America 1992
Compiled by Patrice Rahming -- Home Accents Today, 5/1/2005
- Jan. 26 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
- Jan. 27 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
- Feb. 20 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
- Feb. 27 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
- Mar. 17 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire
- Mar. 18 Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion
- Mar. 19 British Prince Andrew and Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
- Mar. 26 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
- Mar. 30 64th Academy Awards — Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster win
- Apr. 1 Battleship USS Missouri, on which Japan surrendered, decommissioned
- Apr. 1 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
- Apr. 2 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
- Apr. 9 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges
- Apr. 11 Euro-Disney opens near Paris
- Apr. 13 Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
- Apr. 14 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
- Apr. 22 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
- Apr. 23 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
- Apr. 29 Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
- Apr. 30 208th and final episode of The Cosby Show on NBC-TV
- May 1 Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots over Rodney King incident.
- May 15 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
- May 19 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
- May 19 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco
- May 19 VP Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
- May 22 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of The Tonight Show
- June 26 New York City's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads starting Jan 1, 1993
- June 28 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in U.S. (7.4) rock California
- July 11 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
- Aug. 24 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
- Sept. 11 Hurricane Iniki hits Hawaii; 3 die; 8,000 injured
- Sept. 16 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
- Sept. 17 House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
- Oct. 1 Cartoon Cable Network premieres
- Oct. 8 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
- Nov. 3 Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush
- Nov. 3 Carol Moseley Brown, 1st black female in U.S. Senate, elected
- Dec. 15 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of Year
- Dec. 24 President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair
- Dec. 29 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr. killer) clemency
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