Little Rock, Ark., on the
nation's economic problems.
(AP, 12/14/97)
1992 Dec 14, Easing a 17-year
trade embargo, the United States allowed its companies to sign
contracts in Vietnam.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1992 Dec 14, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin lost a battle with hard-liners as he was forced to
abandon his reformist prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, in favor of
Communist-era technocrat Viktor Chernomyrdin.
(AP, 12/14/97)
1992 Dec 15, President-elect
Clinton concluded a two-day conference on the economy, saying the
nation must tame "the monster of spiraling health care costs" in order
to slash the huge budget deficit. The 1992 US budget deficit reached
$290.4 billion, the highest of the century.
(AP, 12/15/97)(SFC, 12/13/99, p.D10)
1992 Dec 15, IBM announced it
would eliminate 25,000 more employees in the coming year.
(AP, 12/15/97)
1992 Dec 15, The Netherlands
ratified the Treaty on the European Union.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Dec 16, US Secretary of State
Lawrence S. Eagleburger said Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had to answer for atrocities
committed in former Yugoslavia. In 2000 a US federal jury ordered
Radovan Karadzic to pay $745 million to a group of women, who accused
him of atrocities.
(AP, 12/16/97)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A14)
1992 Dec 16, Yugoslavia was kicked
out of the IMF.
(WSJ, 4/28/99, p.A18)
1992 Dec 17, President-elect
Clinton tapped former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros to be Secretary
of Housing.
(AP, 12/17/97)
1992 Dec 17, President Bush,
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos
Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in
separate ceremonies.
(AP, 12/17/97)
1992 Dec 17, Israel ordered the
deportation of 418 suspected Muslim fundamentalists from the occupied
territories.
(AP, 12/17/02)
1992 Dec 18, Germany ratified the
Treaty on the European Union.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Dec 18, The U.N. Security
Council unanimously denounced Israel's deportation of more than 400
Palestinians and demanded their immediate return.
(AP, 12/18/97)
1992 Dec 18, Kim Young-Sam was
elected South Korea's first civilian president in three decades.
(AP, 12/18/97)
1992 Dec 19, More than 400
suspected Muslim fundamentalists deported by Israel were confined to a
makeshift refugee camp in a "no man's land" in Lebanon because of the
Lebanese government's refusal to accept them.
(AP, 12/19/97)
1992 Dec 20, U.S. Marines and
Belgian paratroopers in Somalia took control of Kismayu's port and
airport; the first truck convoy in more than a month reached the
starving inland town of Baidoa.
(AP, 12/20/97)
1992 Dec 20, Steve Ross (b.1927),
head of Time Warner, died of prostate cancer. Ross, born in Brooklyn as
Steven Jay Rechnitz, was also founder of the NY Cosmos soccer team. In
1994 Connie Bruck authored “Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the
Creation of Time Warner.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ross_(Time-Warner_CEO))
1992 Dec 20, Serbia held
elections. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic won re-election. He
defeated the American entrepreneur Milan Panic in elections that were
"decidedly unfair."
{Serbia, Yugoslavia}
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/election_watch/v004/)
1992 Dec 21, President-elect
Clinton tapped Richard Riley to be education secretary and Hazel
O'Leary to be energy secretary; Clinton expressed anger at "bean
counters" for saying he was not appointing enough women to his Cabinet.
(AP, 12/21/97)
1992 Dec 21, A Dutch DC-10 burst
into fire at landing on Faro, Portugal, and 56 died.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921221-0)
1992 Dec 22, President-elect
Clinton chose Warren Christopher to be his secretary of state and
tapped Les Aspin to be defense secretary.
(AP, 12/22/97)
1992 Dec 22, Mr. Blair, a friend
of the Clinton’s, persuaded Mr. McDougall to purchase the Whitewater
shares for $1,000 and sign an indemnity agreement releasing the
Clintons from any and all liability. This cleared the Clinton’s of a
$58,000 liability. The saving was not reported on the Clinton’s 1992
tax return.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1992 Dec 22, A Libyan Boeing 727
jetliner crashed, killing 157 people.
(AP, 12/22/97)
1992 Dec 23, An American mission
to save lives in Somalia lost the first of its own when a U.S. vehicle
hit a land mine near Bardera, killing civilian Army employee Lawrence
N. Freedman of Fayetteville, N.C. In all over 100 peacekeepers died in
Somalia including 42 Americans.
(AP, 12/23/97)
1992 Dec 24, Pres. Bush had the US
Embassy in Belgrade read to Pres. Milosevic the "Christmas Warning"
cable: "In the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian action,
the US will be prepared to employ military force against Serbians in
Kosovo and in Serbia proper.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A19)
1992 Dec 24, President Bush
pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in
the Iran-Contra scandal.
(AP, 12/24/97)
1992 Dec 24, President-elect
Clinton appointed Bruce Babbitt interior secretary, Mike Espy
agriculture secretary and Federico Pena transportation secretary;
Clinton also chose Zoe Baird to be attorney general, but the nomination
fell apart over Baird's hiring of illegal aliens as domestic workers.
(AP, 12/24/97)
1992 Dec 24, In Ohio Marvallous
Keene and three accomplices began a three-day binge of murder and
robbery in Dayton that left 6 people dead. On July 21, 2009, Keene (36)
was executed at a Lucasville prison, the 1000th person to die by lethal
injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
(www.whiotv.com/news/20117736/detail.html)
1992 Dec 25, U.S. Marines
delivered wheat to a refugee camp in Bardera, Somalia, setting off a
small riot among the Somalis; American and French troops also took
control of Hoddur.
(AP, 12/25/97)
1992 Dec 26, Time magazine
announced it had chosen President-elect Bill Clinton its 1992 "Man of
the Year."
(AP, 12/26/97)
1992 Dec 26, Milan Panic conceded
defeat to Slobodan Milosevic almost a week after Yugoslavia's
presidential election.
(AP, 12/26/97)
1992 Dec 27, The United States
shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the Pentagon described as a
confrontation between a pair of Iraqi warplanes and U.S. F-16 jets in
U.N.-restricted airspace over southern Iraq.
(AP, 12/27/97)
1992 Dec 28, Somalia's two main
warlords, Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, promised an end
to their hostilities.
(AP, 12/28/97)
1992 Dec 29, The United States and
Russia announced agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
(AP, 12/29/97)
1992 Dec 29, New York Gov. Mario
Cuomo commuted the prison sentence of Jean Harris, the convicted killer
of "Scarsdale Diet" author Herman Tarnower.
(AP, 12/29/97)
1992 Dec 29, David and Sharon
Schoo of St. Charles, Ill., were arrested at O'Hare International
Airport in Chicago upon their return from vacation for leaving their
young daughters at home, alone.
(AP, 12/29/97)
1992 Dec 29, Brazilian President
Fernando Collor de Mello resigned.
(AP, 12/29/97)
1992 Dec 29, Daniel arap Moi
(b.1924) was re-elected with 36% of the vote in the first multiparty
elections in Kenya in 26 years.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A8)(http://tinyurl.com/33kpow)
1992 Dec 30, President Bush
embarked on the final foreign trip of his term in office, heading to a
Black Sea summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, with a stopover
in Somalia to visit U.S. troops helping famine victims.
(AP, 12/30/97)
1992 Dec 31, President Bush
visited Somalia, where he saw firsthand the famine racking the east
African nation. He praised U.S. troops that provided relief to the
starving population.
(AP, 12/31/97)
1992 Dec 31, U.N.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was jeered by Bosnians during a
visit to Sarajevo.
(AP, 12/31/97)
1992 Dec 31, The Nation of
Czechoslovakia officially ended with division into two Nations:
Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1992. When the country split, all
citizens were deemed to be either Czech or Slovak, based on their
parentage. The vast majority of the Romany living in the Czech Republic
are of Slovak descent, and they had to apply for Czech citizenship.
(HFA, '96, p.44)(SFC, 5/13/96, p.A-8)
1992 Dec, The US Defense Special
Weapons Agency contracted a secret study of Soviet nuclear weapons
testing under a project led by Alexander Tchernyshev, Russian
physicist. The study produced a 2,000 page history of 715 nuclear tests
over 41 years for a fee of $288,501.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.A17)
1992 Dec, The Arkansas Legislature
enacted a tax on soft drinks. t went to a vote with the citizens of
Arkansas in 1994. The yes vote won with 55% of the turnout. The tax was
modeled after one held by North Carolina (1969).
(www.digitalcity.com/2009/09/14/soda-tax-in-arkansas-model-for-national-tax/)
1992 Dec, In Louisiana the Orleans
Parish School Board adopted a policy that prohibits school names
honoring former slave owners or others who did not respect equal
opportunity for all.
(SFC,11/12/97, p.A3)
1992 Dec, Brownie Wise (b.1913),
former lead sales woman for Tupperware, died in Florida. In 2008 Bob
Kealing authored “Tupperware: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home
Party Pioneers.”
(http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d7509.htm)(WSJ, 7/30/08, p.A13)
1992 Dec, In China the top portion
of a Long March missile peeled away 45 seconds into its flight and
destroyed a telecom. satellite for Australia.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A5)
1992 Dec, In El Salvador a peace
treaty was signed between leftist rebels and the government. The
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front became legal and described
itself as social democratic. The Peace Accords introduced reforms to
give land to ex-combatants of the FMLN and the military.
