Timeline 1992 thru September
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1992 Jan 1,
President Bush became the first American leader to address the
Australian Parliament, telling lawmakers the United States would
continue to subsidize its agricultural exports, despite protests by
Australia's farmers.
(AP, 1/1/02)
1992 Jan 1, Altaf Hussain
(b.1953), leader of Pakistan’s MQM party, fled to Saudi Arabia and
after a month to London. PM Nawaz Sharif soon deployed the army to
Karachi for a massive anti-MQM operation and the city descended into
an undeclared civil war.
(WSJ, 12/5/07,
p.A22)(www.elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=6881)
1992 Jan 1, Boutros
Boutros-Ghali succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar as secretary-general
of the United Nations.
(AP, 1/1/02)
1992 Jan 2, Military commanders
in Croatia agreed to a cease-fire accord, the 15th attempt at a
truce.
(AP, 1/2/02)
1992 Jan 2, Russian shoppers
experienced their first day of "sticker shock" after President Boris
Yeltsin lifted price controls to stimulate production.
(AP, 1/2/02)
1992 Jan 3, In California,
police pursued a driver who had killed another motorist along
Interstate 5 for more than 300 miles until the car ran out of gas in
Westminster; the driver was shot to death after officers said he
pointed a shotgun at them.
(AP, 1/3/02)
1992 Jan 3, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above 3,200 for the first time, ending the
day at 3,201.48.
(AP, 1/3/02)
1992 Jan 3, The UN, led by US
Sec. of State Cyrus Vance, brokered a cease-fire between the
Croatian government and rebel Serbs. Following subsequent breaches
the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) put 14,000 peacekeeping troops
into Croatia. The European Community (EC) recognized the
independence of Croatia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jan 4, President Bush,
visiting Singapore as part of a Pacific trade tour, announced plans
to shift to Singapore the Navy logistics command that was being
evicted from the Philippines.
(AP, 1/4/02)
1992 Jan 5, President Bush
arrived in Seoul, South Korea, on the third stop of a 12-day tour
focusing on international trade issues.
(AP, 1/5/02)
1992 Jan 6, The United States
joined the U.N. Security Council in condemning Israel's planned
deportation of 12 Palestinians.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 6, The US Food and
Drug Administration called on surgeons to stop using silicone gel
breast implants because of safety questions, but stopped short of an
outright ban.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 6, After two weeks of
fighting, ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled the
capital, Tbilisi.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992 Jan 7, Pitchers Tom Seaver
and Rollie Fingers were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, President Bush
arrived in Japan on a tough-talk trade mission.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, Serb forces shot
down a European Community helicopter in Croatia, killing five truce
observers.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 8, President Bush
collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo; White House officials said
Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
(AP, 1/8/02)
1992 Jan 9, President Bush
declared his trade visit to Japan a success, saying Japanese
officials had agreed to increase imports of American cars, auto
parts, computers and other goods. However, U.S. auto executives
traveling with Bush sounded less enthusiastic.
(AP, 1/9/02)
1992 Jan 10, President Bush
returned home from his grueling 12-day journey to Australia,
Singapore, South Korea and Japan, boasting of "dramatic progress" on
trade issues.
(AP, 1/10/02)
1992 Jan 10, In Algeria an army
coup cancelled elections that were running strongly in favor of the
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). France supported the move which led
to a bloody struggle between the Algerian army and Algerian
fundamentalist (Armed Islamic Group, GIA) guerillas that by 1995
claimed nearly 40,000 lives and numerous bomb attacks in France.
(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-22)(SFC, 11/14/96,
p.A12)(SFC, 1/8/96, p.A7)
1992 Jan 11, The president of
Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid) resigned, two weeks after Muslim
fundamentalists had defeated his ruling party in legislative
elections.
(AP, 1/11/02)
1992 Jan 12, The Washington
Redskins won the NFC championship, defeating the Detroit Lions 41 to
10; the Buffalo Bills won the AFC title, beating the Denver Broncos
10 to 7.
(AP, 1/12/02)
1992 Jan 12, HAL, the
Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, from the 1968 Arthur
C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick movie and book, “became operational” at
the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. [1997 article claimed 1/12/97 as
birthdate] The book "HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and
Reality" was published in 1997 by MIT Press. The birthday in the
movie was 1/12/92.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C14)(SFC, 1/25/97,
p.E1)(SFEC, 3/16/97, Par p.31)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)
1992 Jan 12, One day after the
surprise resignation of Algeria's president, Chadli Bendjedid, the
army-backed Algerian government canceled parliamentary elections to
prevent fundamentalist Muslims from winning power.
(AP, 1/12/02)
1992 Jan 13, US serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer in a pretrial hearing pleaded guilty but insane in
fifteen of the seventeen murders he confessed to committing.
(www.courttv.com/trials/taped/dahmer.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992)
1992 Jan 13, Edwin W. Edwards
began his 4th term as governor of Louisiana and continued to Jan 8,
1996.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Edwards)
1992 Jan 13, Israeli,
Palestinian and Jordanian negotiators began talks in Washington on
Palestinian autonomy.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1992 Jan 13, Japan apologized
for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves
for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1992 Jan 14, Historic Mideast
peace talks continued in Washington, with Israel and Jordan holding
their first-ever formal negotiations, and the Israelis continuing
exchanges with Palestinian representatives.
(AP, 1/14/02)
1992 Jan 15, The Yugoslav
federation, founded in 1918, effectively collapsed as the European
Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
(AP, 1/15/98)
1992 Jan 16, Officials of the
government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico
City ending 12 years of civil war that had left at least 75,000
people dead.
(AP, 1/16/98)
1992 Jan 17, President Bush
laid a wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.
(AP, 1/17/02)
1992 Jan 17, IBM announced a
nearly $5B loss for 1991.
(www.iht.com/articles/1992/01/17/ibm_.php)
1992 Jan 17, Celeste Carrington
(30), a former janitor of from East Palo Alto, Ca., shot and killed
Victor Esparza (34) in San Carlos during a robbery. 2 months later
she shot and killed Caroline Gleason (36), a property manager,
during a robbery in Palo Alto. 5 days later she wounded a 3rd person
in an attempted robbery. She was later convicted and sentenced to
death. In 2009 the California Supreme court upheld her death
sentence.
(SFC, 7/28/09,
p.C2)(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S043628.PDF)
1992 Jan 17, Eight Protestant
laborers were killed in an IRA bombing in Northern Ireland.
(AP, 1/17/02)
1992 Jan 18, The Hollywood
Foreign Press Association presented its Golden Globe awards,
considered a forerunner of the Academy Awards; no clear favorite
emerged as the Walt Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast,"
"Bugsy," "JFK" and "The Prince of Tides" were honored.
(AP, 1/18/02)
1992 Jan 19, "City of Angels"
closed at Virginia Theater in NYC after 878 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0351)
1992 Jan 19, Arkansas Governor
Bill Clinton drew fire from fellow Democratic presidential
candidates during a debate in Manchester, N.H.
(AP, 1/19/02)
1992 Jan 19, German government
and Jewish officials dedicated a Holocaust memorial at the villa
where the notorious Wannsee Conference had taken place.
(AP, 1/19/02)
1992 Jan 20, A French Airbus
A-320 crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87 people.
(AP, 1/20/98)
1992 Jan 20, A German court
convicted two former East German border guards of the last killing
at the Berlin Wall.
(AP, 1/20/02)
1992 Jan 21, The Supreme Court
agreed to review a Pennsylvania law imposing waiting periods and
other restrictions on abortions. The court later upheld most of the
restrictions while reaffirming women's constitutional right to
abortion.
(AP, 1/21/02)
1992 Jan 21, William T
"Champion Jack" Dupree (81), US boxer, pianist, died in Germany.
(www.john-meekings.co.uk/wtdupree.html)
1992 Jan 22, President Bush
named Andrew H. Card Jr. to be transportation secretary.
(AP, 1/22/02)
1992 Jan 22-30, The space
shuttle Discovery blasted off with seven astronauts. Roberta Bondar
was the first Canadian woman in space. She rode the shuttle
Discovery and performed life and material-science experiments.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.14A)(AP, 1/22/02)
1992 Jan 23, Forty-seven
nations, including the United States, agreed on a massive global
humanitarian effort to rescue millions of hungry people in the
former Soviet Union.
(AP, 1/23/02)
1992 Jan 24, The state of
Arkansas executed convicted cop-killer Rickey Ray Rector after Gov.
Bill Clinton refused to intervene.
(AP, 1/24/02)
1992 Jan 24, A judge in El
Salvador sentenced an army colonel and a lieutenant to 30 years in
prison for their part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests,
their housekeeper and her daughter.
(AP, 1/24/02)
1992 Jan 25, Finance ministers
from the Group of Seven nations met in Garden City, N.Y., agreeing
to intensify their cooperation to stimulate the world's sluggish
economy, while leaving it to each country to decide how.
(AP, 1/25/02)
1992 Jan 25, Mahmoud Riad
(b.1917), Egyptian diplomat and sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79),
died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9390991?hook=795127)
1992 Jan 26, The Washington
Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI, defeating the Buffalo Bills 37-24.
(AP, 1/26/02)
1992 Jan 26, On CBS' "60
Minutes," Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing
with his wife, Hillary, acknowledged "causing pain in my marriage,"
but said past problems were not relevant to the campaign.
(AP, 1/26/02)
1992 Jan 26, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, 5 children died in an apartment fire that was set by William
Garner in an attempt to hide evidence of a burglary. Garner (37) was
later convicted of murder and executed on July 13, 2010.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/2bq5puv)
1992 Jan 26, Jose Ferrer
(b.1909), Puerto Rico born film actor, died in Coral Gables, Fla.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer)
1992 Jan 27, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers accused
each other of lying in a renewed dispute over her assertion that
they'd had a 12-year affair.
(AP, 1/27/02)
1992 Jan 27, Boxer Mike Tyson
went on trial for rape. On Feb 10 he was found guilty.
(http://slam.canoe.ca/BoxingTysonHolyfield/tyson_chronology.html)
1992 Jan 27, Aileen Wuornos, a
Florida prostitute, was convicted of slaying the first of seven men
she'd admitted killing, claiming self-defense.
(AP, 1/27/02)
1992 Jan 27, Pres. Mugabe’s
wife, Sally (b.1932), died. Some dated the collapse of Zimbabwe and
Mugabe’s misrule to her death.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.28)
1992 Jan 28, President George
H.W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, proposed tax breaks
and business incentives to revive the economy, and announced
dramatic cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
(AP, 1/28/02)
1992 Jan 28, A multinational
Middle East peace conference opened in Moscow.
(AP, 1/28/02)
1992 Jan 29, President Bush
presented a $1.2 trillion budget plan.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 29, Willie Dixon (76),
blues composer (Backdoor Man), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0229006/)
1992 Jan 29, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin unveiled an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons
spending and said his republic's weapons would no longer be aimed at
any U.S. targets.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 29, A multinational
Middle East peace conference ended in Moscow with participants
sounding upbeat.
(AP, 1/29/02)
1992 Jan 30, President George
H.W. Bush and other world leaders gathered for an unprecedented U.N.
Security Council summit to coordinate policy on peacekeeping,
disarmament and quelling aggression.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, The space shuttle
Discovery landed in California, ending an eight-day mission.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, Irish PM Charles
Haughey (1926-2006) announced his resignation. The 8-year rule by PM
Haughey ended. Later allegations arose that he had accepted cash
from Dunnes Stores while in office. There were also allegations that
Dunnes had given members of Parliament more than $5 million over 10
years. New evidence also showed that he had authorized the 1982
phone-tapping.
(SFC, 4/23/97, p.A5)(AP, 1/30/02)(AP, 6/13/06)
1992 Jan 31, Leaders of the
U.N. Security Council's member states held an unprecedented summit,
after which they issued a declaration on collective security, arms
control and nuclear non-proliferation.
(AP, 1/31/02)
1992 Jan, Sportscaster Howard
Cosell (1918-1995) retired.
(www.uncwil.edu/com/rohler/kbt.htm)
1992 Jan, In Iraq 80 military
officers accused of planning a coup were executed along with 76
anti-regime activists.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1992 Jan-1992 Feb, In China
Deng Xiaoping toured the southern provinces and urged more economic
reforms.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A5)
1992 Feb 1, President George
H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin met at Camp David.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 1, Ron Carey was sworn
in as the first Teamsters president elected by the union's
rank-and-file.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 1, US Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman (81), who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to
death, died in New York.
(AP, 2/1/02)
1992 Feb 2, The U.S. Coast
Guard shipped home 250 more Haitian refugees from the Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base in Cuba, a day after repatriating a shipload of about 150
Haitians.
(AP, 2/2/02)
1992 Feb 2, Longtime "Miss
America" emcee Bert Parks died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 77.
(AP, 2/2/02)
1992 Feb 3, President George
H.W. Bush got into a testy exchange with Democratic governors over
his economic-revival plan.
(AP, 2/3/02)
1992 Feb 3, Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sparked controversy by saying American
workers were losing the drive "to live by the sweat of their brow."
(AP, 2/3/02)
1992 Feb 4, President George
H.W. Bush defended his economic recovery plan before a National
Grocers Association meeting in Orlando, Fla. During his visit, Bush
appeared intrigued by an electronic checkout machine, leaving
reporters wondering if he'd ever seen such a device before.
(AP, 2/4/02)
1992 Feb 4, In Caracas,
Venezuela, there was a coup attempt but Lt. Col. Chavez failed to
capture the presidential Palace and was forced to surrender. He
served 2 years in prison.
(WSJ, 6/12/03, p.A10)
1992 Feb 5, The US House of
Representatives authorized an investigation into whether the 1980
Reagan-Bush campaign conspired with Iran to delay release of the
American hostages. The task force investigating the "October
Surprise" allegations later said it found no credible evidence of
such a conspiracy.
(AP, 2/5/02)
1992 Feb 5, In Northern
Ireland Protestant guerrillas shot and killed 5 Catholic men in the
Sean Graham betting shop on the Lower Ormeau Road.
(www.nuzhound.com/articles/Irelandclick/arts2002/bookies2-1-02.htm)
1992 Feb 6, President George
H.W. Bush unveiled a health care plan for most Americans.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton denied he'd tried to avoid the
Vietnam draft, saying he gave up a draft deferment in the fall of
1969 because he "didn't think it was right" to keep it.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Sixteen people were
killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville,
Ind.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 7, Former heavyweight
boxing champion Mike Tyson testified at his rape trial in
Indianapolis that his accuser, a Miss Black America contestant, had
consented to having sex with him.
(AP, 2/7/02)
1992 Feb 7, The Treaty on the
European Union was signed in Maastricht by the Foreign and Finance
Ministers of the Member States.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1992/index_en.htm)
1992 Feb 7, Russian President
Boris N. Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand signed a
cooperation treaty in Paris.
