WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1992
Find out what all happened July to December 1992

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

Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). (12. August 1992)

Cartoon Network begins broadcasting. (1. October 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)

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

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

Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (17. October 1992)

An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers. (18. September 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)

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

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)

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

Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well. (12. September 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)

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. (29. December 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)

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

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