WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1992
Find out what all happened January to 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)

Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. (26. January 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)

The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect. (12. February 1992)

The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge. (5. April 1992)

Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. (25. February 1992)

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

After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time. (22. May 1992)

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

Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests. (17. May 1992)

In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless. (22. April 1992)

President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup. (6. January 1992)

The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed. (26. October 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)

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

An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. (13. March 1992)

An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. (17. September 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)

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)

NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. (12. September 1992)

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