Historical Events in 1992 (Part 4)

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• Sep 25 US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
• Sep 26 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates

• Sep 26 Nigerian Air Force Hercules C-130 crashes three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163

• Sep 26 Tsuruhiko Kiuchi rediscovers Comet Swift-Tuttle, the first time it has been spotted since 1862
• Sep 27 ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals
• Sep 27 LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
• Sep 27 Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
• Sep 27 Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
• Sep 28 "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
• Sep 28 "Dog City" cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
• Sep 28 Oakland A's win AL West title
• Sep 28 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies

• Sep 29 Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
• Sep 29 Brazilian Parliament suspends President Fernando Collor de Mello

• Sep 30 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
• Oct 1 Cartoon Cable Network premieres
• Oct 1 Gil Stein officially becomes only the 5th president in the NHL's 75 year history; serves for just one year before the title changed to “commissioner”
• Oct 1 Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens

• Oct 2 The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil
• Oct 2 VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil

• Oct 3 MLB Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory over San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th win (old record 95 in 1957, when they were based in Milwaukee)
• Oct 4 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
• Oct 4 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
• Oct 4 Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
• Oct 4 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
• Oct 5 NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins
• Oct 5 US Air goes on strike

• Oct 7 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win franchise opener, in 7-3 win over visiting Chicago Black Hawks
• Oct 8 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
• Oct 8 Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
• Oct 8 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
• Oct 8 Video game Mortal Kombat first released as a 2D fighting game by Midway Games
• Oct 9 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence, Peekskill, New York, destroying family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu

• Oct 9 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
• Oct 10 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands

• Oct 11 Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
• Oct 12 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
• Oct 12 Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave Observing Project search for occupied planets
• Oct 12 Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
• Oct 12 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)
• Oct 12 Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
• Oct 14 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant

• Oct 15 Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
• Oct 15 NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train

• Oct 18 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
• Oct 18 Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683
• Oct 18 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
• Oct 20 David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut)
• Oct 20 Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
• Oct 21 Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
• Oct 22 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space

• Oct 25 Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
• Oct 25 Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager
• Oct 26 London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
• Oct 26 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
• Oct 27 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
• Oct 27 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
• Oct 27 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of JRR Tolkien
• Oct 27 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
• Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
• Oct 30 MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
• Oct 31 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive

• Nov 1 NY Jets wide receiver Al Toon becomes 10th NFL player to make a reception in 100 straight games; Jets beat Miami Dolphins, 26-24 at The Meadowlands
• Nov 1 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
• Nov 2 First test flight of Airbus A330

• Nov 3 Carol Moseley-Braun elected first African-American woman in US Senate, representing Illinois
• Nov 3 Democrat Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush
• Nov 3 Dianne Feinstein is elected to the US Senate, goes on to become longest serving female there, serving until her death in 2023

• Nov 4 NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
• Nov 4 NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio

• Nov 7 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
• Nov 8 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin

• Nov 9 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
• Nov 9 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
• Nov 11 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests
• Nov 12 British TV comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" written by Jennifer Saunders, starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley first appears on the BBC
• Nov 12 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time

• Nov 15 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
• Nov 15 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
• Nov 17 "The Bodyguard" movie soundtrack is released by Arista Records (Billboard Album of the Year 1993)
• Nov 17 Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
• Nov 17 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test
• Nov 17 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole

• Nov 18 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM

• Nov 20 Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire
• Nov 21 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
• Nov 21 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
• Nov 21 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)

• Nov 22 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
• Nov 22 Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women

• Nov 23 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
• Nov 24 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
• Nov 26 British geneticist Alec Jeffreys who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
• Nov 27 Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
• Nov 27 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire

• Nov 30 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
• Dec 1 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die

• Dec 2 Kiwi opening batsman John Wright becomes first New Zealander to make 5,000 runs in Test cricket when he scores 14 in the 2nd innings of the drawn 1st Test against Sri Lanka in Moratuwa
• Dec 2 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
• Dec 3 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo
• Dec 3 UN Security Council passes Resolution 794 authorizing US led allied forces to intervene in war-torn Somalia to restore order and allow humanitarian aid to be delivered
• Dec 4 US President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to war-torn Somalia
• Dec 6 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die

• Dec 7 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
• Dec 8 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993
• Dec 8 Spacecraft Galileo makes its second and closest flyby of Earth at a minimum distance of 305 km for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter [1]
• Dec 9 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
• Dec 9 NHL NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
• Dec 9 Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)

• Dec 10 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim for 1994-95
• Dec 10 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
• Dec 10 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
• Dec 11 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage

• Dec 11 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
• Dec 12 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, U of Miami (QB)
• Dec 12 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)

• Dec 12 NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
• Dec 13 FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
• Dec 14 52 people, including 25 children, are killed when a helicopter from Tkvarcheli is shot down during the War in Abkhazia
• Dec 14 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him

• Dec 15 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
• Dec 17 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
• Dec 18 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations

• Dec 20 Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"

• Dec 21 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die

• Dec 22 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die

• Dec 24 US President George H. W. Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair
• Dec 26 New York Jets announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
• Dec 26 The NHL's San Jose Sharks end a 13-game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the LA Kings, albeit allowing 59 shots, the most in team history; Jeff Hacket makes 57 saves
• Dec 27 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

• Dec 29 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency

• Dec 30 Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
• Dec 30 Washington defenseman Al Iafrate becomes first player in NHL history to have his shot officially break 100 miles per hour; records 101.4 mph during the Capitals Superskills competition

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