(AP, 2/7/02)
1992 Feb 8, The 16th Olympic
Winter Games opened in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/8/02)
1992 Feb 9, Magic Johnson
returned to professional basketball by playing in the NBA All-Star
game. Johnson was named most valuable player as his side, the
Western Conference, defeated the Eastern Conference 153-to-113.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, The government of
Algeria declared a state of emergency to quell spreading Muslim
fundamentalist unrest.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, An Air Senegal
flight chartered by Club Med crashed and 30 people were killed. In
2000 a French court convicted Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano and
his son, Serge, for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/7/00,
p.D6)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=6V)
1992 Feb 10, In the Iowa caucus
favorite son Tom Harkin won with 76% of the vote. The rest went to
“Uncommitted” (12%), Paul Tsongas (4%), Bill Clinton (3%), Bob
Kerrey (2%), and Jerry Brown (2%). Clinton ended up winning the
Democratic nomination and the presidency.
(http://correntewire.com/post_iowa_perspective)
1992 Feb 10, Boxer Mike Tyson
was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss
Black America contestant. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(AP, 2/10/97)(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A13)
1992 Feb 10, Alex Haley, author
of "Roots" and co-writer of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," died
in Seattle at age 70. Much of his work was donated to the Univ. of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.C15)(AP, 2/10/97)
1992 Feb 11, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III, on a tour of six former Soviet republics,
visited Armenia, where he heard an appeal from the republic's
president for U.S. help in resolving a bloody feud with neighboring
Azerbaijan.
(AP, 2/11/02)
1992 Feb 12, President Bush
formally announced his bid for re-election.
(AP, 2/12/02)
1992 Feb 12, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton released a letter he'd written
as a student in 1969 in which he said he had decided to give up a
draft deferment in order to "maintain my political viability."
(AP, 2/12/02)
1992 Feb 13, Donna Weinbrecht
of the United States won the gold medal in women's freestyle skiing
moguls at the Olympic games in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/13/02)
1992 Feb 14, American speed
skater Bonnie Blair won her second gold medal of the Albertville
Olympics, in the 1,000 meters event.
(AP, 2/14/02)
1992 Feb 14, The former Soviet
republics of Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan rejected a proposal for
a unified army, sharply rebuffing Russian President Boris N.
Yeltsin.
(AP, 2/14/02)
1992 Feb 15, 100th episode of
"Cops" aired on the Fox network.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1992 Feb 15, A Milwaukee jury
found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15
men and boys.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)(AP, 2/15/02)
1992 Feb 15, Benjamin L. Hooks
announced plans to retire as executive director of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(AP, 2/15/98)
1992 Feb 15, Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer William Schuman died in New York at age 81.
(AP, 2/15/02)
1992 Feb 16, Two days before
the New Hampshire primary, five Democratic presidential candidates
debated on CNN, directing most of their criticism at President
George H.W. Bush.
(AP, 2/16/02)
1992 Feb 16, Israeli
helicopters attacked a convoy in Sidon, Lebanon, killing Sheik Abbas
Musawi, leader of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah. Sheik Hassan
Nasrallah (b.1960) took over Hezbollah after the Israeli
assassination of Sheik Abbas Musawi. He has led the group since,
controlling its operational activities.
(AP, 2/16/02)(AP, 6/3/06)
1992 Feb 17, Serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. He was
beaten to death in prison in November 1994.
(AP, 2/17/98)
1992 Feb 17, Italian police
arrested Mario Chiesa, the first one to be picked up in what would
become Italy's massive corruption scandals. This date became
considered a watershed moment in recent Italian history. Italy’s
"Clean Hands" corruption scandal originated in Milan. A series of
bribery cases led to the conviction and flight of Socialist Bettino
Craxi.
(AP, 3/31/09)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.T11)(Econ,
11/26/05, Survey p.10)
1992 Feb 18, Republican Pres.
George H.W. Bush won the New Hampshire primary over Pat Buchanon,
58.6 to 41.4%. Democrat Paul Tsongas won over Bill Clinton, Bob
Kerrey, Tom Harkin and Jerry Brown 38 to 28.3 to 12.7 to 11.6 to
9.3%.
(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)
1992 Feb 18, John Frohnmayer
announced his resignation as US chairman of the National Endowment
for the Arts.
(AP, 2/21/02)
1992 Feb 19, "Crazy For You"
opened at Shubert Theater in NYC for 1622 performances.
(http://www.musicals101.com/1990s.htm)
1992 Feb 19, The US Labor
Department reported consumer prices rose by just 0.1 percent in
January.
(AP, 2/19/02)
1992 Feb 19, Peter Collins of
Boulder, Colo., discovered Nova Cygni 1992.
(www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/v1974cyg.shtml)
1992 Feb 19, Former Irish
Republican Army member Joseph Doherty was deported from the United
States to Northern Ireland following a 10-year battle for political
asylum.
(AP, 2/19/02)
1992 Feb 20, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot told CNN's "Larry King Live" he would run for president
if his name were placed on the ballot in all 50 states.
(AP, 2/20/02)
1992 Feb 20, Dick York
(b.1928), actor (Bewitched), died of emphysema.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3135)
1992 Feb 21, Kristi Yamaguchi
of the United States won the gold medal in women's figure skating at
the Albertville Olympics; Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy
Kerrigan of the United States the bronze.
(AP, 2/21/98)
1992 Feb 22, President Bush
renewed his attack on a Democratic tax plan, saying in a radio
address that congressional Democrats were choosing "politics over
duty."
(AP, 2/22/02)
1992 Feb 22, At the Winter
Olympics in Albertville, France, American speedskater Cathy Turner
won the women's 500-meter race.
(AP, 2/22/02)
1992 Feb 23, The XVI Winter
Olympic Games ended in Albertville, France.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 23, Paul Tsongas won a
narrow victory over Jerry Brown in the Maine Democratic caucuses.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 23 In Jamaica Lester
Coke (aka Jim Brown), head of the infamous Shower Posse, died in a
mysterious prison cell fire.
(www.islandmix.com/backchat/f6/jamaicans-rope-131061/)
1992 Feb 23, In Moscow,
thousands of pro-communist demonstrators, some shouting, "Down with
the Russian government!," clashed with police.
(AP, 2/23/02)
1992 Feb 24, Secretary of State
James A. Baker III told a House subcommittee that Israel should stop
building settlements in the occupied territories, or forfeit $10
billion in U.S. loan guarantees. A fourth round of Mideast peace
talks began in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 2/24/02)
1992 Feb 24, General Motors
reported a record $4.5 billion loss for 1991.
(AP, 2/24/02)
1992 Feb 25, Natalie Cole won
seven awards at the 34th annual Grammys, including best album for
"Unforgettable."
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 25, President Bush won
the South Dakota Republican primary, Bob Kerrey the Democratic
primary.
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 25, The US Supreme
Court ruled prison guards who use unnecessary force against inmates
may be violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual
punishment even if they inflict no serious injuries.
(AP, 2/25/02)
1992 Feb 26, "Search and
Destroy" opened at the Circle in the Square Theater in NYC for 46
performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0415)
1992 Feb 26, The US Supreme
Court ruled unanimously that sexually harassed students may sue to
collect monetary damages from their schools and school officials.
(AP, 2/26/02)
1992 Feb 26, The Supreme Court
of Ireland cleared the way for a 14-year-old girl to leave the
country for an abortion.
(AP, 2/26/02)
1992 Feb 27, Tiger Woods (16)
became the youngest PGA golfer in 35 years.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/pga/features/tiger/timeline/)
1992 Feb 27, William Aramony
resigned as president of United Way of America amid charges of
financial mismanagement and lavish spending. Aramony was later
convicted and spent 7 years in Federal Prison Camp at Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base, near Goldsboro, NC.
(AP,
2/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aramony)
1992 Feb 27, Former Sen. S.I.
Hayakawa (b.1906) died in San Francisco at age 85.
(AP,
2/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa)
1992 Feb 28, Twenty-eight
people were injured when an IRA bomb exploded at London Bridge train
station.
(AP, 2/28/02)
1992 Feb 29, La Lupe (53),
Cuban singer, died of a heart attack in the Bronx.
(www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/salsa/artists/lalupe.html)
1992 Feb 29, Bosnia-Herzegovina
voted overwhelmingly for independence. The Muslim-led Bosnian
government declared independence.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)
1992 Mar 1, "Little Hotel on
the Side" closed at Belasco in NYC after 41 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0405)
1992 Mar 1, "Visit" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0426)
1992 Mar 1, Sen. Brock Adams
abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in
a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
(AP, 3/1/02)
1992 Mar 1, Bosnian Serbs began
sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Moslems voted for Bosnian
independence.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1992 Mar 2, A jury was seated
in Simi Valley, Calif., in the assault trial of four Los Angeles
police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, Actress Sandy
Dennis died in Westport, Conn., at age 54.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, The 47th session of
the UN General Assembly welcomed eight former Soviet republics and
San Marino as its newest members. Kazakhstan’s Pres. Nursultan
Nazarbayev proposed to the UN General Assembly an annual reduction
of military budgets by 1% and using the money to fund and strengthen
UN peace projects.
(AP, 3/2/02)(Econ, 12/16/06, p.81)
1992 Mar 3, President Bush
apologized for raising taxes after pledging not to.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, In so-called
"Junior Tuesday" political contests, Democrat Paul Tsongas won
primaries in Maryland and Utah; Bill Clinton won in Georgia, Jerry
Brown in Colorado. Among Republicans, President George H.W. Bush
swept Georgia, Maryland and Colorado.
(AP, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Charges were filed
in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and
Dwight Gooden for rape. They were dropped in April.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Bosnia’s Muslims
and Croats voted for independence in a referendum boycotted by
Serbs.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Mar 3, In Turkey a gas
explosion in underground coal mine in Kozlu, near the Black Sea port
of Zonguldak, claimed 263 lives.
(AP, 3/3/02)(AP, 5/17/10)
1992 Mar 4, Another round of
Middle East peace negotiations concluded in Washington, D.C., with
Israel rejecting a plan for Palestinian elections.
(AP, 3/4/02)
1992 Mar 4, Arthur Babbitt
(84), Disney animator (Mr. Magoo, Goofy), died of heart failure.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1992 Mar 5, Nebraska Sen. Bob
Kerrey dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
(AP, 3/5/02)
1992 Mar 5, The trial of four
Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney
King opened in Simi Valley, Calif.
(AP, 3/5/02)
1992 Mar 5, In Copenhagen the
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, in the
presence of the representative from the European Commission, opened
a 2-day meeting and decided to establish a Council of the Baltic Sea
States to serve as a forum for guidance and overall coordination
among the participating states. Iceland joined the CBSS in 1995
(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.63)(www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/European-policy/baltic-market.html)
1992 Mar 6, Personal computer
users braced for a virus known as "Michelangelo," set to trigger on
March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported. The
Michelangelo computer virus threatened computer systems around the
world. It was designed to lodge itself into a corner of the system
and infect any floppies put into the system, and to eventually
mangle the hard drive.
(Sp., 5/96, p.68)(AP, 3/6/02)
1992 Mar 7, Democrat Bill
Clinton picked up additional victories in the South Carolina primary
and the Wyoming caucuses, while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the
Arizona caucuses. President George H.W. Bush won the Republican
primary in South Carolina.
(AP, 3/7/02)
1992 Mar 7, An Israeli security
chief was killed in a car bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey. Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1992 Mar 8, President George
H.W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton headed toward "Super Tuesday"
claiming big boosts from weekend victories.
(AP, 3/8/02)
1992 Mar 8, Ninety people were
killed when a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine collided
with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand.
(AP, 3/8/02)
1992 Mar 9, Iowa Sen. Tom
Harkin dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
(AP, 3/9/02)
1992 Mar 9, Menachem Begin,
former Israeli Prime Minister (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979) died in
Tel Aviv at age 78. In 1987 Amos Perlmutter (d.2001 at 69) authored
"The Life and Times of Menachim Begin."
(AP, 3/9/98)(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A27)
1992 Mar 10, Democrat Bill
Clinton claimed front-runner status as he won a series of Southern
landslides on "Super Tuesday." President George H.W. Bush swept all
the Republican contests.
(AP, 3/10/02)
1992 Mar 11, Members of the
U.N. Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of "cheat and
retreat" from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human
rights; Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying
his country was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1992 Mar 11, Manuel De Dios
Unanue (48), US anti-drug journalist and former editor of El
Diario-La Prensa, was murdered by two bullets to the head in a
restaurant in the Jackson Heights section of the borough of Queens,
New York City. His death was linked to his writing critically about
the Colombian Drug Cartel.
(http://tinyurl.com/2f3c4x)
1992 Mar 12, This issue of
Rolling Stone magazine contained an article by Tom Curtis that
outlined a theory for the origin of AIDS based on the Wister vaccine
developed by Hilary Koprowski and given to some 300,000 people in
the Belgian Congo between 1957-1960.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A14)
1992 Mar 12, Efraim Banaca
Velasquez, a guerilla leader in Guatemala married to an American
lawyer (Jennifer Harbury), disappeared and was later murdered.
Secret US government files later disclosed that the Guatemalan
colonel, Julio Roberto Alpirez, oversaw the interrogation and
debriefing and that he was on CIA payroll. A suit filed by Harbury
in 1995 against a list of US officials was dismissed in 1999 and
reinstated in 2000 on appeal.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-6)(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C13)(SFC,
3/18/97, p.A10)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A4)
1992 Mar 13, The U.N. Security
Council stood firm in its demand that Iraq comply totally with Gulf
War cease-fire resolutions, rebuffing an appeal for leniency from
Saddam Hussein's special envoy, deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1992 Mar 13, Some 498 died in
an earthquake at Erzincan, Turkey.
(www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geosciences/qketour/qkexampl/qk990817.html)
1992 Mar 14, The Associated
Press obtained the names of 22 of 24 of the worst offenders in the
check overdraft scandal at the House bank; topping the list were
former Rep. Tommy Robinson of Arkansas and Rep. Bob Mrazek of New
York, both Democrats.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1992 Mar 14, Soviet newspaper
"Pravda" suspended publication.
(www.hightowertrail.com/VanguardMar05.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Steven Brian
Pennell (34), serial killer, was executed. This was the 1st
execution in Delaware in 45 years.
(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/pennell.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Jean Poiret (65),
French actor, writer (La Cage aux Folles), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001144)
1992 Mar 15, Democratic
presidential candidates debated in Chicago, criticizing President
George H.W. Bush's handling of the Persian Gulf War and its
aftermath, and clashing over economic issues.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1992 Mar 15, The United Nations
officially embarked on its largest peacekeeping operation with the
arrival of a diplomat in Cambodia.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1992 Mar 16, Robert J. Eaton,
head of General Motors' profitable European operations, joined
Chrysler Corp. as Chairman Lee Iacocca's future successor.
(AP, 3/16/97)
1992 Mar 17, Democrat
Bill Clinton scored big primary victories in Illinois and Michigan.
In Illinois, Sen. Alan Dixon was defeated in his primary re-election
bid by Carol Moseley-Braun, who went on to become the first black
woman in the U.S. Senate.
(AP, 3/17/97)
1992 Mar 17, Three of President
George Bush's cabinet secretaries disclosed that they had overdrawn
their accounts at the scandal-ridden House of Representatives bank
when they were in Congress.
