December 1992 in History

Events in History

Dec 1 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die

Event of Interest

Dec 1 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco

Dec 2 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
Dec 3 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo
Dec 3 UN Security Council passes Resolution 794 authorizing US led allied forces to intervene in war-torn Somalia to restore order and allow humanitarian aid to be delivered

Event of Interest

Dec 4 US President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to war-torn Somalia

Dec 6 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
Dec 7 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
Dec 8 Spacecraft Galileo makes its second and closest flyby of Earth at a minimum distance of 305 km for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter [1]

Operation Restore Hope

Dec 9 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794 passed on December 3.

A US helicopter flies over Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, during Restore Hope in December 1995

Dec 10 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
Dec 11 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
Dec 11 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
Dec 12 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)

Engagement of Interest

Dec 12 Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada

Dec 13 FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
Dec 14 52 people, including 25 children, are killed when a helicopter from Tkvarcheli is shot down during the War in Abkhazia
Dec 15 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
Dec 17 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
Dec 18 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
Dec 20 Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"

Election of Interest

Dec 20 Slobodan Milošević re-elected president of Serbia

Dec 21 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die

Event of Interest

Dec 22 Archives of Terror detailing police repression under Dictator Alfredo Stroessner and proving existence of Operation Condor, found by activist Dr. Martín Almada in Asunción, Paraguay [1]

Dec 22 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
Dec 24 US President George Bush issues a pardon to former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane for his role in Iran-Contra Affair
Dec 24 US President George H. W. Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair
Dec 27 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
Dec 29 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency

Deaths in History

Dec 2 Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
Dec 2 Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die
Dec 3 Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies
Dec 5 Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54
Dec 5 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
Dec 7 Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
Dec 7 Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
Dec 8 William Shawn, American magazine editor (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
Dec 10 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
Dec 11 Suzanne Lilar, Belgian writer (Le burlador), dies at 91
Dec 12 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
Dec 12 Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
Dec 13 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (Pan Am Airways), dies at 93
Dec 13 K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
Dec 13 Robert Shone, British economist and director-general (NEDC), dies at 86
Dec 16 Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, Dutch writer (Gekke Witte), dies at 80

Dec 17 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, dies at 90
Dec 18 Charles Leatherland, Baron Leatherland, British journalist and Labour Party politician, dies at 94
Dec 18 Clara Hale 'Mother Hale', American social activist (Hale House Center for disadvantaged children), dies at 87
Dec 21 Sybil Andrews, English-Canadian painter, dies at 94
Dec 22 Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
Dec 24 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies
Dec 24 Peyo [Pierre Culliford], Belgian cartoonist (The Smurfs; Johan et Pirlouit), dies of a heart attack at 64
Dec 25 Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
Dec 25 Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies at 87
Dec 25 Monica Dickens, English/American journalist/author, dies at 77
Dec 25 Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Activities Committee, dies at 66
Dec 26 Bert Voeten, Dutch journalist and poet (Antipodes), dies at 74
Dec 26 Edmund Davies, British judge (as Lord Justice of appeal, tried the Great Train Robbers, Edmund-Davies police pay review), dies at 86
Dec 26 John G. Kemeny, Hungarian-American computer pioneer (developed BASIC programming language), dies at 66
Dec 27 Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolor painter, stained glass, tile, and monument artist, dies at 80
Dec 27 Kay Boyle, American writer (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy), dies at 90
Dec 29 LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87
Dec 30 Caesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies
Dec 30 Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23