(SFC, 3/17/97, p.A9)(SFEM,11/16/97, p.22)
1992 Dec, In Slovenia the first
democratic elections elected Milan Kucan as president and Janez
Drnovsek became prime minister.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A10)
1992 Dec, Italy sent 2,500 combat
troops to Somalia as part of the US-sponsored multinational force.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A8)
1992 Dec, In South Africa Sol
Kerzner, multimillionaire, unveiled his $280 million Palace of the Lost
City in Sun City in the state of Bophuthatswana.
(Hem, 6/96, p.134)
1992 Artist Janet Stern painted
her "Bicycle series I."
(NH, 4/97, p.7)
1992 In NYC the first annual
Outsider Art Fair was held at the Puck Building.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_Art)
1992 Tony Kushner wrote his play
"Angels in America."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1992 Anna Deavere Smith wrote her
play "Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1992 Stephen Ambrose authored
"Band of Brothers." It was based on interviews with WW II soldiers and
told the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division, from training to D-Day, Operation Market
Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and the capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s
Nest.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A28)
1992 Peter L Bernstein authored
“Capital Ideas,” a summary of academic thinking on portfolio
management. In 2007 he followed up with his new volume: “Capital Ideas
Evolving.”
(Econ, 6/16/07, p.96)
1992 Jason Berry authored "Lead Us
Not Into Temptation," a work on clerical sex abuse.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.F10)
1992 David Bottstein was a
co-author of "The Dynamic Genome."
(SFC, 8/18/96, zone 1 p3)
1992 David G. Campbell wrote "The
Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica." It won the 1994 John Burroughs
Medal Award for nature writing.
(NH, 6/96, p.4)
1992 Humphrey Carpenter wrote:
"Benjamin Britten: a Biography." A film biography was made of the
composer’s life in 1980.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, DB p.41)
1992 William Chapin (d.2003 at
85), professor and WW II pilot, authored his novel "Milk Run." It was
based on his WW II imprisonment after getting shot down over Yugoslavia
in 1944.
(SFC, 12/30/03, p.A19)
1992 Michael D. Coe wrote
"Breaking the Maya Code."
(NH, 4/97, p.20)
1992 Maj. Rhonda Cornum, Gulf War
POW, authored her autobiography: "She Went to War."
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C2)
1992 Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw
(d.2001) authored "JFK: Conspiracy of Silence." Dr. Crenshaw was a 3rd
year intern at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial on Nov 22, 1963, when Pres.
Kennedy was brought to the emergency room. Crenshaw insisted that
Kennedy had 4 gunshot wounds.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A25)
1992 Dr. Helen Fisher wrote
"Anatomy of Love."
(SFEM, 2/9/97, p.27)
1992 Chuck Forrest and Mark
Lowenthal authored “Secrets of the Jeopardy! Champions.”
(WSJ, 9/16/06, p.P10)
1992 Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney)
published his autobiography "Something Good for a Change."
(WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A21)
1992 Kathy Keeton Guccione (d.1997
at 58), associate founder of Penthouse Magazine, wrote "Longevity: The
Science of Staying Young."
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.B2)
1992 Yuko Iwanami, the
granddaughter of Hideki Tojo, published "My Grandfather Hideki Tojo."
(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A15)
1992 Stephen King published
"Dolores Claiborne," the best selling fiction hardback of the year (1.3
mil. copies).
(WSJ, 5/24/99, p.R8)
1992 William Kittredge of Oregon
authored "Hole in the Sky." It was a memoir on the destruction of
habitat.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, BR p.12)
1992 Rush Limbaugh published "The
Way Things Ought To Be," the best selling nonfiction book of the year
(2.1 mil copies).
(WSJ, 5/24/99, p.R8)
1992 Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest
daughter of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, authored quasi-autobiographical
novel "The Names of the Mountains."
(WSJ, 11/29/99, p.A26)
1992 Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize
(1988) winning Egyptian author, published his novel "Sugar Street." It
was the most political and last book of his “Cairo Trilogy.”
(WSJ, 9/1/07, p.P9)
1992 Cormac McCarthy won a
National Book Award for his novel “All the Pretty Horses.” It was about
an ill-starred trek across the Mexican border by 3 Texas boys in 1948.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.75)
1992 Riki Robbins (d.2000 at 58),
a relationships expert, authored "the Empowered Woman."
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.D5)
1992 Juliet Schor authored the
best seller “The Overworked American.”
(Econ, 2/4/06, p.28)
1992 Adam Ward Seligman (d. 1999
at 37) published his novel "Echolalia." He had suffered from Tourette's
syndrome.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A25)
1992 Amartya Sen, philosopher and
economist from India, published his book: "Inequality Reexamined." Sen
won the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A22)
1992 Richard C. Sinopoli (d.1997)
published "The Foundations of American Citizenship." It was hailed as
the best book on political theory in this year.
(SFC, 5/9/97, p.E5)
1992 Edmundo Paz Soldan authored
his novel “Turing’s Delirium.” It won the Bolivian National Book Award
and in 2006 appeared in English translated by Lisa Carter.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.M3)
1992 Peter Stackpole (d.1997 at
83) published "Peter Stackpole: Life in Hollywood, 1936-1952." It
included 250 photographs of Hollywood figures that he took as Life
Magazine’s man in Hollywood.
(SFC, 5/14/97, p.A22)
1992 Telford Taylor (d. 1998 at
90) published "Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials." He helped write the
rules for the prosecution of the war criminals and became the trial’s
chief prosecutor.
(SFC, 5/26/98, p.B2)
1992 Terry Todd authored “A
History of the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Sports.”
(WSJ, 8/7/06, p.B1)
1992 Walter Wriston, former CEO of
Citibank, wrote "The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information
Revolution Is Transforming the World."
(Wired, 10/96, p.142)
1992 Harry Wu, Chinese human
rights activist and writer, published his "Laogai, The Chinese Gulag."
(SFC, 5/19/96, Zone 1, p.3)
1992 James Michener wrote "James
A. Michener’s Writer’s Handbook," his novel "Mexico" and "My Lost
Mexico."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1992 The "English Patient" by
Michael Ondaatje, born in Sri Lanka, became the first Canadian novel to
win the Booker Prize.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C15)
1992 Henry Petroski published "The
Evolution of Useful Things."
(WSJ, 7/26/99, p.A22)
1992 Jane Smiley published her
novel A Thousand Acres. It won a Pulitzer Prize and in 1997 was made in
a film.
(SFEC, 3/9/96, Par p.2)
1992 Neal Stephenson published
"Snow Crash." It focused on new technology and depicted a virtual bar
for Avatars and an all-knowing Librarian that answers all spoken
questions with educated, plain-English answers.
(WSJ, 11/16/98, p.R12)
1992 The Stephen Sondheim theater
piece "Putting it Together" was staged at the Manhattan Theater Club.
It was based on 40 songs and fragments from earlier work.
(WSJ, 11/28/97, p.A8)
1992 Barry Unsworth, writer, won
the British Booker prize for his novel: "Sacred Hunger," a narrative
based on the slave trade. Other of his novels include "Stone Virgin"
(1985), "The Rage of the Vulture" (1982), and a new novel "Morality
Play" in (1995).
(WSJ, 12/5/95, p.A-16)
1992 Andre Weil (1906-1998),
brother of philosopher Simone Weil, authored "The Apprenticeship of a
Mathematician."
(WSJ, 4/9/03, p.D10)
1992 Daniel Yergin authored "The
Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power."
(SSFC, 4/13/03, p.E6)
1992 The CBS TV show "Middle Ages"
was about a middle-aged traveling salesman. It lasted less than a month.
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.E5)
1992 The NBC TV news program
"Dateline" began.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.D1)
1992 The TV show Cosby, a
blockbuster sitcom through the 80s, ended in April.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, DB p.38)
1992 Time-Warner distributed the
song "Cop Killer" by rapper Ice-T.
(WSJ, 6/21/96, p.B1)
1992 The rock group Metallica
released "The Black Album." It sold over 20 million copies.
(SFEC,11/16/97, DB p.42)
1992 The Five Keys singing group
was inducted into the Doo-Wop Hall of Fame. Rudy West, one of the
original founders died in 1998 at age 65. Their 1950s hits included
"The Glory of Love" and "Ling, Ting’ Tong."
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A21)
1992 Country singer George Jones
was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. His fans voted his song
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" as the most popular country song of all
time.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A7)
1992 The Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute was begun.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Z1 p.4)
1992 The "heresy" of Galileo was
pardoned by the Catholic Church.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, BR p.8)
1992 The California Wellness
Foundation was established to improve the health of state residents. It
focused on inner-city violence as a preventable health problem.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A14)
1992 In California John Bryant
founded Operation Hope in the aftermath of the LA riots to give poor
people a hand in with financial education, advice and basic banking.
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.73)
1992 Debbie Stoller, Marcelle Karp
and Laurie Henzel created their Bust magazine in NYC. In 1999 they
published "The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order."
(SFEC, 10/3/99, BR p.5)
1992 The south Texas town of
Hidalgo erected a 20-foot statue of a bee and dubbed itself the Killer
Bee Capital of the World. Tourists came to see it.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.41)
1992 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)
1992 The Kentucky Derby was won by
Lil E. Tee.
(WSJ, 5/5/97, p.A16)
1992 Jan Mitchell established the
Eric Mitchell Prize, after his late son, for "an outstanding first
book." It funded a $5,000 annual prize for an outstanding first book.