(www.iht.com/articles/1992/03/18/hous_3.php)
1992 Mar 17, Grace Stafford
Lantz (87), cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0821282/)
1992 Mar 17, A truck
bombing at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killed 29
people. Iran denied any role. Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh was
suspected of involvement. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(AP, 3/17/97)(WSJ, 11/24/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/19/01,
p.A14)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1992 Mar 17, The whites of
South Africa voted in a referendum to endorse the “continuation of
the reform process” by a margin of 68.73% to 31.27%. They supported
the negotiated reforms begun by State President F.W. de Klerk two
years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_apartheid_referendum,_1992)
1992 Mar 18, US National
Football League owners voted to drop the use of instant videotape
replays to settle disputed calls during games. Instant replay was
brought back in 1999.
(AP, 3/18/02)
1992 Mar 18, Leona Helmsley was
sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion.
(http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10611F63B580C718EDDAA0894DA494D81)
1992 Mar 18, South African
President F.W. de Klerk claimed victory for his reforms a day after
a whites-only referendum on whether to end apartheid.
(AP, 3/18/97)
1992 Mar 19, Democrat Paul
Tsongas pulled out of the presidential race, leaving Arkansas Gov.
Bill Clinton the favorite to capture their party's nomination.
Tsongas had won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential
primary.
(AP, 3/19/97)(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)
1992 Mar 19, British Prince
Andrew and Princess Sarah Ferguson announced separation.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/19/newsid_2543000/2543667.stm)
1992 Mar 19, Soviet
Commonwealth leaders open their 4th summit with hopes of solving
military disputes and stopping ethnic fighting.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1992 Mar 20, The US Congress
passed, and President Bush immediately vetoed, a Democratic tax cut
for the middle class that would have been funded by a tax hike on
the rich.
(AP, 3/20/97)
1992 Mar 21, During a debate
in Buffalo, N.Y., Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton
sought to turn the tables on rival Jerry Brown by accusing the
former California governor of hypocrisy on the issue of campaign
contributions.
(AP, 3/21/97)
1992 Mar 21, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met at Camp David, Md.
(AP, 3/21/97)
1992 Mar 22, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrapped up a weekend of informal talks
by reiterating their resolve to break a deadlock on global trade
talks.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 22, The show
"Conversations with My Father" opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC
for 462 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4669)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven
people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New
York's La Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Mar 22, France's governing
Socialist Party was rebuffed in regional elections.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 23, The president of
the U.N. Security Council announced that Libya had offered to
surrender two men suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to
the Arab League. Libya reversed itself two days later; however, the
suspects surrendered for trial seven years later. One was
subsequently convicted, the other found innocent.
(AP, 3/23/02)
1992 Mar 23, Friedrich A. von
Hayek (92), British economist, Nobel winner (1974), died. His books
included Road to Serfdom (1944) and “The Constitution of Liberty”
(1960). In 2004 Bruce Caldwell authored “Hayek’s Challenge: An
Intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek.”
(SS, 3/23/02)(Econ, 3/6/04, p.74)
1992 Mar 24, Democrat Jerry
Brown upset front-runner Bill Clinton in the Connecticut
presidential primary.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1992 Mar 24 The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts on the first shuttle
mission devoted to the environment.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1992 Mar 25, Libyan leader Col.
Moammar Gadhafi backed away from an offer to turn over two suspects
in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League.
(AP, 3/25/97)
1992 Mar 25, Soviet cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev, who'd spent 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space
station, thereby missing the upheaval in his homeland, finally
returned to Earth.
{Libya, Arab League}
(AP, 3/25/97)
1992 Mar 26, A judge in
Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson
to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant.
Tyson ended up serving three years.
(AP, 3/26/02)
1992 Mar 27, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton, campaigning in New York,
apologized for recently golfing at an all-white club.
(AP, 3/27/97)
1992 Mar 27, German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl met with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Munich, a
meeting denounced by Jewish groups because of Waldheim's alleged
involvement with Nazi persecution during World War II.
(AP, 3/27/97)
1992 Mar 27, Lang Hancock
(b.1909), pioneer Pilbara tycoon, died. He was famous for
discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and
becoming one of the richest men in Australia,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock)(Econ,
4/19/08, p.53)
1992 Mar 28, Democrats Bill
Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed over Brown's flat-tax proposal, with
Clinton charging the plan would hurt the poor, and Brown accusing
Clinton of inventing "another big lie."
(AP, 3/28/97)
1992 Mar 28, In Jamaica Prime
Minister Michael Manley stepped down from office. He was succeeded
by P.J. Patterson.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A21)
1992 Mar 29, The film Hudson
Hawk won the 12th Golden Raspberry Award as worst picture.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Razzie_Awards/1992)
1992 Mar 29, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting
with marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford University,
adding, "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."
(AP, 3/29/97)
1992 Mar 29, Earl Spencer (68),
father of Lady Diana, died.
(http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/spencer.htm)
1992 Mar 29, Paul [G J von]
Henreid (84), Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), died.
(www.pgtw.bc.ca/histor3.htm)
1992 Mar 30, "The Silence of
the Lambs" won five Oscars at the 64th annual Academy Awards,
including best picture, best actress for Jodie Foster and best actor
for Anthony Hopkins.
(AP, 3/30/97)
1992 Mar 30, Walter Mickens Jr.
robbed, attempted sodomy, and stabbed Timothy Hall (17) 143 times in
Newport News, Va. Mickens was convicted of murder in 1993 and was
executed in 2002.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A3)(SFC, 6/13/02, p.A5)
1992 Mar 31, The Battleship USS
Missouri was decommissioned. This was the ship on which Japan signed
its WWII surrender. In 1996 Paul Stillwell authored “Battleship
Missouri: An Illustrated History.”
(www.battleship.org/html/Articles/Features/stillwell.htm)
1992 Mar, The Hearst Corp. and
Dow Jones launched SmartMoney, The Wall Street Journal Magazine of
Personal Business. Hearst and MediaOne started New England Cable
News. In 2010 News Corp., the owner of Dow Jones, announced that it
was buying out Hearst’s 50% stake.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)(http://tinyurl.com/382usyx)
1992 Mar, In Albania the
Democratic party of Sali Berisha was elected with 92 of a 140 seats
in the legislature in the midst of economic freefall and social
chaos. Restoration of the economy and political system was a major
task and foreign assistance was required to maintain the food
supply. Berisha, a cardiologist, was elected president.
(CO, Grolier’s / Albania)(USAT, 2/11/97,
p.A1)(www, Albania, 1998)
1992 Mar, Chechnya adopted a
constitution that defined it as a secular state. Pres. Dzhokhar
Dudayev led the independence movement.
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A11)
1992 Mar, Elections were held
in Kosova; the Democratic League of Kosova won the majority of
votes; the elections were called illegal by the Serbian regime.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1992 Mar, In Belgrade 30,000
people turned out in protest over Milosevic’s war policy.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Mar, Dusan Tadic was
granted power by Serb authorities who occupied his predominantly
Muslim community in the spring of this year. He use it to launch a
frenzy of violence in three detention camps, Omarska, Keraterm and
Trnopolje near his home village of Kozarac. Milojica Kos, a
commander at the Omarska camp, was detained by NATO troops in 1998.
In 2002 Dusan Knezevic, a Bosnian Serb accused of atrocities in the
camps, gave himself up to the Hague tribunal.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D4)
1992 Mar, The Tarcin camp for
holding Serbs began operating in Bosnia about this time. It was not
shut down until Jan, 1996.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A10)
1992 Mar, In Finland the US
signed the Open Skies Treaty with 26 other nations to promote
openness by allowing countries to gather information about each
other through unarmed observation flights.
(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A2)
1992 Mar, In Thailand the
military Junta formed a party with politicians it had investigated
in 1991 to contest the elections.
(WSJ, 12/11/96, p.A16)
1992 Mar, Uzbek Pres. Karimov
banned Adolat. Authorities arrested hundreds and closed down mosques
and religious schools. Namangani and Yuldash fled to Tajikistan;
both later ended up in Afghanistan. Jumaboi Khojiyev, former Soviet
soldier, fled the country. Tahir Yuldash fled the country as Uzbek
authorities sought to arrest him. In 1996 they founded the Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) operating out of Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.D2)(AP, 3/30/04)(WSJ, 5/3/01,
p.A8)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A19)
1992 Apr 1,
President Bush pledged the United States would help finance a $24
billion international aid fund for the former Soviet Union.
(AP, 4/1/97)
1992 Apr 1, The US House ethics
committee publicly identified 22 current and former lawmakers as the
worst offenders in the House bank overdraft controversy.
(AP, 4/1/97)
1992 Apr 1, NHL players began
the first strike in the 75-year history of the NHL.
(OTD)
1992 Apr 2, John Gotti
(d.2002), Mafia boss, was convicted in New York City of 5 murders
and racketeering. Underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano provided
testimony. The murders included the 1985 hit on Paul Castellano,
head of the Gambino family. He was sentenced to life in prison on
June 23.
(AP, 4/2/98)(USAT, 9/24/98, p.11A)(SFC, 6/11/02,
p.A2)(SSFC, 8/11/02, Par p.4)
1992 Apr 2, The space shuttle
Atlantis returned from a nine-day mission.
(AP, 4/2/02)
1992 Apr 2, French Premier
Edith Cresson, who had served 10 turbulent months as France's first
woman prime minister, resigned after election setbacks for the
ruling Socialists.
(AP, 4/2/02)
1992 Apr 3, President Bush,
speaking in Philadelphia, said members of Congress should shorten
their annual sessions and retire after 12 years, calling for changes
in "a failed status quo"; Democratic leaders accused Bush of
"scapegoating."
(AP, 4/3/97)
1992 Apr 4, His campaign
acknowledged that Bill Clinton had received an induction notice in
April 1969 while attending college in Oxford, England; Clinton said
the notice arrived after he was due to report, and that his local
draft board had told him he could complete the school term.
(AP, 4/4/97)
1992 Apr 5, In Washington,
D.C., a crowd estimated by authorities at half a million marched in
support of abortion rights.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Wal-Mart founder
Sam Walton died in Little Rock, Ark., at age 74. In 1999 Bob Ortega
authored the biography "In Sam We Trust."
(AP, 4/5/97)(SFEC, 4/18/99, BR p.9)
1992 Apr 5, A medical student
(Suada Dilberovic) became the first fatality of war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina as Serb nationalists began forcibly opposing the
republic's secession from Yugoslavia.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Pres. Fujimori
seized dictatorial power by sending tanks to shut down Peru's
Congress and judiciary. Former president Alan Garcia fled Peru to
avoid arrest by the Fujimori regime. In 2008 Peru's Cabinet chief
testified at the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that
security forces attempted to assassinate Garcia following the shut
down of Congress.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D4)(AP, 1/18/08)
1992 Apr 6, Oriole Park at
Camden Yards opened and Baltimore beat Cleveland 2-0.
(www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/oriole.htm)
1992 Apr 6, The US Supreme
Court limited some undercover sting operations as it ruled that a
Nebraska farmer had been entrapped by postal agents into buying
mail-order child pornography.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1992 Apr 6, Microsoft released
Windows 3.1.
(www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/poole.mspx)
1992 Apr 6, Molly Picon
(b.1898), Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey), died of Alzheimer's.
(http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/picon/mp25.html)
1992 Apr 6,
Isaac Asimov (72), science fiction author, died in New York. He had
authored 467 books.
(AP, 4/6/97)(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.D1)
1992 Apr 6, Alija Izetbegovic
declared independence for Bosnia. The European Community recognized
the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent
state.
(AP, 4/6/02)(SFC, 10/20/03, p.A18)
1992 Apr 6, War broke out in
northern Bosnia between the Bosnian government and local Serbs who
began to lay siege to the capital Serajevo. Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic, a psychiatrist, began the war in Bosnia with the
help of Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic, who ruled Yugoslavia and
the old Yugoslav People’s Army.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-11)(WP. 6/29/96,
p.A20)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Apr 6, In Peru journalist
Gustavo Gorriti was kidnapped hours after Fujimori seized
dictatorial powers, announcing over television that he was closing
Congress because it was sabotaging his war against the rebels.
Gorriti was released the next day after an intense campaign by
international journalist associations and human rights groups for
his freedom. Pres. Fujimori closed Congress and the judiciary and
ruled by decree for the rest of the year.
(SFE, 9/17/96, p.A11)(AP, 1/5/08)
1992 Apr 7, Democrat Bill
Clinton swept the New York, Kansas and Wisconsin primaries.
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat survived the crash landing of his plane in the Libyan desert;
three crew members were killed.
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, The Sacramento Bee,
The New York Times and Newsday won two Pulitzer prizes each;
playwright Robert Schenkkan was honored for "The Kentucky Cycle,"
novelist Jane Smiley for "A Thousand Acres."
(AP, 4/7/97)
1992 Apr 7, Suchinda
Kraprayoon, leader of a military coup, became PM of Thailand he
served until 24 May 1992.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchinda_Kraprayoon)(Econ, 6/17/06,
p.49)
1992 Apr 8, "Five Guys Named
Moe" opened at Eugene O'Neill Theater in NYC for 445 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=3583)
1992 Apr 8, Tennis great Arthur
Ashe announced at a New York news conference that he had AIDS,
saying he was forced to go public because a newspaper had inquired
about his health. Ashe died February, 1993, of AIDS-related
pneumonia at age 49.
(AP, 4/8/97)
1992 Apr 8, Britain's "Punch
Magazine" ran its final issue after 151 years.
(http://tinyurl.com/c3n3a)
1992 Apr 9,
Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of
eight drug and racketeering charges; he is serving a 30-year prison
sentence.
(AP, 4/9/02)
1992 Apr 9, Barbara Muszalski
disappeared from her Livermore, Ca., goat ranch. Her slashed body
was found 2 days later at the SF airport parking garage. Benjamin
Pedro Gonzales, who had stayed at the ranch for odd jobs, was
arrested in San Diego for the murder. He was also accused of the
murder of a Los Angeles college student and a New York stripper.
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.A15,19)
1992
Apr 9, Britain's Conservatives came from behind to become the first
British political party to win four straight elections this century.
John Major (C) was elected PM of England.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, Financier Charles
Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for
swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. He
had acquired Lincoln Savings in 1984 through his Phoenix-based
American Continental. The convictions were later overturned.
(AP, 4/10/97)(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A3)
1992 Apr 10, Comedian Sam
Kinison (38) was killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, The IRA bombed the
London financial district killing 3 with 91 injured.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A11)
1992 Apr 11, The Russian
Congress of People's Deputies rejected an appeal by President Boris
Yeltsin for another six months to carry out his reforms, ordering
him to select a new Cabinet by July; a compromise was worked out a
few days later.
(AP, 4/11/97)
1992 Apr 12, After five years
in the making, Euro Disneyland, a theme park costing $4 billion,
opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France, amid controversy as French
intellectuals bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture.
