What news events happened in 1992?

Answer 1

January: Butros Butros Ghuli (Egyptian) becomes the Secretary General of the UN; a woman is Switzerland claims that the Iceman (some 5,000 years old frozen remains) was his father; Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic under the leadership of Radovan Karazic (spark of the later civil war in Yugoslavia); IBM suffers its biggest lost (564 million dollars);

February: In the Arabian desert a los ancient city (Ubar) is discovered; Bill Clinton cleans himself against the accusations of his involving the Vietnam War draft; the POpe visits Dakar and describes the forgotten holocaust of about 15 million African captured slaves were transported via Goree Island to the New World (America);

March: The population of the worls reaches 5,4 billion (China alone 1.2 billion);

April: Yasir Arafat 's plane crashes in Sahara but he is just slightly injured; German scientists prove that the corpse found in Brazil, was of Josef Mengele's; Euro Disney opens in France; an earthquake in California (6.1 on the Richter scale); serious riots in Los Angeles

May: The leading anti-Mafia investigator, Giovanni Falcone, is assassinated;

June: The last survivor of the Ttanic dies (Mrjoire Robb); Cory Aquino is defeated by fidel Ramos in the Philippines; the first successful claim against the cigarette companies; two more earthquakes in California; Mohamed Boudiaf, the Algerian President is assassianted;

July: Sarajevo is under siege; Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia resigns after a proclamation of Slovak sovereignity;

Auust: Washington proves torture and illegal killings in Serbian prisons in Bosnia, serious floods in Northern India and Pakistan;

September: Asrtonomers prove that there is a tenth planet in the Solar System; a Boeing 747 crashes in Amsterdam; earthquake in Cairo; Moscow admits that it was Stalin who ordered the assassination of Polish officers in Katin in 1940;

October: the Vatican absolves Galileo Galilei from heresy (he claimed tht the earth is round);

November: Israel sends tanks to Lebanon, against Hezbollah guerrillas; Benazir Bhutto is put under house arrest; The separate Czech and Slovak Republics are proclaimed;

December: serious riot of Hindu militants in Ayodhya (northern India) destroying Bari Maasjid, the 16-century mosque; serious earthquake in Indonesia; the folies Bergére (music-hall) closes down after 124 years.