- Jan 6 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
Television Premiere
Jan 8 "Davis Rules" with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
Golden Globes
Jan 19 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves, Jeremy Irons, & Kathy Bates win
- Jan 19 Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
- Jan 21 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon and four TV crew captured and held for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf
- Jan 25 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
- Jan 27 7th Sundance Film Festival: "Poison" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- Jan 28 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
- Jan 31 "Close-Up", Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, starring Hossain Sabzian and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is released
Film & TV History
Feb 4 Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
Sports History
Feb 5 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl
Film Release
Feb 14 "The Silence of the Lambs" film based on the book by Thomas Harris, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released (Best Picture 1992)
- Feb 15 41st Berlin International Film Festival: "The House of Smiles" wins the Golden Bear
Music History
Feb 20 Alan Ayckbourn's stage farce "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 78 performances
Music History
Feb 21 Neil Simon's stage comedy "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 780 performances
- Feb 22 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
Sports History
Feb 25 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
- Mar 9 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
Music Concert
Mar 10 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, Gilberto Gil; Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Caetano Veloso
People's Choice Awards
Mar 11 17th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Kirstie Alley win (TV)
BAFTA Awards
Mar 17 44th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "Goodfellas" Best Film, Martin Scorsese Best Director
WrestleMania
Mar 24 WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
- Mar 25 63rd Academy Awards: "Dances with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win
- Apr 6 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
Film & TV History
Apr 8 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas
Music Premiere
Apr 11 Musical "Miss Saigon" created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil opens at Broadway Theater NYC
Film & TV History
Apr 22 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from "The Tonight Show"
- Apr 22 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
- Apr 25 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical "The Secret Garden", based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, starring Daisy Eagan and Mandy Patinkin, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 706 performances, winning 3 Tony Awards
- Apr 26 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
Television Finale
May 3 356th & final episode of CBS second longest running series TV show "Dallas", (2nd only to "Gunsmoke")
- May 4 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
- May 9 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession (conviction overturned 2006)
- May 9 Michael Landon appears on The Tonight Show to talk about his cancer prognosis
- May 17 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
- May 20 44th Cannes Film Festival: "Barton Fink" directed by Ethan and Joel Coen wins the Palme d'Or
Film & TV History
Jun 6 NBC announces Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson as host on "The Tonight Show" on May 25, 1992
Television Finale
Jun 10 David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" final episode airs on ABC-TV
Film Release
Jun 14 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman
Music Recording
Jun 23 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
Daytime Emmy Awards
Jun 27 Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
Theatrical Finale
Jun 29 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC, after 216 performances
Film Premiere
Jul 1 "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong premieres at Century City, California
Film & TV History
Jul 2 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring
Film & TV History
Aug 1 Actress Hedy Lamarr, aged 77 is arrested for shoplifting in Florida
Film & TV History
Aug 8 Actor Gary Oldman is arrested for drunk driving
Telethon
Sep 2 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
- Sep 3 48th Venice Film Festival: "Close to Eden" directed by Nikita Mikhalkov wins Golden Lion
- Sep 7 "The New WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom sequel created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts in syndication; 3 members of the original series cast reprise their roles
- Sep 14 16th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Fisher King" directed by Terry Gilliam wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 14 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
- Sep 24 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
- Sep 25 "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
- Sep 27 "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV
- Sep 28 "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
Film Premiere
Sep 29 Gus Van Sant's film "My Own Private Idaho" starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix premieres
Film Release
Oct 18 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves is released
- Oct 27 "André Heller's Wonderhouse", starring Billy Barty, closes at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC, after 9 performances
Film & TV History
Nov 12 US TV series "Full House" 100th episode, the twins are born
Television Premiere
Nov 14 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video with groundbreaking morphing effects premieres simultaneously in 27 countries on MTV, Fox TV and BBC's Top of the Pops
- Nov 17 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
Film Release
Nov 22 "Phool Aur Kaante", the film debut of famous Indian actor Ajay Devgan, is released
- Nov 24 CFL Grey Cup, Winnipeg Stadium: Toronto Argonauts defeat Calgary Stampeders, 36-21; Argos under new ownership of LA Kings owner Bruce McNall, hockey player Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy
- Nov 27 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
- Nov 29 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
- Dec 3 Hulk Hogan defeats the Undertaker at 'This Tuesday in Texas' at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio to become 4-time WWF champion
- Dec 6 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
Film Premiere
Dec 11 "Hook", a swashbuckling film sequel to the Peter Pan story, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman premieres
Film Premiere
Dec 20 "Father of the Bride" film comedy starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, and Martin Short, premieres; film is a re-make of 1950 vehicle for Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor
- Dec 28 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
Theatrical Finale
Dec 29 "A Christmas Carol", starring Patrick Stewart, in a one-man show, closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC, after a limited run of 14 performances
- Dec 29 12th United Negro College Fund "Parade of Stars" telethon, hosted by Lou Rawls airs from Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood, and The Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NYC