(AP, 4/12/97)
1992 Apr 13, The Great Chicago
Flood took place as the city's century-old tunnel system and
adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.B2)(AP, 4/13/97)
1992 Apr 13, The opera "Life
With an Idiot" by Alfred Schnittke had its world premier at the
Netherlands Music Theater in Amsterdam.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A17)
1992 Apr 13, Crystal Pepsi
began test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas.
(http://crystalpepsi.captainmike.org/)
1992 Apr 13, Wallace Stegner
(b.1909), novelist (Pulitzer 1972), died in New Mexico.
(http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/main/envir/wsbio.htm)
1992 Apr 13, An earthquake
rocked Germany and the Netherlands.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/sig_1992.html)
1992 Apr 13, Nelson Mandela
announced he would seek a divorce from Winnie.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/etc/cron.html)
1992 Apr 14, "Guys and Dolls"
opened at Martin Beck Theater in NYC for 1143 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4679)
1992 Apr 14, British Sgt.
Michael Newman was killed outside an army recruiting office in
Derby. Three men were allegedly involved in the attack. In 2010
Declan Duffy (36), an Irish republican who had confessed to being
involved in the killing, was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 7/22/10)
1992 Apr 14, Libya cut itself
off from the world for 24 hours to mark the sixth anniversary of the
U.S. air raid, the same day the World Court rejected Libya's appeal
to prevent sanctions against it for refusing to turn over suspects
in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
(AP, 4/14/97)
1992 Apr 15, Hotel magnate
Leona Helmsley began serving a prison sentence for tax evasion. She
was released from prison after 18 months.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1992 Apr 15, A US court threw
out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft.
(www.abo.fi/~adeheer/students/itlekt1e.)
1992 Apr 15, On April 15-16 the
Mujahedeen overthrew the Communist government led by Pres.
Najibullah in Kabul. The Mujahideen took Kabul and liberated
Afghanistan, Najibullah was protected by the UN. The Mujahideen
formed an Islamic State, Islamic Jihad Council, and scheduled
elections.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)(SFC, 9/27/96,
p.A12)(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1992 Apr 15, Countries barred
Libyan jets from their airspace and ordered diplomats to go home
because of Libya's refusal to turn over suspects in the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103. U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on arms
sales and air travel against Libya to prod Gadhafi into surrendering
two suspects wanted in the Pan Am 103.
(AP, 4/15/97)(AP, 12/19/03)
1992 Apr 15, Russia's deeply
divided Congress of People's Deputies formally endorsed President
Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1992 Apr 16, The US House
ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had
overdrawn their House bank accounts.
(AP, 4/16/97)
1992 Apr 16, Neville Brand,
actor (Stalag 17), died of emphysema.
(www.nndb.com/people/246/000088979/)
1992 Apr 17, US Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee the modest
pace of economic expansion wasn't adequate, a remark interpreted as
a signal he might cut interest rates further.
(AP, 4/17/97)
1992 Apr 18, Democrat Jerry
Brown met with black leaders in Philadelphia while front-runner Bill
Clinton visited a Phillies-Pirates ballgame as the two courted
Pennsylvania primary voters.
(AP, 4/18/97)
1992 Apr 18, Serbia
issued a protest to the United States, accusing Washington of siding
with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia in the Yugoslav crisis.
(AP, 4/18/97)
1992 Apr 19, After six days,
engineers plugged the tunnel leak under the Chicago River that
caused an underground flood that had virtually shut down business in
the heart of the city.
(AP, 4/19/97)
1992 Apr 20, Defending champion
Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya became the sixth three-time winner of the
Boston Marathon, while Russia's Olga Markova won the women's
division.
(AP, 4/20/97)
1992 Apr 20, The Russian
congress adopted a resolution affirming Russia's membership in the
Commonwealth of Independent States in a victory for President Boris
Yeltsin.
(AP, 4/20/97)
1992 Apr 21, Robert Alton
Harris became the first person executed at San Quentin by the state
of California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber
for the 1978 murder of two San Diego teen-age boys. Harris left some
art that was later put on sale at Expressions Art Gallery in
Oakland.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C17)(AP, 4/21/97)(SFC, 2/6/99,
p.A13)
1992 Apr 22, The US Supreme
Court heard arguments on Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law.
The court upheld most of the law's provisions the following June,
but also reaffirmed a woman's basic right to an abortion.
(AP, 4/22/97)
1992 Apr 22, A 6.0 Joshua Tree
earthquake hit California.
(www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/joshuatr.html)
1992 Apr 22, In Guadalajara,
Mexico, more than 200 people were killed by a series of sewer
explosions.
(AP, 4/22/97)
1992 Apr 23, Marion Berry,
former mayor of Wash DC, was let out of prison.
(www.washtimes.com/metro/20040613-111808-1902r.htm)
1992 Apr 23, McDonald's opened
its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
(AP, 4/23/97)
1992 Apr 23, In Burma Gen’l.
Saw Maung stepped down as chairman of SLORC because of illness. He
was replaced by Gen’l. Than Shwe.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A18)
1992 Apr 23, Fighting erupted
in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo just hours after the warring
parties signed a truce amid sniper fire.
(AP, 4/23/97)
1992 Apr 23, Satyajit Ray
(b.1921), Indian director (Distant Thunder, Agantuk), died.
(http://www.satyajitray.org/bio/index.htm)
1992 Apr 24, President Bush and
Democratic challenger Bill Clinton made long-distance back-to-back
appearances via satellite hookups before the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
(AP, 4/24/97)
1992 Apr 25, The Ms. Foundation
began its "Take Our Daughters to Work Day."
(SFC, 4/24/02, p.A1)
1992 Apr 25, An earthquake
measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale shook northern California.
(AP, 4/25/97)
1992 Apr 25, Islamic forces in
Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following
the collapse of the Communist government.
(AP, 4/25/97)
1992 Apr 26, The musical "Grand
Hotel" closed at the Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,017
performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4254)
1992 Apr 26, Finance officials
from the Group of Seven nations, meeting in Washington, endorsed the
broad outlines of an economic assistance package for the former
Soviet Union.
(AP, 4/26/02)
1992 Apr 26, Worshippers
celebrated the first Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 years.
(AP, 4/26/02)
1992 Apr 27, Olivier Messiaen
(b.1908), French composer, died. His work included the 1983 opera
"St. Francis d’Assise."
(WSJ, 10/3/02,
p.D6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen)
1992 Apr 27, The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of
Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1992 Apr 27, Russia and 12
other former Soviet republics won entry into the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1992 Apr 28, President Bush and
Bill Clinton won the Pennsylvania presidential primary.
(AP, 4/28/97)
1992 Apr 28, The US Agriculture
Department unveiled its pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart that
had cost nearly $1 million to develop.
(AP, 4/28/97)
1992 Apr 29, "Falsettos" opened
at John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4686)
1992 Apr 29, Exxon executive
Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, N.J., home by
Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security official, and Seale's wife,
Irene, and held for ransom; Reso died in captivity. Arthur Seale is
serving a 95-year prison term, while his wife is serving a 20-year
sentence.
(AP, 4/29/02)
1992 Apr 29, Deadly rioting
erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted
four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the
videotaped beating of Rodney King. White truck driver Reginald Denny
was beaten by a mob in south Central LA angered by the acquittal of
4 police officers caught on video tape in the beating of black
motorist Rodney King. Three days of violence ensued with 55 people
killed, 2,300 injured and an estimated $1 billion [$717 million] in
property damages. Rioters tore through the city following the not
guilty verdicts on state charges for Los Angeles Police Department
Sergeant Stacey C. Koon and officer Laurence M. Powell for beating
Rodney King. 1093 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Of these, 764
retail stores were owned by Koreans. The US Congress later
authorized $1 billion to revitalize south central Los Angeles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A4)(SFC,
1/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.CA1)(AP,
4/29/98)(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A3)
1992 Apr 30, As rioting in Los
Angeles entered its second day, President Bush condemned the
violence and said the Justice Department would intensify its
investigation of police conduct in the beating of Rodney King.
(AP, 4/30/97)
1992 Apr, The EC recognized
Bosnia-Herzegovina and the US followed and also recognized Slovenia
and Croatia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Apr, In Bosnia Dragan
Gagovic became the police chief of Foca. He oversaw the detention of
Muslims held in a local sports hall. His men regularly beat and
gang-raped female detainees and he personally participated. He was
later indicted for war crimes and was killed during an arrest
attempt in 1999.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A17)
1992 Apr, In Bosnia Janko
"Tuta" Janjic, car mechanic, became a sub-commander and was
responsible for the rape and enslavement of dozens of Muslim
women. In 2000 Janjic killed himself with a grenade when NATO
troops came to arrest him.
(SFC, 10/14/00,
p.A10)(www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/foc-ii960626e.htm)
1992 Apr, The Iranian
Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), a militant opposition group, attacked
Iranian assets in 13 countries simultaneously.
(WSJ, 7/11/96,
p.A10)(http://complete911timeline.org/entity.jsp?entity=mujahedeen-e_khalq)
1992 May 1, On the 3rd
day of the Los Angeles riots, beaten motorist Rodney King appeared
in public to appeal for calm, asking, "Can we all get along?"
President Bush delivered a nationally broadcast address in which he
vowed to "use whatever force is necessary" to restore order.
(AP, 5/1/97)
1992 May 1, It was reported
that a new study indicated that peptic ulcers were caused by a
bacterium called Helicobacter pylori.
(WSJ, 10/24/05, p.A15)
1992 May 1, Serbian forces
began to shell Serajevo.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 May 2, Los Angeles began
to recover from rioting that had erupted in the wake of the Rodney
King-taped beating acquittals; about 2,800 National Guard troops
patrolled the city while 3,200 stood by.
(AP, 5/2/97)
1992 May 2, Former US House
Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur D. Mills died in Searcy, Ark., at age
82.
(AP, 5/2/97)
1992 May 2, Ejup Ganic took
over as Bosnia's acting president. Serbian prosecutors later alleged
that Ganic personally commanded a series of attacks on illegal
targets across Sarajevo, including an officers' club, a military
hospital and what the Serbs describe as a medical convoy making its
way out of town.
(AP, 3/4/11)
1992 May 3, In Los Angeles,
soldiers continued to patrol streets and guard fire-gutted and
ransacked stores in the wake of rioting that erupted following the
Rodney King-taped beating acquittals.
(AP, 5/3/97)
1992 May 3, Hollywood
song-and-dance-man-turned-politician George Murphy died at age 89.
(AP, 5/3/97)
1992 May 3, In Bosnia armed men
cruised into Doboj and began a process of ethnic cleansing that
pushed 62,000 non-Serbs from their homes in the surrounding area.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A22)
1992 May 3, Yugoslav Army
seized Bosnian Pres. Alija Izetbegovic on his return from peace
talks in Lisbon. He was released the next day.
(www.nytimes.com/specials/bosnia/context/apchrono.html)
1992 May 4, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton toured riot-ravaged Los Angeles
streets, blaming the destruction on what he called 12 years of
Republican neglect.
(AP, 5/4/97)
1992 May 4, India and Russia
sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation.
(www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048779)
1992 May 5, President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton picked up primary victories in Indiana, North
Carolina and the District of Columbia.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1992 May 5, The Basel
Convention, which curbed the trade of toxic materials, came into
force after being ratified by 20 nations. By 2008 170 nations had
signed the convention.
(www.ec.gc.ca/wmd-dgd/default.asp?lang=En&n=AE05D309-1)(SSFC,
7/6/08, p.A2)
1992 May 5, Yugoslav troops
evacuated Sarajevo under a deal struck with the UN. The troops
clashed with Bosnians under the leadership of Ejup Ganic. Some 42
soldiers were killed.
(Econ, 3/6/10,
p.70)(www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/comexpert/ANX/VI-01.htm#II.B.1)
1992 May 6, Former Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev delivered a speech at Westminster
College in Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill had spoken of the
Iron Curtain; Gorbachev said the world was still divided, between
north and south and rich and poor.
1992 May 6, Actress Marlene
Dietrich (b.1901), film star and singer, died at her Paris home at
age 90. She was buried in Germany on May 16.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.D-2)(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 7, President Bush
visited riot-scarred Los Angeles.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, The space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off on its maiden voyage.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, A 203-year-old
proposed constitutional amendment barring the US Congress from
giving itself a midterm pay raise received enough votes for
ratification as Michigan became the 38th state to approve it.
(AP, 5/7/97)
1992 May 7, The Russian
Federation applied to join the Council of Europe. It acceded to the
council on Feb 28, 1996.
(http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/AdoptedText/TA96/Eopi193.htm)
1992 May 8, President Bush
wound up two emotional days in riot-ravaged Los Angeles, promising
to work harder in Washington to enact a "common-sense agenda" of
conservative proposals to help urban America.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1992 May 9, Final episode of
"Golden Girls" aired on NBC-TV.
(www.tv.com/golden-girls/show/131/summary.html)
1992 May 9, President Bush,
back in Washington after a visit to riot-torn Los Angeles, promised
in a radio speech that he would work with the Democrat-controlled
Congress on proposals to help American cities.
(AP, 5/9/97)
1992 May 10, Astronaut Pierre
Thuot tried but failed to snag a wayward satellite during a
spacewalk outside the shuttle Endeavour. A trio of astronauts
succeeded in capturing the Intelsat-Six three days later.
(AP, 5/10/97)
1992 May 11, Leaders of 12
European countries recalled their ambassadors from Serb-dominated
Yugoslavia to protest Serb involvement in Bosnia's ethnic war.
(AP, 5/11/97)
1992 May 11, Carlos Herrera
(90), drink inventor (Margarita), died.
(http://home.flash.net/~whaugen/margarita.htm)
1992 May 12, Four suspects were
arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of
the Los Angeles riots.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 12, President Bush
announced he would travel to the Earth Summit in Brazil.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 12, Actor Robert Reed
(59) of TV's "The Brady Bunch" died in Pasadena, Calif.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1992 May 13, A trio of
astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour captured a wayward
Intelsat-6 communications satellite during the first-ever
three-person spacewalk.
(AP, 5/13/97)
1992 May 13, President Bush
announced a $600 million loan package to help rebuild riot-scarred
Los Angeles.
(AP, 5/13/02)
1992 May 14, Former Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S.
Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill aiding the people of the
former Soviet Union.
(AP, 5/14/97)
1992 May 14, A US press
briefing on Serajevo by State Department spokeswoman Margaret
Tutweiler indicated concerns of ethnic cleansing by Serb forces.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 May 14, Lyle Alzado (43),
former football player, died in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 5/14/97)
1992 May 15, A judge in Los
Angeles ordered police officer Laurence Powell retried on a charge
of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. The charge was
eventually dropped.
(AP, 5/15/97)
1992 May 16, America3,
skippered by Bill Koch, won the 28th defense of the America's Cup.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 16, The space shuttle
Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the
California desert.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1992 May 17, Pro-democracy
protests began in Thailand; in four days of clashes with troops, 44
people reportedly were killed, although activists charged that
hundreds died.
(AP, 5/17/97)
1992 May 17, Lawrence Welk
(89), conductor and accordionist, died in Santa Monica, Calif.
