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Top Song(s)
• Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
• Boyz II Men - End of the Road
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
• Mr Big - To Be With You
Top Film(s)
• Reservoir Dogs
• Unforgiven
• Aladdin
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Army of Darkness
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
• The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
• The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
• Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
Famous Deaths
• January 1 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S., Army Navy rear admiral
• February 27 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born academic and Senator for California
• March 9 - Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner
• April 5 - Sam Walton, businessman, founder of Wal-Mart
• May 2 - Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author
• June 7 - Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR)
• July 3 - Marc Tannenbaum, American rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II)
• August 5 - Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984)
• September 14 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician, often called the 'Father of Medicare'
• November 24 – Theodore Miller Edison, businessman, inventor, and environmentalist
Medical/Science/Technology
• British anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposes Dunbar's number as a cognitive limit.
• iscovery of 15760 Albion, the first trans-Neptunian object to be found after Pluto and Charon.
• Saola first identified in the Vu Quang rainforest reserve of northern Vietnam.
• British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins delivers the 1992 Voltaire Lecture, "Viruses of the Mind".
• ViolaWWW, the first popular Web browser, created by Pei-Yuan Wei in the United States, is publicly released for Unix.
• September – The SOCKS Internet protocol is made public.
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis founded by Arnold Zellner.
• The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
• Brugada syndrome first recognised.
• The first cholera epidemic in a century sickens 100,000 and kills more than 700 in South America.
Political
• January 1 – George H. W. Bush becomes the first U.S. president to address the Australian Parliament.
• January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City.
• January 28 – George H. W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union Address.
• February 18 – In New Hampshire, U.S. President George H. W. Bush defeats Pat Buchanan in the Republican primary.
• March 10 – On 'Super Tuesday', President George H. W. Bush and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton win most of the primaries held.
• April 9 - In the United Kingdom general election the Conservative Party led by John Major narrowly retains power.
• May 9 - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted in New York.
• May 18 – The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.
• May 30 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes economic sanctions on Yugoslavia.
• June 18 – Ireland votes for the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland to accept the Maastricht Treaty.
National
• January 11 – Twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer is tortured and burned to death by four teenage girls in Madison, Indiana.
• February 17 – A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
• March 22 – USAir Flight 405, crashes moments after taking off from LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 of the 51 people on board.
• April 9 - A jury in Miami, USA, convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.
• May 7 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.
• May 22 – After 30 years, Johnny Carson retires as host of NBC's The Tonight Show.
• June 1 – Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
• July 9 – Bill Clinton announces his selection of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
• September 12 – Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
• October 26 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established.
Worldwide
• January 24 – China and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
• February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
• March 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• April 5 - The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• May 1 – Lithuania introduces a new temporary currency, the talonas.
• June 2 – In a national referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a narrow margin.
• July 25–August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• September 1 – In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• October 2 – A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru massacre.
• November 11 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.