(WSJ, 2/24/98, p.A20)
1992 Author Wallace Stegner and
composer Stephen Sondheim rejected the US government National Medal for
the Arts award due to government censorship and cutbacks in the arts.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1992 Prof. Kenneth Norris won the
John Burroughs Medal for his book "Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of
the Spinner Dolphin."
(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A22)
1992 The Nobel Prize in economics
was awarded to Gary S. Becker of Stanford’s Hoover Inst. for "having
extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human
behavior and interaction, including non-market behavior." A collection
of his essays from Business Week was published in 1996 as: "The
Economics of Life." Also published was his new book "Accounting for
Tastes."
(WSJ, 10/11/95, p. A-1)(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A20)(SFC,
10/8/01, p.A17)
1992 The Nobel Prize in Literature
was awarded to Derek Walcott. In 1997 his collection of poems "The
Bounty" was published.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, BR p.1)
1992 The Nobel Prize in medicine
was awarded to Edwin G. Krebs of the US and Edmund H. Fischer (US &
Switz.) for discoveries concerning the process of reversible protein
phosphorylation that helped explain how imbalances in cells caused
diseases.
(SFEC, 10/8/96, A9)
1992 David Ifshin, a friend of
Bill Clinton, advised the Clintons to respond to Jeff Gerth’s New York
Times queries about Whitewater by letting it all hang out.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, p.A18)
1992 The US Congress banned
Indonesia from receiving Pentagon training under the IMET Program
(Int’l. Military Education and Training).
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.B10)
1992 The US Pentagon began
training Indonesian military forces, including the Kopassus commando
unit under the 1991 JCET program (Joint Combined Exchange and Training).
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.B2,10)
1992 Alabama Governor Guy Hunt was
indicted for looting his tax-exempt inaugural fund to pay off personal
debts.
(SFC, 6/12/97, p.A2)
1992 A US Senate report linked the
Sun Yee On triad to criminal organizations in Canada, the Dominican
Republic, and 7 US cities including SF. The report stated that the
syndicate was in outright control of the entertainment industry in Hong
Kong.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.A7)
1992 The Iran-Iraq Arms
Non-proliferation Act, aka the Gore-McCain Act, was sponsored by Sen.
Al Gore and Sen. John McCain.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A14)
1992 Pres. Bush appointed Daniel
Goldin (51) as head of NASA. Goldin retired in 2001.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C4)
1992 The Rand think tank in Santa
Monica first proposed the use of miniature flying vehicles of military
purposes. Development of micro air vehicles (MAVs) soon followed.
(SFC,11/28/97, p.B7)
1992 Congress tightened the rules
on phone sex lines and much of the traffic shifted to the Caribbean.
The Dominican Republic became a center for sex-line activity.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A12)
1992 The Energy Policy Act laid
the groundwork for deregulating the wholesale electricity market in the
US.
(WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)
1992 The Energy Star Scheme began
in the US. It identified devices that met particular standards for
energy efficiency with a special logo.
(Econ, 3/11/06, Survey p.36)
1992 The Family and Medical Leave
Act was passed by the US Congress.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, Z1 p.3)
1992 The US federal Clean Air Act
required that cities with the worst carbon monoxide problems use a
clean-fuel gas in the winter to cut pollution. MTBE was used to comply
with act.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.A14)
1992 US federal law outlawed the
commercial fishing of Coho salmon off the Pacific coast.
(SFC, 1/27/98, p.A15)
1992 The Monterey Bay in
California was designated as a National Marine Sanctuary.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A8)
1992 Tennessee Judge David Lanier
was convicted of violating the civil rights of 5 women at his
courthouse in Dyersburg. He began his prison sentence in 1993 but was
set free by an appeals court in 1995. In 1997 he fled to Mexico and was
arrested after two months in Mexico.
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A6)
1992 John Huang, an employee of
the Indonesian-based Lippo Group, authorized a $50,000 check to the
Democrats and then sought reimbursement from company headquarters in
Jakarta. In 1994 he served in the US Commerce Dept. and in 1996 as a
Democratic Party fund raiser among Asian-Americans.
(SFC, 7/17/97, p.A1)(SFC, 7/17/97, p.A5)
1992 Angel Francisco Breard of
Paraguay was convicted in the murder of Ruth Dickie in Arlington, Va.
The consulate of Paraguay was not notified and the death sentence of
Breard was under int’l. attention in 1998 for treaty violations. Breard
was executed Apr 14,1998.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.A3)(SFC, 4/15/98, p.A3)
1992 The US set up the Iraqi
National Congress (INC) in Irbil, northern Iraq, as an alternative to
the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was founded with CIA support in Vienna
as a umbrella group for the Iraqi opposition. In 1999 it was led by
Ahmed Chalabi.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, p.A13)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)(WSJ,
8/13/02, p.A1)
1992 The US began placing CIA
spies among UN weapons inspectors only a year after the end of the Gulf
War.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A9)
1992 Former US Marine captain
Scott Ritter turned over evidence that Iraq’s Scud missile sites were
not destroyed during the Gulf War.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.C3)
1992 US Representative Joseph
McDade, 2nd ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee,
was indicted on 5 counts of bribery, conspiracy and racketeering. His
trial only got underway in 1996.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A12)
1992 The 1,000-foot aircraft
carrier USS Midway was decommissioned. In 2004 it opened as a museum in
San Diego. It began service in 1945.
(SFC, 12/29/03, p.A9)
1992 The Virgil Earp law in
Tombstone, Arizona, was repealed on the grounds that it was superceded
by state law that allowed people to carry guns without a permit.
(SFC, 8/19/96, p.A3)
1992 Colorado voters amended the
state constitution and passed a taxpayer’s bill of rights (TABOR). It
pegged government spending to the growth in population and consumer
spending. Voters agreed to relax it in 2000 and 2005 after it almost
bankrupted the state.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.40)(Econ, 11/3/07, p.39)
1992 The Mdewakanton Dakota
Indians opened their Mystic Lake casino complex on their 248 acres of
tribal land in Minnesota.
(WSJ, 2/5/98, p.A1,6)
1992 The Foxwoods Casino, the
biggest gaming complex in the Western Hemisphere, opened on the Pequot
Reservation at Mashantucket, Conn. The number of Pequots numbered about
550. In 2001 Kim Isaac Eisler authored "Revenge of the Pequots."
{Amerindian, USA}
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 2/8/00, p.A20)
1992 The global digital spectrum
went up for auction. Frequencies were allocated by the Int’l.
Telecommunications Union.
(Wired, 2/98, p.59)
1992 Magdalena Ruiz Pelayo was
convicted of drug trafficking in Newark, New Jersey. From 1982 she had
worked as the private secretary to Raul Salinas Lozano, father Pres.
Carlos Salinas. She later told US authorities that Salinas Lozano was a
leading figure in narcotics dealings that also involved his son, Raul,
and his son-in-law, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu (assassinated in 1994).
She claimed to have been present on occasions when drug traffickers
handed millions over to Mexican officials.
(SFC, 2/26/97, p.A6)(WSJ, 4/15/97, p.A9)
1992 The US federal government
began to require medical personnel to wear protective equipment against
blood-borne viruses.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.B7)
1992 The US and Europe reached a
bilateral pact on commercial jets. It limited European direct subsidies
to Airbus and indirect US aid for Boeing. EU aid to Airbus was limited
to a third of development costs and Boeing government subsidies to 4%
of its turnover. The truce ended in 1998 as Airbus approached 50% of
the market.
(WSJ, 1/24/00, p.A3)(Econ, 6/4/05, p.59)
1992 About 308 tons of cocaine was
seized worldwide by officials, according to the US Drug Enforcement
Administration.
(NG, Jan. 94, p.145)
1992 Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80)
of North Carolina lost his bid for a 2nd term in the US Senate to Lauch
Faircloth, a former state Commerce Secretary.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.C6)
1992 John Taylor, a White House
advisor, proposed a rule for the Federal Reserve Board to use in
setting interest rates. The Taylor rule says: If inflation is one
percentage point above the Fed's goal, rates should rise by 1.5
percentage points. If an economy's total output is one percentage point
below its full capacity, rates should fall by half a percentage point.
(WSJ, 2/7/00, p.B1)
1992 The US Environmental
Protection Agency began requiring auto technicians to be certified to
buy Freon. This was after 50 countries agreed to ban Freon, which
contained CFCs, after 1995 due to the disappearance of ozone from the
atmosphere. Another 105 developing countries agreed to ban CFCs by 2010.
(WSJ, 7/11/96, p. B1,7)
1992 The federal Central Valley
Project Improvement Act was designed to end litigation that had
characterized California’s water policies for decades. It empowered a
joint state and federal agency, CalFed, on a program of environmental
restoration in the Central Valley, the delta, and SF Bay.
(SSFC, 10/23/05, p.A17)
1992 Marvin Runyon (d.2004),
former auto executive, took over as head of the US Postal Service and
served until 1998. He trimmed 23,000 management jobs and added letter
carriers to improve service.
(SFC, 5/4/04, p.B7)
1992 The Audio Home Recording Act
restricted the use of digital-recording tools and required makers of
blank tapes an other copying devices to contribute to a royalty pool
for musicians.
