WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1992
Find out what all happened July to 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)

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)

386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. (14. July 1992)

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

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

Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States. (22. July 1992)

Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane. (24. August 1992)

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

Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho (21. August 1992)

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

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

An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people. (2. September 1992)

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

Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. (23. July 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)

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)

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

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