(AP, 5/17/97)(SFC, 8/19/99, p.E2)
1992 May 18, The US Supreme
Court ruled that states may not force mentally unstable criminal
defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs while on trial unless a good
reason is shown to require the medication.
(AP, 5/18/97)
1992 May 18, Skip Stephenson
(52) comedian (Real People), died of heart attack.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0827323/)
1992 May 18, Marshall Thompson
(65), TV and movie actor and writer, died of congestive heart
failure in Royal Oak, Michigan. He played Dr. Marsh Tracy, the
veterinarian, on “Daktari.” He was born November 27, 1925 in Peoria,
Illinois.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0860471/)
1992 May 19, The 27th Amendment
to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself
mid-term pay raises, went into effect as it was certified by the
archivist of the United States, two centuries after it was first
proposed by James Madison. It actually became part of the
constitution on May 7, 1992, when Michigan became the 38th state to
ratify the amendment.
(AP, 5/19/97)
1992 May 19, In San Francisco,
Vice President Dan Quayle denounced what he called the "poverty of
values" in America's inner cities, and criticized the TV show
"Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child
out of wedlock.
(AP, 5/19/97)
1992 May 19, In Massapequa, New
York, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by teen-ager
Amy Fisher (17), who claimed to be having an affair with Mrs.
Buttafuoco's husband, Joey, an allegation the Buttafuoco's denied.
Joey later pleaded guilty to 3rd degree rape and admitted to the
affair. In 1998 Mr. Buttafuoco planned to premier a TV show on
public cable access for "people jammed up in the media."
(AP, 5/19/97)(SFC, 3/31/98, p.A6)
1992 May 19, Members of a
Bosnian Serb paramilitary group allegedly killed 11 detained Bosniak
(Bosnian Muslim) civilians in the Hunters Lodge in Mostina, shooting
from automatic rifles and throwing hand grenades through an opened
door. In 2010 Milan Kornjaca (56) Milorad Zivkovic 54) and Dusko
Tadic (46) were charged with taking part in the killing.
(Reuters, 6/9/10)
1992 May 20, Proclaiming his
innocence to the end, Roger Keith Coleman was executed in Virginia's
electric chair for the 1981 rape-murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda
McCoy. In 2006 DNA evidence confirmed that Coleman was guilty.
(AP, 5/20/97)(AP, 1/13/06)
1992 May 20, Thailand's
much-revered monarch (King Bhumibol Adulyadej) called for an end to
violent clashes between troops and pro-democracy protesters.
(AP, 5/20/02)
1992 May 21, The US Coast Guard
announced that high-seas interdiction of Haitian refugees was being
drastically scaled back because refugee camps at the U.S. naval base
at Guantanamo, Cuba, were filled.
(AP, 5/21/97)
1992 May 22, Johnny Carson
hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after a reign lasting
nearly 30 years, telling his audience: "I bid you a very heartfelt
good night." Carson was succeeded by Jay Leno.
(AP, 5/22/97)
1992 May 22, Bosnia, Croatia
and Slovenia joined the UN.
(SFC, 6/11/96,
p.A14)(www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html)
1992 May 23, Pres. Bush issued
Executive Order 12807 authorizing the repatriation of Haitian
refugees interdicted by the Coast Guard.
(http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/nov91.htm)
1992 May 23, The United States
and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon,
Portugal, to implement the START missile-reduction treaty that had
been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
(AP, 5/23/97)
1992 May 23, In Sicily
anti-Mafia investigator Giovannii Falcone was murdered on a highway
outside Palermo. Falcone’s wife and 3 bodyguards were also killed.
Sicilian politician Salvo Lima was also murdered. Anti-Mafia
investigator Paolo Borsellino was killed in another blast some
months later. In 1997 Pietro Aglieri, aka "U Signurinu" (The Little
Gentleman), was arrested for involvement in all three murders. 24
mobsters were convicted in the murder in 1997, including Leoluca
Bagarella.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 6/7/98,
p.A23)(http://giovanni-falcone.foosquare.com/)
1992 May 24, Al Unser Jr.
became the first second-generation winner of the Indianapolis 500;
his father, four-time winner Al Unser, finished third.
(AP, 5/24/97)
1992 May 24, Kosovo Albanians
held unofficial elections for an assembly and president. Ibrahim
Rugova won an overwhelming majority and was elected President of
Kosovo.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/yugoslavia/)
1992 May 24, Thailand protests,
supported by numerous political movements, climaxed with the
resignation of PM Suchinda. Deputy PM Meechai Ruchuphan took office
for a transitional period until the new government was assigned. He
was succeeded by Anand Panyarachun.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchinda_Kraprayoon)
1992 May 24-1992 Aug 30, In
Bosnia Serbian forces confined over 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats
in inhuman conditions at the Keraterm prison camp. Damir Dosen
served as a shift commander at the Keraterm prison camp in
northwestern Bosnia. Detainees were killed, sexually assaulted and
beaten. In 1999 Dragan Kulundzija, a former shift commander at
Keraterm, was arrested on charges of killing and torturing
prisoners. In 1999 Dosen, a Bosnian Serb, was arrested for war
crimes and flown to the Hague for trial.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/26/99, p.A1)(SFC,
11/9/99, p.A14)
1992 May 25, The NBC "Jay Leno
Show" began following the end of the "Tonight Show" with Johnny
Carson. It was initially produced by Helen Kushnick (1945-1996).
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.C3)(AP, 5/25/98)
1992 May 25, A 7.0 earthquake
on the Caribbean Plate hit Cuba.
(WSJ, 1/21/97,
p.A18)(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/sig_1992.html)
1992 May 25, Philip Habib (72),
career US diplomat, died in Puligny-Montrachet, France.
(AP, 5/25/97)
1992 May 25, Oscar Luigi
Scalfaro was elected President of Italy.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Johan B.W. Polak
(63) publisher, publicist (Bloom of Décadence), died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Nancy Walker (71),
actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), died of cancer.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25, Viktor Grishin
(78), hardline soviet communist, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1992 May 25-1992 Aug 30,
Dragoljub Prcac, a Bosnian Serb, served as the deputy commander of
the Omarska prison camp in Bosnia. He was arrested by NATO
peacekeepers for war crimes in 2000. In 2001 Prcac and 3 others
received sentences of 5-20 years. Zoran Zigic was sentenced to 25
years for his acts of violence.
(SFC, 3/6/00, p.A12)(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
1992 May 26, President Bush and
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won primaries in Kentucky, Arkansas and
Idaho.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1992 May 26, The White House
announced that the Coast Guard was returning a group of Haitian
refugees picked up at sea to their homeland under a new executive
order signed by Bush.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1992 May 27, The 12-nation
European Community imposed trade sanctions on Serbia to stop its
interference in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 5/27/97)
1992 May 27, Tony "Big Tuna"
Accardo (86), mobster (heir to the late Al Capone), died.
(www.ipsn.org/characters/accardo.html)
1992 May 28, The US House of
Representatives voted to lift a ban on using aborted fetuses for
tissue transplantation research, but the tally fell short of a
veto-proof majority.
(AP, 5/28/97)
1992 May 28, The United States
offered $9 million in aid to victims of the fighting in former
Yugoslavia.
(AP, 5/28/97)
1992 May 29, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot held a rally in Orlando, Fla.,
that was carried by two-way television satellite to five other
states.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1992 May 29, Bill Beyers (37),
actor (Capitol), died of AIDS.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0079964/)
1992 May 29, Peter John "Ollie"
Halsall (43), English born guitarist, died of a heart attack in
Spain.
(www.philbrodieband.com/muso_ollie_halsall.htm)
1992 May 29, Pippa Steele (44),
German born actress (Vampire Lovers), died of cancer in London.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0824448/)
1992 May 30, President Bush
ordered the seizure of Yugoslav government assets in the United
States after the United Nations imposed sanctions in an effort to
force Yugoslavia to observe a cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 5/30/97)
1992 May 31, "Crazy for You"
was named Broadway's best musical at the Tony Awards; "Dancing at
Lughnasa" was named best play.
(AP, 5/31/97)
1992 May 31, An estimated
50,000 people demonstrated in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, against
Communist-organized elections.
(AP, 5/31/97)
1992 May, The UN security
council approved new commercial sanctions against Yugoslavia, i.e.
Serbia, for backing rebel Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 May, In Bosnia local
Muslim forces attacked the Serb village of Bjelovcina in the Konjic
district. Serb prisoners suffered at the Celebici camp. In 1997
Mirko Babic testifies that he was forced to drink urine, lick his
captor’s boots and had his leg set on fire with gasoline.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1992 May, Ilija Jurisic, a
Bosnian security officer, ordered an attack on a Yugoslav army
convoy that killed at least 50 soldiers. In 2009 Jurisic was found
guilty of ordering the attack against the Serb-led army convoy
consisting of dozens of army trucks carrying some 100 soldiers
withdrawing from the predominantly Muslim Bosnian town of Tuzla. The
Serbian court sentenced him to 12 years in prison. On Oct 11, 2010,
an appeals court overturned the conviction and 12-year prison
sentence.
(AP, 9/28/09)(AP, 10/11/10)
1992 May, The Luka prisoner
camp in Brcko was commanded by Goran Jelisic. He was later indicted
by the UN for killing 16 Muslims and countless detainees. He was
picked up by UN troops in 1998. In 1998 Jelisic, who called himself
"the Serb Adolf," pleaded guilty to the murder of 12 Muslims and
Croats. Jelisic was acquitted of genocide but convicted of 31
accounts of torture and murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to 40 years
in prison.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.E2)(SFC, 10/30/98, p.A16)(SFC,
10/20/99, p.B2)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.A16)
1992 May, In Mexico a 2nd
meeting took place between Ms. Amy Elliot of Citibank and Raul
Salinas, this time in Mexico City, to establish an investment
program that would move funds of Mr. Salinas outside of Mexico.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A6)
1992 May-1992 Oct, In Bosnia
Dragan Nikolic commanded the Susica detention camp near Vlasenica.
He was arrested in 2000 for war crimes at the camp where an
estimated 8,000 Muslims were held.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C17)
1992 May-1992 Dec, At least 14
of 250 detainees were killed, tortured, raped or beaten over this
period at the Celibici Camp in central Bosnia. In 1998 a UN
tribunal convicted a Bosnian Croat and 2 Muslims for the crimes at
Celebici. Hazimn Delic, deputy commander, received a 20 year
sentence; Zdravko Mucic, camp warden received 7 years; and Esad
Landzo received 15 years.
(SFC, 11/17/98, p.A14)
1992 Jun 1, The US Treasury
Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze
an estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav
government.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The Pittsburgh
Penguins completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks to
win hockey's Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The E-Bulb Lamp, a
20-year light bulb, was introduced by Pierre Villere.
(www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/Futures/LF-Electrodeless/index.asp)
1992 Jun 1, In Kljuc, Bosnia,
local Serbs rounded up Muslims and shot them. About 200 bodies were
buried at the cave at Laniste and uncovered in 1996.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A10)
1992 Jun 2, Bill Clinton
officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination as he won
the six final primaries of the campaign.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1992 Jun 2, In California,
Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were nominated to twin
U.S. Senate seats. California became the first state to have 2 women
in the US Senate.
(AP, 6/2/97)(SFC, 12/24/99, p.A19)
1992 Jun 2, Danish voters
rejected the Maastricht union treaty.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1992 Jun 3, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot announced he'd hired Hamilton
Jordan and Edward Rollins to help steer his campaign. Democrat Bill
Clinton appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show."
(AP, 6/3/97)
1992 Jun 3, Actor Robert Morley
died in Reading, England, at age 84.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1992 Jun 3, William Gaines
(70), MAD magazine publisher died in New York.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1992 Jun 4, President Bush held
a news conference in which he said he understood Americans'
fascination with Ross Perot, but predicted that voters would
eventually ask, "How are you going to do it?"
(AP, 6/4/97)
1992 Jun 4, The U.S. Postal
Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis
Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis"
design.
(AP, 6/4/97)
1992 Jun 5, The US government
announced the nation's unemployment rate had jumped to 7.5 percent
the month before, the highest level in nearly eight years.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1992 Jun 6, A.P. Indy won the
124th running of the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/6/97)
1992 Jun 7, President Bush, who
met with British Prime Minister John Major at Camp David, Md.,
voiced confidence he would win re-election, but embraced the role of
underdog, saying, "I do better when I'm coming from behind."
(AP, 6/7/97)
1992 Jun 8, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev
met in Washington to try to pave the way for a new round of
strategic arms cuts.
(AP, 6/8/97)
1992 Jun 8, In Egypt two masked
gunmen shot and killed writer Farag Foda.
(WSJ, 2/20/98,
p.A16)(www.tkb.org/MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=EG&year=1992)
1992 Jun 9, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III concluded two days of arms talks with
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev without an agreement on deep
cuts in long-range missiles.
(AP, 6/9/97)
1992 Jun 9, Vice President Dan
Quayle, addressing Southern Baptists in Indianapolis, condemned the
"media elite," saying, "I wear their scorn as a badge of honor."
(AP, 6/9/02)
1992 Jun 10, President Bush
dropped Secretary of State James A. Baker III from his trip to the
Earth Summit in Brazil, instructing him to step up negotiations for
a new agreement with Russia to reduce long-range nuclear missile
stockpiles.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1992 Jun 10, In Panama US Sgt.
Zak Hernandez (22) was killed by gunfire from a passing car that
sprayed the military vehicle in which he was riding. Pedro Miguel
Gonzalez, son of a Gerardo Gonzalez who is the President of Congress
and leader of the PRD, was arrested and charged along with two
others for the killing. They were found not guilty in 1997.
(SFEC,11/2/97,
p.A19)(www.forusa.org/programs/panama/archives/1297-1.htm)
1992 Jun 11, President Bush's
stopover in Panama en route to the Earth Summit in Brazil was
disrupted when riot police fired tear gas at protesters, preventing
Bush from speaking at a rally praising the revival of democracy in
Panama.
(AP, 6/11/97)
1992 Jun 11, Baseball owners
approved the sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Seattle_Mariners.stm)
1992 Jun 11, Marjorie Newell
Robb (103), oldest living survivor of Titanic, died.
(www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography/216/)
1992 Jun 12, President Bush,
addressing the Earth Summit in Brazil, declared America's
environmental record "second to none."
(AP, 6/12/97)
1992 Jun 12, In a letter to
U.S. senators, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said the Soviet
Union had shot down nine U.S. planes in the early 1950's and held 12
American survivors.
(AP, 6/12/97)
1992 Jun 13, Democrat Bill
Clinton stirred controversy during an appearance before the Rainbow
Coalition by criticizing rap singer Sister Souljah for making
remarks that he said were "filled with hatred" toward whites.
(AP, 6/13/97)
1992 Jun 14, Chicago Bulls won
the NBA championship, beating the Portland Trail Blazers in Game
Six, 97-93.
(AP, 6/14/97)
1992 Jun 14, Mona Van Duyn
(1921-2004) became the first woman to be named America's poet
laureate by the Library of Congress.