(SFC, 4/8/02, p.E1)
1992 Kirk Fordice (1934-2004)
began serving 2 terms as governor of Mississippi.
(WSJ, 9/7/04, p.A1)
1992 At least 11 deaths at Truman
Memorial Hospital in Columbia, Mo., were later thought suspicious. In
2002 Richard A. Williams, a former nurse, was arrested and charged with
murder. Williams was released in 2003 due to flawed evidence.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A5)(SFC, 8/7/03, p.A3)
1992 Casinos began appearing in
Tunica, Miss., not long after the state authorized gambling in counties
adjacent to the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. A 12% state tax
included 4% for local use.
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.A3)
1992 Eddie Antar, founder of the
Crazy Eddie electronic retail chain was nabbed in Israel and sent to a
US prison.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A1,8)
1992 Ron Carey began his efforts
to clean up the US Teamsters Union.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A3)
1992 Salvatore (Sammy the Bull)
Gravano took the witness stand and testified against his Mafia boss,
John Gotti. Gotti went to jail for life and Gravano served 5 years and
went undercover in a federal witness protection program. He identified
Vincent Gigante as the head of the Genovese crime family. In 1997 Peter
Maas published his interviews with Gravano in his book "Underboss."
(SFEC, 4/20/97, Par p.6)(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A80)
1992 Members of the militia group
called the Minnesota Patriots Council plotted to kill law enforcement
officials with ricin, a lethal toxin extracted from the castor bean.
Two men were arrested in the plot.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)
1992 Weakened by troubled real
estate loans, Dollar Dry Dock Bank of White Plains NY closed. Its
accounts were acquired by Emigrant Savings Bank of NYC.
(NYT, 6/7/96, p.B14)
1992 America Online, a popular
Internet company, went public.
(WSJ, 5/24/99, p.R8)
1992 C. Michael Armstrong took
over as head of Hughes Electronics. He built it into the largest US
satellite-TV service. In 1997 he was named head of AT&T and in 2002
he was named head of Comcast. In 2004 Armstrong announced he would step
down as head of Comcast.
(WSJ, 5/26/04, p.A1)
1992 Bank of America acquired
Security Pacific Corp.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4)
1992 The Fetzer family sold the
Fetzer Vineyards brand and its Hopland wine-making facility to
Brown-Forman for a reported $80 million. As part of the deal 11 Fetzer
siblings were prohibited from making any kind of beverage for sale for
8 years. Sidney Goldstein (d.2008 at 61), author of “The Wine Lover’s
Cookbook” (1999), served for many years as the food and wine concepts
director at Fetzer Vineyards.
(SFC, 1/1/04, p.D3)(SFC, 12/9/04, p.F3)(SSFC,
10/5/08, p.B7)
1992 GM ousted Stempel in
favor of Jack Smith.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1992 Lee Iacocca was forced to
retire from Chrysler. He was succeeded by Robert Eaton.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1992 The Hearst Corp. and Dow
Jones started SmartMoney, The Wall Street Journal Magazine of Personal
Business. Hearst and MediaOne started New England Cable News.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1992 Kalpana Inc. shipped its
first Ethernet switches. The switches allowed network users more
privacy and access to the Ethernet’s full 10 million bits per sec. data
rate. The company was bought by Cisco systems in 1994 for $207 million.
1992 Internews, an American
non-profit organization dedicated to developing private TV in Russia
with headquarters in Humboldt County, Ca., established a Moscow office.
(Wired, Dec., '95, p.82)
1992 Macy’s, a Manhattan based
retail chain, filed for bankruptcy.
(Econ, 4/22/06, p.72)(http://tinyurl.com/k6664)
1992 The leveraged buyout firm of
Thomas H. Lee bought the Snapple juice and tea company for $135
million. In 1994 he sold it to Quaker Oats for $1.7 billion.
(WSJ, 12/3/08, p.C1)
1992 Olympia & York, a
property development company, went bankrupt. It was controlled by the
Reichmann family and its story is told by Anthony Bianco in his 1997
book "The Reichmanns."
(WSJ, 1/28/97, p.A16)
1992 Steven Cohen (36) left
Gruntal and launched SAC Capital Management LP, a hedge fund, with $20
million of his own money. In 2006 trading by SAC on an average day
accounted for about 2% of overall stock market activity.
(WSJ, 9/16/06, p.A6)
1992 The Turner Broadcasting
System launched US cable TV’s Cartoon Network.
(SFC, 12/19/06, p.B5)
1992 The Humvee, High Mobility
Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle, was released for the civilian market by
the AM General Corporation.
(WSJ, 9/11/97, p.A13)
1992 The Very Long Baseline Array
(VLBA) was completed. It is a string of 10 25-meter radio telescopes
that stretch from the Virgin Islands to Hawaii. They operate in the cm.
radio wavelengths. Data from each station is merged through radio
interferometry into a primary image whose angular resolution equals
that of a single telescope nearly 5,000 miles in diameter.
(Hem., 7/95, p.116)
1992 Internet domain registrations
began. Network Solutions Inc. of Science Applications Int’l. was given
the naming oversight in a contract with the National Science Foundation.
(WSJ, 6/5/97, p.B5)
1992 Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf,
creators of the TCP/IP Internet protocol, founded the Internet Society.
(Econ, 6/10/06, Survey p.33)
1992 Pfizer Corp. received FDA
approval for the antibiotic Zithromax.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.B4)
1992 Fen-phen, a combination of
fenfluramine and phentermine, began to be prescribed for weight loss by
American Home Products. A wrongful death suit due to pulmonary
complications was filed in 1997. A class action suit later resulted
with 300,000 plaintiffs. In 2001 Alicia Mundy authored "Dispensing with
the Truth," story of how the cases developed.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A16)
1992 Karl Kehrle, aka Brother Adam
(1898-1996), ended his bee research at the Buckfast Abbey southwest of
London. The monastery insisted that the abbey’s apiaries were to be
used for honey production and not research. He had developed the
Buckfast Superbee, a breed widely regarded as the healthiest and most
prolific honey producer. He also developed a breed resistant to acarine
disease which had badly damaged honey production in the US.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.C2)
1992 Autherine Lucy Foster
(b.1929), wife of Rev. Hugh Foster, finally got a degree from the Univ.
of Alabama, when she received a Master's in Education. She had been
suspended from the school in 1956 due to campus safety issues relating
to her race. Also in that graduating class was her daughter Grazia, who
received a Bachelor's Degree in Corporate Finance.
(NYT, 4/26/1992, p.43)
1992 The first charter school
opened in Minnesota.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A1)
1992 The U of M Institute for
Social Research (ISR) began its Health and Retirement study and the
study of Assets and Health Dynamics, biannual surveys that tracked the
health, wealth, work and family relationships of Americans over 50.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.4)
1992 The American Professional
Partnership for Lithuanian Education (APPLE) was organized.
(BN, 10/97, p.6)
1992 Some 43 million crimes were
committed in the US and 10.3 million of them were violent. Of the
violent crimes 641,000 led to arrests and 165,000 to convictions (90%
were plea-bargained) and 100,000 led to prison terms. The data is
examined in 2 books by Michael Tonry titled: Sentencing Matters and
Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-14)
1992 Texas executed 12 inmates.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A17)
1992 Countries including the US
pledged to limit pollution emissions by the end of the decade to levels
of 1990.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.B-12)
1992 A team of investigators
announced the discovery of he long lost Arabian city of Ubar, which had
disappeared around the early 6th century. Geroge Hedges (1952-2009), a
Hollywood litigator, and filmmaker Nicholas Clapp, participated in the
find. Clapp later authored “The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of
the Sands” (1999).
(WSJ, 3/20/09, p.A12)
1992 Panama disease, caused by the
fusarium fungus, mutated to a form capable of attacking the Cavendish
variety of banana and wiped out plantations in Malaysia. The disease
had previously destroyed the popular Gros Michel variety, which was
left growing only in remote parts of Uganda and Jamaica.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.85)
1992 The depletion of the ozone
layer made headlines.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)
1992 Methyl bromide was added to
the list chemicals in the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an international
treaty dealing with ozone-destroying pollutants.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A16)
1992 Kanatjan Alibekov, a director
of Biopreparat, defected from Russia to the US. He reported that the
Soviet agency ran a massive biological warfare development program with
over 25,000 employees and had developed 52 biological agents before he
left. He also reported that the agency had ballistic missile warheads
loaded with plague, anthrax, and smallpox intended for delivery against
American cities.
(WSJ, 3/10/98, p.A22)
1992 A condor release program in
Ventura County, Ca. failed when 4 birds had fatal collisions with power
lines and one drank a lethal dose of antifreeze.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A8)
1992 Kingsley Ofosu, a Ghanaian
dockworker, stowed away with his brother and 6 friends on a freighter
in the hopes of reaching New York. When the ship reached Le Havre,
France, Mr. Ofosu was the only stowaway alive. A film of the story was
made for TV and shown on HBO in 1996.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A12)
1992 A US experimental Osprey
military aircraft crashed and 7 men were killed. The Defense Dept.
tried to cancel the plane in 1989 but Congress continued the program.
(SFC, 4/11/00, p.A3)
1992 Robert Arneson (b.1930), Bay
Area ceramic artist and sculptor, died. His "Yin and Yang" was
installed across from the SF Ferry Building in 2003.
