WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1992
Find out what all happened April to September 1992

The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima. (18. July 1992)

Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. (8. April 1992)

Start of the Bosnian War. (1. April 1992)

Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. (29. April 1992)

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. (22. May 1992)

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

A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). (17. June 1992)

Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada. (7. May 1992)

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

Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than 2 months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. (23. May 1992)

The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago. (13. April 1992)

Georgia joins the United Nations. (31. July 1992)

Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. (20. July 1992)

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. (27. April 1992)

The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene (6. June 1992)

Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War. (9. May 1992)

Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska. (6. September 1992)

Republika Srpska announces its independence. (7. April 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)

In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. (2. April 1992)