(AP, 6/14/97)(SFC, 12/4/04, p.B7)
1992 Jun 14, The Earth Summit
concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The world’s industrial nations
reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By 1996 it was clear that the
goals were not being met.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 7/11/96, p.A10)(AP,
6/14/97)(Econ, 12/5/09, SR p.3)
1992 Jun 14, In Sokolina,
Bosnia, a massacre occurred that later yielded 47 bodies from a mass
grave. Survivors later said that Serbs blew up a busload of Muslim
men who had been told that they were on their way to a prisoner
exchange.
(WSJ, 6/25/96, p.A1)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)
1992 Jun 15, Russian President
Boris N. Yeltsin arrived in the United States for his summit with
President Bush.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 15, The US Supreme
Court ruled the government may kidnap criminal suspects from a
foreign country for prosecution.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 15, Vice President Dan
Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed a
Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell "potato" as
"potatoe" during a spelling bee.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1992 Jun 16, President George
H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin capped the first day
of their Washington summit by announcing their countries had agreed
to slash their long-range nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
(AP, 6/16/02)
1992 Jun 16, Former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on 5-count felony charges
in connection with the Iran-Contra affair. He was later pardoned by
Bush. In 2001 Weinberger authored "In the Arena," an account of his
ordeal.
(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A16)(AP, 6/16/02)
1992 Jun 17, President Bush and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a breakthrough arms-reduction
agreement. Addressing Congress, Yeltsin pledged to find any American
prisoners of war still being held in Russia.
(AP, 6/17/97)
1992 Jun 17, Two German relief
workers, the last of Western hostages held in Lebanon, were
released.
(AP, 6/17/97)
1992 Jun 18, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Democrat Bill Clinton in Washington before
flying on to Kansas and then Canada.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, The US Supreme
Court ruled criminal defendants may not use race as a basis for
excluding potential jurors from their trials.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, Entertainer Peter
Allen (48) died in San Diego County, Calif., of complication from
AIDS.
(AP, 6/18/97)
1992 Jun 18, Ireland’s voters
overwhelmingly approving a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty for a
European union.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/ireland.htm)
1992 Jun 19, "Batman Returns",
Motion Picture, opened with $47.7 million for the weekend with a
record breaking $16.8 million in its first day. It starred Michael
Keaton, Danny Devito, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1992 Jun 19, "A Perfect Score"
TV Game Show debut on CBS.
(www.televisionheaven.co.uk/atozp.htm)
1992 Jun 19, "The Hollywood
Game" (TV Game Show) debut on CBS.
(http://tinyurl.com/b8ayd)
1992 Jun 19, In NYC a botched
kidnapping attempt left Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian
Angels, critically wounded from a pair of gunshots. John Gotti Jr.
was later indicted on racketeering charges and for ordering the
attack on Sliwa. In 2006 a deadlocked federal jury led to a mistrial
for Gotti.
(SFC, 3/11/06, p.A2)
1992 Jun 19, Marc Louis Bazin
(1932-2010) became prime minister of Haiti and served for one year.
(AP,
6/17/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bazin)
1992 Jun 19, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin addressed the Canadian Parliament, saying his country
had abandoned totalitarianism for democracy.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1992 Jun 20, Indian officials
raided Vachathi village in southern Tamil Nadu state to search for
smuggled sandalwood. 18 women were reportedly raped and 100 people
were badly beaten during the two-day raid. On Sep 29, 2011, an
Indian court found 17 police and forest officials guilty of raping
the group of lower-caste women.
(AP, 9/29/11)(http://tinyurl.com/3wyvf2j)
1992 Jun 20, An enraged mob
forced South African President F.W. de Klerk to cut short a visit to
the black township of Boipatong, the scene of a massacre three days
earlier.
(AP, 6/20/97)
1992 Jun 21, Democrat Bill
Clinton unveiled an economic blueprint calling for substantially
higher taxes on the rich.
(AP, 6/21/02)
1992 Jun 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin returned home from his North America tour.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1992 Jun 22, The US Supreme
Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning
and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
(AP, 6/22/97)
1992 Jun 22, M.F.K. Fisher
(b.1908), cook book author, died of Parkinson Disease. In 2004 Joan
Reardon authored “Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of MFK
Fisher.
(www.foodreference.com/html/html/june22.html)(SFC, 11/16/04, p.D1)
1992 Jun 22, In Trnovace,
Bosnia, 14 Muslims were massacred. In 1997 Novislav Djajic, member
of a Bosnian Serb military unit, was convicted and sentenced to 5
years for participating.
(SFC, 5/24/97, p.C1)
1992 Jun 22, Anastasia, a
daughter of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, was identified
as one of the skeletons excavated in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
(www.peterkurth.com/RUSSIAN%20FORENSICS%20TEAM.htm)
1992 Jun 23, Israel's Labor
Party upset the hard-line Likud bloc in parliamentary elections.
Israeli voters elected the Labor Party’s Yitzhak Rabin as prime
minister.
(AP, 6/23/97)(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A17)
1992 Jun 23, John Gotti
(d.2002), Mafia boss nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping
unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, was convicted on 14
accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering and
sentenced in New York to life in prison. His son John Gotti Jr.
succeeded him as head of the Gambino crime family and was arrested
in 1998.
(AP, 6/23/97)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A8)
1992 Jun 24, The US Supreme
Court voted 5-4 to strengthen its 30-year ban on officially
sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of
graduation ceremonies.
(AP, 6/24/97)
1992 Jun 25, Both houses of
Congress rushed to pass a back-to-work order ending a national rail
strike; President Bush signed it June 26.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1992 Jun 25, The space shuttle
Columbia, carrying seven astronauts, blasted off on a two-week
mission.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1992 Jun 26, Navy Secretary H.
Lawrence Garrett III resigned, accepting responsibility for a
"leadership failure" that resulted in the Tailhook sex-abuse
scandal.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1992 Jun 26, The US Supreme
Court ruled that fund soliciting can be banned at airports.
(http://fact.trib.com/1st.91.92supr.html)
1992 Jun 26, Willie L. Williams
was sworn in as Los Angeles police chief, succeeding Daryl Gates.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1992 Jun 27, Authorities found
the body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso buried in a
makeshift grave in Bass River State Park in New Jersey. Arthur and
Irene Seale, were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the
crime.
(AP, 6/27/97)
1992 Jun 28, The 7.3 Landers
earthquake hit Southern California. One person was killed and 402
injured.
(AP,
6/28/97)(www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/landersq.html)
1992 Jun 28, A 35-year-old man
at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center became the first
recipient of a baboon liver transplant; he lived 10 more weeks.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1992 Jun 28, In Afghanistan
rebel leader Burhanuddin Rabbani became president, but factional
fighting continued. Iranian and Pakistani interference increased,
and more fighting followed.
(WA, 1997,p.737)(www.afghan, 5/25/98)
1992 Jun 28, French President
Francois Mitterrand was cheered as he visited war-torn Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1992 Jun 29, A divided US
Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to
abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined by the
Roe vs. Wade decision.
(AP, 6/29/97)
1992 Jun 29, Mohammad Boudiaf
(73), the president of Algeria, was assassinated by his body guard
during his first public appearance, in Annaba. A few seconds after
the president Mohammed Boudiaf spoke the words “We are all going to
die,” an assassin in uniform raised his submachine gun and killed
the Algerian head of state. It was his first trip outside Algiers
since he took office after a military coup in January. In the
confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by
gunfire and grenades. Boudiaf was succeeded by army officer Liamine
Zeroual.
(http://tinyurl.com/pdcmb)(www.therace.ws/facts007.html)
1992 Jun 29, The remains of
Polish statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski, interred for five decades in
the United States, were returned to his homeland in keeping with his
wish to be buried only in a free Poland.
(AP, 6/28/02)
1992 Jun 29, The Serbs yielded
Serajevo airport to the UN.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jun 30, Planes loaded with
food and medicine arrived at the airport in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, as part of an international relief effort.
(AP, 6/30/97)
1992 Jun 30, Fidel Ramos was
sworn in as the new president of the Philippines. Joseph Estrada was
elected vice-president with twice as many votes in a separate race.
(AP, 6/30/97)(SFEC,11/23/97, p.A25)
1992 Jun, In Washington DC
Latrena Denise Pixley, annoyed with the wailing of her 6-week-old
3rd child, smothered her with a blanket and tossed her in the trash.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1992 Jun, Some 140 Muslims were
imprisoned and burned alive and others summarily shoot in some of
the cruelest ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian war. In 2008 Bosnian
Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic faced charges of murder,
extermination and cruel treatment at the UN war crimes tribunal in
The Hague for violence in and around the historic south-eastern
Bosnian town of Visegrad.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1992 Jun, From Mexico the first
deposit to Mr. Raul Salinas’ Citibank Trocca account came from Mr.
Hank. The amount was for $2 million that Mr. Hank supposedly owed
Mr. Salinas after a cellular-phone business deal did not work out.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A6)
1992 Jul 1, California issued
its first state IOU's since the Great Depression as a budget
standoff left the state cashless on the first day of its fiscal
year.
(AP, 7/1/97)
1992 Jul 2, President Bush
vetoed the so-called "motor-voter" registration bill; President
Clinton later signed a revised version into law.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 2, The US Labor
Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate the previous
month had risen to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to
7.5 percent in May.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 3, The president of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, was voted out of office as lawmakers
from Slovakia blocked his re-election in parliament.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1992 Jul 3, Rabbi Marc
Tannenbaum, the only Jew to attend Vatican II, died.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/7_3/9/)
1992 Jul 4, Steffi Graf won her
fourth Wimbledon title, defeating Monica Seles in a 5 1/2-hour match
interrupted three times by rain.
(AP, 7/4/97)
1992 Jul 5, Leaders of the
world's seven richest nations gathered in Munich, Germany, for their
18th annual economic summit. President Bush, en route to the summit,
told cheering Poles in Warsaw that "America shares Poland's dream."
(AP, 7/5/97)
1992 Jul 5, Andre Agassi won
his first Grand Slam title, defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1992 Jul 6, The Group of Seven
industrial nations opened their 18th annual economic summit in
Munich, Germany.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1992 Jul 7, Group of Seven
leaders meeting in Munich, Germany, condemned the carnage in former
Yugoslavia and warned Serb-led troops that U.N. military force would
be used if needed to keep relief operations going.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1992 Jul 8, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Group of Seven leaders holding their economic
summit in Munich, Germany, where he offered a startling proposal to
swap factories, energy resources and other properties for Russian
debt.
(AP, 7/8/97)
1992 Jul 9, Poet Adrienne Rich
rejected the US government National Medal for the Arts award due to
radical disparities of wealth and power in America.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1992 Jul 9, Democrat Bill
Clinton tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 The space shuttle
Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 Eric Sevareid (79),
CBS news commentator, died in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 10, A federal judge in
Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted
of drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. However, a
judge in March, 1998, cut Noriega's sentence by ten years,
meaning he could be eligible for parole in 2000.
(WSJ, 3/28/96,p.A-1)(AP, 7/10/99)
1992 Jul 10, A New York jury
found Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist bomb to destroy
Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1992 Jul 10, The European Space
Agency photographed the nucleus of Haley’s Comet.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1992 Jul 11, Undeclared
presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in
Nashville, Tenn., startled and offended his listeners by referring
to the predominantly black audience as "you people."
(AP, 7/11/97)
1992 Jul 11, In Bosnia it was
later alleged on Dutch TV that Dutch troops deliberately drove an
armored vehicle into a Muslim blockade on this day and killed as
many as 30 people.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.A14)
1992 Jul 12, In an emotional
farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing executive director of the
NAACP, urged the group's convention in Nashville, Tenn., to show the
world that it remained vital.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1992 Jul 12, Albert Pierrepont,
last British hangman (433 men and 17 women), died.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1992.shtml)
1992 Jul 13, Democrats opened
their 41st national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden
with speakers who taunted George H.W. Bush as a failed president
ripe for defeat in November.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1992 Jul 14, The American
League won the All-Star game, defeating the National League team
13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1992 Jul 14, The second day of
the Democratic National Convention heard from speakers who included
former President Carter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and AIDS activist
Elizabeth Glaser.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1992 Jul 15, Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the
party's convention in New York City.
(AP, 7/15/97)
1992 Jul 16, Bill Clinton
delivered his acceptance speech a day after winning the Democratic
presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
To the dismay and anger of supporters, Ross Perot announced he would
not run for president. He later changed his mind.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1992 Jul 17, Donna Ferguson
(18) and Todd Rudiger (29) were murdered in Portland, Ore. In 1998
Sebastian Shaw was indicted for the murders. He pleaded guilty in
2000 and was sentenced to two life terms. Later, his DNA would be
conclusive evidence that he also killed one Jay Rickbeil in July
1991. He would receive a third sentence of life in prison. Shaw,
born in Vietnam in 1967 as Chau Quong, had been airlifted from the
roof of the US Embassy on the day Saigon fell.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/h5n45)
1992 Jul 17, A historic accord
for deep cuts in tanks and other non-nuclear arms in Europe went
into effect, nearly two years after it was signed by NATO and the
Warsaw Pact.
(AP, 7/17/97)
1992 Jul 17, Slovakia's
government decreed its independence from Czechoslovakia. The
independence did not become official until January 1, 1993.
(www.slovakia.org/society-hungary2.htm)
1992 Jul 18, Britain's
opposition Labor Party chose John Smith as its leader, replacing
Neil Kinnock (b.1942). Kinnock had led the opposition since 1983.
(AP,
7/18/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock)
1992 Jul 18, In Peru 9 students
and a univ. teacher were killed at La Cantuta Univ. Later retired
Gen’l. Rodolfo Robles charged that an army death squad, the Colina
Group, was responsible. Death squad members were convicted and then
released in a 1995 general amnesty. In 2008 a former general and
three members of a military death squad were found guilty of
participating in the kidnapping and murder.
(SFC, 11/27/96, p.A13)(SFC, 12/2/96, p.A14)(SFC,
8/23/01, p.A8)(AP, 4/9/08)
1992 Jul 19, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy,
meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
other officials.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1992 Jul 19, Paolo Borsellino,
Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by mafia.
(http://paolo-borsellino.biography.ms/)
1992 Jul 20, Vaclav Havel, the
playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, formally
stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia after failing to halt
the country's pending breakup into two entities. He was later
elected president of the Czech Republic.
(AP, 7/20/02)
1992 Jul 21, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, who said afterward that he'd accepted Rabin's invitation to
visit Israel.
(AP, 7/21/97)
1992 Jul 22, Wayne McLaren
(51), model (Marlboro Man), died of lung cancer.
(www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Colombian drug
lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He
was slain by security forces in December 1993.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1992 Jul 23, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III, touring the Middle East, made a secret
visit to Lebanon.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1992 Jul 24, Members of POW-MIA
families disrupted a speech by President Bush, prompting Bush to
snap, "Would you please shut up and sit down?"