(SFEM, 2/23/97, p.6)(SFC, 2/23/02, p.D1)
1992 Allan Bloom, political
philosopher at the Univ. of Chicago, died. His books included "The
Closing of the American Mind" and a translation of Plato’s "Republic."
His "Love and Friendship" was published posthumously. In 2000 Saul
Bellow authored the novel "Ravelstein" based on Bloom.
(WSJ, 4/14/00, p.W11)
1992 David Bohn, physicist, died.
He was considered by Einstein as his heir in quantum theory. He was
accused of being involved with the Soviets and left the US to work in
England. He wrote the book "Quantum Theory" based on his Princeton
lecture notes.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, Z1 p.3)
1992 Elizabeth David (b.1913), nee
Gwynne, died. Her 1950 work, "A Book of Mediterranean Food," changed
British cuisine. In 2001 Artemis Cooper authored "Writing At the
Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David."
(SSFC, 3/18/01, BR p.7)
1992 Herbert Hart (b.1907), legal
philosopher at Oxford Univ., died. In 2004 Niccola Lacey authored “A
Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream.”
(Econ, 12/4/04, p.84)
1992 Friedrich Hayek (b.1899),
economist and 1974 Nobel Prize winner, died. His books included "The
Road to Serfdom" (1944) and "The Challenge to Liberty" (1960). In 2001
Alan Ebenstein authored the biography "Friedrich Hayek."
(WSJ, 4/19/01, p.A16)
1992 Max Lerner (b.1902),
Russian-born American author, died. His work included "America as a
Civilization." In 1998 Sanford Lakoff published the biography "Max
Lerner: Pilgrim in a Promised Land."
(WSJ, 11/10/98, p.A20)(SFEC, 7/11/99, BR p.6)
1992 Audre Lorde (b.1934),
American influential black lesbian poet, died of cancer. In 1996 the TV
documentary: "A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
was shown." In 2004 Alexis De Veaux authored "Warrior Poet: A biography
of Audre Lorde."
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B7)(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.M2)
1992 Christopher McCandless, a
former student from Harvard, starved to death in the wilderness of
Alaska. His story was later told by Jon Krakauer in the book “Into the
Wild.” In 2007 Sean Penn directed a film of the same name based on the
book.
(Econ, 11/17/07, p.102)
1992 Joan Mitchell (b.1926),
pastel artist, died.
(SFC, 3/31/97, p.E6)
1992 Anthony Perkins (60), lead
actor in the 1960 Hitchcock film Psycho, died of AIDS. His biography
was written in 1996 by Charles Winecoff: Split Image, "The Life of
Anthony Perkins."
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.B3)(SFEC, 11/10/96, Par p.2)
1992 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine
Bandoneon player and composer, died. His albums included : "El
Desbande" (1947), "The Vienna Concert" (1981), "Tango Zero Hour"
(1986), "The Lausanne Concert" and "Five Tango Sensations" (1989), and
"The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night."
(BAAC, 1/96, p.4,5)(Esq., 5/91, p.60,61)
1992 Purported British spy Ian
Spiro was found dead in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. His wife and 3
children had been found dead at their home in Rancho Santa Fe near San
Diego three days earlier.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1992 Nicola Zappetti, American
gangster in Japan, died. He had told his story to Robert Whiting who
published in 1999: "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of
an American Gangster in Japan."
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.B1)
1992 In Angola fighting between
UNITA and the MPLA resumed when UNITA rejected its political defeat in
the country’s first democratic elections. Jonas Savimbi, leader of
UNITA, refused to accept defeat.
(SFC, 4/12/97, p.A12)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)
1992 Angola’s Pres. Jose Eduardo
dos Santos and the MPLA beat Jonas Savimbi and UNITA in elections.
(Econ, 9/4/04, p.48)
1992 The Angola food company,
Angoalissar, was founded by local and int’l. investors.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.5)
1992 Argentina privatized its
natural gas industry.
(Econ, 5/12/07, p.40)
1992 Australia passed a law
requiring workers to set aside big chunks of their income for
retirement. This began to create a huge national retirement pool.
(WSJ, 12/6/05, p.A1)
1992 Australia’s High Court
accepted the concept of “native title,” which struck down the doctrine
of British settlers that the land they found was terra nullius
(belonging to no one). The landmark decision resulted in legislative
recognition of native title rights over some government-owned lands and
years of acrimonious debate about the issue.
(Econ, 5/7/05, Survey p.15)(AP, 1/30/08)
1992 Australia’s High Court made
the sterilization of retarded girls illegal if not medically required,
unless a court or tribunal approved it.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B3)
1992 The Australian wine firm
Thomas Hardy & Sons merged with a rival to create BRL Hardy.
(WSJ, 5/30/03, p.A3)
1992 Thomas Klestil (1933-2004)
became president of Austria.
(WSJ, 7/7/04, p.A1)
1992 In Azerbaijan Abulfez
Elchibey, a pro-Turkish nationalist, came to power. Ayaz Mutalibov was
deposed amid economic turmoil and losses in a war with Armenia.
(WSJ, 7/21/98, p.A12)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A16)
1992 The Azerbaijanis under a new
nationalist government tried to reconquer Nagorno-Karabakh, but were
soon repulsed.
(WSJ, 3/18/98, p.A18)
1992 Bangladesh began refusing
refugee status to Rohingyas, a dark-skinned Muslim minority from
Myanmar.
(Econ, 12/1/07, p.56)
1992 Harkat-ul Jihadi-e-Islami
(HUJEI) was formed with funds from al-Qaeda with the goal of creating
an Islamic state in Bangladesh.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)
1992 In Bosnia Zeljko Raznatovic,
aka Arkan, Serb paramilitary leader was involved in the seizure of the
north-eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina, that became a symbol of Serb
atrocities.
(SFC, 5/21/96, p.A-12)
1992 In Brcko, Bosnia, Serb
soldiers and militiamen conquered the town and expelled the Muslim and
Croat population. As many as 7,000 unarmed captives were killed.
(SFC, 2/15/97, p.A10,11)
1992 In the Bosporus a Lebanese
vessel sank with a cargo of 13,000 sheep and goats.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.A23)
1992 In Brazil Paulo Cesar Farias
symbolized the corruption that led to the downfall of the Mello
government. He was treasurer of Mello’s presidential campaign and
allegedly took suitcases of cash out of the country on jets that
belonged to his air taxi company.
(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A8)
1992 Brazil signed the American
convention on Human Rights.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A17)
1992 In Brazil Guilherme de Padua,
TV soap actor, was charged with the stabbing death of his co-star
Daniela Perez. She was stabbed 18 times with scissors. He originally
confessed but later claimed that his wife, Paula de Alameida Thomaz,
carried out the stabbing in a fit of jealousy. The case finally came to
trial in 1997. He was found guilty and sentenced to 19 years.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.C1)(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A15)
1992 Brazil’s steel industry was
privatized.
(USA Today, OW, 4/22/96, p.5)
1992 In Brazil Radio La Colifata,
roughly translated as “crazy one,” began operating in Buenos Aires to
help mentally ill patients communicate with their peers. Initially
taped segments were broadcast, but by 2007 live programming reached
over 30 stations in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America.
(SFC, 1/9/07, p.D3)
1992 In Britain Prince Charles
founded the London-based Institute of Architecture.
(SFC, 8/8/97, p.A17)
1992 In Britain Glenda Jackson,
actress, was elected to Parliament. Under Tony Blair in 1997 she was
promoted to junior transport minister.
(SFC, 8/3/98, p.A8)
1992 In England the Earth
Liberation Front (ELF) emerged in Brighton through Earth Firsters who
did not want to abandon the option of criminal acts to further their
environmental goals.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A2)
1992 Two bombs were exploded in
Manchester, England that wounded 60 people.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A15)
1992 Francis Bacon (b.1909),
British artist, died. In 1997 his biography was written by Michael
Peppiatt: Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. Bacon’s studio was later
dismantled and replicated in Dublin. In 2001 John Edwards, Bacon’s
companion, wrote a brief memoir accompanied by photos of the studio: "7
Reece Mews: Francis Bacon’s Studio."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.6)(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.R6)
1992 Angela Carter, English
writer, died. Her collected writings "Shaking A Leg" was published in
1999 by Penguin. This was the 3rd of a series that included "Nothing
Sacred" and "Expletives Deleted."
(SFEC, 2/14/99, BR p.5)
1992 Robert Thompson (b.1916),
British military officer and counter-insurgency expert, died. His books
included “War in Peace: An Analysis of Warfare Since 1945” (1981).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grainger_Ker_Thompson)
1992 In Bulgaria Communist leader
Todor Zhivkov was convicted of embezzling state funds. He was freed in
1997.
(WSJ, 1/21/97, p.A1)
1992 In Cameroon the re-election
of Pres. Paul Biya was boycotted by the opposition and dismissed as
bogus by int’l. observers.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A22)
1992 In Canada voters in the
Northwest Territories agreed to the formation of an Inuit governed
territory called Nunavut, which means "our land" in the Inuktitut
language. The change would take effect Apr 1, 1999.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A10)
1992 Canada closed the Grand Banks
off of Newfoundland to all cod fishing.
(NH, 5/96, p.61)
1992 Hissene Habre, an autocrat
from Chad, fled to Senegal with $11 million in loot.
(WSJ, 5/31/00, p.A26)
1992 A commission set up in Chad
accused Habre's regime of 40,000 political killings and 200,000 cases
of torture.
