1992
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Mae Jemison becomes the first black woman in space during the STS-47 mission;
- the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the 'Dream Team', win gold at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona;
- Paul Keating acknowledges the crimes committed against Indigenous Australians since the European settlement of Australia and calls for reconciliation, shocking millions;
- a famine occurs in Somalia as a result of civil war, prompting the creation of UNOSOM I;
- Azerbaijani refugees during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, which intensified during 1992;
- the Bosnian Parliament burns during the Siege of Sarajevo at the start of the Yugoslav Wars;
- the beating of Rodney King by police officers prompts widespread rioting in Los Angeles;
- Kabul in ruins during the Afghan Civil War;
- Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into mountain during approach killing 113 people on board.
- The streets of Algiers,Algeria after the 1992 Algerian coup d'état
- El Al Flight 1862 an Boeing 747, crashed into building caused a engine separation killing 4 people onboard as well a 43 people on ground
- Inside garden of the Tbilisi Parliament building during the 1991-1992 coup d’etat
- A sequence of satellite images depicting Hurricane Andrew (from right to left) on August 23–25. The powerful Category 5 hurricane made landfall near Homestead, Florida, becoming the costliest tropical cyclone on record at the time.
- Mural of the peace agreement in a museum San Salvador, depicting guerilla leader Schafik Handal leader of the FMLN and the president of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani shaking hands, ending the Salvadoran Civil War
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade.
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.