(AP, 7/24/97)
1992 Jul 24, In Bosnia Serb
prison guards at the former ceramics factory of Keraterm fired
machine guns through metal doors of "Room 3" where over 200
prisoners were trapped. The carnage continued for hours. In 2001
Dusko Sikirica (camp commander), Dragan Kolundzija and Damir Dosen
were tried at the Hague for their roles in the slaughter. Sikirica
was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Dosen and Kolundzija received 5
and 3 year sentences.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A19)
1992 Jul 25, Opening ceremonies
were held in Barcelona, Spain, for the 25th Summer Olympics.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1992 Jul 25, A 68-foot high
Mistos (Match-Cover) by Claes Oldenburg was built for the Summer
Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in reference to the Olympic Torch. In
the Olympics the Unified team of the former Soviet Union won 45 gold
medals and the US won 37.
(Smith., Aug. 1995, p.81)(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.4)
1992 Jul 25, Greg Spiers
created the Lithuanian Basketball Team’s tie-died shirt featuring
the Grateful Dead’s skeleton slam-dunking. He later sued for a share
of the profits on the shirts.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, DB p.44)
1992 Jul 25, Actor-singer
Alfred Drake died in New York at age 78.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1992 Jul 26, Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect.
(http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/misc/summada.htm)
1992 Jul 26, Miguel Indurain of
Spain won cycling's Tour de France for the second year in a row.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26,
Singer Mary Wells died in Los Angeles at age 49.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Iraq agreed to
permit weapons inspectors to search the Agriculture Ministry in
Baghdad.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Muhamed Cehajic,
mayor of Prijedor, Bosnia, disappeared and was believed killed.
Milomar Stakic became mayor and was later accused of direct
involvement in establishing concentration camps at Omarska, Keraterm
and Trnopolje. Momcilo Radanovic was later accused of leading a
brigade that carried out numerous massacres and extortion of money
from non-Serbs. Stakic was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life in
prison in 2003. In 2005 Isabelle Wesselingh and Arnaud Vaulerin
authored “Raw Memory: Prijedor, Laboratory of Ethnic Cleansing.”
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A12)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
8/1/03, p.A3)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.72)
1992 Jul 27, President Bush's
aides attacked Democratic nominee Bill Clinton's foreign policy
credentials and judgment.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1992 Jul 27, At the Summer
Olympics in Barcelona, the U.S. men's volleyball team was stripped
of its victory over Japan the day before in an opening-round game.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1992 Jul 28, Democrats
counterattacked a day after aides to President Bush had accused
Democrat Bill Clinton of lacking foreign policy expertise.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, Iraq opened its
Agricultural Ministry to U.N. weapons experts after a three-week
standoff.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, At the Barcelona
Olympics, the U.S. women's 400-meter freestyle relay team won the
gold medal.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 29,
The U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team won the gold medal at the
Barcelona Summer Olympics.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1992 Jul 29, Former East German
leader Erich Honecker was arrested on his return to his homeland and
charged with manslaughter; he was later permitted to leave after he
was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1992 Jul 29, Newsday published
reports of death camps for Muslims and Croats run by the Serbian
Army in northern Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Jul 30, At the Barcelona
Summer Olympics, Shannon Miller won the silver medal in the women's
all-around gymnastics event.
(AP, 7/30/97)
1992 Jul 30, A TWA Lockheed
L-1011 caught fire during takeoff from New York City's Kennedy
International Airport; all 292 people aboard survived.
(AP, 7/30/97)
1992 Jul 31, Summer Sanders
became the first American athlete to win four medals at the
Barcelona Olympics as she won the gold in the women's 200-meter
butterfly.
(AP, 7/31/97)
1992 Jul 31, The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a problem-plagued
scientific mission. The Atlantis space shuttle carried with it a
Silver Bullet II yo-yo designed by Dr. Tom Kuhn. Astronaut Jeffrey
Hoffman played with it in zero gravity.
(AP, 7/31/97)(SFEM, 7/21/96, p.15)
1992 Jul 31, In Italy the scala
mobile wage index, which maintained a rigid link between Italian
wages and prices, was scrapped after a long struggle.
(www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/ITALY/SLIDINGSCALEMECHANISM-IT.htm)(Econ,
6/13/09, SR p.9)
1992 Jul, The children’s book
series "Goosebumps" was launched.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p. B1)
1992 Jul, Dennis Kozlowski
became CEO of Tyco Corp. with $3 billion in annual sales.
(WSJ, 4/5/04, p.A8)
1992 Jul, In Iraq 42 merchants
were arrested from Baghdad's wholesale markets and charged with
manipulating food supplies to drive up prices as many Iraqis were
suffering economically. All 42 were executed hours later following a
quick trial. In 2008 Tariq Aziz (72), former deputy prime minister,
went on trial as one of 8 defendants charged with the executions.
(AP, 4/29/08)
1992 Jul, South Ossetia and
Georgia agreed to a cease-fire.
(SFC, 9/1/98, p.A10)
1992 Jul, Yugoslavia was
suspended from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) for fomenting war in Bosnia.
(SFC, 3/28/98,
p.A8)(www.hrw.org/wr2k1/europe/yugoslavia3.html)
1992 Aug 1, The US Supreme
Court permitted the Bush administration to continue returning
Haitians intercepted at sea to their Caribbean homeland.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1992 Aug 2,
At the Barcelona Summer Olympics, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee
repeated as heptathlon champion.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1992 Aug 2, The Bush campaign,
accused by Bill Clinton of mudslinging, responded with a vitriolic
press release that referred to "sniveling hypocritical Democrats."
President Bush later disavowed the release.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1992 Aug 2, A "No-fly" zone was
imposed over southern Iraq to stop air attacks on Shiite Muslim
rebels.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)
1992 Aug 3, The US Senate voted
to sharply restrict and eventually end U.S. testing of nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1992 Aug 3, Millions of South
African blacks joined a nationwide strike against white-led rule.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1992 Aug 4, The crew of the
space shuttle Atlantis encountered difficulties as they tried to
reel out a satellite attached to miles of thin cord as part of an
electricity-producing experiment.
(AP, 8/4/97)
1992 Aug 5, Federal civil
rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers
acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King;
two were later convicted.
(AP, 8/5/97)
1992 Aug 5, Acting Secretary of
State Lawrence Eagleburger called for a war crimes investigation in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 8/5/97)
1992 Aug 6, Americans led by
Carl Lewis swept the long jump at the Barcelona Summer Olympics,
while Kevin Young won the 400-meter hurdles and Mike Marsh the 200
meters.
(AP, 8/6/97)
1992 Aug 6, President Bush
granted full diplomatic recognition to the former Yugoslav republics
of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Croatia, the same day Britain's
Independent Television News showed videotape of emaciated detainees
at a pair of Serb prison camps.
(AP, 8/6/97)
1992 Aug 7, Jennifer Capriati
won the gold medal in tennis at the Barcelona Olympics, beating
Steffi Graf.
(AP, 8/7/02)
1992 Aug 7, The luxury liner
Queen Elizabeth 2 ran aground off Massachusetts.
(AP, 8/7/97)
1992 Aug 7, The 39-nation
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva produced the final draft of a
treaty to ban chemical weapons, ending 24 years of talks.
(AP, 8/7/97)
1992 Aug 8, The U.S. basketball
"Dream Team" clinched the gold at the Barcelona Summer Olympics,
defeating Croatia 117-85.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 8, The space shuttle
Atlantis returned from a problem-plagued mission.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 8, AIDS activist
Alison Gertz died in New York at age 26.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1992 Aug 9, Closing ceremonies
were held for the Barcelona Summer Olympics, with the Unified Team
of former Soviet republics winning 112 medals to 108 for the United
States.
(AP, 8/9/97)
1992 Aug 10, President Bush met
at his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace
talks would resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1992 Aug 10, Sixto Duran Ballen
(b.1921), US-born architect, began serving as president of Ecuador.
His term lasted to 1996.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Dur%C3%A1n_Ball%C3%A9n)
1992 Aug 11, In
Washington, D.C., negotiators for the United States, Canada and
Mexico continued to work out final details of the proposed North
American Free Trade Agreement.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1992 Aug 11, The Mall of
America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in
Bloomington, Minn.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1992 Aug 12, The North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was announced in Washington, D.C. after
14 months of negotiations between the United States, Mexico and
Canada. It created the world's wealthiest trading bloc. [see Jan 1,
1994]
(AP, 8/12/97)(HN, 8/12/02)
1992 Aug 12, Avant-garde
composer John Cage (b.1912) died in New York at age 79.
(WSJ, 5/8/96, p.A-12)(AP, 8/12/97)
1992 Aug 13, "Real Inspector
Hound" opened at Criterion in NYC for 61 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4691)
1992 Aug 13, President Bush
announced that Secretary of State James A. Baker III was leaving his
diplomatic post to be White House chief of staff in a shake-up
designed to energize Bush's re-election campaign.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1992 Aug 13, Comedian, actor
and director Woody Allen began legal action against actress Mia
Farrow to win custody of their three children. A judge later ruled
against Allen.
(AP, 8/13/02)
1992 Aug 14, Pres. Bush ordered
the Pentagon to begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia which
was suffering from severe famine and factional warfare.
(AP, 8/14/97)(HNQ, 1/1/00)
1992 Aug 14, Federal Judge John
J. Sirica, who had presided over the Watergate trials of the 1970s,
died in Washington, D.C., at age 88.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1992 Aug 15, While Republicans
gathered in Houston for their national convention, President Bush
spent the weekend at Camp David, his renomination secure.
(AP, 8/15/97)
1992 Aug 15, Giorgio Perlasca,
Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_)
1992 Aug 16, On the eve of the
Republican National Convention in Houston, President Bush and party
officials heatedly denied a report in The New York Times that a
confrontation with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was motivated by
political concerns.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1992 Aug 17, Actor-director
Woody Allen admitted being romantically involved with Soon-Yi
Previn, the adopted daughter of Allen's longtime companion, actress
Mia Farrow.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1992 Aug 17, The US Republican
convention was held in Houston. The Christian coalition sponsored a
rally that featured VP Dan Quayle. In 1996 the book: "Active Faith:
How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics" by Ralph
Reed was published.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1992 Aug 17, President Bush
arrived in Houston for the opening of the Republican National
Convention, which featured an address by former President Reagan.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1992 Aug 18, Basketball star
Larry Bird announced his retirement after 13 years with the Boston
Celtics.
(AP, 8/18/97)
1992 Aug 18, On the second
night of the Republican National Convention in Houston, U.S. Sen.
Phil Gramm, R-Texas, delivered the keynote address, denouncing Bill
Clinton's economic program as "worse than sleaze."
(AP, 8/18/97)
1992 Aug 18, John Sturges (82),
director (Gunfight at OK Corral), died of emphysema.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0836328/)
1992 Aug 19, The third night of
the Republican National Convention in Houston, billed as "family
values night," featured first lady Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle,
wife of Vice President Quayle, as speakers.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1992 Aug 20, In the early hours
of Aug. 20, the Republican National Convention in Houston
renominated President Bush and Vice President Quayle. On the evening
of the 20th, Bush delivered a hard-hitting speech in which he
attacked the Democrats and promised to seek across-the-board tax
cuts if re-elected.
(AP, 8/20/97)
1992 Aug 21, The day after the
close of the Republican National Convention in Houston, the two
major party candidates traded hard blows, with President Bush
deriding Bill Clinton as a "wishy-washy" leader, and Clinton lashing
back at Bush as a "great fearmonger."
(AP, 8/21/97)
1992 Aug 21, US marshals moved
onto the property of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho and began a
shoot out where Mr. Weaver’s 14-year old son, Sammy, was killed as
well as Marshall Bill Degan. Federal agents were than held at bay
for 11 days and before it ended Weaver’s wife was shot dead. The
FBI, in an attempt to serve an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver on
weapons charges, killed Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Kevin Harris was acquitted of federal charges in 1993. In 1995 the
government awarded Weaver family $3.1 mil for wrongful-death claims.
In 1996 criminal charges were filed against Michael Kahoe, chief of
the Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section of the FBI, for
destroying a report critical of the FBI. He was sentenced and fined
in 1997. In 1997 Kevin Harris was charged with the murder of Bill
Degan and FBI agent Lon Horiuchi was charged with the murder of
Vicki Weaver. State murder charges against Kevin Harris were dropped
in 1997. State manslaughter charges were filed against sharpshooter
Horiuchi in 1998.
(WSJ,3/13/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(WSJ,
8/16/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A19)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A1)(SFC,
10/11/97, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)
1992 Aug 21, Serbian soldiers
separated over 200 men, mostly Croats and Muslims, from a convoy of
civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in Bosnia. The captives
were taken to a wooded ravine at Mount Vlasic and shot dead.
In 2003 Darko Mrdja, commander of a special police unit, admitted to
a court in the Hague of playing a role in the slaughter. In 2009
Bosnian forensic experts found the remains of at least 60 Muslims
and Croats in the ravine.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A8)(AP, 8/26/09)
1992 Aug 22, President Bush
told an evangelical gathering in Dallas that the Democrats had left
"three simple letters" out of their platform: "G-o-d." Democrat Bill
Clinton said Bush was trying to divert attention from the economy.
(AP, 8/22/02)
1992 Aug 22, Neo-Nazi violence
against foreigners erupted in Rostock, Germany.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1992 Aug 23, James A. Baker III
bowed out as secretary of state after three-and-a-half years to
become White House chief of staff.
(AP, 8/23/97)
1992 Aug 23, Hurricane Andrew
slammed into the Bahamas with 120 mph winds.
(AP, 8/23/97)
1992 Aug 24, Hurricane Andrew
smashed into Florida causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida,
Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm. It swept across
Coral Gables, Florida, and destroyed two-thirds of the Fairchild
Tropical Garden. It cost $15.5 bil in insured losses and was the
most expensive natural disaster in US history. Insurance losses in
the US and Bahamas totaled $21.5 billion.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A11)(AP, 8/24/97)(Econ, 8/21/04,
p.62)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.73)
1992 Aug 24, China and South
Korea established diplomatic ties.
(AP, 8/24/97)
1992 Aug 25, President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton appeared separately before the American Legion
in Chicago; Bush cited his World War II military service while
Clinton sought to bury the controversy over his Vietnam-era draft
status.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1992 Aug 25, Hurricane Andrew
thrashed the Louisiana coast.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1992 Aug 26, A federal judge
declared a mistrial in the Iran-Contra cover-up trial of former CIA
spy chief Clair George. George was convicted of perjury in a
retrial, but was then pardoned by President H.W. Bush.
(AP, 8/26/97)
1992 Aug 26, The United States,
Britain and France imposed a 2nd no-fly zone south of the 32nd
parallel, the southern one-third of Iraq aimed at protecting Iraqi
Shiite Muslims.