(AP, 11/25/05)
1992 Doug Tompkins, founder of
Esprit Corp., began purchasing a 762,000-acre property north of Valle
Chacabuco, Chile. He named the area Pumalin park and opened it as a
nature sanctuary. His townhouse and office building are located in the
coastal city of Puerto Montt. The $60 million deal was concluded in
2001.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)(SFCM, 9/10/06, p.11)
1992 In China Li Hong-zhi founded
the Falun Gong system of meditation and exercise. It was borrowed from
qigong, a system of controlled breathing, martial arts, meditation and
healing that was popular since the bans on cultural traditions were
lifted in the late 1970s.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A13)
1992 Mou Qizhong, Chinese
entrepreneur, stuffed 500 railroad cars with surplus pork, clothes and
cheap electronic goods and sent them to Russia. He received 4 Tupelov
154 airplanes in exchange, which he sold to Sichuan Airlines and netted
$11 million.
(WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A1,4)
1992 Jiang Zemin, Chinese
Communist Party leader, gave the go-ahead for a secret manned space
program known as Project 921, with a target launch date of October
1999. Qi Faren, trained in Russia, was named chief spacecraft designer.
{China, Space}
(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A14)(AP, 10/15/03)
1992 China, Russia and South Korea
normalized relations that allowed for air-service agreements.
(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1992 Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin
visited China and signed a nuclear cooperation agreement.
(SFC,12/30/97, p.B2)
1992 China received
Russian-designed Sukhoi-27 fighter airplanes.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A8)
1992 Trading resumed on the
Shanghai stockmarket. Closed since 1941 it had begun trading in the
1860s listing both domestic and foreign firms.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.69)
1992 The China Construction Bank
announced the nation’s first personal loans following efforts by Liu
Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo, to push a handful of employees into owning
their own homes. In 2006 Ling Zhijun authored “The Lenovo Affair: The
Growth of China’s Computer Giant and Its Takeover of IBM-PC.
(Econ, 6/17/06, p.91)
1992 Cuban poet Dulce Maria Loynaz
(d.1997 at 94) won the prestigious Cervantes Award. She wrote the novel
"Garden" between 1928 and 1935 in a style considered a precursor to
"magical realism." It wasn’t published until the 1950s. Other works
included "Lyric Works" (1935); "Verses" (1920-1938); "Love Letter for
King Tutankhamen" (1953), "Collected Poems" (1984); "Bestiary" (1985)
and "A Summer in Tenerife" (1987).
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A20)
1992 In the Czech Republic the
Prague Center on National Democratic Decision-Making and Conflict
Management was founded with financing by the Levi Strauss
Foundation of San Francisco.
(SFEC, 7/19/98, p.A3)
1992 Croatian Pres. Franjo Tudjman
picked Mate Boban (d.7/7/97) to form an independent enclave of Bosnian
Croats. It was called the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosna. Muslims
and Serbs were purged and some of the worst concentration camps of the
war were set up for Muslim civilians.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A15)
1992 Ecuador left OPEC, after
nearly two decades of membership, with an outstanding debt of $5.7
million. In 2007 it planned to rejoin OPEC.
(WSJ, 10/9/07, p.A11)
1992 Texaco quit drilling in
Ecuador after nearly 30 years. It left behind a toxic dump of some 1.8
million gallons of spilled crude oil.
(SFC, 5/1/03, A8)
1992 In Egypt the radio program
"Nocturnal Confessions" began.
(SFC, 12/2/96, p.A12)
1992 In El Salvador the new US
Embassy was completed. Plans for the structure had been drawn up in
1984.
(SFEM,11/16/97, p.27)
1992 In El Salvador after the
guerrillas demobilized the Communist Party kept guerrilla leader
Jose Louis Merino’s network of safe houses intact and continued to
kidnap for ransom. In 2008 Merino, a dominant force in the FMLN, was
implicated in helping Colombia’s FARC contact two Australia arms
dealers.
(WSJ, 8/28/08, p.A9)
1992 In Estonia Mart Laar (32) was
sworn in as prime minister. The fiscal conservative led the 1992-94 and
1999-2002 governments.
(AP, 4/10/03)
1992 Estonia began to mint its own
legal tender, the kroon.
(Hem, 4/96, p.23)
1992 Estonia revamped its
intelligence service with a small British-trained unit.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.74)
1992 Jacques Delors, president of
the European Commission, almost scuppered the Uruguay round of world
trade talks rather than cut farm spending.
(Econ, 11/5/05, p.58)
1992 In Finland the Wife Carrying
contest was initiated to revive a 200 year old tradition from when
Ronkainen the Robber tested aspiring members of his gang by making them
carry huge sacks on their backs through an obstacle course. Cash prizes
and the wife’s weight in beer was awarded to the winners.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.A2)
1992 In France Marc Sautet,
philosophy professor and writer, started philosophy debates at the Cafe
des Phares in Paris. Success encouraged him to export the idea of
philosophy cafes around the world.
(SFC, 4/21/97, p.A9)
1992 Foreign investors accounted
for more than 20% of shareholdings in French companies, up from 12% in
1977.
(WSJ, 10/17/95, A-20)
1992 In Georgia Eduard
Shevardnadze, former Soviet foreign minister, was elected speaker of
Parliament and the became the country's leader.
(WSJ, 11/6/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A11)
1992 In Tbilisi, Georgia, the
central-heating system went out of service. Carbon-monoxide poisonings
began as residents turned to wood and gas stoves.
(AP, 2/5/05)
1992 The German Red Army urban
guerrilla group abandoned violence.
(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-8)
1992 In Germany a new tax on
investment income was imposed.
(WSJ, 12/4/96, p.A1)
1992 In Germany chancellor Helmut
Kohl’s conservative-centrist coalition set an annual quota of 225,000
for new arrivals in order to stem the rush from former Iron Curtain
countries.
(SFC, 1/13/98, p.A11)
1992 In Germany Bremen and
Saarland asked to be bailed out of economic difficulties.
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.56)
1992 Elf-Aquitaine purchased the
former East German Leuna refinery. It was later alleged that bribes
totaling $44 million were paid by the French government to the German
Social Democrats under Helmut Kohl.
(SFC, 1/24/00, p.A6)
1992 In Ghana a ban on political
parties was lifted and former president Hilla Limann formed the
People’s National Convention Party. Limann ran for the presidency but
finished a distant 3rd.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22)
1992 In Ghana J.J. Rawlings was
elected with 59% of the vote in disputed elections.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1992 Thessaloniki, Greece was
selected as the cultural capital of Europe.
(WSJ, 4/29/97, p.A20)
1992 Fair and free elections were
introduced in Guyana. Cheddi Jagan was elected president. The People’s
Progressive Party-Civic (PPP-C), supported by the Indo-Guyanese, gained
power following 28 years of rule by the rival People’s National
Congress Reform (PNC-R), supported by most blacks.
(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A18)(Econ, 4/29/06, p.42)
1992 The Honduran government was
forced to revoke a 40-year forest concession it had granted to a
Chicago-based paper company, Stone Container, after thousands of
Hondurans marched in protest.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1992 In Hong Kong Christopher
Patten became the 28th British governor. He began electoral reforms
that were denounced by China. He served to 1997 and in 1998 published
"East and West: China, Power and the Future of Asia."
(SFEC, 11/10/96, Parade p.14)(SFC, 7/1/97,
p.A8)(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A20)
1992 Iceland left the Int’l.
Whaling Commission when a resolution was passed to outlaw commercial
whaling.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A8)
1992 India’s central government
approved a foreign owned power project. Enron Corp. was contracted to
build the Dabhol Power Co. in Maharashtra state.
(WSJ, 2/5/99, p.A1)
1992 Indian transplants in Silicon
Valley founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). By 2009 the group had a
network of 12,000 members and operated in 53 cities in 12 countries.
(Econ, 3/14/09, SR p.4)
1992 Talwinder Singh Parmar, Sikh
fundamentalist and alleged mastermind of the June 23, 1985, bombing of
Air India Flight 182, was killed in a shootout with Indian police.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.46)
1992 The exiled opposition of Iraq
was united under Ahmad Chalabi.
(WSJ, 12/2/98, p.A1)
1992 In Ireland the 8-year rule by
Prime Minister Charles Haughey ended. Later allegations arose that he
had accepted cash from Dunnes Stores while in office. There were also
allegations that Dunnes Stores had given members of Parliament more
than $5 million over 10 years.
(SFC, 4/23/97, p.A5)
1992 In Northern Ireland Billy
Wright (1960-1997) in an interview admitted that he had planned the
killings of more than a dozen Catholics.
(SFEC,12/28/97, p.A10)
1992 An Italian court sentenced
Marina Petrella, a member of the Red Brigades, in absentia to life in
prison on charges including murder and kidnapping. In 2007 French
police arrested Petrella for a petty crime and planned to extradite her
to Italy. In 2008 a French court ordered her that she be freed from
prison because of health problems.
(AP, 8/23/07)(AP, 8/5/08)
1992 In Japan Emp. Akihito opened
a museum devoted to the art and poetry collections of past rulers on
his palace grounds.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.E3)
1992 The government of Japan
passed the PKO bill. The controversial legislation allowed troops to be
sent abroad on peace-keeping missions.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 217)
1992 Japan passed a law that made
it a crime to demand that a securities company return investment losses.
