* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

For example, the award-winning documentary In the Land of the Deaf ( Le Pays des sourds ) was created by Nicolas Philibert in 1992.

The ILO ’ s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour ( IPEC ) was created in 1992 with the overall goal of the progressive elimination of child labour, which was to be achieved through strengthening the capacity of countries to deal with the problem and promoting a worldwide movement to combat child labour.

In the European Union, the Third Non-Life Directive and the Third Life Directive, both passed in 1992 and effective 1994, created a single insurance market in Europe and allowed insurance companies to offer insurance anywhere in the EU ( subject to permission from authority in the head office ) and allowed insurance consumers to purchase insurance from any insurer in the EU.

However, although he could not get federal funding for empowerment zones passed during his tenure, by 1992 38 states had created empowerment zones, and in 1994 $ 3. 5 billion was approved for them under President Clinton.

::" The sovereignty of Afghanistan was vested formally in " The Islamic State of Afghanistan ", an entity created in April 1992, after the fall of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government.

An effort to promote visibility from 1991 to 1992 provoked the government to declare homosexuality illegal in 1994, effectively ending the movement, until 2004, when Grupo Safo – Grupo de Mujeres Lesbianas de Nicaragua was created, four years before homosexuality became legal again.

A long standing practice of segregation has also been imposed upon the commercial salmon fishery in British Columbia since 1992 when separate commercial fisheries were created for select aboriginal groups on three B. C.

* Around 1992 the Skylon spaceplane concept was created

Three Zelda-themed LCD games were created between 1989 and 1992.

The new government created the Ministry of Natural Resources Use and Environmental Protection in July 1992, with departments responsible for environmental protection, protection of flora and fauna, forestry, hydrometeorology, and administrative planning.

The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents " Birds of a Feather " session in 1992.

This created first the freeWAIS package based on the wais-8-b5 codebase implemented by Thinking Machines Corp and then a wholly new software suite Isite based upon Z39. 50: 1992 with Isearch as its full text search engine.

Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems, introduced in 1992, that were both targeted as a replacement for the Philips analog cassette audio tape system: the other was Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC ), created by Philips and Matsushita.

On December 17, 1992, the office of the Ukrainian presidential representative in Crimea was created, which caused a wave of protests a month later.

On 27 January 1972 the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was first established on the grounds of Parliament House ; it was created to draw attention to indigenous rights and land issues and has been continuously occupied since 1992.

Heath was created a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1992.

From 1989 to 1992, a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ) of the United States created a collection of measured drawings of Monticello.

In 1992, Wouter van Oortmerssen created FALSE, a small stack-oriented programming language, with syntax designed to make the code inherently obfuscated, confusing, and unreadable.

The United States Supreme Court in Miller v. Johnson, 515 U. S. 900 ( 1995 ), overturned a 1992 Congressional redistricting plan that had created minority majority districts in Georgia as unconstitutional gerrymander.

In 1992 a Naval Aviation ( Aviação Naval ) unit was created to give the Fleet more efficiency in coastal surveillance and maritime patrols.

Lament for a divided country ," created a stir at the time, and again when released as part of his collection by almost the same name in 1992.

The Usenet newsgroup alt. zines was created in 1992 by Jerod Pore and Edward Vielmetti for the discussion of zines and zine-related topics.

One minimal chordic keyboard example is Edgar Matias ' Half-Qwerty keyboard described in patent circa 1992 that produces the letters of the missing half when the user simultaneously presses the space bar along with the mirror key.

Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.

" More recently, reviewers from the American Library Association were surprised to find that most educational articles had been eliminated from the 1992 Macropædia, along with the article on psychology.

He won the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 1991, the Prince of Asturias Award in 1992 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid.

But, in 1992, the discovery of Glagolitic inscriptions in churches along the Orljava river in Slavonia, totally changed the picture ( churches in Brodski Drenovac, Lovčić and some others ), showing that use of Glagolitic alphabet was spread from Slavonia also.

In 1992, the US Department of Defense along with the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), cosponsored the Text Retrieval Conference ( TREC ) as part of the TIPSTER text program.

She is mentioned, along with a brief biography, in RFC 1336, Who's Who in the Internet ( 1992 ).

In 1992 the town of Echo Bay, Ontario, home of loonie designer Robert-Ralph Carmichael, erected a large loonie monument in his honour along the highway — similar to Sudbury's ' Big Nickel '.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

In Finland, another marathon bearing the name has been held in Nurmi's hometown of Turku since 1992, along with the athletics competition Paavo Nurmi Games that was started in 1957.

In 1992 he became the first Mexican ever to win the Eisner Award for his work in Groo the Wanderer, along Mark Evanier.

In 1992, Warner released ZZ Top's Greatest Hits, along with a new Rolling Stones-style cut, " Gun Love ", and an Elvis-inflected video, " Viva Las Vegas ".

* 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.

In 1992, chairman Lee Iacocca retired, and the company began a remarkable revival, introducing the new LH platform and " Cab-Forward " styling, along with a highly successful redesign of the full-sized Dodge Ram in 1994.

After the string of canceled shows, along with her appearance in the critically derided 1992 horror film, Leprechaun, Aniston reportedly considered giving up acting.

In 1992, Aykroyd, along with many other notable music and Hollywood personalities, founded the House of Blues.

Soundgarden's album Badmotorfinger and Alice in Chains ' Dirt, along with the Temple of the Dog album collaboration featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, were also among the 100 top selling albums of 1992.

This garden, originally William III's private garden, was replanted in 1992 in period style with manicured hollies and yews along a geometric system of paths.

The two Addams Family movies in 1991 and 1993, along with the second animated television series in 1992, resurrected the mansion's original exterior design from the Charles Addams cartoons.

During several years on the south coast, he became known for his classic style of play, strength and goalscoring ability ; he soon received an international call-up along with a transfer to Blackburn Rovers in 1992.

The books have been reprinted a number of times as a trilogy ( as well as many times separately ): in 1986 by Ballantine Books as " Galactic Empire Novel ", in 1992 by Spectra as " The Empire Novels " and in 2010 along with The End of Eternity by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.

In 1992, Emtage along with Peter Deutsch and some financial help of McGill University formed Bunyip Information Systems the world's first company expressly founded for and dedicated to providing Internet information services with a licensed commercial version of the Archie search engine used by millions of people worldwide.