WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1992
Find out what all happened July to November 1992

Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark. (16. September 1992)

China General Aviation Flight 7552 from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport crashes after taking off, killing 108 of the 116 people on board. (31. July 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)

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)

Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo. (31. August 1992)

Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu. (11. September 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)

In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. (10. July 1992)

FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. (22. August 1992)

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

A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender. (23. July 1992)

A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort (19. July 1992)

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached. (29. September 1992)

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

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. (4. October 1992)

For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela. (27. November 1992)

Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board. (31. July 1992)

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. (14. September 1992)

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. (11. November 1992)

NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail. (25. September 1992)

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