WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1992
Find out what all happened May to October 1992

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

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

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

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)

An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. (17. September 1992)

Cartoon Network begins broadcasting. (1. October 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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers. (18. September 1992)

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

Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho (21. August 1992)

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