WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1992
Find out what all happened April to December 1992

A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague. (3. December 1992)

A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast. (23. September 1992)

Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. (13. May 1992)

The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993. (25. November 1992)

Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. (4. December 1992)

Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. (23. July 1992)

A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu (9. October 1992)

Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise. (7. May 1992)

5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. (12. October 1992)

Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States. (22. July 1992)

A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison. (9. April 1992)

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49). (7. May 1992)

Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force. (5. April 1992)

The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. (2. October 1992)

The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months. (26. May 1992)

The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. (23. November 1992)

United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. (27. October 1992)

Republika Srpska announces its independence. (7. April 1992)

General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. (18. April 1992)

UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. (3. December 1992)