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.D3)
1992 Japan passed an anti-mob law
the clearly defined illegal behavior and penalized companies with
yakuza ties. This led to the practice of using former policemen to
replace yakuza for protection.
(Econ, 2/28/09, p.45)
1992 Ling Ling (d.2008), a giant
panda born at China's Beijing Zoo in 1985, came to Tokyo. He later
traveled to Mexico three times for unsuccessful mating.
(AP, 4/30/08)
1992 Juzo Itami, film director,
was slashed in the face and seriously injured by Japanese mobsters
upset over his unflattering portrayal of gangsters in a film.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.2)
1992 In Kenya the Kakuma camp was
founded for some 30,000 refugees from Sudan.
(WSJ, 10/23/02, p.B1)
1992 In Kenya Rev. Angelo
D’Agostino (1926-2006) founded the Nyumbani orphanage for children with
HIV.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.B7)
1992 In Kenya in Rift Valley
province state security forces stood by as the Kalenjin and Kikuyu
tribes battled each other prior to the presidential elections. Ethnic
Kikuyus, Luhyas and Luos, who supported the opposition, were attacked
by members of Moi’s home province Kalenjin group.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A22)(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)
1992 In Kenya Daniel arap Moi was
re-elected with 36% of the vote.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A8)
1992 In Kenya three Somali clans
in the Wajir district -- the Ajuran, Ogaden and Degodia broke out into
war after the elections. More than 2,000 people were killed.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.D2)
1992 Rafik Hariri, billionaire
businessman, led the reconstruction of Lebanon after taking office as
Prime Minister. He hired a Cairo-based engineering firm to design a
world-class financial center and a new airport.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)(WSJ, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1992 In West Africa ULIMO, The
United Movement of Liberia arose as a guerilla force to stop
cooperation between Sierra Leone’s rebel leader Foday Sankoh and
Charles Taylor.
(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-8)
1992 In Lithuania the Democratic
Labor Party led by Algirdas Brazauskas took power. Unemployment,
high-prices, and fuel shortage caused the electorate to return to power
many former communists.
(Compuserve, Online Encyclopedia)
1992 Radio Luxembourg went off the
air as it lost listeners due to deregulation and commercial rivals. In
2008 it hoped to make a comeback using digital broadcasts.
(Econ, 3/8/08, TQ p.8)
1992 In Madagascar mass
demonstrations and civil service strikes led to a march on the palace
by 100,000 people. The elite guard killed an estimated 100. Military
ruler Rastiraka soon agreed to new elections that were won by Albert
Zafy.
(SFC, 8/19/96, p.A8,10)
1992 Malawi passed a moratorium on
the death penalty.
(AFP, 11/22/07)
1992 A major drought ravaged the
small farmers of Malawi.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A25)
1992 Gen. Amadou Toumani Toure
introduced multi-party democracy in Mali.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.41)
1992 Mauritius launched itself as
a financial center.
(Econ, 2/24/07, SR p.6)
1992 Mexico’s Finance Minister
Pedro Aspe finally cut off government funding of the PRI party late in
1992.
(WSJ, 4/19/96, p.A-11)
1992 Raul Salinas and Carlos Hank
Rhon of Mexico set up an appointment with Citibank private banker Amy
Elliot in New York to establish an account with Citibank for Mr.
Salinas.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A1)
1992 Andrei Ivantoc, a member of
the Popular Moldovan Front, was arrested by separatist
authorities of Trans-Dniester. A year later he and the three
others were sentenced on charges of committing terrorist acts against
citizens of Trans-Dniester. The Popular Moldovan Front called for the
reunification of Moldova with neighboring Romania. The group's members
were seen as martyrs by some in Moldova and Romania for their
opposition to the separatists. Ivantoc was released in 2007.
(AP, 6/2/07)
1992 In Mozambique a peace accord
ended 17 years of civil war.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)
1992 In Nepal the region of
Mustang was opened to visitors. It was only accessible by a week-long
hike from the town of Jomsom along the Mustang River. Explorer and
artist Robert Powell began visiting there and creating local paintings.
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.W10)
1992 Dwarika Das Shrestha, founder
of Dwarika's Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, died.
(SFEM, 9/17/00, p.94)
1992 In Nicaragua, Violeta
Chamorro cancelled a 30-year forest concession with a Taiwanese company
after a public outcry.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1992 In Nicaragua a slow
earthquake was followed by a 7.2 earthquake.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A11)
1992 Kenneth Nnebue, a Nigerian
trader based in Onitsha, shot a film called “Living in Bondage” to help
sell a large stock of blank videocassettes that he had purchased from
Taiwan. The film sold 750,000 copies and prompted imitators and the
growth of a Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood. By 2006
Nigeria’s film industry employed about a million people.
(Econ, 7/29/06, p.58)
1992 Commercial creditors forgave
much of Nigeria’s debt.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.80)
1992 In Norway the 1993 Oslo I
peace accord was begun in 1992 following a research project on
Palestinian living conditions by Terje Roed Larsen. Larsen arranged
discussions between Uri Savir of Israel and Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) for
Palestine.
(SFEC, 10/31/99, p.A21)
1992 Norway introduced a carbon
tax in an effort to fight global warming.
(Econ, 6/2/07, p.22)
1992 In Norway the 19th cent.
Holmenkollen Chapel, often attended by the royal family, fell victim to
arson.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A12)
1992 In Norway Varg "the Count"
Vikernes murdered a rival Satanist leader and was sentenced to 21 years
in prison. He was also involved in at least four cases of church arson.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A12)
1992 The Pakistan Cricket team led
by Imran Khan won the World Cup Championship.
(WSJ, 12/2/96, p.A1,8)
1992 In Pakistan the radical
Islamic Movement for the Enforcement of Islam in English was founded.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A10)
1992 Ramzi Yousef, nephew of
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Khaled Sheikh Mohammed), dispatched from
Pakistan a childhood friend Abdul Hakim Murad to the US to begin
plotting the 1st World Trade Center attack.
(WSJ, 8/6/04, p.A6)
1992 Paraguayan secret police
archives first revealed the 1976 Condor Plan.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A16)
1992 In Peru the Shining Path
guerilla leader Abimael Guzman was captured by police chief Ketin Vidal.
(SFC, 9/17/96, p.A11)
1992 In Peru Victor Polay, chief
of the Tupac Amaru guerrillas was captured.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.A17)
1992 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 two-time
President Alan Garcia in 1992, when Fujimori was running the country
and Garcia was out of office.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D4)(AP, 1/18/08)
1992 In Peru Lt. Col. Ollanta
Humala commanded a jungle counterinsurgency base. In 2006 criminal
complaints accused Humala, a contender in presidential elections, of
forced disappearance, torture and attempted murder during his 1992
command.
(AP, 2/17/06)
1992 Peru’s government sold rights
to the country’s annual vicuna production to Loro Piana, an Italian
textile manufacturer. Piana formed a consortium which agreed to pay
around $400 a kilogram (about 2 pounds) for the vicuna fleece.
(WSJ, 2/21/07, p.A14)
1992 China’s Shougang company
bought an iron ore mine in Peru. This was China’s first investment in
the region.
(Econ, 8/15/09, p.20)
1992 Philippine Airlines was sold
to tycoon Lucio Tan, but the government retained a 20% interest.
(WSJ, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1992 In Puerto Rico two toddlers,
ages 2 and 3, were killed. The mother of Eliezer Marquez Navedo (17)
was convicted. She was sentenced to 26 years in prison but paroled for
good behavior after seven. In 2009 Eliezer Marquez Navedo was charged
with the murder of an American tourist.
(AP, 2/26/09)
1992 In the Republic of the Congo
Sassou-Nguesso relinquished power after an elections loss to Pascal
Lissouba. He maintained a private militia known as the Cobras in his
northern domain.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A12)
1992 Alexandre Konanykhine, a
director of the Russian Exchange Bank, allegedly stole $8.1 mil through
falsified financial transactions and fled the country with his wife.
They were arrested in the US in 1996.
(WP. 6/29/96, p.A1)
1992 In Russia the tax police
force was established to fight tax crime. A TV show based on their
fictional exploits began production in 1998.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1992 In Russia the Golden ADA
company was set up to export diamonds to the West. Yevgeny Bychkov,
head of the Russian Committee on Precious Metals and Gems, arranged a
$180 million shipment to Golden ADA. Andrei Kozlekov and associates
sold the shipment and moved to San Francisco. Kozlekov was returned to
Moscow in 1998 to face charges of stealing.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B1)
1992 Russian intelligence
archivist Vasili Mitrokhin defected to British intelligence. He brought
along 6 trunkfuls of KGB files.
(SFEC, 9/12/99, p.A16)
1992 Russian reactionaries fought
against the Soviet breakup and repulsed Moldova’s bid to hold on to
Transdniestria. A civil war with Moldova left up to 700 people dead.
(WSJ, 7/8/97, p.A1,8)(Econ, 1/29/05, p.52)(SSFC,
2/12/06, p.E2)
1992 In Saudi Arabia King Fahd
decreed a basic law that for the 1st time outlined an institutional
structure for the country. A law was passed that allowed the king to
name any of his brothers or nephews as a successor, and to replace him
at will.
(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.A11)(Econ, 1/7/06, Survey p.6)
1992 Pierre Sane of Senegal became
the secretary-general of Amnesty Int’l.