(AP, 8/26/97)(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1992 Aug 26, Arthur Leigh Allen
(b.1933) of Vallejo, a convicted child molester and alleged Zodiac
killer, died in Vallejo, Ca. In 1985 Robert Graysmith authored
"Zodiac" in which he identified the killer with the pseudonym of
"Robert Starr." Graysmith authored "Zodiac Unmasked" in 2002. In
2009 lawyer Robert Tarbox said a merchant seaman had identified
himself as the Zodiac killer as a walk-in client at his SF
Montgomery Street office in the early 1970s.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.M6)(SSFC,
7/19/09, p.A18)
1992 Aug 27, President Bush
ordered federal troops to Florida for emergency relief in the wake
of Hurricane Andrew.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1992 Aug 27, The US and its
allies began air patrols following the imposition of a no-fly zone
over southern Iraq to stop air attacks on Shiite Muslim rebels.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1992 Aug 28, The US government
mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water
to hurricane-ravaged Florida.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1992 Aug 28, US cargo planes
landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1992 Aug 29, About 13,000
people staged an anti-extremist rally in Rostock, Germany, even as
right-wingers continued attacks on immigrants.
(AP, 8/29/97)(HN, 8/29/98)
1992 Aug 29, The U.N. Security
Council agreed to send 3,000 more relief troops to Somalia to guard
food shipments.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1992 Aug 29, Mary Norton
(88), children’s book author (Borrowers), died in England.
(www.sfsite.com/09b/bor41.htm)
1992 Aug 30, Winners in the
44th Emmy Awards included "Northern Exposure" with six Emmy Awards,
including best drama series, while "Murphy Brown" received three
Emmys, including best comedy series, in a ceremony marked by
satirical jabs directed at Vice President Dan Quayle.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1992 Aug 31, White separatist
Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an
11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's
wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal. [see Aug 21]
(AP, 8/31/97)
1992 Aug, The UN Security
Council unanimously condemned Serb ethnic cleansing and with 3
abstentions voted to authorize military force to protect
humanitarian aid.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1992 Aug, Viewers worldwide
were shocked by TV pictures of emaciated Muslim captives in Serb-run
prison camps in Bosnia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Aug, In Belgium Loubna
Benaissa (9) disappeared after going to buy some yogurt at a nearby
store. In 1997 her body was found hidden in the basement of a gas
station and Patrick Derochette was arrested after reportedly
confessing to the killing. He had been accused of assaulting
youngsters in 1984.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A12)
1992 Aug, In Nicaragua Norman
Meneses was sentenced to 25 years in prison for possession and
smuggling cocaine. He was released in Nov. 1997.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A10)
1992 Aug, The Serb-run Omarska
camp closed. Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic, former cafe owner and karate
instructor, was later accused of beating, mutilating, and killing
Bosnian Muslims at the concentration camps run by the Serbians at
Omarska and Keraterm. On May 7, 1997, he became the first war
criminal convicted of war crimes in the Bosnian War between the
Bosnian Muslims and the former Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 5/9/96,
p.A-18)(www.bookrags.com/biography-dusan-tadic-cri/)
1992 Sep 1, Defying a U.S.
government warning, Bobby Fischer announced he would play his
one-time rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5 million chess match in
Yugoslavia despite United Nations-imposed sanctions.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1992 Sep 2, On the campaign
trail, President Bush announced nearly $2 billion in new aid for US
farmers and a $6 billion jet fighter sale that would largely benefit
Texas. Democrat Bill Clinton, meanwhile, charged that Bush would
short change middle-class students to finance tax cuts for the rich.
Bush announced the agreement to sell Taiwan 150 F-16 jet fighters at
the General Dynamics factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
(AP,
9/2/97)(www.fas.org/news/taiwan/1992/920903-taiwan-usia2.htm)
1992 Sep 2, Michael Nguyen (9)
was murdered in San Francisco. Two men were later found guilty of
murdering the boy for profit based on insurance claims.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A13)
1992 Sep 3, Baseball owners
voted 18-9-1 to ask commissioner Fay Vincent to resign.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1992 Sep 3, An Italian relief
plane was shot down by ground-to-air missiles outside of Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1992 Sep 4, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6
percent in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened
slightly and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing
jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1992 Sep 5, A strike that had
idled nearly 43,000 General Motors Corp. workers ended as members of
a United Auto Workers local in Lordstown, Ohio, approved a new
agreement.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1992 Sep 6, An unidentified
35-year-old man who was the recipient of a transplanted baboon liver
died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 10 weeks after
receiving the organ.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1992 Sep 7, Baseball
Commissioner Fay Vincent resigned, four days after a no-confidence
vote by club owners.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1992 Sep 7, Troops in South
Africa fired on African National Congress supporters near the
Transkei homeland, killing 28 and wounding 200. 29 ANC protestors
were killed in the Bisho massacre by troops of the homeland of
Ciskei. Major General Marius Oelschig radioed the "open fire"
command. He said that he was convinced by officers on the seen that
they were under danger of imminent attack.
(WSJ, 9/10/96, p.A1)(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A14)(AP,
9/7/97)
1992 Sep 8, President Bush
asked Congress to provide more than $7.6 billion to help Hurricane
Andrew recovery efforts.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 8, Sen. Quentin
Burdick, D-N.D., died at age 84.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 8, In a case that
prompted federal laws against carjacking, Pam Basu of Savage, Md.,
was dragged to her death after being forced from her car.
(AP, 9/8/97)
1992 Sep 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin called off a trip to Japan in the face of growing
pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the
former Soviet Union in 1945.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1992 Sep 10, Less than two
months before Election Day, President Bush unveiled a repackaged
economic manifesto which included a possible 1 percentage-point
across-the-board tax-rate cut.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1992 Sep 11, President Bush
announced he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi
Arabia.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1992 Sep 11, Hurricane Iniki
struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than
10,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Iniki caused some $1.6 billion in
damages on Kauai.
(Hem., 4/97, p.26)(AP, 9/11/97)(SSFC, 8/25/02,
p.C12)
1992 Sep 12, The space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the
first married couple in space; Mae Jemison, the first black woman in
space; and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly on a U.S.
spaceship.
(AP, 9/12/97)
1992 Sep 12, Actor Anthony
Perkins died from AIDS in Hollywood at age 60.
(AP, 9/12/97)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000578/bio)
1992 Sep 12, Ed Peck, actor
(Zoot Suit, Bullitt), died of heart attack at 75.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0669653/)
1992 Sep 12, In Peru the
Shining Path guerilla leader Abimael Guzman was captured by police
chief Ketin Vidal with help from a CIA operative nick-named
“Superman.” Oscar Ramirez, aka Feliciano, took over the leadership.
Guzman, a former philosophy professor, was tried by a military court
and sentenced to life in jail. The verdict was overturned in Jan
2003.
(SFE, 9/17/96, p.A11)(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)(SFC,
12/8/00, p.A20)(Econ, 10/30/04, p.44)
1992 Sep 13, Stefan Edberg
defeated Pete Sampras to win the U.S. Open title in New York, a day
after Monica Seles beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario to win her seventh
Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1992 Sep 13, Lou Jacobs, US
clown (1966 US postage stamp), died.
(www.clown-ministry.com/History/Lou-Jacobs.html)
1992 Sep 14, The grand dragon
of the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible Empire of Florida announced that he
was moving the group's headquarters from Orlando to Gainesville. He
said, it's "a progressive community, and we think we can fit in."
(www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040906-012530-6093r.htm)
1992 Sep 14, Germany cut key
interest rates for the first time in five years, an action the
United States and European Community nations had been urging to help
spur a world economic recovery.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1992 Sep 14, The Italian Lira
was devalued 7%. This forced Italy to withdraw from the Exchange
Rate Mechanism (ERM), a pre-euro system of semi-pegged currencies.
(http://tinyurl.com/eh943)(Econ, 7/16/11, p.79)
1992 Sep 15, Washington state
Sen. Patty Murray defeated former Congressman Don Bonker to win the
Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by
Brock Adams.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1992 Sep 15, FBI Director
William S. Sessions promised a new national campaign to stem a
recent wave of carjackings.
(AP, 9/15/97)
1992 Sep 16, A proposed debate
between President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton was canceled after
the Bush campaign's refusal to negotiate with a bipartisan
commission.
(AP, 9/16/97)
1992 Sep 16, Former U.S. Rep.
Millicent Fenwick, R-N.J., died at age 82.
(AP, 9/16/97)
1992 Sep 16, Britain under John
Major devalued the pound and the economy soared. The day became
known as “Black Wednesday.” George Soros pocketed $2 billion on his
short sale of $10 billion. The event is documented in Robert
Slater's Soros: "The Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's
Greatest Investor." Britain’s Conservative government was forced to
withdraw the Pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
due to pressure by currency speculators.
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A1)(Econ, 3/25/06,
p.62)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday)
1992 Sep 17, A federal judge
overturned the impeachment of former U.S. District Judge Alcee
Hastings, saying he did not receive a fair trial by the Senate,
which convicted him in 1989 of perjury and conspiracy.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1992 Sep 17, Special prosecutor
Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of
the Iran-Contra scandal.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1992 Sep 17, Feodor Chaliapin
Jr. (87), actor (King's Whore), died after illness.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0149923/)
1992 Sep 18, Ross Perot's name
was submitted for the 50th state ballot -- Arizona -- on the same
day that Perot hinted on NBC's "Today" show that he might throw his
hat into the presidential ring, after all.
(AP, 9/18/97)
1992 Sep 19, Top finance
officials of the seven largest industrial countries pledged in
Washington, D.C., to cooperate closely to resolve the worst currency
crisis in two decades.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1992 Sep 20, The space shuttle
Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 20, Leanza Cornett of
Florida was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, N.J.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 20, French voters
narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty on European union.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1992 Sep 21, President Bush
addressed the U.N. General Assembly, offering U.S. support to
strengthen international peacekeeping.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 21, Former defense
secretaries Melvin Laird and James R. Schlesinger told a
congressional committee the Pentagon had known American airmen were
alive in Laos at the end of the Vietnam War and were not returned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 22, President Bush
vetoed a family and medical leave bill. A similar legislation was
later enacted.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, Former US
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger denounced as a "flat-out
lie" an allegation that he and other officials had known American
servicemen were left behind when the war in Southeast Asia ended.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, The U.N. General
Assembly voted to expel Yugoslavia.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 23, Plans for a
presidential debate fell apart, with President Bush continuing to
object to a single-moderator format proposed by a bipartisan
commission; it was the second such cancellation.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1992 Sep 23, Bernice Gera, the
1st female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League) died at age 61.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1992SEPTEMBER.stm)
1992 Sep 24, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton promised to press for a national
health-care system for all Americans; the Bush campaign countered
that the plan would be too expensive for average Americans.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 24, Acting US Navy
Secretary Sean O'Keefe stripped three admirals of their jobs for
failing to investigate aggressively the Tailhook sex abuse scandal.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 25, A judge in
Orlando, Fla., ruled in favor of Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy
seeking a "divorce" from his biological parents.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Some four dozen
San Francisco bicycle riders began to ride up Market Street in a
group called "Commute Clot." It grew to become Critical Mass bike
ride held on the last Friday of each month.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A25)(SFC,
9/28/07, p.A1)
1992 Sep 25, The Mars
Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet.
The probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August
1993.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Dorothy Harris
(41) and Louis Oates (63) were shot to death at their oil company
office in Palestine, Texas. Kelsey Patterson, a paranoid
schizophrenic, was arrested and convicted of the murder. Patterson
was executed May 18, 2004.
(SFC, 5/19/04,
p.A7)(www.txexecutions.org/reports/322.asp)
1992 Sep 26, A Nigerian
military transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all
163 people aboard.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 26, South African
President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela held their first meeting in three months, during which they
agreed on the urgent need for an interim government.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 27, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot spoke with his supporters in Dallas on the eve of a
meeting with representatives of President Bush and Democrat Bill
Clinton, both of whom were hoping Perot would stay on the campaign
sidelines.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1992 Sep 27, In Tibet Ogyen
Trinley Dorje (7) was enthroned as the 17th Karmapa under an
agreement with the Chinese government.
(Econ, 12/24/05,
p.56)(www.kagyu.org/karmapa/kar/kar03.html)
1992 Sep 28, Aides to President
Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton met in Dallas with supporters of Ross
Perot, who hinted afterward he might re-enter the presidential race.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1992 Sep 28, Gloria Estefan and
a cavalcade of musicians and comedians raised
one-point-three-million dollars at a hurricane relief concert in
Miami.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002065/)
1992 Sep 28, A Pakistani
jetliner crashed in Nepal, killing all 167 people aboard.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1992 Sep 29, Magic Johnson,
infected with the AIDS virus, announced he was returning to
basketball. He scrapped his comeback attempt the following November.
(AP, 9/29/97)
1992 Sep 29, Lawmakers in
Brazil voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Fernando Collor de
Mello. He was impeached following allegations of corruption. The
proceedings were largely ignored by the Rede Globo TV network.
(WSJ, 12/4/95, p.A-9)(AP, 9/29/97)
1992 Sep 30, George Brett of
the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game
against the California Angels.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, The Bush and
Clinton campaigns opened negotiations for a series of presidential
debates.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, Ling-Ling, the
giant panda from China, died at the Washington National Zoo.
(SFC, 4/16/97, p.C14)(HN, 4/16/98)
1992 Sep, Andrew Martinez, the
naked man, organized a “nude-in” on the Berkeley campus to express
the right to free speech. 3 months later he was expelled for
violating the campus code of conduct. In 1997 he was diagnosed as
schizophrenic. In 2006 Martinez (33) died from apparent suicide
while under custody in the Santa Rita County Jail in Santa Clara
County.
(SSFC, 5/21/06,
p.B1)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100863/)(SFC, 5/19/09, p.B4)
1992 Sep, A US nuclear test in
the Nevada desert was set off. After the test Washington voluntarily
gave up testing as part of the emerging global moratorium.
(SFC, 1/6/97, p.A3)
1992 Sep, The Mini-Museum of
Daly City, operated by the History Guild of Daly City, was dedicated
in the Serramonte Library. It was open every Tuesday afternoon
1-2:30.
(Tat, 1/98)
1992 Sep, In Albania former
President Alia and eighteen other former communist officials,
including Nexhmije Hoxha, wife of late dictator Hoxha, were arrested
and charged with corruption and other offenses.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1992 Sep, In Edmonton, Canada,
Corinne Gustavson (6) was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed.
In 2005 Clifford Sleigh was found guilty of her first-degree murder,
aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping and sentenced to prison
with no parole for 25 years.
(AP, 5/27/05)
1992 Sep, The French finance
ministry placed Credit Lyonnais under administrative control. A 1998
bailout of the company ended up costing French taxpayers twice the
bank’s 1991 published capital.
(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey
p.13)(www.erisk.com/Learning/CaseStudies/CreditLyonnais.asp)
1992 Sep, In Germany Sadiq
Sarafkindi and three other exiled Iranian Kurdish dissidents were
slain at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin. In 1997 a German court
concluded that the murders were sponsored by the top political
leadership of Iran and orchestrated by a secretive "Committee for
special Operations," and carried out by the Iranian Vevak security
service.
(SFC, 4/11/97, p.A1)
1992 Sep, In Romania Ion Cioaba
(1935-1997), had himself crowned as King of the Gypsies with a
13-pound crown in front of 5,000 followers.
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.A24)
1992 Sep, In Vietnam Ly Tong
hijacked a Vietnam airlines jet from Thailand and dropped 50,000
anti-government leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City. He parachuted down
and was arrested. He was released in a 1998 amnesty.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A9)
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