* Clinton B. Ford ( 1913 – 1992 ), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland.

* 1909 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor ( d. 1992 )

* 1930 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer

* 1992 – Kim Petras, German singer

* 1909 – V. K. Gokak, Indian writer ( d. 1992 )

* Colonel Shahin Musayev ( January – February 1992 )

* Interior Troops Colonel Tahir Aliyev ( February – March 1992 )

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

The winters of 1991-92, 1992 – 93, and 1993-94 brought enormous hardship to a population lacking heat and electric power.

* 1920 – Neville Brand, American actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva, Brazilian footballer

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

* 1992 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress

* 1992 – Michael Havers, British barrister and politician ( b. 1923 )

* 1992 – Nigel Preston, English drummer ( The Cult ) ( b. 1959 )

* 1992 – Karlie Kloss, American model

* 1992 – Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner

* 1992 – Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner

* 1928 – Romeo Muller, American screenwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60, 000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

* 1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg

* 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King.

Some of her notable films include Shyam Benegal's Nishant ( 1975 ), Junoon ( 1978 ), Susman ( 1986 ), and Antarnaad ( 1992 ); Satyajit Ray ’ s Shatranj Ke Khiladi ; Mrinal Sen ’ s Khandhar, Genesis, Ek Din Achanak ; Saeed Mirza ’ s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai ; Sai Paranjpye ’ s Sparsh and Disha ; Gautam Ghose ’ s Paar ; Aparna Sen ’ s Picnic and Sati ; Mahesh Bhatt ’ s Arth ; Vinay Shukla ’ s Godmother.

All's Well, Ends Well () is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko.

* Okay Ka Fairy Ko 2-Pipoy ( 1992 )

The previous record, 13, 200 cubic metres poured in 54 hours despite a severe tropical storm requiring the site to be covered with tarpaulins to allow work to continue, was achieved in 1992 by joint Japanese and South Korean consortiums Hazama Corporation and the Samsung C & T Corporation for the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Although South Africa continued to provide developmental aid, it closed its consulate in Moroni in 1992.

With the return of South Africa in 1992 after the ending of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.

India toured South Africa in 1992 / 93.

* 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

Malawians were viewed as important workers in the South African mines due to their " skills, work discipline and lack of militancy " From 1988 to 1992, around 13, 000 Malawian migrant laborers were forcefully repatriated out of South Africa.

Much of the economic recovery which has followed the end of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) is being led by investors and tourists from neighbour South Africa and from East Asia.

* Pole to Pole ( Travel 1991 ; Programme release 1992 ): travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole, following as closely as possible the 30 degree line of longitude, over as much land as possible, i. e., through Europe and Africa.

* 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68. 7 % to 31. 2 %.

* 1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.

South Korea established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1990 and the People's Republic of China in 1992, which put a serious strain on relations between North Korea and its traditional allies.

Major General A W Dennis, CB, OBE ( rtd ), British Army, previously Director of Military Assistance Overseas, made the following comments on the initial phase in Namibia at a conference in Pretoria, South Africa on 6 August 1992:

* Greg Mills, BMATT and Military Integration in South Africa, South African Defence Review, Issue 2, 1992 Covers reformation of Namibian Defence Force and British involvement

After North and South Yemen merged in May 1990, Oman settled its border disputes with the new Republic of Yemen on 1 October 1992.

However, on 23 August 1992 the Republic of China government, by then only in control of the island of Taiwan and a few minor outlying areas, severed diplomatic relations with South Korea in advance of its announcement of formal recognition of the People's Republic of China based in Beijing.

The protohistoric Early Iron Age appears to have established itself in South India by at least as early as 1200 BC, if not earlier ( Possehl 1990 ; Deraniyagala 1992: 734 ).

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

In 1992, he was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia as the first Director, Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, a position held until 1994 when he was reassigned to South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

* January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991 – 1992 South Ossetia War.