(SFC, 10/21/98, p.A10)
1992 In Sierra Leone Valentine
Strasser (25) took over rule in a coup, that toppled Pres. Joseph
Momoh, and became the world’s youngest head of state.
(WSJ, 1/17/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A9)(SFC,
7/25/02, p.A16)
1992 A UN arms embargo was imposed
in Somalia.
(AP, 8/1/06)
1992 In South Korea Chung Ju Yung,
founder of Hyundai Group, formed his own political party and ran
against Kim Young Sam.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A11)
1992 In South Korea Kim Young Sam
won the presidency, the first democratically elected civilian in 32
years.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A1)
1992 The two Koreas agreed in a
pact to continue talks to demarcate the sea border while respecting the
Northern Limit Line (NLL) until a new border is set.
(AP, 8/29/07)
1992 In Spain the suspension
bridge El Puente de las Oblatas was built over the Arga River.
(SSFC, 6/16/02, p.C7)
1992 Spain signed accords with
Islamic, Jewish and Protestant representatives.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.46)
1992 Leaders of the Basque
Separatist Group (ETA) were captured. The acronym stands for Basque
Homeland and Liberty.
(WSJ, 1/3/96, p.A-6)
1992 Spain opened its first
high-speed rail line, the Alta Velocidad Espanola (AVE), between Madrid
and Seville.
(WSJ, 4/20/09, p.A12)
1992 Eduardo Barreiros (b.1919),
Spanish businessman, died in Havana. He was Spain’s most important
businessman during the middle years of the Franco dictatorship. In 2009
Hugh Thomas authored “Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain.”
(Econ, 5/23/09,
p.90)(www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Books/yale.html)
1992 Sweden rescued its banking
system pushing it gross public debt up to 73% of its GDP from 55% a
year earlier. Sweden set up 2 bad banks to handle the crummier assets
of Nordbanken and Gota Bank, which were nationalized. The eventual cost
of the bailout was kept under 2% of GDP. Nordbanken became Nordea and
was partly refloated in 1995, but the state remained its largest
shareholder.
(Econ, 10/11/08, p.100)(Econ, 11/29/08, p.76)(Econ,
5/16/09, SR p.5)
1992 In Zurich, Switzerland, a
festival was begun known as the Street Parade to celebrate techno music
under the motto: "Love, peace and tolerance." From 2,000 people at the
first event it grew to some 400,000 by 1997.
(SFC, 8/18/97, p.E4)
1992 Syria’s Pres. Assad allowed
many Syrian Jews to travel abroad freely after nearly 45 years of
official prohibition from leaving the country.
(SSFC, 6/28/09, p.A8)
1992 In Tajikistan fighting with
rebels began.
(WSJ, 7/11/96, p.A10)
1992 Turkey organized a regional
alphabet congress and academics agreed to a 34-character Latin alphabet
based on Turkish script.
(WSJ, 10/24/00, p.A12)
1992 Turkey’s Pres. Turgut Ozal
(d.1993) envisioned the Black Sea as a zone of peace and cooperation.
This led to the formation of the Istanbul-based organization for Black
Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.54)
1992 In Turkmenistan Saparmurad
Niyazov was elected president. He suppressed opponents, restricted free
speech and controlled all branches of government.
(SFC, 11/8/96, p.A14)
1992 In Uganda the Foundation for
Int’l. Community Assistance (FINCA) Banking on the Poor, based in
Washington, began working. It made small loans to women who began small
businesses.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A12)
1992 In Uganda the Lord’s
Resistance led by Joseph Kony began kidnapping boys and girls to act as
laborers, sex slaves and fighters.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.A17)
1992 In Venezuela Irene Saez, the
Miss Universe of 1981, was elected mayor of Chacao. By 1997 she was
being considered for national leadership.
(SFC, 8/19/97, p.A8)
1992 In Venezuela Victor Vargas
sold a small bank he helped for to Banco Latino, one of Venezuela’s
biggest banks. In 1994 Banco Latino collapsed as a run on deposits
exposed questionable loans.
(WSJ, 1/29/08, p.A14)
1992 In Yemen 2 hotel bombs
directed at US servicemen killed 2 Australians. The bombing was later
linked to Osama bin Laden, the scion of a wealthy Saudi family. He was
stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994.
(SFC, 8/14/96, p.A10,12)
1992-1993 In the US an AMA study showed that doctors
in group practice began to outnumber solo practitioners about this time.
(WSJ, 8/21/96, p.A1)
1992-1993 Bosnian Croats attacked the Lasva Valley
area of central Bosnia. In 1996 nine men were charged with war crimes
by the UN tribunal on war crimes. 3 Bosnian Croats were later released
for insufficient evidence.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A13)(SFC,12/20/97, p.A10)
1992-1993 Separatists in the northwestern province of
Abkhazia took over control by war. War between Abkhaz forces and
Georgians killed 10,000 and left the Black Sea region as a de facto
independent but unrecognized state. In the siege of Sukhumi Abkhaz
rebels encircled the capital of the region.
(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A10)(SFC, 5/26/98, p.A8)(WSJ,
11/18/06, p.P11)
1992-1993 In Vietnam Nguyen Dinh Huy founded the
"Movement to Unite the People and Build Democracy" after 7 years in
prison for opposing communist rule. He was arrested 6 months after
release and was tried in 1995 and convicted of subversion.
(SFC, 1/20/98, p.A17)
1992-1994 Major Gen'l. Stanislav Galic led the
Bosnian Serb Sarayevo Romanija Corps. In 1999 Ganic was captured by
NATO SFOR troops for war crimes. In 2003 Gen. Galic was sentenced to 20
years in prison.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.A16)(SFC, 12/6/03, p.A11)
1992-1994 Emmanuel Constant was a paid agent of the
US CIA in Haiti.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, p.A15)
1992-1994 Croat Gen. Tihomir Blaskic ordered a series
of attacks on Muslim villagers in Bosnia as his forces tried to secure
the area for Croatia. In 2000 a UN Tribunal sentenced Blaskic to 45
years in prison for war crimes. In 2004 the sentence was reduced to 9
years.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 7/30/04, p.A1)
1992-1994 In Mexico bank records showed that Raul
Salinas de Gortari made more than 150 cash deposits totaling $80
million in the Mexico City branch Banca Cremi.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A1)
1992-1994 In Mexico the Fund for Bank Savings
Protection (Fobaproa) was set up. It was used to absorb bad loans as
the country’s banks were being privatized.
(SFC, 8/3/98, p.A13)
1992-1994 In Somalia Italian Warrant Officer
Francesco Aloi kept a diary while on duty and documented instances of
rape, torture and other brutality against the Somalis.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A10)
1992-1994 Russia's Alexander Lebed commanded troops
in Moldova’s break-away region of Transdniestria, where ethnic conflict
rose between the Moldovan government and Slav separatists. He ended the
bloodshed there.
(SFC, 10/18/96, A18)
1992-1995 Teenage drug use doubled over this period.
(WSJ, 8/21/96, p.A1)
1992-1995 In the Pacific Northwest a series of arson
fires at abortion clinics that caused over $1 million in damage was
later attributed to Richard Thomas Andrews of Wenatchee, Wa. Andrews
was arrested Jun 26, 1996 and pleaded guilty in 1998.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.A7)
1992-1995 Gen'l. Momir Talic of Bosnia commanded the
1st Krajina Corps. Talic and Radoslav Brdjanin planned and ordered a
terror offensive early in the war that killed hundreds of Muslims and
Croats and forced thousands to flee Prijedor a d Sanski. Talic was
arrested in Austria in 1999 on a secret UN war crimes indictment. Both
men pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of genocide at the Hague. During
the 3 ½ years of war some 200,000 Bosnians were dead or missing
and an estimated 20,000 women were raped. In 2004 Brdjanin was
convicted on 8 of 12 charges and sentenced to 32 years in prison.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A12)(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)(SFC,
3/30/00, p.A18)(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A11)
1992-1995 In Thailand Chuan Leekpai served as Prime
Minister until a land scandal split his coalition and the government
collapsed.
(SFC,11/8/97, p.A12)
1992-1996 Conor O’Clery covered this period in his
1997 book "Daring Diplomacy," on how the US played a role in the search
for peace in Northern Ireland.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, BR p.6)
1992-1996 Giorgio Pressberger was the artistic
director for the MittelFest, a theater and musical festival in Cividale
del Friuli that links Italy with nine central European countries.
(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A8)
1992-1996 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt served as
the Secretary-General of the UN.
(SFC, 12/14/96, p.A1)
1992-1996 Nicolae Vacaroiu led Romania’s
authoritarian ex-communist government.
(Econ, 4/28/07, p.61)
1992-2000 Environmental groups say wealthy landowners
and power brokers, profiting from logging Mexico’s Petatlan Sierra,
destroyed 40 percent of 558,000 acres of woodland, some of the worst
deforestation on the planet. In 2005 after a month-long blockade by
peasants, Boise Cascade canceled contracts for massive cutting
operations in the Petatlan mountains, citing supply problems, and 15
logging permits were revoked. Since then at least a dozen peasant
leaders have been targeted. Some have been arrested and jailed on what
are widely seen as bogus charges engineered by political and economic
interests profiting from logging. Others have gone into hiding and some
have been killed.
(Reuters, 7/21/05)
1992-2002 India grew at an average annual rate of 6%.
(Econ, 12/13/08, SR p.8)
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